Spectrum June 2013 Issue - The Spectrum Magazine - Redwood ...
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RCSD Corner: News From the <strong>Redwood</strong> City School District<br />
Award-Winning Schools,<br />
Students and Staff Bring Honor to <strong>Redwood</strong> City School District<br />
During the 2012–13 school year, students who<br />
attend <strong>Redwood</strong> City School District schools,<br />
teachers who teach in the schools, district administrators<br />
and school board trustees won numerous awards<br />
celebrating notable achievements, including:<br />
Students<br />
• North Star fifth-grade student Adrienne Evans<br />
was one of six winners in the SamTrans “Art<br />
Takes a Bus Ride” Contest!<br />
• Roosevelt students won the BizWorld<br />
Challenge, competing against teams from<br />
other local schools, including Harker School,<br />
Woodside Elementary and North Star Academy.<br />
• Kennedy Middle School Concert Band was the<br />
only middle school band to receive the very<br />
prestigious rating of “Unanimous Superior”<br />
from the California Association for Music<br />
Education. Kennedy String Orchestra received<br />
the rating of “Excellent.”<br />
• Adelante Spanish Immersion School was<br />
selected as one of 15 finalists for the Embassy<br />
of Spain’s prestigious Spanish Immersion<br />
School of the Year program.<br />
• North Star Academy was named a National Blue<br />
Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education.<br />
• North Star Academy was named a California Business<br />
for Education Excellence Honor Roll School.<br />
Roosevelt sixth-grade teacher Sarah Coyle was named<br />
<strong>2013</strong> San Mateo County Teacher of the Year for elementary<br />
schools!<br />
• Fair Oaks teacher Wendi Brown won the<br />
<strong>Redwood</strong> City–Woodside Patch Teacher<br />
Appreciation Contest.<br />
• Superintendent Jan Christensen was named<br />
Superintendent of the Year by the Association<br />
of California School Administrators for Region<br />
5, encompassing San Francisco and San Mateo<br />
counties.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Roosevelt School team brought home medals after winning the <strong>2013</strong> BizWorld Challenge.<br />
• Hoover eighth-grade student Orlando Mayen<br />
was named Youth of the Year.<br />
• 472 students were reclassified from English<br />
language learners to English proficient.<br />
• Former Kennedy student Sofia Dueñas received<br />
Outstanding Student Award from the Sequoia<br />
Awards Program.<br />
Schools<br />
• Henry Ford School won a J. Russell Kent Award<br />
from the San Mateo County School Boards<br />
Association for its professional learning community.<br />
• Kennedy Middle School won a J. Russell Kent<br />
Award from the San Mateo County School<br />
Board Association for its drama program.<br />
Staff and Volunteers<br />
• Sarah Coyle, a sixth-grade language arts and<br />
social studies teacher at Roosevelt School, was<br />
named the <strong>2013</strong> San Mateo County Teacher of<br />
the Year for Elementary Education.<br />
• Hoover volunteer Dick Imperiale was named<br />
Citizen of the Year by the Sequoia Awards<br />
Program.<br />
• Hoover teacher Mrs. Zuno and her husband,<br />
Hoover volunteer Mr. Zuno, received the San<br />
Mateo County Reading Association Award for<br />
Familias Unidas, a nine-week family literacy<br />
series they started eight years ago.<br />
• Roosevelt teacher Gillian Parkhurst received<br />
a San Mateo County Reading Association<br />
Literacy Award for her vocabulary skits.<br />
• Trustee Dennis McBride was recognized by the<br />
17th District PTA with an Honorary Service<br />
Award for his volunteerism and tireless work on<br />
behalf of public education.<br />
• Trustee Shelly Masur was honored by the<br />
Silicon Valley Business Journal as one of 100<br />
Women of Influence.<br />
Nearly 500 students were reclassified from English-language<br />
learners to “fluent English proficient” for attaining levels of<br />
proficiency equivalent to a native English speaker in listening,<br />
reading, writing and speaking in English.<br />
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