Education

Mayor Antonovich and his Chief Deputy Kathryn Barger, along with community leaders and volunteers, celebrated the grand opening of the Placerita Canyon Nature Center Museum.

The Santa Clarita Valley is welcoming its first Z Club, a self-governing student organization sponsored by Zonta Club of the Santa Clarita Valley at Saugus High School. The newly formed club has 40 charter members and regularly attracts 20 to 25 members to its weekly lunchtime meetings on the Saugus campus.

Any big shift in education standards is going to be tumultuous. As each state struggles to create curricula and train teachers in the new teaching methods, ensure that your child doesn’t get lost along the way.
The best way to ensure that your child is keeping up is to be involved. Carefully monitor their progress and make sure that you have a good relationship with their teacher so that you can catch problems early. If there are gaps in your child’s knowledge or they are having difficulties transitioning to the new methodologies, consider an in-home tutor who is familiar with Common Core State Standards.

As the modern education establishment implements every new instructional fad, many are returning to a method of education that has been proven successful over centuries.
It has taken modern educators around 150 years to disassemble an educational system that took thousands of years to refine and perfect. The classical education method was born in ancient Greece and Rome, and by the 16th century, it was used throughout the Western world. It was based in the Trivium which is a three phase approach emphasizing grammar, logic and rhetoric.

A number of years ago, most parents and teachers of students with ADHD didn’t have a clue that a child’s academic success was contingent upon strong executive skills. “What? Executive skills? My child is only seven years old!”
 However, today’s tuned-in parents and educators realize that deficits in critical cognitive skills known as executive functions (EF) are slower to mature in many children with ADHD. This delayed maturation can have negative impacts across the school and home settings.

Summer Camp for preschool age children should have exciting activities that create lasting memories. Creative Years has a camp for ages two to six with weekly themes. Each week the curriculum is filled with fun and educational activities based around that theme: Camping, Animals, Mud & Goo, Dinosaurs, Winter in July, Pirates & Princesses, Space and Wet & Wild.

Bullying can be physical or verbal, it can happen in person or on-line, and adolescents who struggle with social skills are often at a risk for experiencing it.  You can help empower your child to reduce the likelihood of him or her becoming a target of a bully. It is important for kids to understand that no one ever deserves to be bullied, and knowing what a bully is looking for can help to avoid being a victim. Some reasons why kids may bully include; they are being bullied themselves, they want to look tough or feel powerful, they are jealous of the child they are bullying, or they are trying to escape their own problems.

On May 29 at 5:30 p.m., Saugus Union School District will hold its 5th annual Festival of the Arts event at Grace Baptist Church, 22833 Copper Hill Drive, Santa Clarita. Over 275 kindergarten-6th grade students from all 15 campuses will come together in a celebration of the arts.

The Santa Clarita Valley (SCV) Education Foundation will honor 54 exemplary teachers at Teacher Tribute on April 14, 2015 at the Santa Clarita Performing Arts Center at College of the Canyons. One teacher from each public school was selected by their peers for providing excellent classroom instruction and leadership and will be honored by school superintendents and administrators of all five Santa Clarita school districts at this special evening event. Schools in the Santa Clarita Valley continue to be considered in the top echelon of public schools in California, due in most part to the critical role our teachers play.

Sulphur Springs Community School is the home of the Mustangs.  Our school’s motto is Pride, Tradition, and Spirit since 1872, and we could not be prouder to be the oldest school in Los Angeles County.  From the moment that you walk on our campus you can just feel a sense of Mustang Pride, bleeding red and blue at the seams.  Our strong sense of pride is not the only thing that we are proud of.

According to employment researchers, 80 percent of jobs our students will obtain in the future do not exist today.  The world is constantly changing and the Sulphur Springs School District is proud to be offering programs that will prepare students for whatever the 21st century has in store for them.

Just as with reading, math is a sequential learning process; it follows specific rules that build one on another like stacking blocks.  As skills are missed along the way, every block that’s added becomes a little less stable; each basic skill should be mastered before moving on.
When your child starts falling behind in elementary math skills, it becomes progressively more difficult to master higher academic challenges of middle and high school.  Without a solid foundation in basic math, progressing to higher math and science courses becomes ever more difficult.  

Legacy Christian Academy has officially been selected by the Council for American Private Education (CAPE) as one of its nominees for the prestigious National Blue Ribbon Schools Program.
This is a highly distinguished nomination; only 50 private schools throughout the entire country receive this nomination by CAPE each year. 

Blue Plate Radio described his music as “jazz chops with pop.”  Concord Records’ Rick Nuhn noted his debut CD as  “cool and crisp…unexpected pleasure”.  And after listening to his music, you can’t help but smile and agree with what the professionals have to say about the talented contemporary artist, Kyle Wolverton.
Born and raised in Seattle, Washington, Kyle began playing music at an early age. 

Both the City of Santa Clarita and the County of Los Angeles are dedicated to providing the infrastructure for a safe and fun bicycling experience to our entire valley.  Whether you are commuting to work or taking a weekend bike ride with your friends and family, there are miles of bicycle lanes, trails, and paseos available within the Santa Clarita Valley.

Is your child suffering from anxiety or depression? Or having trouble concentrating or managing their emotions? Therapy, along with regular exercise, can help to improve our mind and body.
There are many studies that back up the benefits of exercise on our physical and mental health. In fact, scientists tend to agree that exercise is the single best thing you can do for your brain, and can even create chemical changes in the brain, virtually in the same way that some medications do. Physical activity improves memory and cognition; helps with insomnia; reduces stress, anxiety, and depression; and improves emotional regulation skills.

There are a variety of different learning environments. Two of them are the online environment (also known as E-learning), and the collaborative environment (also known as group learning). The collaborative technique has students working
in groups to master objectives. The online technique offers students a more “transparent” way of learning – one where the student can see and hear the entire learning experience.