Here Comes the Sun!
Last school year, with the help of a Hayward Education Foundation grant, sixth grade teacher Paul Garrison at Hayward’s Ruus Elementary...
Local Girl Makes Good
Imagine a little girl whose favorite childhood activities were centered around people, and money, and keyboards, pushing the keys over...
Over and Above
Good teachers are busy, busy people. Aside from the hours actually spent in the classroom, they are always thinking, always on the...
Donate & Educate: Such a Grand Idea
Sixth graders acting out Shakespeare and performing their own musical accompaniment? First graders using computer Chromebooks and a...
Trees at Tennyson
Thursday, January 14, 2016—a day to plant trees again at Tennyson High School in Hayward, California. Last year, with funding from the...
Arts Night Out; Arts Day In!
An oft-seen T-shirt these days reads “Earth without art is just Eh.” Imagine then the similarity to a school without art. “Eh?” ...
Advanced Placement Advancing!
Advanced Placement classes in high school mean that top students are taking classes approved for transferable college credit. This of...
The Marshall of Hayward
In the recent Academy Award-nominated movie, The Theory of Everything, the brilliant Steven Hawking studied at the very prestigious...
Sado Club and HHS
For many Americans during World War II, Japan was once the enemy, and thus always the enemy, even after the war was long over. Not so...
Fiddler at Eldridge
Anyone who knows anything about teaching knows that virtually all teachers work very, very hard. By the end of the day, they’re tired,...
