| Wednesday, November 06, 2013
High Schoolers Take the Stage in Upcoming Fall ProductionsMiramonte's 'Our Town' opens tonight
If you walk into the Acalanes High School theater after school on a typical weekday this month, you will find several students perched high on ladders painting a set, leading actors running lines, and the drama teacher making detailed plans. A production is in ...By Clare Varellas
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| Wednesday, November 06, 2013
"The Trial of Robin Hood" Opens Next Week at OIS
Orinda Intermediate School's Bulldog Theater will be staging "The Trial of Robin Hood" - a dramatic production written by Thomas Poole, with musical scores by composer Michael Kroener - Nov. 14-16 at OIS.
 Submitted by Jeanette Lipp
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| Wednesday, November 06, 2013
Fields of the FutureSchool district and town plan to work together
Although the setting was formal and distant, ...By Sophie Braccini
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| Wednesday, November 06, 2013
Acalanes English Teacher Wins Prestigious Award
Acalanes English teacher Natalie Moore was humbled to receive an official Proclamation from the mayor and City Council Oct. 28 as one of the winners of the 2013 Warren Eukel Teacher Trust Award.The award is given out annually to three outstanding nominated teachers, to ...By Cathy Tyson
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| Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Are Teens Too Old to Trick or Treat?Two local teens offer differing opinions on the Halloween tradition
Leave it for the Little Kids
By Youngjoo Ahn
Now in my fourth year of high school, I've learned that life ...
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| Wednesday, October 23, 2013
The Common Application: A Failed Launch That Keeps on Failing
Some 500 colleges and tens of thousands of students have come to depend on the Common Application. For those unfamiliar with the Common Application, what it is and what it does, consider yourselves lucky. That means you are not dealing with the problems it is causing ...By Elizabeth LaScala
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| Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Non-Random Acts of Kindness
It began last May with a simple question: how to recruit more Joaquin Moraga Intermediate School staff to mentor the peer leadership groups already in place.
With the Safe School ...By Cathy Dausman
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| Wednesday, October 09, 2013
An Era of Epic
High school can be defined as a very simple, yet very complicated era during a person's early life. It is one of many transitional points that teens encounter, and arguably one of the most difficult ones. Within it lies the end of childhood, the experience of ...By Lora Galoyan
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| Wednesday, October 09, 2013
Teen Scene Youth Writers Create Community Story at Pear Festival
The 15th annual Moraga Pear and Wine Festival was held on a beautiful day Sept. 28 with inspiring music, happy festival-goers, enthusiastic children, and of course, delicious pear pies. To add a fun twist to the business of writing, the Lamorinda Weekly Teen Scene ...By Alex Lee
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| Wednesday, October 09, 2013
Lamorinda 4-H Celebrates National 4-H Week
Lamorinda 4-H's 115 members will be supporting National 4-H Week through Oct. 12 by wearing their T-shirts to school, hanging banners at the Orinda BART station and Acalanes High School, and presenting a poster outlining the history of Lamorinda 4-H at the Lafayette ...Submitted by Mary Halpin
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| Wednesday, October 09, 2013
When Your Teen Doesn't Make the Team
When your child experiences an upsetting event, like not making the cut for a high school sports team, he or she needs your simple compassion and understanding, not preaching, rationalization or a philosophical perspective. Instead of, "We all have disappointments in ...By Margie Ryerson
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