| Wednesday, March 28, 2012
A Sport of the Mind
As most adults know, success in work / life is most often about being able to work effectively in a team environment, think creatively, develop unique solutions and then execute the plan - experiences that kids don't get enough of through traditional academics and ...Submitted by Gerard van Steyn
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| Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Checkmate: Los Perales No. 1
The Los Perales chess team took home first place honors at the Berkeley Chess School Elementary School Tournament on Saturday, March 10 at Bancroft Elementary School in Walnut Creek. Sixty students from 21 schools east of the Oakland hills competed in five games of ...Submitted by May Lo
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| Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Acalanes Parents' Club Launches Grant Program
Seven Acalanes High School groups will ...Cathy Dausman
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| Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Driving While AdolescentWhat you and your kids need to know
On Lamorinda's roads, even mature drivers ...Laurie Snyder
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| Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Springhill Students Send Message About Education Funding Cuts:"Don't Blow It!"
Despite gray skies and drizzle, a group of Springhill Elementary school students came out to blow bubbles before class March 15 as part of the "This Budget Blows" campaign to encourage parent support for adequate and timely funding for Lafayette's schools. The date ...By Cathy Tyson
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| Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Family FocusParental Discretion Advised
One of the most common parenting problems I see, especially in our era of reality and talk television and constant electronic accessibility, is difficulty maintaining discretion with one's children. We already have the problem in our society of children becoming too ...By Margie Ryerson, MFT
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| Wednesday, March 28, 2012
THE APP RAP
ICE "In Case of Emergency"
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| Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Record Participation in Lafayette's Science Fairs
Over 1,400 K-5 students participated in the Lafayette Partners in Education (LPIE) sponsored science fairs in the Lafayette School District this year. Student science fair projects included classic experiments, as well as non-traditional ones. Stock performance ...Submitted by Janet Estee, LPIE Science Chair
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| Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Improving Pedestrian Safety at Dangerous Moraga Crosswalks
There are two crossings along Moraga Road where, according to some pedestrians, you take your life in your hands when you cross the road. One is at Corliss and serves as a transition between a sidewalk and a pedestrian trail; the other is at Woodford, across from ...By Sophie Braccini
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| Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Resident Poet Elicits Reflective Prose from Springhill Students
Trolling through the boisterous halls of Lafayette's Springhill Elementary School, J. Ruth Gendler is a transformational teacher whose charm and skill has unleashed the writer in countless students.
 By Lou Fancher
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| Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Orinda Academy Welcomes Russian Visitors
Orinda Academy recently hosted several Russian high school students and teachers from Novouralsk, Russia. The school the Russian students attend is Gymnasia #41. The students and teachers came to Orinda Feb. 23-27 as part of a cultural and educational trip where they ...Submitted by Miriam Schaffer
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Lamorinda Weekly, Moraga CA