Education
- Sutter High group donates Kindles to Meridian Elementary
- By Ashley Gebb/ADagebb
- There are no sounds of turning pages, no dog-eared edges, no missing covers.
When seventh-graders at Meridian Elementary School begin their group reading lessons, instead of pulling tired paperbacks from their desks, they bust out tech-savvy Kindles... Full story
- Brownie Troop No. 4095 serves community
- Appeal-Democrat staff report
- Girls in Brownie Troop No. 4095, composed of second-graders at St. Isidore Catholic School in Yuba City and troop leader Rose McIsaac, recently participated in two service projects.
On March 26, the girls delivered 10 infant care kits to Children's ... Full story
- Education Briefs
- Appeal-Democrat staff report
- Mid-Valley
Page honored for ROP service
The Association of California School Administrators has named Randy Page, director of the Tri-County Regional Occupational Program, as 2012 State Career Technical Education Administrator of the Year.
He was ... Full story
- Classroom Notes
- Appeal-Democrat staff report
- Tierra Buena Elementary School
Yuba City
• On May 10, the fourth-graders of Vicki Miller, Linda Eamer and Don Gabler traveled to Blackburn/Talley Park for the 16th annual Children's Health and Safety Fair. The students learned about water cons... Full story
- Dobbins kids create state map
- Appeal-Democrat staff report
- Dobbins Elementary School students transformed themselves Tuesday into architects, historians, cartographers and anthropologists as part of a school project.
On the blacktop of the foothill school, students created a 60-foot-long map of California d... Full story
- Museum takes a hands-on approach to science
- Bridge Street students tour Gateway Science Museum in Chico
- By Ashley Gebb/ADagebb
- Straining their vocal cords to the max, Bridge Street Elementary students sealed themselves inside a closet-sized room Tuesday and let the decibels skyrocket.
Setting foot in the scream room was a must-do during the school's first field trip to Gate... Full story
Submit Your Own
- Children are hard-wired to be imaginative
- Feed their curiosity with today's titles
- By Kendal A. Rautzhan/For the Appeal-Democrat
- Youth is a beautiful state of mind that brims with imagination, vigor, a sense of courage and an appetite for adventure. But just because the body ages, our sense of wonder and imagination don't abandon us — we abandon them, and that's a danger... Full story
- Bruce's History Lesson: Constantine’s conversion key to Christianity today
- The Emperor Constantine, the first Christian ruler of the Roman empire and the man who ended the persecution of Christianity, died this week (May 22) in 337, having lived a life that would change the world.
Born a pagan, as were the vast majority of... Full story
- Catch some spring fever
- By Rose Godfrey/For the Appeal-Democrat
- With the warm weather and longer days, spring fever has reached epidemic status in our homeschool. It arrived on schedule right alongside a first hatch of mosquitoes and a solid dose of seasonal allergies. We are all having a real hard time getting e... Full story
High School Beats
- Foul is fair in East Nic's Macbeth'
- By Kelsey Barrett/For the Appeal-Democrat
- Spring comes with a lot of new things, especially the spring drama production. A group of talented actors in East Nicolaus High School's Theatre Arts Department recently performed William Shakespeare's "Macbeth."
The ENHS drama troupe worked relentl... Full story
- Students share service in Mexico
- By Elizabeth Andrus/For the Appeal-Democrat
- Spring break is traditionally a time for students to relax, hang out with friends and sleep in. Not so for a group of 30 students from Faith Christian High School. These kids — freshmen through seniors — instead chose to spend their vacat... Full story
- Gridley students anticipate year's end
- By Holly Anderson/For the Appeal-Democrat
- With just a month and a half of this school year left, the anticipation of graduation is becoming greater and greater for seniors at Gridley High School. The warm weather puts a spring in our steps and a smile of sunshine on our lips. Summer is almos... Full story
- Graduation countdown is nearly over
- By Jamie Yang/For the Appeal-Democrat
- The countdown to graduation is close to an end, and by fall this year, current Lindhurst High School seniors will be dispersed all across California.
Many of us at LHS are low-income, first-generation American minority students, and if statistics pr... Full story
- Triumph of the small school student
- By Ciria Salazar/For the Appeal-Democrat
- As the school year begins to slow down and students trudge wearily through finals and college selection, there arrives a time to contemplate the journey that has brought us to this point in time. Depending on who is asked, some reflect joyously about... Full story
- And this is how to sling mud
- By Natalie Landau/For the Appeal-Democrat
- For the graduating class of Marysville Charter Academy for the Arts, the coming presidential election has been somewhat eclipsed by the excitement of leaving school. Nonetheless, it is a topic that should be of utmost importance to all Americans of v... Full story
- Past reflections, future hopes
- By Courtney Ngai/For the Appeal-Democrat
- Four years of high school are filled with happiness, anger, sadness and every other emotion that your hormones are causing. Since another year is about to end at Marysville High School, we pause to reflect about the past.
High school can be categori... Full story
- Count your blessings
- By Leanna Whiteley/For the Appeal-Democrat
- Have you stopped to think about how blessed you are? Has the thought ever crossed your mind? Let me tell you — for me, these thoughts have been consuming my mind.
Coming into the second semester and thinking of how different my life will be wi... Full story
- It's our time to become great
- By Manjinder Singh/For the Appeal-Democrat
- Four years. Four years seems like such a long time at the beginning but virtually nothing at the end. For the graduating seniors at River Valley High School, these are the final days of our high school career. The emotions mix with excitement about s... Full story
- Horrifying scene sends message
- By Nola and Jayna Dodd/For the Appeal-Democrat
- The Every 15 Minutes program changed many perspectives at Sutter Union High School. The Chico Police Department started this program in 1995 based on the statistic that someone dies as the result of an alcohol-related car collision every 15 minutes.
... Full story
- Make memories you won't regret
- By Natalie Ross/For the Appeal-Democrat
- There comes a time during your senior year when you're faced with many stressful things at once: scholarships, grades, your social life — and don't forget prom.
During the second semester of your senior year, all of the stresses and burdens of... Full story
- Music benefits students
- By Greg Geraldo/For the Appeal-Democrat
- Here at Yuba City High School, music plays a large part in daily life. When asked to name three musical artists at random, Brandon Taylor, a junior, said, "Lil Wayne, Drake and Led Zeppelin," but when asked to name three composers, he stuttered with ... Full story
