Since its founding in 1973, Rancho Santa Fe’s Diegueño Country School has been green, with numerous programs and events that work towards saving the environment while instilling these core values in its students. The school even formed the first Southern California chapter of Roots and Shoots, an organization founded by Jane Goodall, PhD to help…
Spring in San Diego brings with it subtle signs — monarch butterflies, hummingbirds, whooping cranes, and other animals migrate; plants bloom; and temperatures and sunlight experience their seasonal shifts. The Children’s School (TCS) in La Jolla is allowing its students to explore these changes by tracking signs and gathering data for Journey North, a Web-based…
Corinne Wilcox was frustrated. It’s not that she wasn’t trying hard in school — she really was — but everything just seemed harder for her, especially reading. It had been like that since the second grade, when she was held back while all her friends went on without her. She felt so embarrassed. “Throughout…
Sixth graders Ethan Epstein, Brandon Liu, and Mandy Wirt decided that they wanted to make a difference and set out to create a portable multi-sensory environment for children with disabilities. After visiting multi-sensory classrooms provided by the Jane Johnson Foundation and known as Jane’s Rooms, the trio learned about how help children with disabilities to improve…