Posted in Uncategorized on May 6, 2008 | No Comments »
TO: State Board of Education
RE: Ridgecrest Charter School
We are writing this letter in support of the continued accreditation of Ridgecrest Charter School. As the parents of eight children and as an educator, we have been very happy with the education our children are receiving at RCS. The teachers have consistently worked hard to provide a [...]
Posted in Teaching and Learning, Uncategorized on August 9, 2007 | No Comments »
It’s always very interesting for me to watch other teachers teach other teachers, since I am a teacher who teaches teachers myself. I’ve very seldom seen good crowd control methods in practice. From my own experience, what typically happens is that something will be introduced, the audience will start to follow along, and then individuals [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 22, 2007 | No Comments »
They wouldn’t let me leave without a group picture. There’s a story behind each one of these people. I was there at the beginning of their journey through OMET and I was here as they finished things up. It’s exciting to see how far they have come in such a short period of time. It’s [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 10, 2007 | No Comments »
The awards banquet today was set up in the student center with tables, podium, etc. They moved the couches and other misc furniture outside on the patio in a corner to make more room. So Josh and I are sitting there in the middle of the presentations, room full of people including the Kern Community [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 22, 2007 | No Comments »
Thursday we all piled into vans and trucks and headed south to UC Riverside. After taking the scenic tour of the campus (ie: getting lost walking around) we arrived at the VisLab were PhD candidate Rui Li have us a tour of their research facilities. After that we went to the bookstore to pick up [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 6, 2007 | No Comments »
Today’s Theme:
Try it out
Talk it out
Work it out
Find it out
So, they all came in this morning pretty confident that it would be an easy day and they would have lots of time to work on other stuff. Haha! They are learning that the devil is in the details… it’s the small things that are causing [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 6, 2007 | No Comments »
“This learning thing is pretty cool.” ~ Jim (KRV Robotics class)
Posted in Uncategorized on January 5, 2007 | No Comments »
I’ve really made a point of pushing out to the front one or two of my helpers, and they have stepped up to the plate wonderfully. Josh has taken some ownership over this whole event and is really learning what it means to be on the other side of the looking glass. This is from [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 4, 2007 | No Comments »
We ended up with an unexpected mix of people participating in this class. I thought it had been marketed only to high school kids so all of my planning and expectations had been geared toward a room full of teenagers. Instead, four kids and four adults found their way to the RoboLab. We spent the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 3, 2007 | No Comments »
Busy, busy day, one full of little details and big plans. We packed up our stuff, loaded up the suburban, ran a few errands, and headed out of Dodge around 11:30am. Forty-five minutes later, in another ecosystem, we arrived at the KRV campus. The first challenge was to find out where to get into the [...]
