The online PowerSchool Portal for parents and students is now active. The portal, which is linked to the district’s new student information system PowerSchool, is a powerful online tool for obtaining information about your child. You will be able to review your child’s class schedule, grades, progress reports, homework assignment scores and attendance from any computer that has internet accessibility, which means you can monitor your child’s progress at any time.
The portal application is a secure link that encrypts the data to and from the end user, so a username and password are necessary to allow access for only authorized users to the appropriate student record. Parents/guardians will have their own individual parent/guardian account, including username and password.
Please contact your child's school to learn when the portal will be available and to obtain a username and password.
To learn more about the PowerSchool Parent Portal, please view the following:
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Coleman was saluted for her special education law, behavioral supports, interventions, consultation and collaboration and disability specific needs. The organization also noted that teachers are frequently in consultation and collaboration with her; seek her guidance; and use her as a constant, vigilant resource.
This donation will provide for practical instruction and support the broad and challenging curriculum standards for the programs by allowing students to work with a variety of engine types.
The mural of iconic San Diego Bay sites -- sailboats, the San Diego Coronado Bay Bridge, and downtown -- close by the campus. Students worked on the mural with Willman.
The 2013 Jimmie Johnson Foundation/Lowe’s Toolbox for Education Champions Grants were awarded to schools in Chandra and Jimmie Johnson’s respective hometowns of Muskogee, Okla., El Cajon, Calif., and where they currently reside in Charlotte, N.C., and totaled $470,000.
Growing demand for the Tuesday night dinners, has resulted in attendance exceeding the number of available tables and chairs, families often had to take their food to the downstairs portion of the center, sit at separate tables or wait for a vacant table.
Participating in the Salvation Army’s annual Holiday Food Drive has been a tradition at 
Supt. Cindy Marten and Board of Education Vice President Kevin Beiser joined more than 12,000 people who participated in the Race for the Cure 5K run and walk held Nov. 3 in Balboa Park. The event raised more than $1.1 million for breast cancer health education, screenings and research.
The Hall of Fame highlights alumni of San Diego Unified schools who have made a significant impact on society, or have overcome adversity to succeed. This could be a graduate who is a stay-at-home parent who helps his or her kids and community; a graduate who excels in a professional or athletic setting; one that makes a difference in his/her community; or even one that has attained national or international fame. 
IN THE NEWS: At the San Diego High SciTech, students worked on a design for a new garden outside the San Diego Automotive Museum. Work included budgets and scale drawings in math class, plus they researched native plants in earth science. They learned how much space, water and light each plant type needed in their green engineering class and then drew it all together in a presentation they worked on during English class. 
Commander DesaRae Janzen, US Coast Guard and parent of Cubberley students, Sydney and Cody Janzen explained, “It was the end of World War I at 11:00 a.m., November 11, 1918 (the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month) and on this day we set aside this day to thank and honor living veterans who served honorably in the military in wartime or peacetime.”
This year, Hancock Elementary School is one of 25 elementary schools across the country to receive a library makeover as part of the Target School Library Makeover program. Through programs like this one, Target is on track to give $1 billion for education by the end of 2015.
Fun activities were offered all morning including the LEGO Engineering Challenge, the Frisbee throwing robot from Mission Bay High, "Jeopardy Challenge" complete with buzzers, Chinese dragon parade, crazy hair booth, spin the music wheel and get a prize, and school performance groups including the PB Middle School String Ensemble, Crown Point Junior Music Academy violinists and the Barnard Asian Pacific Language Academy Singers. 
Since the inception of the Chargers Champions program in 2000, the Spanos family has donated more than $4.5 million to San Diego’s schools and students. The program provides greater financial support for San Diego-area schools than any other private company in San Diego County. Including the 2013 round of grants, Chargers Champions has provided funds to 100 local schools.
The annual survey determines the number of military and non-military federally connected students in the public school system for whom the district receives impact aid funds. These funds provide partial reimbursement to the district for local tax loss resulting from tax-free federal installations or property. By filling out and returning the survey cards, parents help our schools claim and benefit from the district’s authorized share of federal support. Each survey card is important because federal impact aid is determined from the survey card responses. Please, complete, sign and return the card as it is the children who will benefit.
The program called, the “Social Innovation Relay,” provided aspiring entrepreneurs with the hands-on skills and business expertise needed to start a successful business. The program provided a combination of both virtual and face-to-face mentoring by experienced executives.
In their exploration of Brazil, Peru, Columbia, Argentina and Chile, students in the College, Career and Technical Education program didn't just study articles or photos from books or on the web, they were challenged by their teacher, Sarah Smith, Registered Dietitian Jackie Schaffer and Executive Chef Gregory Branham to create foods from each region. Students then had three days to prep the food for presentation and serve them at a special event.
The Madison Hawkeye News is a successful student-produced weekly broadcast that is shown across campus every Wednesday in Advisory.
The event celebrated the commitment to make Linked Learning available to students across five regions, and highlight partnerships between schools and employers to prepare California’s future workforce for job-rich economic sectors. 
Recent fall festivals at Ellen Browning Scripps, Hickman and Sessions elementary schools were able to sample some of the local, farm fresh, healthy fruits and vegetables from their new Dipper Bars.
The message is simple and clear: we serve fresh locally grown fruits and vegetable to our students.
During the 2012-2013 school year, it sponsored an incentive project to support the school counselors with the Six-Step Accountability Process known as MEASURES (Mission, Element, Analyze, Stakeholders-Unite, Results, Educate Stakeholders) and subsequent Results Reporting. School counselors who participated in this process drafted their MEASURES with principal support and monitored the progress of their students. 
Many schools also took the opportunity to use the drill as a teaching topic, helping students learn about how to handle emergencies, what causes earthquakes and other related subjects. 
