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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Participating in the Salvation Army’s annual Holiday Food Drive has been a tradition at 
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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.”
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. 
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.
IN THE NEWS: Labor and business have weighed in. So have Democrats and Republicans. Now it’s time for the middle-school set to have a say in San Diego’s mayoral race. Three of the four leading candidates vying to become the city’s next leader have committed to attending an unprecedented student-organized debate at Roosevelt Middle School on Wednesday. The “Mayoral Community Forum on Education” is a project of the campus’ Cesar Chavez Service Club and will feature issues raised by the “Chavistas,” as students in the club are called. It is the first student-organized San Diego mayoral debate in recent history. 
