Report Card

Spring View Middle School math teacher Lois Hoshijo was recently named

as a finalist for Region 17 in the California League of Middle Schools

Educator of the Year, the school announced.

Hoshijo teaches seventh-grade students pre-algebra and also runs a

mathematics clinic.

“She’s just a wonderful teacher who goes beyond the boundaries of the

classroom,” Malotte said.

In her 27 years of teaching, Hoshijo has taught literature and

language arts, leadership council, social studies, art and mathematics.

She has served as a master teacher through the UC Irvine and Cal State

Long Beach student teaching programs, and is currently teaching courses

in the Masters program at National University. She also serves as an

official “buddy” for new teachers in the school district.

Hoshijo has served on the Principal’s Advisory committee for eight

years. In 1991, when the district was considering reconfiguration,

Hoshijo was a leader of the reconfiguration committee, Malotte said.

“As a teacher, Lois utilizes a wide variety of instructional

strategies to challenge and meet the needs of all students, regardless of

the diverse backgrounds from which they come,” he said.

Ocean View students taste college life

Nine students from Ocean View High School attended Cal State San Diego

for a week to get a feel for what college life will be like.

The opportunity was offered through the Summer Bridge program,

sponsored by the Advancement Via Individual Determination program.

Students applied and wrote an essay entitled, “My Life Goals and How I

Hope to Achieve Those Goals.”

The students selected: Alfredo Gonzalez, Alberto Ramirez, Gustavo

Ortega, Lucia Barriga, Maribel Barron, Oscar German, Ana Sotelo, Tatiana

Bello and Ginette Saloma attended workshops for SAT preparation, writing

improvement and self-development skills.

One highlight of the week for the students was a networking function,

where representatives from different professions shared work-related

experience with the students.

Summer Bridges is a one-week program designed to give minority

students college experience in order to increase college attendance after

high school.

Schools Urged to Participate in Yellow Ribbon Week

Huntington Beach schools will join a national fight against violence

next week.

The week of Jan. 21-25 has been proclaimed, Yellow Ribbon Week, by

Gov. Gray Davis and supported by the State Board of Education.

Parents, students, teachers, other school personnel and members of the

community are encouraged to wear yellow ribbons to demonstrate a

commitment to safe schools and to remember children who have lost their

lives as a direct result of school violence.

Schools statewide also are encouraged to participate in numerous

activities and discuss many topics, ranging from supporting ongoing

efforts to prevent campus crime and violence.

Marina High School is one local high school joining in although due to

finals next week, the school has postponed Yellow Ribbon Week until the

last week of January.

Junior classmates Ryan Jauman, the school’s commissioner of human

relations/cultural awareness and Sara Marquez, commissioner of public

relations, are spearheading the program.

“This is the first time we are doing this and we’re very excited. This

is something that is very important to us and our goal is to make other

students aware of the importance of what this week is all about,” said

Jauman.

Jauman stated that the committee will hand out to homeroom teachers

various items highlighting what Yellow Ribbon Week is all about,

including vocabulary on what constitutes a hate crime. Anti-hate,

anti-drug and anti-alcohol and anti-gang posters will populate the

student bowl located in the center of campus, he said.

Jauman and Marquez will also have paper yellow bricks available during

the lunch hour. The bricks will comprise a pledge wall, with an

inscription reading, “I pledge to be a fighter in the fight against hate

and embrace diversity,” he said.