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.
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