You may not know the meaning behind the acronym COVID-19. Here's the breakdown: 'co' represents corona, "vi' represents virus, 'd' represents disease, and 19 represents the year it began. The actual word 'corona' means crown in Spanish, because the virus that attaches to your body is said to look like a crown. The first case was identified in Wuhan, China on November 17, 2019; no one, at that time,...

It will not surprise anyone who homeschooled their children and worked from home for the past three months that I recruited my 15-year-old daughter this evening to help review the fourth and final edition of our Patriot Power. It is fourteen minutes before midnight and AdVenture STEM's online publication is ready to be put to bed for the last time this year. No words capture the surreal experience...

During the entire global pandemic, lots of lives have been changed. Lots of people are wondering when life will return back to normal. As we enter summer, plans for going to amusement parks are being made. But how will COVID-19 affect them? Disneyland is starting to slowly reopen but with limited guests permitted inside. Great America has also taken initiative by extending all 2020 passes to 2021....

Fire up your best lesson plans. Crack down on classroom management. Spring is here! Students are ready to break free from the confines of the classroom and run outside. Even the mile run during PE is sounding pretty appealing right now... As winter thawed, Digital Journalism students wrote about political and social justice issues that impact their lives. They studied fake news stories and how the...

We don't have official Snow Days in San Jose, but if we did, our students would be on the slopes of the closest mountain, learning how to flip in the air on their snowboards. Our teachers would probably say, "We need some snow days!" Even if it's 32 degrees outside, our students are 'chomping at the bit'--just like horses anxious to head back home--to run around outside. That might not happen today;...