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Learning variety cultivates success

Learning variety cultivates success

Charlie Schwartz, Web News Editor Mar 6, 2024

This article was originally published in a print edition of the Oracle in September 2023.  Every single student at MVHS is different when it comes to learning, even if it is by the smallest margin....

Tasty Treats With Teachers: Road to the spotlight with Pancho Morris

Ethan Fey, Lead Video Director Oct 7, 2022

New drama teacher Pancho Morris is many things: an actor, a singer and a former MVHS student. In the latest episode of Tasty Treats With Teachers, Morris talks about his Hollywood red (green) carpet walk,...

Doce años después de la consolidación, el programa ELD regresa a Los Altos

Doce años después de la consolidación, el programa ELD regresa a Los Altos

Sophia Smith, Traductor Apr 20, 2022

Pedro Alcazar, estudiante de segundo año y comisionado de desarrollo del idioma inglés en MVHS, dijo que el problema principal que enfrentan los estudiantes ELD en MVHS es el transporte. Algunos...

Twelve years after consolidation, ELD program returns to Los Altos High School

Twelve years after consolidation, ELD program returns to Los Altos High School

Pedro Alcazar, sophomore and English Language Development Commissioner at MVHS, said that the main issue ELD students at MVHS face is transportation.  Some students have to take two or three buses...

Principals, Athletic directors, and long term substitutes: the complex process of hiring new staff

Principals, Athletic directors, and long term substitutes: the complex process of hiring new staff

Katie Tsang, Web News Editor Apr 3, 2022

The school has hired a new athletic director, found long-term substitute teachers for unpredictable staff absences, and started searching for a new principal since the beginning of the second semester....

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Photo story: students and teachers participate in dodgeball tournament

Naina Srivastava Nov 13, 2021

Teams lined up on their respective sides, ready to take on their opponents in a game of dodgeball. The winner of the week-long dodgeball tournament, hosted by ASB, played and won against a team of teachers...

Projectors, space, and stairs: students and teachers reflect on new buildings

Projectors, space, and stairs: students and teachers reflect on new buildings

Hayes Duenow Sep 12, 2021

“I pretty much like everything about the new buildings, [except] the stairs, the stairs are a lot. Everything else I love about the building, it feels very welcoming… It looks like apartments:...

From social dist-dancing to engineering face shields, hands-on classes forced to get creative during shelter-in-place

From social dist-dancing to engineering face shields, hands-on classes forced to get creative during shelter-in-place

Carly Heltzel May 12, 2020

While conventional classes have a variety of issues to overcome with online distance learning, unorthodox courses, including engineering, performing arts, and Freestyle Academy, have been forced to get...

Teachers struggle with online learning: “reinventing the wheel on a daily basis”

Teachers struggle with online learning: “reinventing the wheel on a daily basis”

Natalie Arbatman Apr 28, 2020

Online learning developments Quick-changing district policies, nation-wide college decisions, and systematic grading changes are just a few of the challenges that teachers at the school have been forced...

The case for credit/no credit, from past and present District Teachers Association presidents

The case for credit/no credit, from past and present District Teachers Association presidents

David Campbell Apr 13, 2020

David Campbell is the current president of the MVLA District Teachers Association and a teacher at MVHS. Michelle Bissonnette is the former MVLA DTA president and a teacher at LAHS. This is in response...

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