Del Mar Union launches new modern classroom prototypes
DMUSD students balance on Norvaboards while at work in the classroom.
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“I learn better when I wiggle.”
That student comment was one of many positive reviews of Del Mar Union School District’s new modern classroom prototypes. Embracing an open floor plan design, the entire room is used for learning with cozy movable furniture, a mix of student workspaces and Norvaboards, a board that students can balance (and wiggle) on while working at a standing table.
Prototypes of the new classrooms are at 16 spaces across the district, in kindergarten and first grade classrooms and a special education classroom.
UC San Diego Health wins award for partnerships with local school districts
UC San Diego Health’s new clinic in the Village at Pacific Highlands Ranch. The clinic offers primary care and women’s health services.
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UC San Diego Health was named the 2021 “Partner in Educational Excellence” by the Association of California School Administrators Region 18 for its COVID-19 testing programs.
Superintendents from the Solana Beach, Del Mar Union, Rancho Santa Fe and San Dieguito Union school districts joined together to nominate the academic medical center for the award in honor of the groundbreaking partnerships it helped create in San Diego County during the pandemic. These collaborations have resulted in symptomatic and surveillance COVID-19 testing for students and school employees, helping keep students on their campuses and in classrooms during the 2020-21 school year.
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The Del Mar Union School District teachers have opted to nominate all teachers for 2020-21 Teacher of the Year honors an unconventional idea fitting for a most unusual school year.
As Del Mar teacher Kate Daniel wrote in her nomination letter, on March 13, 2020, the very definition of teaching changed. Heading into Zoom classrooms and distance learning for the first time last spring, what teachers initially thought may just last a couple of weeks ended up stretched to fall, kicking off a school year unlike any other.
“It’s been nearly a year since that Friday in March and, as educators, we have risen to challenges that existed far beyond our wildest imaginations,” Daniel wrote. “Not only have our students continued to receive a world-class, full-time, and in-person education, but we have expanded our incredible program to include an online option that is truly one of a kind. You can pretty much say, ‘We’re killing it’.”
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The Del Mar Heights School rebuild is on hold as the Del Mar Union School District completes additional environmental reviews, stemming from a court decision in the lawsuit against the district by Save the Field.
The district had planned to break ground on the project last summer and for students to be in their new school in August 2021, however, Heights students will continue to attend school off-site in the 2021-22 school year at Ocean Air School and Del Mar Hills Academy.
The project has been slowed by the requirement for a coastal development permit from the City of San Diego and the lawsuit, which alleges the district failed to comply with California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) with its “insufficient” Mitigated Negative Declaration (MND) that concluded that the rebuild will result in no significant impacts on the environment. At the Feb. 24 meeting, the board vacated its approval of the MND to begin work on a “focused” environmental impact report.