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MIDDLETOWN, Calif. – Middletown Adventist School is now enrolling for the 2014-15 school year.
Middletown Adventist School is an accredited Christian school for grades kindergarten through eighth.
It offers small class sizes in a family-type safe setting.
Registration takes place from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 7.
For more information, go to www.MiddletownAdventistSchool.org or call Lottie Cline at 707-987-9147.
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KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – Lake County middle and high school students participated in a two-day Explore Culinary Camp held at Kelseyville High School on Monday, July 7, and Tuesday, July 8, with Kelseyville High’s Culinary Arts instructor Tami Cramer.
Twenty-three students learned a variety of skills which included knife skills, baking and proper cleanup and maintenance of the kitchen.
Students worked in small team kitchens as they learned to make chocolate cupcakes and frosting from scratch utilizing measuring utensils and electric mixers in addition to the ovens and other tools.
On day two students prepared their own lunch – pizza! They began the morning by preparing the dough and allowing it to rise, then later adding the sauce and the toppings of their choice before popping it into the oven.
The Explore Culinary Camp was offered as part of the Career Technical Education series of summer workshops designed by the Lake County Office of Education Career & College Readiness Department and funded by Mendocino College.
Each high school was offered the opportunity and funding to host similar workshops. The final workshop of the summer is scheduled for July 21-23 at Clear Lake High and will focus on digital media.
The Digital Career Academy will be taught by instructor Adam Evans and is offered free of charge to all incoming seventh through 12th graders.
To register for this camp, contact Evans at
For more information on similar career exploration events contact Tammy Serpa at 707-994-9001 or
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California Community Colleges Chancellor Brice W. Harris on Monday announced that Dr. Pamela Walker, currently interim president of American River College, has received an appointment by the Governor’s Office as vice chancellor of academic affairs for the Chancellor’s Office, and will begin this August.
In addition, Patrick Perry, currently vice chancellor of technology, research and information systems, will assume the role of executive vice chancellor and add the human resources and technical assistance units to his purview under his new position.
“In their new roles, Dr. Walker and Mr. Perry will provide additional support and leadership in the critical areas of academic affairs and technology,” said Chancellor Brice W. Harris. “They are both outstanding professionals, and will help us remain even more focused on our dual goals of restoring access and improving student success.”
Walker assumed the role of interim president of American River College, located in Sacramento, in 2014. Before that, she was the vice president of student services at American River College, holding the position from 2006 to 2014.
From 2004 to 2006, she was the associate vice president of instruction, also at American River College. She earned an Ed.D. in organization and leadership from the University of San Francisco. Her compensation will be $120,000.
Perry has served as vice chancellor at the Chancellor’s Office and has administered Technology, Research and Information Systems since 1997.
He has worked to support several initiatives while at the Chancellor’s Office, including: CCCApply, CCC Confer, and eTranscript California.
He was the director of technology for the State of California Council for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education and a staff economist at the California Department of Boating and Waterways before coming to the Chancellor’s Office.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration and economics from the University of Nevada. His compensation will be $142,680 per year.
The California Community Colleges is the largest system of higher education in the nation composed of 72 districts and 112 colleges serving 2.1 million students per year.
For more information about the community colleges, please visit http://californiacommunitycolleges.cccco.edu/ .
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HIDDEN VALLEY LAKE, Calif. – The Terri Lynne Lokoff Child Care Foundation (TLLCCF) announced that Jean Goulart of Hidden Valley Lake received the 2014 Terri Lynne Lokoff/Children’s TYLENOL National Child Care Teacher Award at a special ceremony on April 3 in Philadelphia.
Goulart owns and operates Bundle of Joy Preschool Childcare LFCC in Hidden Valley Lake.
This exemplary early care and education teacher was selected from a pool of applicants nationwide. She received an award of $1,000.
Goulart is seeking a “Nature Explore Outdoor Classroom Certification” which encompasses 10 principles to bring nature back in the lives of children.
She intends to use that certification to educate families about the health benefits of nature activities and provide a nature-filled outdoor experience while children are in childcare and preschool.
There are a total of 54 National Child Care Teacher Award recipients for 2014.
The recipients of the Terri Lynne Lokoff National Child Care Teacher Awards designed an enhancement project that illustrates the educational, social and emotional benefits for the children in their care.
Goulart’s award-winning project that she will implement with a grant from the awards program is "Bundle of Joy Community Garden/Nature Explore Outdoor Classroom.”
“My classroom enhancement project is the further development of my outdoor classroom. We have grown pumpkin patches over the years that involved the children from seed planting to pumpkin harvest,” said Goulart. “We read about gardens, planting and parts of the seed. We observe potatoes grow their root systems in jars. We carve a jack o lantern and retrieve the seeds for next year. The whole family participates on a weekend day for harvest of the pumpkins, to share the classroom with their child, and share the pumpkin pie the children and I make in class prior to harvest day of the pumpkin patch.”
She added, “All will share in the bounty from our Bundle of Joy Community Garden. The families may harvest vegetables at pick up and share at their table. We will have our garden veggies for lunch or snack. When we have extra we donate to our towns Senior Center where lunch is prepared daily for seniors.”
A committee of national early childhood educators and experts reviewed and scored the applications. Each recipient receives a $1,000 award: $500 to implement their proposed project and $500 to acknowledge their dedication.
From the inception of the Teacher Awards program in 1994 the TLLCCF, with the inclusion of the 2014 recipients, will have presented 789 awards totaling more than $754,000 to early care and education teachers and providers for their dedication and excellence.
“The field of early childhood education is emerging as a necessary beginning for a child’s start to their formal education,” said TLLCCF Executive Director Allan Miller. “Child care teachers are being recognized for the important role they play in providing the first learning opportunities for young children. Children attend an early care and education program from as young as 6 weeks of age to five years old.
“The teachers, particularly those honored as our national award winners, are professionals,” Miller said. “Their curriculum-based lesson plans are designed to further children’s natural creativity and stimulate curiosity to explore. Teachers play a vital role in the development of children. They introduce children to reading and writing, expanded vocabulary, creative arts, science, and social studies. They use games, music, artwork, films, books, computers, and other tools to teach concepts and skills.”
Continued Miller, “Children learn mainly through investigation and play. Early care and education teachers capitalize on children's play to further language and vocabulary development, improve social skills, introduce scientific and mathematical concepts, learn self-help skills and physical independence through play and social interaction. When teachers have done their jobs well they will have instilled a life-long love of learning in their young charges.”