Creating Our Own Secret Garden and Awakening the Seeds of Discovery
As the fifth graders at Stratford Mission Viejo’s campus followed a precocious young girl named Mary Lennox into a locked-away plot of land, while reading Frances Burnett’s “The Secret Garden,” their teacher suddenly recalled a similar plot of overgrown earth, located near the back of their school grounds. Mentioning the…
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San Jose Middle School Students Create Kiva Microloan Club and Finance Loans to 554 Families Across 33 Countries
It all began three years ago in a Spanish class at Stratford San Jose Middle School, when 8th grade students in Ms. Sanchez’s class watched the documentary Living on One Dollar. In the film, four young friends attempt to live on less than one dollar a day in Guatemala, learning…
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