Video of Nevada Union High School choir students’ songs are recorded onto a single track, where the class can be heard singing as one. Choir director Rod Baggett has used this system to be able to keep choir alive during the COVID-19 restrictions.
Photo: Elias Funez
Teaching in the performing arts can be a “performing art” in itself.
Effective teaching is essentially a performance art. During a pandemic in which most students are taught via distance education, performing arts teachers are faced with particularly complex challenges.
Nevertheless, performing arts instructors are adapting to the complications presented by remote teaching. They are learning to experiment with technology and to creative new approaches to help their students become performers.
By Justin Scacco | Special to The Union
An additional eight positive cases of COVID-19 have been reported at Truckee High School, bringing the total number of confirmed active cases to 32.
Tahoe Truckee Unified School District sent a letter out to parents Monday evening, providing an update on the amount of new confirmed cases of COVID-19, which increased from 24 last Friday to 32 on Monday.
Truckee High is now seven cases away from triggering rules that would require the entire school to transition to distance learning. Currently, the metric used for school closures is based on if the total number of positive cases reaches 5% of the staff and student population within a 14-day period. If Truckee were to reach 39 active cases, all extracurricular activities would be temporarily suspended, and the school would only reopen after receiving clearance from Nevada County Public Health.
April 30 2021
Court filing alleges school district failed to protect a 12-year-old student at Alder Creek Middle School.
The North Clackamas School District failed to protect a vulnerable student who was sexually abused by a classmate last year, a new lawsuit claims.
The plaintiff in the case was a 12-year-old seventh grader attending Alder Creek Middle School on Feb. 19, 2020 the day she was raped and sexually assaulted in an unlocked closet inside the school by a male eighth-grader who was later prosecuted and convicted, the suit says.
Lawyers for the plaintiff and her mother, who are identified only by pseudonym, now seek $2 million in damages for the school district s alleged negligence, according to documents filed in Clackamas County Circuit Court on April 21.
Guests at Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows take a moment away from the slopes to view artwork created by local students for Earth Day.
Local students work on their part of the Earth Day project that was installed in the Village at Squaw Valley.
Courtesy photo
Courtesy photo
Amid melting snow and spring temperatures at Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows, a group of skiers stop in the resort’s village to take in a freshly installed piece of artwork created by local students.
The skiers slowly circle the collaborative effort from the area’s youngsters, talking among themselves about what skiing at the iconic resort might look like decades from now as they eye each piece displaying different aspects of climate change.