Mountain Views News          Saturday, October 31, 2015

EDUCATION & YOUTH

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Mountain Views-News Saturday, October 31, 2015 

SCHOOL DIRECTORY

HILLSIDES TEENS STARRING IN FILM FESTIVAL HOSTED BY TY 
BURRELL OF ABC’S MODERN FAMILY ON NOVEMBER 7

Alverno High School

200 N. Michillinda Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024

(626) 355-3463 Head of School: Ann M. Gillick 

E-mail address: agillick@alverno-hs.org

Arcadia High School

180 Campus Drive Arcadia, CA 91007

Phone: (626) 821-8370, Principal: Brent Forsee

bforsee@ausd.net

Arroyo Pacific Academy

41 W. Santa Clara St. Arcadia, Ca, 

(626) 294-0661 Principal: Phil Clarke

E-mail address: pclarke@arroyopacific.org

Barnhart School

240 W. Colorado Blvd Arcadia, Ca. 91007

(626) 446-5588 Head of School: Ethan Williamson

Kindergarten - 8th grade

website: www.barnhartschool.org

Bethany Christian School

93 N. Baldwin Ave. Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024

(626) 355-3527 

Principal: Dr. William Walner

website: www. bcslions.org

Clairbourn School

8400 Huntington Drive

San Gabriel, CA 91775

Phone: 626-286-3108 ext. 172

FAX: 626-286-1528

E-mail: jhawes@clairbourn.org

Foothill Oaks Academy

822 Bradbourne Ave., Duarte, CA 91010

(626) 301-9809 

Co-Principals Nancy Lopez and Diane Kieffaber

info@foothilloaksacademy.org 

preschool@foothilloaksacademy.org

Frostig School

971 N. Altadena Drive Pasadena, CA 91107

(626) 791-1255

Head of School: Jenny Janetzke

Email: jenny@frostig.org

The Gooden School

192 N. Baldwin Ave. Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024

(626) 355-2410 Head of School: Patty Patano

website: www.goodenschool.org

High Point Academy

1720 Kinneloa Canyon Road Pasadena, Ca. 91107 

Headmaster John Higgins 626-798-8989

website: www.highpointacademy.org

LaSalle High School

3880 E. Sierra Madre Blvd. Pasadena, Ca. 

(626) 351-8951 website: www.lasallehs.org

Principal Bro. Christopher Brady, FSC

Monrovia High School

325 East Huntington Drive, Monrovia, CA 91016 

(626) 471-2800 Principal Darvin Jackson

Email: schools@monrovia.k12.ca.us

Odyssey Charter School

725 W. Altadena Dr. Altadena, Ca. 91001

(626) 229-0993 Head of School: Lauren O’Neill

website: www.odysseycharterschool.org

Pasadena High School

2925 E. Sierra Madre Blvd. Pasadena, Ca. 

(626) 396-5880 Principal: Gilbert Barraza

website: http://phs.pusd.us

St. Rita Catholic School

322 N. Baldwin Ave. Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024

Principal Joan Harabedian (626) 355-9028 

website: www.st-rita.org

Sierra Madre Elementary School

141 W. Highland Ave, Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024

(626) 355-1428 Principal: Esther Salinas

E-mail address: salinas.esther@pusd.us

Sierra Madre Middle School 

160 N. Canon Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024

(626) 836-2947 Principal: Garrett Newsom

E-mail address: newsom.garrett@pusd.us

Walden School

74 S San Gabriel Blvd

Pasadena, CA 91107 (626) 792-6166 

www.waldenschool.net

Weizmann Day School

1434 N. Altadena Dr. Pasadena, Ca. 91107

(626) 797-0204

Lisa Feldman: Head of School

Wilson Middle School

300 S. Madre St. Pasadena, Ca. 91107

(626) 449-7390 Principal: Ruth Esseln

E-mail address: resseln@pusd.us

Pasadena Unified School District

351 S. Hudson Ave., Pasadena, Ca. 91109

(626) 396-3600 Website: www.pusd@pusd.us

rcadia Unified School District

234 Campus Dr., Arcadia, Ca. 91007

(626) 821-8300 Website: www.ausd.net

Monrovia Unified School District

325 E. Huntington Dr., Monrovia, Ca. 91016

(626) 471-2000 Website: www.monroviaschools.net

Duarte Unified School District

1620 Huntington Dr., Duarte, Ca. 91010

(626)599-5000 Website: www.duarte.k12.ca.us


(PASADENA, CA) Fourteen youth from Hillsides 
will star in three films they wrote, cast, and starred 
in at the Kids in the Spotlight Movies by Kids, For 
Kids Film Awards held Saturday, November 7, 
2015, from 2:00 – 5:00 pm at Fox Studios/Darryl F. 
Zanuck Theater. Emmy-award winner Ty Burrell 
from ABC’s Modern Family will return for a 
second year in a row to host the show.

 Kids in the Spotlight is a nonprofit organization 
that provides an arts and healing program to foster 
care facilities and schools throughout the city of 
Los Angeles and surrounding areas. The awards 
show is the sixth annual red carpet event that 
showcases and awards ten 10-minute films written 
by, casted by and starring underserved youth. 

 The short films the Hillsides youth wrote are 
Perfect Chemistry, Different Position, and The 
New Comers. The teens were trained for 10 weeks 
in the essentials of screenwriting and filmmaking 
using the Final Draft software and equipment 
used by professionals in the industry. During one 
acting lesson, the children were personally trained 
by Burrell himself, and Kids in the Spotlight 
brought in professional directors for the filming of 
the films. 

 Similar to Hollywood industry award shows, the 
film festival will announce awards for best film, 
best actor, best supporting actor, best ensemble, 
and best screenplay/story. Last year Hillsides 
youth captured the best supporting actor and best 
ensemble award.

 Besides Burrell, many other celebrities will be 
presenting during the awards show, including Julie 
Bowen (Modern Family), Miles Brown (Blackish), 
Wendy Raquel Robinson (The Game, Disney’s 
Descendants), Jeff “Swampy” Marsh (Creator, 
Phineas & Ferb), Mo McRae (Empire), Kendrick 
Sampson (Gracepoint, How to Get Away with 
Murder), Alyssa Diaz (Ray Donovan), Mateus 
Ward (Murder in the First), Skai Jackson (Jessie), 
Emma Kenney (Shameless), Salli Richardson 
Whitfield (Being Mary Jane), and Robert Munic 
(Fighting). Media partners and sponsors include 
20th Century Fox; Music is Unity, founded by 
Earth, Wind and Fire front man, Philip Bailey; 
and CBS Studios, whose seminal magazine 
program, Entertainment Tonight, will be on hand 
to cover the event.

 For the film festival, the teens are given the 
red-carpet treatment. They are fitted with donated 
gowns and suits, have their hair and make-up done 
professionally, and are whisked to the festival in 
limousines.

 The red carpet arrivals begin at 2:00 p.m., the 
screening and awards ceremony at 3:00 p.m., 
followed by a reception from 5:30 – 7:00 p.m. 

 Tickets are $15 for children 10 and under and 
$35 for adults. Tickets can be purchased online. 
Fox Studios/Darryl F. Zanuck Theater is located 
at 10201 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90035.

 Hillsides, headquartered in Pasadena, is a 
child welfare nonprofit serving children in the 
foster care system and families in crisis. For more 
information, please visit www.hillsides.org.

Actor Ty Burrell from the ABC 
show Modern Family gives acting 
tips to the teens of Hillsides who 
are participating in the Kids in the 
Spotlight awards show on November 
7 hosted by Burrell. 

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AFTERSCHOOL 
PROGRAMS HELPING 
KIDS IMPROVE MATH 
AND SCIENCE SKILLS 

(StatePoint) At a time when there’s widespread 
concern that U.S. students are not prepared 
for a changing economy that relies on science, 
technology, engineering and math (STEM), many 
parents are sharing some good news about how 
afterschool programming is getting their children 
prepared in these crucial areas. 

 Parents of nearly seven in 10 children who 
participate in afterschool programming report 
that their child’s program offers such learning 
opportunities, according to a new household 
survey commissioned by the Afterschool Alliance. 

The special report, “Full STEM Ahead: Afterschool 
Programs Step Up as Key Partners in STEM 
Education,” found broad support among parents 
for providing STEM learning after school, and high 
satisfaction with these offerings among parents 
of children in programs that provide STEM 
education. Indeed, more than half of parents with 
children in afterschool programming say this 
was an important factor in choosing their child’s 
program, the new report finds. 

 “Afterschool is a dynamic, effective setting for 
innovative STEM education,” says Afterschool 
Alliance executive director Jodi Grant. “With 
their focus on hands-on learning and youth 
development, and the time they can give students 
to experiment, afterschool programs are well 
positioned to increase STEM skills in this country.” 

Here are some key findings from the report, 
which is based on “America After 3PM,” the most 
comprehensive survey ever to ask parents about 
their children’s participation in afterschool STEM 
programs: 

• A majority of parents say afterschool programs can 
not only help students gain STEM skills, but also 
that they should be offering STEM opportunities. 

• Low-income, African-American and Hispanic 
parents are more likely than others to report that 
their child’s afterschool program offers STEM 
learning and strongly support such opportunities. 

• Most afterschool students have STEM learning 
opportunities at least once per week. 

• Parents whose children learn STEM subjects in 
afterschool report that math is offered most often. 

• STEM activities are offered more often in urban 
than in rural and suburban programs. 

 National and state results from that report are 
available at afterschoolalliance.org/AA3PM. 

 The report recommends engaging and educating 
parents about the important role afterschool 
programs can play in supporting STEM learning 
and increasing programming and investment. 

 “Afterschool programs can help teach the 
skills that will help the next generation thrive in 
the global workforce, particularly populations 
traditionally underrepresented in STEM, because 
girls attend these programs at similar rates as boys, 
and African-American and Hispanic children 
are more likely to participate in afterschool than 
Caucasian children,” says Afterschool Alliance vice 
president for STEM policy Anita Krishnamurthi. 

 With one in five students in the United States 
unsupervised after the school day ends, challenges 
remain, experts say, and more afterschool programs 
that provide robust STEM education offerings are 
needed.


THE REEL DEAL: 

by Ben Show

STEVE JOBS REVIEW

While this film was one got some of the best reviews of the year, from 
both critics and audiences, I had no interest in seeing it. ‘Jobs’, starring 
Ashton Kutcher, came out only two years ago and I felt that, 
with all the publicity that Steve Jobs and his life story get, there was 
no reason for another film about his life, based on the book about his 
life, to be made. 

 Steve Jobs (Michael Fassbender) was both a genius and cruel. He 
saw computers as pieces of art and wanted to make sure that everyone 
saw them that way. At the launch of the Macintosh, in 1984, Jobs 
felt at the top of his game. When the NeXT came out in 1988, the illustrious 
ex-CEO of Apple was secretly planning to get back into the 
company he created. Finally, in 1998, when the iMac launched, his 
inner demons catch up to him and force him to change.

 ‘Steve Jobs’ is one of those strange movies that makes something 
that you would think is very boring (tech people talking with tech jargon 
about tech things) and makes it utterly transfixing. Fassbender’s 
performance as the titular character could easily win him an Oscar 
nomination. Winslet, Rogen, and Daniels could all easily get nominations 
as well, and hopefully this film will be remembered as one of 
the best biographical films ever made. 


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