Remote learning 2.0: Online games, polls, new tech tools used to provide a more enhanced version of instruction for students
September 19, 2020
After a month of distance learning using the Zoom virtual meeting platform, Pre-Calculus Honors teacher Amanda Morris decided it was time to change things up. “I chose this game because it gives you an opportunity to talk about and describe functions, which is important for the lesson we are start...
With more than 30 years of administrative experience, new assistant principal says ‘aloha’ to Sunny Hills
September 16, 2020
This is the second of a series of feature profiles of new, full-time teachers or administrators at Sunny Hills High School for 2020-2021. Having grown up on the island of white sand beaches and palm trees, John Oldenburg says “aloha” to Sunny Hills this school year. The newest member to join the admini...
New math teacher brings the right formula of experiences into her instruction
September 5, 2020
This is the first of a series of upcoming, weekly feature profiles of new, full-time teachers and administrators at Sunny Hills High School for 2020-2021. Dorothy Cheng knew she wanted to become a math teacher upon entering middle school. Cheng, one of two new math instructors at Sunny Hills this...
Sophomore forms nationwide community outreach program to deliver soothing music video performances for the elderly during COVID-19 pandemic
September 2, 2020
Sophomore Lauren Pak still remembers the day she was inspired by her community service idea of delivering video recordings of teenagers playing soothing music to the elderly at local and national nursing homes. Pak’s first year at Sunny Hills was ending in May, and she knew she would find herself with...
Distance learning ‘bombs’ teachers with new challenges
August 29, 2020
In the nearly four years that senior Ian Gonzalez has attended Sunny Hills, he had never witnessed any of his peers in the classroom direct profanity at any of his teachers. But all that changed last semester when Sunny Hills shut down live classroom instruction because of the coronavirus pandemic, a...
Zooming from Brazil: Distance learning takes on new meaning for junior
August 28, 2020
According to Google maps, it’s 6,130 miles from Fullerton to Sao Paulo, Brazil. When the clock strikes 7:01 a.m. here on a weekday — the start of zero period at Sunny Hills — it’s 10:01 a.m. over there. And while most of his peers are still munching on their morning breakfast, junior E...
May 29: Being quarantined at home because of coronavirus crisis can’t stop these students from pursuing Victorian-era hobbies
May 30, 2020
LIVING UNDER THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS This is part of a series of columns from The Accolade staff about their various experiences during the school closure because of the coronavirus pandemic. If you would like to submit some of your experiences, please email us at [email protected] Since Califor...
After 37 years in education, math teacher Larry Allen retires
May 30, 2020
Buena Park, Fullerton, Sonora and Troy -- all high schools in the Fullerton Joint Union High School District that math teacher Larry Allen has taught at before coming to Sunny Hills High School. The only campus Allen hasn't taught at in the district is La Habra and the continuing education schools. Alle...
Distance learning also happening in Asia, while most schools overseas able to hold live graduation ceremonies
Yonhee Eu
May 28, 2020
Sophomore Ryan Lee’s friend, Bum Soo Kim, lives in Nanjing, China, in the Jiangsu Province -- more than 450 miles west of the Wuhan province, reportedly the epicenter of the novel coronavirus outbreak in mid-January. Lee said he has known Kim since he was in fourth grade, having first met him wh...
Dancin’ to ‘90s music? Glow in the Dark Neon Lights in the gym? Student-suggested May stag dance themes could have been either one had the COVID-19 pandemic not have gotten in the way
Alexandria Kim
May 26, 2020
“Neon Lights.” “The ‘90s.” “Blacklight.” These are just a few of the 73 student stag theme submissions that the ASB received before school closure in mid-March in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Those who turned them in, however, will never know what the last stag dance the...
20 Questions for Top of the 2020 Class: Jiwon Hur graduates with a full International Baccalaureate diploma and would like to thank her grandparents for motivating her
May 26, 2020
In lieu of our senior print issue, The Accolade has decided to conduct a Q and A with each of the 12 valedictorians for online posting. Question #1: What are your plans after high school? Answer: My plan for right now is to go to UCI as a Psychology B.S. Major. I’m interested in double or even triple maj...
20 Questions for Top of the 2020 Class: Samuel Kho stays organized while graduating at the top of his class
May 26, 2020
In lieu of our senior print issue, The Accolade has decided to conduct a Q and A with each of the 12 valedictorians for online posting. Question #1: What are your plans after high school? Answer: Johns Hopkins Neuroscience/Physics Research. See if I can get the Woodrow Wilson Grant. Question #2: Which ex...
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