2014 February PASO Magazine
A monthly look at life in the remarkable community of Paso Robles.
A monthly look at life in the remarkable community of Paso Robles.
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EDUCATION & YOUTH<br />
Almond Acres Charter Academy Open Enrollment for <strong>2014</strong>/2015<br />
January 15 marked the start of<br />
Almond Acres Charter Academy’s<br />
3rd Annual Open Enrollment<br />
Period for the <strong>2014</strong>-2015 school<br />
year in San Miguel. Those interested<br />
in attending AACA next<br />
year are encouraged to submit a<br />
Request for Enrollment which can<br />
be found on the AACA website<br />
www.aacacademy.com. Requests<br />
for K-8th grade are being accepted.<br />
Open Enrollment will extend<br />
through March 15. If at the<br />
end of Open Enrollment there are<br />
more applicants than spaces available<br />
a random public lottery will<br />
take place. AACA is hosting the<br />
remaining campus tour on <strong>February</strong><br />
20 at 9 a.m. to include classroom<br />
tours and the opportunity to meet<br />
with the Executive Director, Bob<br />
Bourgault. Events will focus on<br />
AACA’s learning philosophies and<br />
what makes AACA unique.<br />
Almond Acres Charter Academy<br />
provides families in northern<br />
SLO County with an additional<br />
choice in public education. AACA<br />
is a public tuition free K-8 school<br />
that incorporates a strong core<br />
curriculum, arts, language, technology,<br />
character development and<br />
service learning into a small classsized<br />
learning environment. AACA<br />
employs credentialed teachers,<br />
participates in state testing, and<br />
is open to all students in all communities,<br />
without the need of an<br />
interdistrict transfer or release<br />
from their district of residence.<br />
AACA students wear uniforms<br />
and parents of AACA are required<br />
to fulfill a family participation<br />
requirement. A bus transports<br />
students from Paso Robles both<br />
before and after school and is<br />
funded by the students riding the<br />
bus.<br />
Almond Acres Charter Academy<br />
is a member of the California<br />
Charter School Association<br />
and was founded by a group<br />
of parents, educators, and community<br />
members. For more information<br />
call 467-2095 or<br />
aaca@aacacademy.com<br />
Cappy Culver Student is Runner-Up in National Essay Competition<br />
Mrs. Gray, the eighth grade<br />
teacher at Cappy Culver Elementary<br />
began the school year by<br />
challenging her students to write<br />
narrative and informative essays.<br />
During this process she gave<br />
her students the option to enter<br />
the Scholastic Hunger Games:<br />
Catching Fire Essay National<br />
Competition.<br />
Annabelle Tolle, one of Mrs.<br />
Gray’s students, stepped up to the<br />
challenge. Annabelle aspires to become<br />
an author one day and can<br />
always be found reading and writing<br />
short stories along with being a<br />
huge Hunger Games fan. Annabelle<br />
won the Daughters of the American<br />
Revolution essay competition<br />
last year.<br />
This year, Annabelle<br />
was one of ten runnerups<br />
in the Catching<br />
Fire Essay Competition.<br />
There were over 2000<br />
entries and hers was<br />
picked as one of the very<br />
best. Annabelle received<br />
a letter of recognition<br />
from Scholastic along<br />
with a Suzanne Collins set<br />
of books, including Hunger<br />
Games trilogy in hardback<br />
and also the Gregor the Underlander<br />
set of five books all<br />
written by Suzanne Collins.<br />
Annabelle is currently<br />
working on character and<br />
plot development for a young<br />
adult book that she is writing.<br />
<strong>February</strong> <strong>2014</strong>, Paso Robles <strong>Magazine</strong> 21
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