Tag: Hemet Unified School District

“Lollipop Moments” abound at Cottonwood Elementary – Offer sweet & touching thoughts of gratitude for others

HEMET, Calif., — Cottonwood School students were recently empowered by the fact that their small gestures can have long-lasting effects on those around them. What started off as a lesson in leadership from Counselor Amanda Niaves, sparked a sense of gratitude for teachers, staff, students, and family members.  Counselor Niaves reviewed a social-emotional screener survey from students and found that students […]

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HUSD students place gold, silver, in Air Force Association’s Cybersecurity competition

HEMET, Calif. — On January 23, 2021, students enrolled in Cybersecurity at Hemet High School finished in the gold and silver tiers at the Air Force Association’s Cyberpatriot state competition. Over 3,000 students from across the nation competed in CyberPatriot, the National Youth Cyber Education Program created by the Air Force Association to inspire K-12 students toward careers in cybersecurity […]

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HUSD “Superstar Teacher” recognized for her innovative and successful work with students

HEMET, Calif. — Rancho Viejo Middle School’s eighth-grade social science instructor Samia Muhareb was recently featured as a “Superstar Teacher” in SMORE, an educational blog celebrating classroom success using the Document-Based Question (DBQ) learning model.  The DBQ model provides a method of teaching evidence-based, argument writing so students can learn the skills of primary source document analysis, gain historical thinking […]

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Home Depot partnership with HUSD yields creative hands-on learning solutions

HEMET, Calif. — With the ongoing, nearly year-long COVID-19 pandemic and public health crisis continuing, Cassidy Steenbock, Career Technical Education (CTE) instructor at Hemet High School, has found a creative way to engage students enrolled in Introduction to Agricultural Mechanics with a hands-on Bird Feeder construction project administered in partnership with The Home Depot of Hemet. “The entire assignment was […]

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Students present online learning ideas during HUSD Student Advisory Council

HEMET, Calif. —  Schools within Hemet Unified School District have made great strides in transitioning classes to online learning; however, as with anything new, there has been some learning along the way. On Monday, Nov. 16, eight HUSD students, all members of the Superintendent’s StudentAdvisory Council, met with 80 HUSD staff members in an online, virtual forum to discuss online […]

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WVHS students create online social events as Covid-19 pandemic continues

HEMET, Calif. — With online learning officially underway throughout the Hemet Unified School District and students, families, and staff becoming more familiar with it due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and public health crisis, Hemet Valley High School students have been getting their online education schedules down and are learning to navigate through “synchronous and asynchronous learning,” says HUSD spokesperson Alexandrea […]

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HUSD outlines ways it is ensuring Wi-Fi and Internet access for online learning

HEMET, Calif. — With the Covid-19 pandemic and public health crisis heading into its six month and school-aged children beginning a whole new way of online learning, schools across the nation have been scrambling to find new and innovative ways to provide quality, Internet-based educational access to their students. As schools slowly continue to re-open with never before addressed restrictions […]

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HUSD to shutter all schools amidst coronavirus concerns

HEMET — Amidst growing concerns of how to mitigate the potential for spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19), Hemet Unified School District officials today announced that the decision has been made to close schools to students effective Monday, March 16. The closure will continue through Friday, April 3. Spring Break will continue as scheduled April 6-10. Regular school hours will resume […]

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Half-million dollar grant to expand Career Exploration classes to HUSD middle schools

HEMET — After recently being awarded more than a half-million dollar grant from K12 Strong Workforce to expand its Career Explorations classes for middle school students, Hemet Unified School District officials say they are ready to expand the district’s career focus by adding Career Exploration labs to two more middle schools, beginning with the 2020-2021 school year. Already featured at […]

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Schools across San Jacinto Valley celebrate and honor victims of 9/11 terrorist attacks

HEMET — Every September, as the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks rolls around, we are brought back to the horrors of that terrible morning 17 years ago; when two planes hit the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center and two other planes were hijacked – with one hitting the Pentagon in Virginia, and the other crashing down into […]

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