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Build mutual understanding and improve relationships with active listening – by Regina McDuffie

QUICK READ: Head of School, Regina McDuffie, PhD publishes an article on the importance of active listening in The Coast News Here are three tips to facilitate active listening in your home: 1) Listening vs responding 2) Paying attention 3) Reflecting and understanding READ MORE

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Rhoades eighth grade students win big at the National History Day in San Diego County

Congratulations to all our 8th graders for all their hard work and perseverance on their National History Day projects!  Led by Julie Watts, History Teacher, students participated in the San Diego County competition and we are excited to share that we have a group of students eligible to move on…
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Girls Volleyball Team raises money for Colombian player’s prosthetic leg

Service Learning is emphasized at The Rhoades School and we are so proud of the girls volleyball team!  Guided by their coach, Jon Aharoni, co-founder of ICN (It’s Called Normal) Athletics, the team raised funds to pay for Andres Camilo Chacon Guerra’s custom-built socket on his prosthetic leg, shipped to…
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**ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT**San Dieguito High School Academy senior, Joy Ruppert, wins the Student Equity Leadership award!

We are so proud of our Rhoades School alumni and current San Dieguito High School Academy senior, Joy Ruppert for winning the Student Equity Leadership award! San Diego County Office of Education (SDCOE) presents Lighthouse Awards to spotlight champions for educational equity in our schools, districts, and communities. SDCOE created…
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Wendy Schramm Featured in SDAWP Mini Newsletter

Our Middle School teacher, Wendy Schramm, was featured in the San Diego Area Writing Project’s (SDAWP) April Mini Newsletter with her article on her experience with our Grade 7 students. Her article, “In a Single Breath: The Art of Seeing in the Natural World,” was chosen to headline SDAWP’s April…
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Welcome Mrs. Molenkamp – New Preschool Principal

We are excited to announce that Cheryl Molenkamp will be joining The Rhoades School as our new Preschool Principal. Mrs. Molenkamp has been an educator for over 20 years, she is currently the Lower School Director at Stratford Mission Viejo and holds a B.A. in Child Development. She will join our Rhoades…
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Higher Orbits Art Contest Winner

Congratulations to Emma Lamoureux for her creative artwork which inspires the soul and captures the imagination! Scientists are developing a new form of travel to the edge of space. The project is known as “Neptune One”, and it is an ingenious idea developed by Space Perspectives. The project aims to…
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Grade 8 Students Create Podcast for “Historic America”

Last summer, Dr. Watts, the Grade 8 Social Studies teacher, was pondering how to make our 8th graders’ year unique and memorable outside of the pandemic. Knowing that we would not be able to explore Washington, D.C. in May, she wanted to give the 8th graders a hands-on history experience….
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Rhoades School students earn National History Day awards

Eighth grade students joined more than half a million students around the world to conduct historical research on a topic of their choice through National History Day. National History Day®(NHD) is a non-profit education organization that engage over half a million middle and high school students around the world annually…
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Fourteen Grade 7 Students Selected as Read-Imagine-Create Finalists

Annually, Mrs. Schramm’s Grade 7 literature students enter the Read-Imagine-Create (RIC) contest. Every year, a different author is chosen by San Diego’s Write Out Loud organization. This year’s author was Emily Dickinson and an impressive fourteen Rhoades students were selected as finalists this year. The task was to read the…
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