Tag: Crawford High School
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Teen Cooking Show Teaches Culture, Cameras and Chopping Skills
By Jill Replogle “So directors, in order to get something going, you say ‘quiet on the set,’” Kristine Diekman shouts across the room to the two high school girls poring over a script. Diekman is a professor of video and new media at Cal State San Marcos. Photo Courtesy of Cooking It Up Mics and…
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Back Together Again: Crawford Students Adjust to Consolidated Campus
By Kyla Calvert Back Together Again, Aired March 12, 2013 on KPBS Radio [audio:http://speakcityheights.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/CRAWFORD.mp3] Ideas about improving public education come and go. Few people know that better than students and staff at Crawford High School in City Heights, which has been reorganized twice in the last eight years. In 2003 San Diego Unified got an…
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‘We Need More Tutors’: Photo Essay
By Jena Olson In collaboration with Speak City Heights, The AjA Project asked students at Crawford High School to use their cameras to explore what most affects their health at school. Ismahan, 18, chose to draw attention to the importance of after-school tutors, particularly for students learning English as a second language. “The afterschool tutor…
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Class Sizes: ‘I Care Because Students Need to Learn’
By Jena Olson As part of The AjA Project PhotoCity program, students at Crawford High School spent time using cameras to examine factors at their school that affect their overall health. This week we’re showcasing a photo essay by student Hawa, 18. She used her photo essay as an opportunity to highlight the issue of…
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Photo Essay: ‘Graffiti is a Distraction in School’
By Jena Olson Speak City Heights partner The AjA Project is helping students at Crawford High School add their voices to the conversation about community health in City Heights. Using photography and narrative, they’re examining health issues — physical, mental and social — at their school and speaking to the issues that most directly affect…