By William Giblin, Vibhu Gogineni and Ariana Perez Staff Writers Summit Denali senior Julisa Ascencio recalls how Denali has prepared her for college while coming from a background where no one went to college. However, in recent years, students at Summit Denali in Sunnyvale, Calif. have begun to question if the Summit model is properly preparing them for life after
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By Meiru Chen, Sophia Garcia and Karissa Tsang Staff Writers As Summit Denali High School students return from winter break, new variants of the coronavirus continue to mutate and spread. Summit Denali continues to stay open as these new variants of Covid continue to mutate. On Jan. 5, student journalists interviewed students at Summit Denali about their insights on the
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By Nathaniel Medley, Joshua Schermann and Caelum Villarreal Staff Writers School lunch has been a common debate in schools across the U.S. While some students find the lunches inedible, others are able to eat it every day of the week. In order to find out how the Summit Denali community views the food, student journalists interviewed a few students of
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By Adrianno Carias, Aaron Varela and Jerry Wang Staff Writers Freshman history teacher Sven Engvall said students stay on Chromebooks for about 4-5 hours a day. Students have mixed opinions on that amount of screen time; it is hard to balance the amount of time students spend on Chromebooks. Summit Denali students experience more screen time than students from other
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By Anthony Almanza, Nick Dedes, Srinand Mudunuri and Leonardo Arias Soto Staff Writers Students and teachers agree: the online learning experience was a pain. There was always a new problem, whether it was technology issues or just the overall learning gap it caused. According to NBC Bay Area, “Our analysis shows that the impact of the pandemic on K–12 student
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By Ardan Bramall, Toli Gonodanov-Meydbray, Sean Quigley and Cayden Tsai Staff Writers Summit Denali Education Specialist Dr. James Rozman saw a homeless elementary-school student’s attendance rise after the student developed bonds with her teachers. He saw this as evidence of the idea that creating connections with students could help treat student poverty. According to a study jointly conducted by
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By Akhil Gunasekaran Staff Writer Summit Public Schools, a public charter high school system, offers a program called “Expeditions”, courses that are an exciting alternative to your usual electives offered at traditional high schools. Rather than having one block in your daily schedule, Expeditions crunches that time into two-week blocks four times a year which focus solely on the elective.
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By Evelyn Archibald Editor-in-Chief After over a year of the COVID-19 pandemic looming over the globe, when schools had to transition to virtual teaching or risk widespread infection, the Summit Public Schools (SPS) charter district has made the choice to reopen entirely this fall. Summit Shasta, one SPS campus located in Daly City, Calif., reopened its doors on Aug. 18
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By Lia Bhas, Jovani Contreras, Rosie Esteverena and Giselle Sanchez Prep Staff Editors Featured image at the top of the page: PHOTO CREDIT: Shannon Lawrence/Development Dimensions International
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Sarah Rusali Staff Writer I want to start this article off with a personal story. Currently I am a sophomore at Summit Shasta. This school was drastically different from any other school I had attended. Firstly, it was small. Small enough where I could learn everyone’s names in all my classes. As a freshman, I knew people
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