Margaret Lavin

CLASS NOTES – Halloween Facts and Fiction

Soon, ghost and goblins will be playing tricks and eating treats, prancing down neighborhood streets and causing chaotic fun with…

October 31, 2012

CLASS NOTES – Starting Off on the Right Foot

We buy our kids new backpacks and stuff them with paper, pencils, protractors, folders, and lunchboxes all in the hopes…

August 29, 2012
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CLASS NOTES – Peninsula College Fund Helping Beat the Odds

Founded seven years ago, Peninsula College Fund's mission is to partner with and aid motivated, gifted and traditionally under-represented minority…

July 25, 2012

CLASS NOTES – MOM, I’M SICK!

While this winter was unseasonably warm and dry, fooling even the lovely flowers into pushing up early, Spring has sprung…

March 28, 2012

CLASS NOTES – Get Moving

According to Santa Clara County Officials, one in four kids in Santa Clara County are either overweight or obese, and…

February 22, 2012

CLASS NOTES – Elevating Early Learners

California is one of nine states to receive federal Race To The Top Early Learning Challenge (RTT-ELC) money. This much…

January 25, 2012

CLASS NOTES – Understanding the Meaning of Thanksgiving

People often inquire about my ability to work with middle school children citing their often unpredictable, narcissistic and unruly behavior.…

November 23, 2011

CLASS NOTES – Going Green for Halloween

I never realized how ‘green' my family had been. In the 1970s, we recycled and practiced many other environmentally sound…

October 19, 2011

Sharing His Dream: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

On Monday we will celebrate the birth of an extraordinary human and great American. Most of us are aware of…

January 12, 2011