palo alto weekly 05.10,2013 - section 2
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Section 2 of the May 10, 2013 edition of the Palo Alto WeeklyTRANSCRIPT
Business, Work and Technology
CareerGenerations2225 E. Bayshore Road, Palo Alto650-320-1639info@CareerGenerations.comwww.CareerGenerations.comCareerGenerations offers group ses-sions to meet specific career needs. CareerGenerations career coaches can help assess talents in the context of today’s marketplace, generate career options, improve resumes and social-media profiles, design a successful search plan, and skillfully network, in-terview and negotiate salaries.
Dance Connection4000 Middlefield Road, L-5, Palo AltoStudio: 650-852-0418Office: 650-322-7032www.danceconnectionpaloalto.cominfo@danceconnectionpaloalto.comDance Connection offers graded class-es for preschool to adult with a variety of programs to meet every dancer’s needs. Ballet, jazz, tap, hip-hop, boys program, lyrical, pilates and combina-tion classes are available for beginning to advanced levels.
DanceVisions4000 Middlefield Road, L-3, Palo Alto650-858-2005www.dancevisions.orginfo@dancevisions.orgDanceVisions, a nonprofit community dance center, offers classes for age 3 to adult. Classes range from modern to hip-hop, lyrical, pilates, jazz, ballet, and contact improvisation, as well as provid-ing a performance showcase.
For the DancerBeaudoin’s School of Dance464 Colorado Ave., Palo Alto650-326-2184www.Beaudoins-Studio.comTap, ballet, ballroom and jazz dance classes available for children and adults. Special classes for preschoolers.
Uforia Studios819 Ramona St., Palo Alto650-329-8794www.uforiastudios.comUforia Studios specializes in dance (Zumba, hip-hop, Bollywood, Hula Hooping), Strength and Sculpting (uDe-fine) and Spinning (uCycle). All fitness levels and abilities are welcome.
Zohar School of Dance and Company4000 Middlefield Road, L-4, Palo Alto650-494-8221www.zohardancecompany.org
[email protected] offers classes to adults in jazz, ballet and modern dance. The studio is under the direction of Ehud and Daynee Krauss.
The Great OutdoorsLucy Geever-Conroy, Flight Instructor for Advantage Aviation1903 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto650-493-5987www.advantage-aviation.com/Offering learn-to-fly seminars, private pilot ground school and flying lessons, along with free seminars for pilots.
Health & FitnessAmerican Red Cross: Silicon Valley Chapter400 Mitchell Lane, Palo Alto650-688-0415www.siliconvalley-redcross.org
In a Red Cross First Aid class students learn CPR, choking rescue, bleeding control and treatment of burns, frac-tures, seizures and more. Adult CPR and First Aid Certificates.
Andy Harader Tennis CampPalo Alto High School, 50 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto650-364-6233www.andystenniscamp.comAndy Harader, head coach at Palo Alto High School for both girls and boys ten-nis teams, leads a tennis camp that runs all summer, every week, 9 a.m. to noon, Monday-Friday. Ages 7-16; all levels.
Be Yoga440 Kipling St., Palo [email protected] yoga studio with small class sizes and workshops on ayurveda, reiki and meditation.
Looking for something to do this summer? Try your hand at cooking, swimming or exercise your mind by learning a new language. School’s out — and so are your kids — so sign them up for a fun science or sports camp. All the classes listed below are local.
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Camp Edmo and sister camp Edtech in Los Altos offer arts, science and animation activities.
Betty Wright Swim Center at Abilities United3864 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto650-494-1480www.AbilitiesUnited.org/[email protected] health and wellness through aquatic exercise and therapy in the fully accessible, public, warm-water (93 degrees), indoor pool. Classes include aqua aerobics, aqua arthritis, back ba-sics, body conditioning, Aichi yoga and prenatal. Group and private swim les-sons.
California Yoga Center (Palo Alto)541 Cowper St., Palo [email protected] California Yoga Center offers class-es for beginning to advanced students. With studios in Mountain View and Palo Alto, classes emphasize individual at-tention and cultivate strength, flexibility and relaxation. Ongoing yoga classes are scheduled every day and include special classes such as prenatal, back care and pranayama. Weekend work-shops explore a variety of yoga-related topics.
CMAC Swim SchoolCMAC Aquatic Center, 3805 Magnolia Drive, Palo Alto650-493-5355www.c-mac.usCMAC Swim School offers lessons for babies, youth and adults. Classes are a half-hour long and each class contains three to four participants.
The Happy Body305 North California Ave., Palo [email protected] Happy Body Program is a different approach to weight loss. Using a system involving nutrition, exercise and relax-ation, teachers Aniela and Jerzy Grego-rek help achieve the desired results of a balanced lifestyle featuring improved health and greater youthfulness.
Kidz Love SoccerMitchell Park, 600 E. Meadow Drive, Palo Alto408-774-4629www.kidzlovesoccer.com/classes.phpKidz Love Soccer youth soccer classes are open to boys and girls of all abili-ties. The curriculum is customized for kids of all ages. Classes encourage a better SELF — Sportsmanship, Esteem, Learning and Fun.
Kim Grant Tennis Academy3005 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto650-752-8061www.kimgranttennis.com/The Kim Grant Tennis Academy offers tennis classes to minis (ages 3-5), be-ginner (ages 5-7), intermediate I and II, advanced and elite players.
Studio Kicks796A San Antonio Road, Palo Alto650-855-9868650-855-9869 (fax)[email protected] Kicks is a family fitness center offering high-energy cardio kickboxing classes and martial-arts training for kids 4 and up. Taught by owner/instructor Richard Branden, six-time world cham-pion and original stunt cast member for the “Power Rangers.”
Taijiquan Tutelage of Palo Alto4000 Middlefield Road, Palo [email protected] Tutelage teaches the classi-cal Yang Chengfu style of Taijiquan (T’ai chi ch’uan). Beginning classes start monthly.
Taoist Tai Chi Society of the USA3391 Middlefield Road, YES Hall, Palo Altowww.california.usa.taoist.org650-396-9244paloalto.ca@taoist.orgThe Taoist Tai Chi Society of the USA offers classes designed to improve bal-ance, strength and flexibility while pro-moting relaxation and good health. Be-ginner classes in Taoist Tai Chi internal art of Tai Chi Chuan are offered for all ages and fitness levels in Palo Alto. First class is free. A nonprofit organization with nationally accredited instructors.
Yoga at All Saints’ Episcopal Church555 Waverley St., Palo Alto650-322-4528www.asaints.orgKundalini-style yoga, combining asana (physical poses), breathing exercises and meditation. Practice is best done on an empty stomach. Please bring a mat and blanket and wear comfortable, easy-to-move-in clothes. If floor work is difficult, exercises can be modified to be done in a chair. All ages. No registration necessary.
Just for SeniorsAvenidas450 Bryant St., Palo Alto 650-289-5400www.avenidas.orgAvenidas offers classes from balance, line dancing and back fitness to demen-tia caregiving and computers. Member-ship costs, fees and class listings are included on the website.
Language CoursesGerman Language Class50 Embarcadero Road, Palo [email protected] Palo Alto Adult School class teaches participants how speak, read, and write German, with an emphasis on conversation. Basic grammar and Germanic culture are also covered. The instructor, a college-credentialed teacher, lived and studied in Germany through Stanford, from where she later received a master’s degree. June 11-July 16, Tuesdays from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Fee: $74.
International School of the Peninsula (ISTP)151 Laura Lane, Palo [email protected] offers extensive after-school lan-guage classes at its two Palo Alto loca-tions. Classes offered in French, Manda-rin and Spanish to preschool students (3 to 5 years old). Additional classes taught in Arabic, Farsi, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese and Russian for elementary and middle school students.
The Peninsula Parents PlaceKoret Family Resource Center, 200 Channing Ave., Palo Alto650-688-3040www.parentsplaceonline.org/[email protected] Peninsula Parentsplace offers par-enting classes on subjects ranging from strategies for managing picky eaters to making the switch from diapers.
Mind and SpiritAnanda Palo Alto2171 El Camino Real, Palo Alto 650-323-3363www.anandapaloalto.orgAnanda Palo Alto offers classes on meditation, chanting and yoga.
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G U I D E TO 2013 S U M M E R C A M P S F O R K I D S
Academics
Early Learning Camp Connection listing Palo AltoWrite Now! Summer Writing Camps
Emerson School of Palo Alto and Hacienda School of Pleasanton open
their doors and offer their innovative programs: Expository Writing,
Creative Writing, Presentation Techniques, and (new!) Test-Taking Skills.
Call or visit our website for details.
www.headsup.org Emerson 650-424-1267
Hacienda 925-485-5750
Foothill College Los Altos HillsTwo Six-Week Summer Sessions Beginning June 10. These sessions are
perfect for university students returning from summer break who need
to pick up a class; and high school juniors, seniors and recent graduates
who want to get an early start. 12345 El Monte Rd.
www.foothill.edu 650-949-7362
Harker Summer Programs San JoseK-12 offerings taught by exceptional, experienced faculty and staff.
K-6 morning academics - focusing on math, language arts and sci-
ence - and full spectrum of afternoon recreation. Grades 6-12 for-credit
courses and non-credit enrichment opportunities. Sports programs
also offered.
www.summer.harker.org 408-553-0537
iD Tech Camps - Summer Tech Fun Held at StanfordTake interests further! Ages 7-17 create iPhone apps, video games, C++/
Java programs, movies, and more at weeklong, day and overnight pro-
grams held at Stanford and 60+ universities in 26 states. Also 2-week,
teen-only programs: iD Gaming Academy, iD Programming Academy,
and iD Visual Arts Academy (filmmaking & photography).
www.internalDrive.com 1-888-709-TECH (8324)
iD Teen Academies Gaming, Programming & Visual Arts StanfordGain a competitive edge! Learn different aspects of video game cre-
ation, app development, filmmaking, photography, and more. 2-week
programs where ages 13-18 interact with industry professionals to gain
competitive edge. iD Gaming Academy, iD Programming Academy, and
iD Visual Arts Academy are held at Stanford, and other universities.
www.iDTeenAcademies.com 1-888-709-TECH (8324)
Mathnasium of Palo Alto-Menlo Park Menlo ParkPrevent Summer Brain Drain with Mathnasium Power Math Workouts.
During the summer months, many students lose 2 to 2.5 months of math
skills learned during the school year. Mathnasium of Palo Alto-Menlo Park
is offering 8 and 16-Session Flexible Summer Passes which will keep your
child’s math skills sharp and provide a boost for the school year ahead.
Open to grades 1st - 10th grade. Summer Passes on sale now and expire
Sept. 7, 2013. Center located at 605 A Cambridge Avenue, Menlo Park
(next to the Oasis, one block north of Stanford Shopping Mall).
www.mathnasium.com/paloalto-menlopark 650-321-6284
Professional Tutoring Services of Silicon Valley Los AltosAcademic camps offering Algebra I & II, Geometry, and Spanish I to
III, small groups. Great for review or preview. Three sessions starting
June 24 through August 2. Perfect for junior high students taking high
school level courses. Register online or call us:
www.ptstutor.com 650-948-5137
Stanford EXPLORE Careers in Medicine and Science Series StanfordAre you a high school or college student interested in science, medicine
or healthcare but unsure what degrees or careers are available? Stan-
ford Explore has the answers!
explore.stanford.edu Email: [email protected]
Stratford School - Camp Socrates 17 Bay Area CampusesAcademic enrichment infused with traditional summer camp fun--
that’s what your child will experience at Camp Socrates. Sessions begin
June 24 and end August 9, with the option for campers to attend all
seven weeks, or the first four (June 24-July 19). Full or half-day morning
or afternoon programs are available.
www.StratfordSchools.com/Summer 650-493-1151
Summer at Saint Francis Mountain ViewSummer at Saint Francis provides a broad range of academic and ath-
letic programs for elementary through high school students. It is the
goal of every program to make summer vacation enriching and enjoy-
able!
www.sfhs.com/summer 650-968-1213 x446
TechKnowHow Computer Palo Alto & Lego Camps Menlo Park/SunnyvaleFun and enriching technology classes for students, ages 5-14 Courses
include LEGO and K’NEX Projects with Motors, Electronics, NXT Robot-
ics, 3D Modeling, and Game Design. Many locations, including Palo
Alto, Menlo Park and Sunnyvale. Half and all day options. Early-bird and
multi-session discounts available.
Www.techknowhowkids.com 650-638-0500
YMCA of Silicon Valley PeninsulaWhat makes Y camps different? We believe every child deserves the op-portunity to discover who they are and what they can achieve. Y camp-ers experience the outdoors, make new friends and have healthy fun in a safe, nurturing environment. They become more confident and grow as individuals, and they learn value in helping others. We offer day, overnight, teen leadership and family camps. Financial assistance is available. Get your summer camp guide at ymcasv.org/summer camp. Youth camps (ages 5 - 17) run June 17 - Aug. 16 . Half-day and full-day options. Fees vary. 1922 The Alameda 3rd Floor, San Josewww.ymcasv.org 408-351-6400
Arts, Culture, Other Camps
Busy Bees & Astro Kids Summer Mountain View Adventure CampsJoin us for these half-day camps designed for 3-8 year olds as we have fun, participate in games and crafts, and go on fun field trips! Mountain View Community Center, 201 S. Rengstorff Avenuehttp://mountainview.gov
Community School Mountain View of Music and Arts (CSMA)50+ creative camps for Gr. K-8! Drawing, Painting, Ceramics, Sculpture, Musical Theater, School of Rock, Digital Arts, more! One- and two-week sessions; full and half-day enrollment. Extended care available. Financial aid offered. www.arts4all.org 650-917-6800 ext. 0
DHF Wilderness Camps Rancho San Antonio Open Space PreserveChildren ages 6-14 can meet the livestock, help with farm chores, ex-plore a wilderness preserve and have fun with crafts, songs and games. Older campers conclude the week with a sleepover at the Farm. Near the intersection of Hwy 85 and Hwy 280mountainview.gov
Pacific Art League of Palo Alto Palo AltoPAL offers morning and afternoon art camps in cartooning and comics, printmaking, glass fusing, mixed media and acrylic and watercolor painting for children 5-18 years. It is a great place to explore imagination and creativ-ity in a supportive, encouraging and fun environment with a lot of personal attention. Scholarships are available. 227 Forest Avenuewww.pacificartleague.org 650-321-3891
Palo Alto Community Child Care (PACCC) Palo AltoPACCC summer camps offer campers, grades kindergarten to 6th, a wide variety of fun opportunities! K-1 Fun for the youngest campers, Neigh-borhood Adventure Fun and Ultimate Adventure Fun for the more ac-tive and on-the-go campers! New this year: Sports Adventure Camp for those young athletes and Operation Chef for out of this world cooking fun! Swimming twice per week, periodic field trips, special visitors and many engaging camp activities, songs and skits round out the fun offer-ings of PACCC Summer Camps! Registration is online. Open to campers from all communities! Come join the fun in Palo Alto!www.paccc.org 650-493-2361
Theatreworks Summer Camps Palo AltoIn these entertaining camps for grades K-5, students enjoy juggling, clowning, puppetry, playwriting, acting, improvisation, music, and dance - present their own original pieces at the end of each session.www.theatreworks.org/learn/youth/camps 650-493-7146
Western Ballet Mountain View Children’s Summer CampStudents attend ballet class and rehearsal in preparation for the recital of either Peter Pan or The Little Mermaid at the end of the two week ses-sion. Separate Saturday classes are also offered. Ages 4-9. 914 N. Reng-storff Ave, Mountain Viewhttp://westernballet.org/documents/summerchildrens.html
Western Ballet Mountain View Intermediate Summer IntensiveStudents obtain high quality training in ballet, pointe, character, jazz, and modern dance, while learning choreography from the classical bal-let Paquita. The students dance in featured roles in a final performance. Ages 9-12. Audition required 914 N. Rengstorff Ave, Mountain Viewhttp://westernballet.org/documents/summerpre-intermediate.html
Western Ballet Mountain View Advanced Summer IntensiveStudents obtain high quality training in ballet, pointe, character, jazz, and modern dance, while learning choreography from the classical bal-let Paquita. The students dance in featured roles in a final performance. Ages 13-23. Audition required. 914 N. Rengstorff Ave, Mountain Viewhttp://westernballet.org/documents/summer_int_adv.html
Athletics
Alan Margot’s Tennis Camps AthertonAlan Margot’s Tennis Camps provide an enjoyable way for your child to be-gin learning the game of tennis or to continue developing existing skills. Our approach is to create lots of fun with positive feedback and reinforce-ment in a nurturing tennis environment. Building self-esteem and confi-dence through enjoyment on the tennis court is a wonderful gift a child can keep forever! Super Juniors Camps, ages 3-6; Juniors Camps, ages 6-14.www.alanmargot-tennis.net 650-400-0464
City of Mountain View Mountain View Recreation DivisionDiscover fun with us this summer through the many programs available
with the City of Mountain View Recreation Division. From sports to tra-
ditional day camps, to cooking camps, dance camps and art camps... we
have it all! Mountain View Community Center, 201 S. Rengstorff Avenue
http://mountainview.gov
City of Mountain View Swim Lessons Mountain View Rengstorff and Eagle ParksWe offer swim lessons for ages 6 months to 14 years. Following the
American Red Cross swim lesson program, students are divided into one
of the 11 different levels taught by a certified instructor. Rengstorff Park
Pool, 201 S Rengstorff Ave and Eagle Park Pool,650 Franklin St.
http://mountainview.gov/
Club Rec Juniors & Seniors Mountain ViewClub Rec Juniors and Seniors is open for youth 6-11 years old. These tra-
ditional day camps are filled with fun theme weeks, weekly trips, swim-
ming, games, crafts and more! Monta Loma Elementary School, 490
Thompson Ave.
http://mountainview.gov
Foothills Day Camp Palo AltoWhat will you discover? Foothills Day and Fun Camps, for youth ages
8-10 and 5-7 respectively, includes canoeing, hiking, animal identifica-
tion games, crafts, and more- all for less than $5 an hour. Registration
begins February 15th for residents. (February 22nd for non-residents.)
Hurry, spaces are limited!
cityofpaloalto.org/enjoy 650-463-4900
J-Camp Palo AltoExciting programs for kindergartners through teens include swimming,
field trips, sports and more. Enroll your child in traditional or special
focus camps like Surfing, Archery, Animal Adventure, Circus Camp and
over 50 others! Oshman Family JCC, 3921 Fabian Way
www.paloaltojcc.org/jcamp 650-223-8622
Kim Grant Tennis Academy Palo Alto & Summer Camps Menlo Park/Redwood CityFun and Specialized junior camps for Mini (3-5), Beginner, Intermedi-
ate 1&2, Advanced and Elite Players. Weekly programs designed by Kim
Grant to improve players technique, fitness, agility, mental toughness
and all around tennis game. Camps in Palo Alto, Menlo Park and Red-
wood City. Come make new friends and have tons of FUN!!
www.KimGrantTennis.com 650-752-8061
Nike Tennis Camps Stanford UniversityDick Gould’s 43rd Annual Stanford Tennis School offers day camps for
both juniors & adults. Weekly junior overnight & extended day camps
run by John Whitlinger & Lele Forood. Junior Day Camp run by Brandon
Coupe & Frankie Brennan.
www.USSportsCamps.com/tennis 1-800-NIKE-CAMP (645-3226)
Spartans Sports CampSpartans Sports Camp offers multi-sport, week-long sessions for boys
and girls in grades 3-6 as well as sport-specific sessions for grades 6-9.
There are also strength and conditioning camps for grades 6-12. Camps
begin June 10th and run weekly through August 2nd at Mountain View
High School. The camp is run by MVHS coaches and student-athletes
and all proceeds benefit the MVHS Athletic Department. Lunch and ex-
tended care are available for your convenience. Register today!
www. SpartansSportsCamp.com 650-479-5906
Spring Down Camp Equestrian Center Portola ValleySpring Down Camp teaches basic to advanced horsemanship skills.
Ages 6-99 welcome! Daily informative lecture, riding lesson, supervised
hands-on ski-ll practice, safety around horses, tacking/untacking of own
camp horse, and arts/crafts.
www.springdown.com 650-851-1114
Stanford Water Polo Camps StanfordAges 7 and up. New to sport or have experience, we have a camp for
you. Half day or Full day option for boys and girls. All the camps offer
fundamental skill work, position work, scrimmages and games.
StanfordWaterPoloCamps.com 650-725-9016
Summer at Saint Francis Mountain ViewSports & Activity Camp (ages 6-12): This all-sports camp provides group
instruction in a variety of field, water and court games. Saint Francis fac-
ulty and students staff the camp, and the focus is always on fun. The
program is dedicated to teaching teamwork, sportsmanship and posi-
tive self-esteem. After camp care and swim lessons available.
www.sfhs.com/summer 650-968-1213 x650
Summer at Saint Francis Mountain ViewAdvanced Sports Camps (5th-9th grades): We offer a wide selection of
advanced sports camps designed to provide players with the opportu-
nity to improve both their skills and knowledge of a specific sport. Each
camp is run by a Head Varsity Coach at Saint Francis, and is staffed by
members of the coaching staff.
www.sfhs.com/summer 650-968-1213 x650
For more information about these camps, see our online directory of camps at http://paloaltoonline.com/biz/summercamps/
To advertise in a weekly directory, contact 650-326-8210
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Class Guide
171 University Ave., Palo Alto 650.328.7411 www.paloaltobicycles.com Hours: Mon. - Fri. 10am - 7pm, Sat. 10am - 6pm, Sun. 11am - 5pm
“ Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road”
- Jack Kerouac, On the Road
Free Dyslexia Consultation at Athena Academythe school for children
gifted with DyslexiaGrades 2-6
Rolling admissions–mid-year students
accepted525 San Antonio Ave,
Palo Alto
Student/teacher ratio 6:1 The best evidence-based teaching techniques for dyslexia and language-based learning disabilities Cutting edge research incorporated into our innovative, dynamic curriculum Teachers trained in multiple teaching approaches: Slingerland, Orton-Gillingham, Lindamood Bell, Davis© Learning Strategies, Woodin Math, Montessori, and new focused learning techniques Students receive the individualized instruction they need, drawn from the best resources Extended hours available
Visit our website at www.AthenaAcademy.org or call (650) 543-4560 to schedule a consultation.Athena Academy shall admit students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin, sex, or religion to all rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin, sex, or religion in administration of its educational
policies, admissions policies, scholarship or tuition assistance, loan programs, and athletic or other school-administered programs.
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Music, Arts and FoodSur La Table Cooking School855 El Camino Real, Palo Alto (650) 289-0438 [email protected]/ (Go to “cooking classes” navigation bar, and search “Palo Alto”)Classes are two- to two-and-a-half hours long. Recipes and tasting-sized portions will be provided in the class. Sur La Table offers hands-on classes, demonstration-only classes and classes for kids and teens.
The Silicon Valley Boychoir600 Homer Ave., Palo Alto650-424-1242www.svboychoir.orgThe Silicon Valley Boychoir rehearses in downtown Palo Alto and trains boys in the art of choral singing with an empha-sis on vocal coaching, music literacy, and the highest artistic standards. The multi-level choir for boys in grades 1-8 is expanding next fall and adding ad-ditional levels.
Art with Emily402 El Verano Ave., Palo Alto650-856-9571
[email protected] Young teaches mixed-media, multi-cultural art lessons for children at her fully equipped studio in Palo Alto.
Art Works Studio595 Lincoln Ave., Palo Alto650-796-1614www.artworkspaloalto.netartworkspaloalto@gmail.comArt Works Studio offers a variety of fine-art classes for kids, as well as summer camps.
Art for Wellbeings Summer Art Camp2460 Park Blvd. No. 3, Palo [email protected] this summer art camp for young peo-ple with special needs and their friends, one fruit will be focused on each day and be eaten as a snack. Participants will learn about the seed, plant or tree, growing cycle, and foods made of this fruit. The day will start with a welcome and introduction to the fruit of the day, and participants will then create an art project based on the fruit (and eat it!). For ages 8-18, the camp runs three ses-sions in July.
Manzana Music SchoolPalo Alto650-799-7807www.manzanamusicschool.com/[email protected] offers lessons for adults and children aged 6 or older on guitar, violin, banjo, mandolin, fiddle, vocal, arrang-ing and music theory. House-call and Skype lessons are also available.
Midpeninsula Community Me-dia Center900 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto650-494-8686www.communitymediacenter.netinfo@midpenmedia.orgThe Media Center offers classes every month in a wide range of media arts, including publishing media on the Web, podcasting, digital editing, field produc-tion, TV studio production, Photoshop for photographers, citizen journalism and autobiographical digital stories. Biweekly free orientation sessions and tours.
New Mozart School of Music305 N. California Ave., Palo Alto650-324-2373www.newmozartschool.cominfo@newmozartschool.comNew Mozart provides early-childhood music classes for children 2-7 years
old, including violin classes and group Suzuki lessons.
Opus1 Music Studio2800 W. Bayshore Road, Palo [email protected]
Opus1 Music Studio offers group music lessons for all kinds of instruments to ages 2 and up. Beginners to advanced level.
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Class GuideCAREER DEVELOPMENT.CAREER HAPPINESS.Land the job you want! CareerGenerations, founded by Palo
Alto career coaches Ellen Shulman, MA
and Lisa Stotlar, MA, is offering
special Career Launch Programs for
recent grads. Gift Certifi cates available!
Contact us at 650.320.1639 or
Palo Alto PrepCHANGING LIVES...REDEFINING EDUCATION
Palo Alto Prep is a unique private high school designed to help students succeed in every aspect of life. We believe that school should be fun and every student should experience the pride of personal and academic achievement.
Come visit our newly built campus and experience a different kind of college prep high school.
2462 Wyandotte Street, Mountain View650.493.7071
Celebrating our 27th Yearwww.paloaltoprep.com
SUMMER PROGRAM - July 1 - August 9Students can earn up to 20 semester units.
Get ahead or replace classes for college.
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Pacific Art League668 Ramona St., Palo Alto650-321-3891www.pacificartleague.orgfrontdesk@pacificartleague.orgArt classes and workshops by qualified, experienced instructors for students from beginners to advanced and even non-artists. Classes in collage, oil paint-ing, portraits and sketching, life drawing, acrylic or watercolor and brush painting. Sculpture. Registration is ongoing.
Palo Alto Art Center1313 Newell Road, Palo Alto650-329-2366www.cityofpaloalto.org/[email protected] and workshops for children and adults in ceramics, painting, drawing, jewelry, book arts, printmaking, collage and more.
School DaysAmigos de Palo Alto1611 Stanford Ave., Palo Alto650-493-4300www.amigosdepaloalto.comAmigos de Palo Alto is a full Spanish-im-mersion preschool. Offering parents a safe environment where they may leave their children, both for child care and to begin learning from bilingual instructors how to speak and learn Spanish the same way their native language was learned — naturally. Preschool sessions are offered five days a week.
International School of the PeninsulaCohn Campus (grades 1-8): 151 Laura Lane, Palo AltoCooper Campus (nursery): 3233 Cowp-er St., Palo Alto
[email protected] programs for preschool, el-ementary- and middle-school students. Classes include French cooking, Asian cooking, chess, science, robotics, Chi-nese dance, art and craft, watercolor, gymnastics, soccer and multi-sports.
Milestones Preschool3864 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto650-618-3325www.milestonespreschool.orgpreschool@AbilitiesUnited.orgMilestones Preschool, a developmental program, provides children aged 2-5 years an educational environment that promotes their development of the so-cial skills, independent thinking, intellec-tual growth, and positive self-image they need to succeed in kindergarten and later in life. NAEYC accredited. State of California License 434407984.
Sora International Preschool701 E. Meadow Drive, Palo Alto650-493-7672www.SoraPreschool.comSora International Preschool is an English-Japanese bilingual preschool. Sora’s mission is to help families that are raising bilingual children as well as those that want their children to begin a second language at an early age.
T’enna Preschool at the Oshman Family JCC3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto650-223-8788earlychildhood@paloaltojcc.orgwww.paloaltojcc.org/tennaPlay-based approach develops skills and a love of learning. Two-, three- and five-day-per-week options for 18 months to 5 years with emphasis placed on ex-periential learning, family involvement,
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Despite an explosion in biomed-ical knowledge, the method of teaching first-year medical students through lectures has
changed little since the Wright broth-ers were tinkering at Kitty Hawk over a century ago, says Stanford Univer-sity pediatric infectious disease spe-cialist Charles Prober.
Prober, who also is associate dean for medical education at the School of Medicine, aims to improve on that.
By making lessons “stickier” — more memorable and comprehensi-ble — and embracing self-paced and mastery-based approaches, he hopes to make better use of students’ time in their task of absorbing the ever-expanding medical canon.
Ultimately, he aspires to make bet-ter doctors.
Prober’s emerging reform efforts at
the School of Medicine, combining face-to-face and online teaching, are part of a larger and systematic initia-tive across Stanford to test the uses of technology in search of better ways to teach and learn.
The global onslaught of education technology — described variously as a “tsunami” and an “avalanche” — has colleges and universities around the world scrambling to position for a future that is sure to be different.
Online learning — including the newly famous “MOOCs” (massive, open online courses, in which tens of thousands of students around the world have enrolled in some Stanford-taught courses) — promises to remake 21st-century higher education in ways nobody can predict.
Stanford aims to blaze a trail and remain standing in that brave new world, leveraging its entrepreneurial culture, star-studded faculty, depth in computer science and broad resources to test online approaches to figure out what actually works.
Last year, about 60 professors
across the university experimented with new, technology-assisted teach-ing methods — probably the highest level of participation on any university campus, computer science professor John Mitchell said.
Chief among the new approaches is the so-called “flipped classroom,” in which faculty members convert lectures into online video modules to be absorbed by students before they come to class. Class time then becomes available to build on the academic content with interactive dis-cussion, hands-on activities or guest speakers.
Stanford President John Hennessy last summer created a new Vice-Provost’s Office for Online Learning, appointing Mitchell to head it.
In turn, the schools of business, engineering and medicine appointed deans to lead their respective online-learning efforts.
“It really hasn’t been my job to get people interested in it,” Mitchell said.
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Stanford tests the power of stories and technology to boost learning
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classroom
By the numbersJennifer Widom’s Introduction to
Databases course, fall 2012
48,000 students who enrolled online
21,000 who submitted one or more assignments
4,900 who completed the entire course
1,900 who completed the course “with distinction”
240 Stanford University students who enrolled in the on-campus class
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Stanford Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Ethics David Magnus, far right, speaks with first-year medical students in one of the school’s larger lecture halls for a session on Ethics: Adolescent Confidentiality and Decision-Making.
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“I’m just trying to help everyone fol-low through on the ideas that they have.”
Twice a quarter Mitchell gathers the professors from across depart-ments who are experimenting with online teaching to let them hear one another’s stories and advice.
“These have been thought-provok-ing for faculty,” he said. “If you sit through that and are thinking about your own course you get several dif-ferent ideas.”
The early adopters remain a small but growing subset of Stanford’s nearly 2,000-strong faculty. Flipping a class requires a professor to commit substantial upfront time to creating online content — and then come up with ingenious ways to use the freed-up class period.
“There’s no reason for the most popular lecturer on campus to nec-essarily change what they’re doing, although most of us are not spellbind-ing for every second of every lecture,” Mitchell said.
“It’s part of our culture that every-
one is autonomous to a reasonable degree.”
But sensing the future — and the potential of technology to scale their classroom lectures to global audiences — faculty and graduate students from business to psychology to statistics are piling on to the ed-tech initiatives.
For professors, Stanford offers the incentive of seed grants for proposals that “challenge our understanding of what’s possible in online learning, le-veraging innovative technologies and teaching strategies to promote deep learning experiences for learners at Stanford and beyond.”
Mitchell and Graduate School of Education Professor Roy Pea estab-lished Stanford’s “Lytics Lab” for design and research into online learn-ing.
“There are 10 to 15 graduate stu-dents there — from education, com-puter science, engineering, statistics, communications, business and psy-chology — who’ve realized that this is the future, and if they’re going to have a career in education, this is an exciting topic to do your Ph.D. thesis on,” Mitchell said.
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At the school of education, Pea and sociologist Mitchell Stevens organized a group called Education’s Digital Fu-ture “to catalyze a transnational con-versation about digital learning.”
Ed tech, Stevens said, “is the begin-ning of a wholesale reorganization of teaching and learning in higher education. It will very soon be an un-ignorable phenomenon.
“This is not a sort of fringe activ-ity of Cambridge and Silicon Valley. This is something that’s going to be reorganizing the entire sector.”
Jennifer Widom, head of Stan-ford’s Computer Science De-partment, was among the earli-
est adopters.Widom grew tired of “delivering
the same lectures year after year,” often to a half-empty classroom be-cause lectures were videotaped and available to students on the web.
So in 2011 she flipped her intro-ductory database course.
She created “better” videos for students to watch before class — shorter, topic-specific segments, punctuated with in-video quizzes to let watchers check their understand-ing.
With that material covered in ad-vance, she made class time more enticing with “interactive activities, advanced or exotic topics and guest speakers.
“In my course evaluations, I think I got 100 positive comments to two negative comments — something like that — so the students really enjoyed it,” she said.
Student reviews aren’t uniformly positive for professors, especially those who assign students to watch their lectures in advance, then re-quire them to come to class where they repeat the same lecture.
But trial and error is tolerated as part of the learning process.
“Students are now seeing many courses that are taught in this style,
and so I think we’re starting to refine what we do,” Widom said.
After preparing video lectures for her database students at Stanford, Widom made the presentations pub-licly accessible online and soon real-ized that she could offer the entire course to anyone — and her “Data-base @ World” class was born.
But when students from around the globe flocked to her open, online course she realized there was much more she had to do.
“For 10 weeks I worked nearly full-time on the course — never mind my other job as department chair, much less my research pro-gram — in part because there was a lot to do but most because there was a lot I could do to make it even bet-ter, and I was having a grand time,” she said.
Widom said her global students — a varied assortment but many of them software professionals looking to sharpen their skills — were “un-abashedly, genuinely, deeply appre-ciative” for the opportunity to take the class.
“Many said the course was a gift they could scarcely believe had come their way,” she wrote in a blog posted with the Association for Computing Machinery.
Widom reciprocated the good feeling by posting weekly “screen-side-chat” videos, covering logisti-cal issues, technical clarifications and full-on cheerleading for those who were struggling.
The online class was machine-graded and offered a “statement of accomplishment” — but no Stan-ford credit — for completion. By July 2012 it had garnered 115,000 accounts, 480,000 assignment sub-missions and 6,500 course comple-tions.
In the fall of 2012 Widom offered the same “introduction to databases” course to 240 students at Stanford — and 48,000 around the world signed up as well. Of the global enrollees, 21,000 submitted more than one as-signment, 4,900 completed the en-tire course and 1,900 completed it “with distinction.”
In one poll Widom learned that her global students were from 130 coun-tries, with the U.S. best represented, followed by India and Russia (China blocked some of the content, but a few students found workarounds). Males outnumbered females four to one, a little better than the ratio among U.S. college computer-sci-
ence majors, Widom said.Many of the global students said
they had been programming data-bases for years without really know-ing what they were doing.
The Stanford students in Widom’s flipped classroom worked through the same material but got more: hand-graded written problems with more depth than the automated exer-cises, a programming project, tradi-tional written exams, and classroom activities ranging from interactive problem-solving to presentations by data architects at Facebook and Twitter.
And rather than a “statement of accomplishment,” they gained Stan-ford recognition and credit.
“There’s no question that the Stan-ford students were satisfied,” Widom said. “I’ve taught the course enough times to know that the uptick in my teaching ratings was statistically sig-nificant.”
Stanford junior Perth Charernwat-tanagul, a math major, took Widom’s flipped database course last fall.
“At first I didn’t think it would work because I thought going to lec-tures was a necessary part of learn-ing, but it fit that class really well,” Charernwattanagul said.
“One of the major advantages is you can actually go through all the videos at your own speed, and you don’t have to go at the professor’s pace.
“You can pause and go back. You can’t really do that in an actual lec-ture, and I do that a lot.”
Charernwattanagul thinks he learned more from Widom’s flipped classroom than he would have in a traditional delivery of the same course because the professor used class time to discuss her own re-search and bring in speakers from industry.
But he questions whether every subject or class size would lend itself to the flipped model.
“It makes sense in a class with a lot of students that’s not a discus-sion classroom, but with only 10 or 20 students, people might not like it. Or I’m not sure how it would work in a humanities class,” he said.
The time-honored tradition of teaching medical students at the bedsides of hospital pa-
tients is, in many ways, the original flipped classroom, observed Prober of the School of Medicine.
“It’s what we’ve tried to do in medi-
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Stanford computer science chairwoman Jennifer Widom shifted her Introduction to Databases class to a “flipped” model in 2011. She converted her lectures to online segments for students to watch before class and used the freed-up class time for interactive activities, discussion of her research or guest speakers.
‘Many said the course was a gift they could scarcely believe had come their way.’ —Jennifer Widom, chairwoman,
Stanford Computer Science Department
‘It’s what we’ve tried to do in medical education for a long time — teach medical students about medicine through the lens of the patients they’re seeing. The material is familiar but reframed in a way.’—Charles Prober, associate dean
for medical education, Stanford School of Medicine
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cal education for a long time — teach medical students about medicine through the lens of the patients they’re seeing. The material is familiar but re-framed in a way.”
But Prober also aims to improve the effectiveness of students’ pre-clinical education — the first two years of medical school, when most spend their days in traditional classrooms cramming their heads with dense content.
“You come in fresh and ready to save the world, and you get thrown into classrooms with lecture material, facts coming at you.
“You have them coming at you and coming at you so strongly that you sometimes wonder, ‘What’s the rel-evance of this? I want to be a doctor. What’s the relevance?’
“So the more you can start flipping the classroom into the relevance, and underscoring the relevance through patient stories and simulation,” the more the learning will stick, he said.
Last year Prober called for major reforms to medical education — in-cluding use of the flipped-classroom model — in a New England Journal of Medicine article he co-authored with Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Chip Heath.
“Since the hours available in a day have not increased to accommodate the expanded medical canon, we have only one realistic alternative: make better use of our students’ time,” they wrote.
The School of Medicine has rede-
signed its core biochemistry course, discarding the standard lecture-based format in favor of short, online presen-tations. Class time is used for interac-tive discussions of clinical vignettes highlighting the biochemical bases of various diseases.
Student reviews have been positive, and class attendance — which is op-tional — jumped from 30 percent to 80 percent, Prober and Heath said in the May 2012 New England Journal article.
The flipped format also has been used in some courses in endocrinol-
ogy, women’s health, genetics, mi-crobiology and immunology, Prober said.
Another faculty member is design-ing a “mix and match” course — some standard lecture, some interac-tive — in cardiovascular physiology for Stanford medical students.
Part of that project will be “taking the cardiovascular content that’s cre-ated in the video part and exporting it to Rwanda to see if it’s equally rel-evant to students there,” Prober said.
But change is hard and requires de-parture from comfortable and famil-
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iar routines for something unknown.“And of course the looming ques-
tion in every educator’s mind is, ‘Does this work? Is it really going to make a difference?’” he said.
Success can be measured in things like examination results and student and faculty satisfaction levels.
But ultimately the question is whether it will produce better doctors, and that is a long-term proposition.
A 2010 U.S. Department of Educa-tion analysis of online-learning stud-ies concluded that hybrid courses — partly face-to-face and partly online — were at least as good if not mar-ginally better and more engaging than the standard model.
In his quest to make the medical curriculum more compelling and memorable, Prober reached out to Heath, whose research centers on how to design messages to make them stick. Heath is co-author with his brother, Dan Heath, of the 2007 New York Times best-selling book “Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die.”
Prober also has initiated projects with Sal Khan, whose online Khan Academy offers 4,100 online videos, each about 10 minutes long, on topics from arithmetic to venture capital.
“Sal Khan is intriguing in the sim-plicity with which he delivers the mes-sage and the effectiveness with which it is delivered,” Prober said.
Delivering dense medical content in compelling segments that are shorter than the traditional 50-minute lecture also makes them easier for a professor to update — and readily searchable later on by students and doctors for a just-in-time refresher when needed, he said.
“Every major university is involved in this space,” he said. Last year he brought a few major medical schools together for a summit on the topic.
“There was a lot of enthusiasm for this and the question of whether we should be doing something together.”
Though many expect online learning to radically reshape higher education, neither Prob-
er nor Widom think it will change the core experience of Stanford stu-dents.
“The residential college is not going to go away,” Prober said.
“We need to have students of like age, of like mind and of broad diver-sity mixing it up with each other as they learn together, but I think we can create a balance with online structur-ing,” Prober said, adding that online approaches also potentially could ad-dress cost issues in higher education.
Said Widom: “I don’t expect it to compromise a university like Stan-ford. I think the experience of students coming to Stanford, being residential, interacting with the faculty and with the other students, working in labs and so on, is not going to be replaced.”
And yet Stanford’s online initia-tives are opening a Pandora’s Box of big questions, suggested by Wi-dom in her blog.
Who owns the course content, the university or the professor? What about money and teaching credit for putting courses online?
Is it the university’s mission to edu-cate the world?
And if everything is online, what are people getting, exactly, for the $40,000-plus tuition at Stanford?
Mitchell, the vice-provost for online learning, said he expects to see “a lot of different approaches online.
“Maybe it will settle down in 20 years, but 20 years is a long time. I think for the next five or 10 years we’ll see lots of changes and new develop-ments.”
Online education, Widom told her colleagues, is “exploding, yet nobody knows where this is going.
“I think that’s really important to say. It could be going just about any-where.”
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