Weathersfield Elementary receives award from Best Buy for tech teaching
      Weathersfield Elementary School in Thousand Oaks recently received a $2,000 Teach Award from Best Buy Co. Inc. for integrating interactive technology into its curriculum. For the past 10 years, kindergarten teacher Lynn Quick has been developing a technologybased phonics program to ...
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What the college-bound athlete needs to know
      When a college football or basketball team wins a championship, the school typically receives a nice boost in applications for admission. No wonder colleges recruit student athletes. But what are the benefits for students?
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CVUSD students to perform at the T.O. Civic Arts Plaza
By Denise Gula Special to the Acorn
      Local area choir students will perform in the All District Choir Festival at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza for the first time on April 7 and 8 due to a mutual agreement among many governing agencies. The All District Music Festival is held April through May this year at the Civic Arts...
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High School Hi-Lights
      All events (subject to change) are listed by name, location and time if provided. If calendars are modified, school sources are asked to contact us with updated information at steve@theacorn.com. Newbury Park Panthers Fri.
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Cal Lutheran announces dean's list
      The dean's list for California Lutheran University was recently announced. Here are students from local communities: Newbury Park Maria Arger, Alexandra Conway, Nicholas Denova, William Doherty, Natalie Faltin, Rachel Ferguson, Lauren O'Connor, Brigette Stevenson, Ashley Tobin, Mega...
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Pepperdine students named to Seaver College dean's list
      Pepperdine University has named the following local students to the Seaver College dean's list: •Brittany Dead of Agoura Hills •Matthew Hancock of Agoura Hills •Elizabeth Sexton of Agoura Hills •Jason Eggleston of Calabasas •Eric Burdullis of Camarillo
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