http://www.orcapta.org/about_orca/index.shtml This is the RSS feed for the About Orca K-8 category of the Orca K-8 website. Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:44:14 PST en-us http://www.orcapta.org/about_orca/Orca_K-8_Decision-Making.shtml About Orca K-8 Orca K-8 has a shared decision-making process that includes staff, families and students. Read more about how the Leadership Council works. Sun, 09 Dec 2007 23:04:20 PST http://www.orcapta.org/about_orca/Orca_K-8_Decision-Making.shtml http://www.orcapta.org/about_orca/Building_a_Thoughtful_Environmental_Program.shtml About Orca K-8 Rita Howard, our Garden and Environmental Education Coordinator, has been hard at work laying the foundation of an integrated environmental learning program for all Orca students. She says, "Our contribution towards long-term environmental solutions will be to have educated and raised a generation that can do better than we have done." Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:21:30 PST http://www.orcapta.org/about_orca/Building_a_Thoughtful_Environmental_Program.shtml http://www.orcapta.org/about_orca/Before_And_After_School_Procedures.shtml About Orca K-8 Wondering where to drop off your student for school? Here is some important information about before and after school procedures. Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:10:05 PST http://www.orcapta.org/about_orca/Before_And_After_School_Procedures.shtml http://www.orcapta.org/k-8_transition/Orca_s_Emerging_Vision_for_a_K-8_Alternative_School.shtml K-8 Transition An Orca Portrait: Walk through Orca and take it all in: self-portraits on one wall, insect projects on a table, a parent working with some children in the hall. Listen to students preparing to debate the Bill of Rights or chewing on a problem in a class meeting. Follow sounds out to the garden where children explore the links between seeds, water, dirt, sun and one another. Sun, 26 Aug 2007 19:08:10 PST http://www.orcapta.org/k-8_transition/Orca_s_Emerging_Vision_for_a_K-8_Alternative_School.shtml