Orca K-8 Decision-Making - Sunday, Dec 9 2007
Orca K-8 has a shared decision-making process that includes staff, families and students. Read more about how the Leadership Council works.     [ Read More... ]

Building a Thoughtful Environmental Program - Tuesday, Nov 27 2007
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."     [ Read More... ]

Before And After School Procedures - Thursday, Aug 30 2007
Wondering where to drop off your student for school? Here is some important information about before and after school procedures.     [ Read More... ]

Orca's Emerging Vision for a K-8 Alternative School - Sunday, Aug 26 2007
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.     [ Read More... ]