Category: Student Learning

Peace Day: Kinship with Inner and Outer Beings

Student Reporter: Klare Hu, Class of 2017 “The General Assembly has declared this as a day devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace, both within and among all nations and peoples.” (UN.org) It is among the unsaid, but silently acknowledged truths that CTTB is an inclusive community of […]

DVGS Artists

Student Reporter: Brandy Quach, Class of 2018 On April 3rd, 2015, girls’ division students attended the Ukiah Art Walk. As part of an initiative by Mendocino Arts Council’s Get Arts in the Schools Program (GASP), their portraiture artworks were featured at the Art Center in Ukiah. From family […]

Ukiah Children’s Fair

Student Reporter: : Maggie He & Annie Sun, Class of 2018 There are thousands of things people can do to save the earth. From recycling to planting their own plants, they are all doing a small part to make this world a greener place. On April 18th, 2015, […]

Applied 12 Links

11th Grade Buddhist Studies One of the topics in Buddhism that is hard to grasp is the Twelve Links of Causal Conditions or Twelve Links of Dependent Origination, the practice of a pratyekabuddha, a solitary sage. The students were assigned to produce a visual project on this topic. […]

1-2-3 Black

10th Grade Chemistry We use chemicals everyday even though we may not think of them. We even know some reagents by their chemical names such as sodium cloride for table salt and sodium bicarbonate for baking soda. And it sounds very educated to call ordinary household bleach as […]

2015 Mendocino County Science Fair

Student Reporter: Pam Qian, Class of 2016 Would sound waves promote the freezing of water? How many angles can be formed from ‘n’ number of non-parallel lines? Do baked potatoes conduct electricity better than raw potatoes? These are the questions that the girls from Developing Virtue Secondary School […]

Making Kimchi in Biology

9th Grade Biology Ever wonder why our muscles get sore and ache when we exercise rigorously in a short amount of time? In the presence of oxygen, we can make up to 38 ATPs (energy molecules) out of only 1 sugar molecule. But it takes time for our […]

GO Solar Power!

Student Reporter: Michele Lum, Class of 2015 On March 6th and 7th, a group of seven students and two teacher-chaperones had the opportunity to install solar panels in Redwood Valley. Prior to the installation, students and teachers have attended a two-hour orientation that gave safety tips, the basics […]

Lend Robots a Hand

Student Reporter: Pam Qian, Class of 2016 What is a robot to you? A mechanical human? Is a pencil sharpener, a refrigerator, or an automobile a robot to you? Sponsored by the Mendocino County 4-H, students learn how to build a cool robot through the process of applying […]

9th Grade English

Students read Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. Major themes discussed in this unit include the individual versus society; traditions and modernity; as well as gender roles and responsibility. As the culminating assignment, they researched a social issue facing our society and prepared a poster that illustrates major facts and […]