Kelly Capell selected Placer County teacher of the year
May 21, 2020
Recently, English teacher Kelly Capell received the honor of being chosen as the Placer County teacher of the year. Capell, who has been teaching for 13 years, was selected as RJUHSD teacher of the year back in December. While she will not be advancing in the competition, Capell has been able to reflect...
Seniors celebrate with parade at Galleria
May 9, 2020
Roseville High School families decorated their cars and came out to the Westfield Galleria mall on Thursday to celebrate the graduating class of 2020 with a parent-organized parade. While seniors drove their decorated cars along the parade route, members of the Roseville community – from the Rosevi...
End of year senior event dates finalized
May 5, 2020
Roseville High School released a final list of end-of-year senior events. To view the full release, click here. May 8, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Cap and gown delivery May 11, 11:50 a.m. College signing video May 18, 7:00 p.m. Senior awards night livestream May 2...
Biomed alters final projects for at-home completion
May 3, 2020
With the switch to distance learning, the capstone course for the Biomedical Program, Biomedical Innovations, has undergone a lot of readjustments and sacrifices to finish out the school year. In a typical school year Biomedical Innovations students study problems in the biomedical sciences and work...
RJUHSD supt. Herrmann resigns
April 28, 2020
UPDATE: Denise Herrmann has resigned, Jess Borjon will serve as the interim superintendent. RJUHSD Superintendent Denise Herrmann is a finalist for the superintendent position at the Traverse City Area Public Schools district in Traverse, MI. Herrmann has been on a leave of absence sinc...
Medical internship program expands
MAYA BERMAN
April 24, 2020
RJUHSD will offer a new medical class next year as part of a new program that will give students hands-on internship experience in the medical field. To sign up, students can contact their counselor and set up a meeting. According to director of CTE Shane Waggoner, seniors must turn 18 by March 1 2021...
SHIFTING ONLINE
April 17, 2020
As schools shift online, Eye of the Tiger reporters take a look at what that means for individual departments and classes. All schools in RJUHSD switched to distance learning after midterms last month in a mitigation measure against COVID-19. The district has announced that distance learning will cont...
RJUHSD board votes for ‘choice’ distance learning grading model
STAFF REPORT
April 15, 2020
Students will be able to choose between letter grades or credit/no credit grading for each class beginning April 20. A motion was made by board member Gary Johnson to adopt a policy to allow students to choose between models one and two on a class-per-class basis. The full PDF with all three models drafted...
RJUHSD expected to close schools through end of academic year
STAFF REPORT
April 2, 2020
According to superintendent Denise Herrmann at tonight's board meeting, RJUHSD will announce the closure of all sites through May 29 tomorrow afternoon. The board is expected to discuss plans for the class of 2020's graduation at the next meeting on April 14. This story is developing, so ch...
UC schools waive requirements over COVID-19
STAFF REPORT
April 1, 2020
University of California schools are temporarily waiving the letter grade requirement for A-G classes for those applying to the 2021-2020 term. A-G courses completed in spring 2020 with Pass (P) or Credit (CR) grades will satisfy the requirements for students applying for the 2020-2021 term. UC is also ...
CDE suggests schools focus on distance learning for remainder of year
STAFF REPORT
March 31, 2020
RJUHSD has not extended the site closures past May 1 despite CA superintendent of public instruction Tony Thurmond’s message to local officials stating, “it currently appears that our students will not be able to return to school campuses before the end of the school year.” Without a st...
UPDATE: Widespread outages affect RJUHSD Chromebooks
STAFF REPORT
March 28, 2020
UPDATE March 29, 2020 @ 8:28 p.m: According to RJUHSD director of technology Tony Ham, the recent Chromebook connectivity issue has been identified and resolved. Several students have reported issues with their RJUHSD issued Chromebooks over the last two days. Acc...
