El Estoque

Investing in student wellness

Liz Liu, Kalyani Puthenpurayil, and Brandon Xu • January 27, 2024

Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 483 on Oct. 8, 2023, and it went into effect Jan. 1, 2024, providing more state funding for health services in California schools, particularly mental healthcare....

Safe Space

Corinna Kuo, Brandon Xu, and Kaia Yuan • September 29, 2023

MVHS implemented the Wellness Room in room C201 for the 2023-34 school year. According to Wellness Space Specialist Doreen Bonde, the Wellness Room allows students to reset physically and mentally when...

Book bans are on the rise

Jisha Rajala and Lillian Wang • April 6, 2022

In early January of this year, the McMinn County School Board in Tennessee unanimously voted for the removal of “Maus,” a graphic novel by Art Spiegelman focusing on Jewish experiences during the Holocaust,...

MVHS looks to enact long-term mental health changes

Angela Zhang • March 4, 2022

The MVHS Social Emotional Learning (SEL) taskforce was created in February of 2021 to improve students’ emotional awareness and mental health at school. According to Library Media Specialist Doreen Bonde,...

FUHSD organizes a Social Emotional Learning task force

Tina Low and Anna Jerolimov • April 2, 2021

Members of the task force discuss their goals to aid student and staff mental health and build social emotional skills