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Previous Newsletter Articles by the Staff

Why Wait?
By Anthony Burik, Staff Member
From the Spring 2003 Newsletter

Sudbury on the Brain
By Anthony Burik, Staff Member
From the Winter 2003 Newsletter

What My Four Year Old Taught Me About Staffing A Sudbury School
By Anne-Martine Moore, Staff Member
From the Fall 2002 Newsletter

Storytelling
By Anthony Burik, Staff Member
From the Spring 2002 Newsletter

Sudbury Schools and College Admissions
By Anthony Burik, Staff Member
From the Winter 2002 Newsletter

Reading is a Life Skill
By Amy Erez, Former Staff Member
From the Winter 2001 Newsletter

What Our Parents and Kids Say About a Sudbury Education

Parents' Corner: When the Student is Ready, The Teacher Will Come
By Evelyn Hardesty, Parent
From the Spring 2003 Newsletter

Kid Talk
From the Spring 2003 Newsletter

Parents' Corner
By Evelyn Hardesty, Parent
From the Winter 2003 Newsletter

Parents' Corner
By Connie Reiss, Parent
From the Fall 2002 Newsletter

Kid Talk: Why I Like Going to School at DVS
From the Spring 2002 Newsletter

Parents' Corner: A Few Words From a New Parent
By Colleen West, Parent of Former DVS students
From the Winter 2002 Newsletter

Parents' Corner: Freedom and Responsibilities
By Lea Mason, Parent
From the Fall 2001 Newsletter

Parents' Corner
By Joseph Moore, Parent
From the Winter 2001 Newsletter

Other Articles

Ok, So You're Sort of Like...
By Romey Pittman
Fairhaven School

Three Chapters from Free at Last
By Daniel Greenberg
Sudbury Valley School

How it Feels to Send Your Child to a "Free" School
By Mimsy Sadofsky
Sudbury Valley School

Bells
By Martha Hurwitz
from Reflections on the Sudbury Concept

The Art of Doing Nothing
By Hanna Greenberg
Sudbury Valley School

DVS in the Press

Concord school lets students rule
At Diablo Valley, kids guide the curriculum
By Jason B. Johnson, Staff Writer
San Francisco Chronicle: 11/21/03

Diablo Valley grad in a class by herself
By Sam McManis
San Francisco Chronicle: 6/7/02

Free School
KRON-TV (San Francisco): 6/7/01

Reiki in the Curriculum
By Barbara McDaniel
Reiki Magazine International: April/May 2001

DVS was featured in an article published by the Contra Costa Times in the Concord Transcript on Thursday, February 22, 2001 titled, "When traditional school is too restrictive, there's an alternative." A similar version of the same article appeared in the Times' Walnut Creek Journal on the same day.

DVS was featured in Gary Bogue's column in the Contra Costa Times on Thursday, June 6, 2002 titled, "Schoolkids taught early to treat pets with respect."

For information on obtaining reprints of these articles, please visit the Contra Costa Times website at www.contracostatimes.com.

Diablo Valley School admits students of any race, color, sex, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin to all rights and privileges, programs and activities generally accorded or made available to students and staff at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan program, and athletic and other school administered programs.

Our school has enrolled students from: Antioch, Berkeley, Clayton, Concord, Danville, El Cerrito, Lafayette, Livermore, Martinez, Oakland, Oakley, Pittsburg, Pleasant Hill, San Francisco, San Leandro, Vallejo, Walnut Creek and other communities in the Bay Area.