After eight years at Ojai Valley School, doing everything from IT and computer science classes, to teaching AP Psychology and running the front desk at the Upper Campus, Dana Quinn has chosen to move on to her next chapter.
OVS faculty and administrators have worked to address the rise of AI chatbots, such as ChatGPT, which can generate high school- and college-level essays at the click of a button.
For more than 50 years, the Ojai Valley School art department sat in the same building at the bottom of campus—far away from the bustling classrooms and energetic students of the school. But now – in a renovation of classrooms 9, 10 and 11– the school has a new art room, which has been dubbed “The Studio.”
Earlier this month, the Gene Haas Foundation awarded a $4,000 grant to support the OVS Robotics program. This is the largest of a handful of donations solicited by the robotics students this year.
On Wednesday, a team of students, led by Ms. Davis, spent a cold afternoon digging holes in the landscaping around the classroom buildings and planting hundreds of Milkweed plugs that were donated to the school as part of a statewide effort to restore Monarch habitat.