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November 2003


Rifkin, Patricia. "Space for Students." Daily Press [Victorville CA]
16 November 2003

"To inspire, to explore, to learn...the essence of a good teacher. To be inspired, to want to explore, to want to learn...the essence of a good student." Challenger Mission Statement. As I read the Challenger Center's mission statement while there for a week-long training this past summer, I was grateful for the opportunity to be on of 17 teachers chosen for the Messenger Fellowship and take back to my school at the Lewis Center, the lessons of excitement and training.

Cobb, Nikki. "Prognosis Vary for Medical Partnership." Daily Press [Victorville CA]
19 November 2003

In the Victore Valley, as across the nation, stakeholders from congressmen to parents are debating on how best to provide the fundamental services of health care and education to all. Officials at the Lewis Center for Education Research think a proposed partnership between the school and health-care facilitym to be public on its grounds, could go a long way toward improving High Desert residents' access to both social needs.