Walton Family Foundation Grant of $111,257 for technology and science

Charter Schools Accountability InitiativeGrant of $ 22,497 for accountability and governance documents

Walton Family Foundation Grant of $55,119 for technology and library

Charter School Dissemination Grant of $ 88,647.55 for dissemination work on manuals, video, and training.

March: Article titled, "Values, The Implicit Curriculum," published in Educational Leadership page 69, March 2003 issue.

February: The River School highlighted at Humboldt State's North Coast Education Summit

April: Foundation for Learning awards Linda Inlay the first "Awakener Award for Innovative Leadership in Education," and donates $1,000 for dissemination work.

May: River School is selected as a California Distinguished School, the only one in Napa County.

November: Linda Inlay, Mary Lynn Bryan, Kara (student) and her mother Mary present a workshop "Student Empowerment Through the Implicit Curriculum" at the National Middle Schools Association 30th Annual Conference in Atlanta.

Selected as a National Schools of Character Promising Practices citation recipient by the Character Education Partnership, www.character.org

October: Mary Lynn Bryan, a Rotary Teacher of the Year

October: On the Fox News Special: Spoiled Rotten Kids: Taking Control the River School was recognized for helping teach students to be responsible

December: Mary Lynn Bryan selected as one of ten Educators of the Year for Region 4 (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Solano) of the California League of Middle Schools.

March: Received a $10,000 planning grant from Shinnyo-en Foundation to develop a teacher training program in our Implicit Curriculum.

March: Third Annual Global Affairs Challenge competition among Bay Area schools — River School sweeps top awards in all five categories.

April: Article published in the journal of the Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development titled A Safe School for the Roller Coaster Years.

October: Winner of the National School of Character Award - one of ten schools nationally to receive this award from the Character Education Partnership

March: River School wins for the third year in a row at the World Affairs Challenge of Bay Area middle schools: Most Creative First and Second Place, Best Poster Second and Third Place, Best Overall First and Fifth Place. The First Place Best Overall Winning Team whose topic was China's Oppression of Tibet had the highest number of points in the Challenge's four year history.

River School featured on ASCD's professional development series, Teaching the Adolescent Brain.

Our own Sara Euser was selected from over 50 nominees to be one of four Rotary Teachers of the Year. She learned of the award on a Friday afternoon at the Rotary/Napa Valley Ed Foundation co-sponsored event at Copia to honor teachers throughout the district. It was a beautiful event, lots of great food and wine, and lots of camaraderie as we connected with fellow educators throughout the county.

River School recently received its 2006-2007 Accountability Progress Re-port (APR) and is pleased to announce that we achieved an Academic Performance Index (API) of 865, up from 852 last year. We are proud of the academic achievements of our students and the staff commitment to support each student to achieve success.

River School and Humboldt State University partner to provide a credentialing program at River School for middle school education that includes the Ho`ala Education model, the program used for River's implicit curriculum of character education.

March:  River Teams win awards at the World Affairs Challenge — The Poppy People Team won 3rd place in the Overall competition exploring Opium Production in Afghanistan and 1st place in the Best Discovery Poster division. Click here for all awards.

March:  Article published in online version of the journal Educational Leadership, "Orchestrating  the School Culture."