While students tend to only see their instructors in an academic light, teachers still indulge in guilty pleasures from time to time. Many of these are childhood delights that they have rediscovered and...
Vikhyath Malineni, Photography Editor
• October 3, 2025
Education should equip students to go out into the real world, but today, many instructors are teaching like the world has not evolved in recent years, through new technology and more effective educational...
Budget cuts in the San Ramon Valley Unified School District have left Dougherty Valley High School teachers dealing with larger class sizes, reduced resources and fears about job security. Teachers, librarians...
Looking for new music to listen to? Watch our DV teachers explain their past and present music tastes and give recommendations that might just resonate with you.
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Mahika Katariya, Arts & Entertainment Editor
• January 29, 2025
With deadlines for letters of recommendation rapidly approaching, teachers at DVHS are hard at work writing letters for their current and former students.
Some teachers have only recently received most...
Prior to the start of the 2023-24 school year, Principal Evan Powell named SueEllen Thomas the new athletic director of Dougherty Valley High School.
Thomas has an long history of working with athletes....
Andy Mei, Arts and Entertainment Editor
• October 29, 2023
With time inevitably comes a wealth of change and growth. This year, Dougherty Valley High School (DVHS) has welcomed many new faculty members in various departments.
Among the new educators is Assistant...
Often, students joke about how the content they learn during school hours has no application in real life. Not many people use the Pythagorean theorem or Avogadro’s law in day-to-day life.
On the...
At a student forum held on Feb. 2, DVHS administration looked for ways to combat the recurrence of shooting threats on campus. Ideas tossed around at the forum included a competition among grade levels...
Dougherty Valley High School is starting off 2023 with a new math teacher, Mrs. Vishruti Kekre who just completed her credentials program and is teaching full time as an Algebra 1 and Enriched Algebra...
As COVID cases have begun to decrease this year, an influx of teachers have stopped wearing masks at school.
Justin Worley, an English teacher who no longer wears a mask, corroborates, “It seems...
Dougherty Valley High School introduced 23 new staff members in the academic year of 2022-2023. Some of the represented departments include: math, science, history, English and world language. Two assistant...
