About this Site

The Nueva School public website furthers the mission of the school in many ways, from marketing the school to prospective parents and students to helping the school's staff, students, and parents to communicate among themselves and with each other.

Recognizing the strategic importance of the website, the school began an effort in 2004 to improve the website's ability to support the mission of the school. The goals of this project included:

To maintain a consistent, sophisticated, welcoming, and clean look and tone throughout the site
To improve the site's ability to convey the vital mission and rich character of the school
To increase the amount of usable information for each kind of visitor
To organize the site better so that people can find what they need
To personalize the experience based on visitor
To keep people coming back with fresh, rich content
To handle privacy issues intelligently with permissions and with passwords as needed
To share as much as possible with the widest possible audience and thus maintain a leadership position among progressive schools and schools for the gifted
To centralize the once-disparate sub-sites (NPA, Nueva Notes, etc.)

During the summer of 2005, Nueva parents Steve Capps and Diana Nemirovsky generously donated their time to develop the dynamic back-end of the site, powering the roster, login, calendar, news, and communication functionality.

The public part of the website was relaunched in January 2009. Using the open source Joomla content management system allowed us to develop it in-house, using the expertise of our teachers and students, to distribute author and editor functions throughout the school, and to incorporate Web 2.0 features and functionality.

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Located in the San Francisco Bay Area, The Nueva School is a nationally recognized independent school serving gifted students and emphasizing integrated studies, creative arts, and social-emotional learning. For more than 40 years, Nueva has remained committed to its original vision: to inspire a passion for lifelong learning, foster social and emotional acuity, and develop a child's imaginative mind. Nueva creates a dynamic educational model to enable gifted children to learn how to make choices that will benefit the world.