AFE families offer a multitude of talents and are very active in the community. Parents are engaged in facilitating, creating a home-learning environment and are responsible for direct instruction for their student. Parents of students who attend one of our ongoing weekly classes may work in that classroom, or may observe or participate in that classroom to further their skills as educators. Parents also offer classes in areas of their expertise, or lead clubs for small groups of students. Others volunteer at the Resource Center, or help with AFE team sports.
AFE students and parents are active in the AFE community, as well as the community at large by volunteering with projects such as the Natural History Museum, Wilder Ranch, UCSC Farm and Garden, Ford Ord and Arana Gulch restoration, and literacy and tutoring projects.
Many AFE families are gifted artists that enrich the community with diverse visual and performing art projects. Visit the links on this page for some examples.
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- AFE student Zack R. took these photos of our Spring 2011 Palazzo Art Show.
- AFE parent Tané has created an extensive archive of photos of AFE events here. (You'll need a Yahoo account to view this page.)
- AFE's Follywood Channel on YouTube. See movies by our students, presented at the annual Follywood event.
- To see film work of AFE and former AFE students, check out these websites: comedy and news videos at Infallibull Productions and their political work at True Progressive.
- AFE students Kelly M, Sophie M and their writers workshop were interviewed about their teen magazine Tangerine Moon on KION television. Here is the link to the article.
- AFE Journalism — A blog for AFE students to express their thoughts, opinions, movie and book reviews.
- AFE Creative Writing — A place for AFE teenagers to share their writing, and for the greater AFE community to read it.
If you would like to see your creations in this gallery, contact AFE staff or email your work (please limit art to seven per student) to Cindy Baxter at .
You will also need to download the Permission to Publish Form, sign it, and give it to your consultant teacher.
Please keep CIPA (Child Internet Protection Act) guidelines in mind, when considering the information to post here. Since we are a Santa Cruz County Office of Education sponsored site, we must follow certain guidelines. A brief summary of the guidelines: Student work can only be published with written permission. Only a student's first name may be included on the site, and we may not publish individual student names with a photo of them.