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Enriching public education
SFUSD | April 2016 | Enriching public education
We're increasing funding for arts, sports, libraries & more
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Welcome back from spring break! We're in the home stretch for the school year, which entails many opportunities for students to share what they've been learning through portfolios, performances, essays and, yes,
statewide tests. I'm particularly excited to see the amazing student artwork, made possible in part through the
Public Education Enrichment Fund (PEEF), that will be on display at the Asian Art Museum starting April 28. I hope to see you there.
—Richard A. Carranza, Superintendent
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The Board of Education recently approved a $3.17 million increase to SFUSD's Public Education Enrichment Fund (PEEF) budget, which will expand our visual and performing arts programs, sports, libraries, and wellness and language services, along with more support for our African American Achievement Leadership Initiative.
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Our Children, Our Families has created an online, one-stop shop for summer youth activities from over 50 organizations, including Recreation & Parks, YMCA, and the San Francisco Public Library. Check out the new interactive
Summer Activity Guide.
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Ruth Asawa School of the Arts student and Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Gianfranco Baltazar not only plays classical guitar, he composes for it too. He discusses his influences and performs a waltz he wrote on this episode of NPR's From the Top.
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Lincoln High School senior and Jefferson Award winner Lauren Marquez founded the Includitude Club to make sure no one got left out. Watch general and special education students dance, play sports, and have fun together under Lauren's guidance.
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Students in grades 3-8 and grade 11 will soon begin taking the Smarter Balanced tests (SBAC)—ask your child's school for their testing schedule. Find out more about how these
assessments inform your child's learning.
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Come see student artwork; enjoy live music, dance and spoken-word performances; and participate in hands-on activities at the annual
SFUSD Arts Festival. The festival will run from April 28 to May 6 at the Asian Art Museum.
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Deadline to register for school
If you received an assignment offer this March, the deadline to register is April 8! It's good to register even if you submit an application for Round 2—it won't affect your chances, and you won't risk losing your original assignment.
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LCAP community forum findings
The LCAP Task Force will share findings from community conversations to help shape SFUSD’s annual LCAP. Join group discussions to develop recommendations for our budget and priorities.
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Bike and Roll to School Week
Support personal and environmental health by joining Bike and Roll to School Week (April 18-27). Check with your school to see what activities they have planned.
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SFUSD in the News
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‘Yes means yes’: Teaching teens affirmative consent
Jordan Diaz-Boutte is a sophomore at Phillip and Sala Burton High School in San Francisco. From her perspective, consent is still an ambiguous issue. "Right now, I think that people don’t really think of consent as anything. Like they know the phrase ‘no means no,’ but when it comes into that situation, they’re like ‘oh well,'" says Diaz-Boutte.
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Coding workshop for Mission High School students
The goal of the workshop was to offer high school students a chance to learn about coding and the elements of game design in an engaging and fun way. The first part of the day focused on video game idea development, and started with the students being broken up into groups of six students and two volunteers.
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San Francisco students take unusual field trip to Presidio graves
On a recent day, several hundred students from San Francisco’s Visitacion Valley Middle School followed their guide down a wooded path before coming upon the scenic Golden Gate Bridge overlook. The normally giddy group suddenly became hushed when they took in the sight: a sea of graves.
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Is academic performance improving at San Francisco schools?
Looking at numbers alone, the San Francisco Unified School District is improving by almost all measures. Standardized-test results are up dramatically since 2008 (54 percent of 11th graders got a score of proficient or above in English in 2013—an increase from 44 percent in 2008; 64 percent of 7th graders hit proficiency levels in math in 2013, up from 52 percent in 2008).
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Beyond data: Building empathy in adults through student shadow days
In an effort to build empathy for the student experience — to see school through their eyes — some school and district leaders are shadowing students through a whole day, adding a new data point to the ever-growing pile.
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Teachers could be exempt from no-fault evictions during school year
Evicting teachers who live and work in San Francisco for reasons beyond their control could soon become illegal during the school year under a proposal that will be discussed by supervisors today. The ordinance amending The City’s administrative code to prevent educators from seeing certain no-fault evictions [...] aims to quell increasing worries among teachers that they could lose their home during the school year and fail to find new housing they can afford.
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San Francisco students to learn about sex trafficking, history of ‘comfort women’
San Francisco middle and high schools are developing lessons on how to identify child sex trafficking. In October, the San Francisco Board of Education passed a resolution directing the school district to develop age-appropriate curriculum to teach students how to recognize the signs of human trafficking as part of their health education classes.
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SFUSD looks to recruit more black students at Lowell
San Francisco’s public school leaders are looking to recruit more black students at Lowell High School in response to recent concerns of discrimination on campus. Plans are in the works to hire an advocate and recruitment officer who would help draw more black students to the school, which has seen a decrease in the number of black students in recent decades, said Chris Lee, a fund development officer for the San Francisco Unified School District.
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International High School, finalist for GoFundMe competition
According to the National Schools Supply and Equipment Association, 92% of teachers around the country spend about $500 out of their own pocket to buy school supplies for their students. Now, GoFundMe is holding a special competition that would buy 100 Google Chromebooks for students. San Jose's Overfelt High School and San Francisco's International High School are finalists in the competition.
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Facebook grant upgrades technology lab for Everett Middle School parents
In the Mission, local advocates and the social media giant are aiming to bring parents up to speed with equipment and basic computer training that will help them digitally communicate and tap into resources online. The project is intended to give parents the tools they need to guide their children in an increasingly technology-driven educational system.
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SF schools to reassess curriculum for kids with incarcerated parents
Thousands of other San Francisco youths like Williams, whose parents are incarcerated, are set to receive more support at school in the coming months as school board members on Tuesday decided to roll out new curriculum and training focused on the vulnerable students.
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New twist to tech donations: Google promotes racial justice
San Francisco Unified’s My Brother and Sister’s Keeper program will get $1 million to provide support to each of the city’s 250 black high school seniors, giving them one-on-one support through the nonprofit uAspire to get into college and secure the financial aid to pay for it.
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Largest-ever SFUSD bond proposal would fund new schools
New details about the largest-ever bond proposal from the San Francisco Unified School District have been released, including the allocation of a third of the money needed to build an arts education center in The City. The school district plans to place the $744 million facilities bond on the November ballot, hoping that voters will approve the funding for San Francisco to build new schools and improve current campuses.
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SFUSD aims to increase literacy in schools
Thousands of donated books made their way Wednesday to a Castro district elementary school as part of National Read Across America Day. The books were donated to the Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy by San Francisco-based tech giant Salesforce, and amount to just a fraction of the titles the company plans to distribute throughout 17 other schools in the district, San Francisco Unified School District officials said.
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New research finds ethnic studies improve overall learning
Thomas Dee, a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, recently tracked more than 1,400 ninth-graders enrolled in a pilot ethnic studies program in the San Francisco Unified School District. The students were enrolled in the course if they had a GPA below 2.0 the year before, meaning they were considered at-risk for dropping out.
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SFUSD to make computer programming mandatory subject by 2018
The computer programming class at Presidio Middle School in San Francisco is humming with excitement as the teacher, Grey Todd, explains the day’s assignment to a group of eager sixth-graders. They’ll be programming a ball to bounce around a computer screen as part of a semester-long class that teaches them the basics of computer programming.
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