Facing the future
SFUSD | May 2016 | Facing the future
Meet some of our outstanding graduates & join in Teacher Appreciation Week
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Our teachers bring their best selves to work and do their utmost to connect with each student every day. They connect with families, create curriculum and continue to grow as professionals.
Without question, teaching was one of the most challenging, yet rewarding, jobs I've ever had.
Today, on National Teacher Day, and during Teacher Appreciation Week, join me in celebrating and thanking our incredible teachers.
—Richard A. Carranza, Superintendent
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Read, listen and learn this summer from May 7 to August 14. Participate in the San Francisco Public Library's
Summer Stride 2016 by getting an activity guide and signing up at your local branch, or download SFUSD's
summer reading list for recommendations.
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Biking to school is a great way to get exercise and spend more time outdoors. Get a free bike tune up, try an obstacle course, and learn about biking safety and upcoming legislation on May 7 at the
bike fair at Aptos Middle School.
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The first week of May is Teacher Appreciation Week. Our teachers are essential to what we do, so find out how you can thank a teacher today or post your appreciation online with #ThankATeacher.
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Even the superintendent of a large school district starts out as a student. Read about a kindergarten teacher who had a young student named Richard Carranza and how she influenced him.
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Come meet other SFUSD families, organized by school, at the
SFUSD Family Welcome Day on June 5. You can also learn about free savings accounts for kindergarteners and how to support your school through parent organizations.
Please RSVP by May 26.
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Round 2 placement letters
Round 2 enrollment applicants, your placement letters will be mailed on May 13. Find out what to do next after getting your letter.
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We'll return in the fall!
This newsletter will be going on break for the summer, but you'll hear from us again when the new school year starts. Thanks for reading!
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Have a great summer vacation
The last day of school is on Thursday, May 26, and the 2016-17 school year begins on Monday, August 15. Enjoy the summer!
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SFUSD in the News
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This high school student is helping her peers embrace their black identity
Hadiyah Collins grew up with a complicated relationship to her curly tresses and cocoa-brown skin. But now, as a senior in high school, she has fully embraced her black identity and is helping her peers to do the same. Collins was brought up in a predominantly white San Francisco neighborhood, where she was teased for looking different.
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Playgrounds for all
On a crisp, sunny Saturday morning in February, the yard surrounding San Francisco’s Alvarado Elementary School buzzes with activity. Adept climbers grunt as they swing along three sets of monkey bars, scooters zip across the blacktop, and basketballs bounce alongside playful jibes between parents and children. Over it all, a toddler’s jubilant squeal rings out. Ten years ago silence and stillness would have reigned on the weekend, the gates of the chain-link fence locked.
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Introducing opera to kids at ARIA Festival
One of the city’s important annual cultural events for children and families comes up on Saturday, April 30: the ARIA Festival, to be held at the Veteran’s Building in downtown San Francisco. It’s a daylong, free community open house where kindergarten through 12th-grade students, from schools all over the city, perform in various arts.
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The key to curbing campus sexual assault lies in high school health class
Christopher Pepper, a health teacher at the San Francisco Unified School District, had been working on a new health curriculum for four years when Brown passed California's landmark legislation. Alongside a coalition of teachers, public-health workers and employees from community-based organizations, Pepper has helped standardize the city's sex education with a 24-part curriculum called "Be Real. Be Ready."
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SFUSD to start teaching kids as young as 16 about voting
Another round of legislation in support of lowering the voting age in San Francisco reached the school board on Tuesday and passed without objection. Two months ago, the Board of Education endorsed a proposed charter amendment that would allow 16 and 17 year olds the right to vote in city elections. The board resolution did not specify how the school system would prepare youth to vote.
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Tech leaders talk to high school students about forming their own companies
The tech industry is often criticized for lack of diversity, including few women and minorities, and for families being displaced by tech workers. But KRON’s Vicki Liviakis shows where tech is taking a new tact.
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Radio Poets 2016
For National Poetry Month, KALW and America SCORES Bay Area have teamed up to bring you the voices of young poets from San Francisco’s public schools. The series was produced by Kevin Vance and Emily Queliza, and features students from Redding, Lakeshore, Garfield, Hillcrest, Cleveland, Sanchez, E.R. Taylor, Leonard Flynn, and Tenderloin Community elementary schools in San Francisco.
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Students, CCDC help clean up Chinatown alleyways and parks
On Saturday, 190 student volunteers gathered at Portsmouth Square to participate in the annual Chinatown Community Development Center's (CCDC) Adopt-an-Alley Youth Empowerment Project (AAA) to help spruce up the neighborhood.
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Games as a gateway to CS
Much of the change needed to make the tech industry more diverse and inclusive has to happen inside of companies—new hiring practices, culture shifts. But, there’s another strategy: invest in preparing diverse students—early—for careers in tech.
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