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Improving school climate
SFUSD | November 2016 | Standards-based report cards
Enrollment policy updates, standards-based report card changes and more
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Enrolling in middle school this year or applying to Lowell High School? For middle school, students will continue to receive priority for their
middle school feeder but will not be automatically assigned to their feeder.
Lowell High School applicants will again be required to take the Lowell admissions test, and for applicants who took the Smarter Balanced Assessments (SBA), the district will use the highest score from either the SBA or the Lowell admissions test.
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You may have been hearing a lot lately about
Vision 2025, which describes the core knowledge, critical thinking skills and competencies we want our students to gain before they graduate. Now, we have revamped TK-5 grade report cards to better reflect our well-rounded standards.
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Your child's safety is always of utmost importance to us. In the event of an emergency, we work closely with city emergency management officials and first responders and update families on an ongoing basis. Read more about
what to expect in case of an emergency, and learn how to
sign up for text messages.
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How are your children doing at school? Get an update from their teachers and ask your questions during Family Teacher Conference Week, from Nov. 14 to Nov. 18. We have tips on how to make the most of your time. Check with your school for a schedule.
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Partnerships with our students' families are essential to every student's success. To give families more insight into what they can expect from their schools, we've developed a set of tools to foster a strong, supportive school culture.
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| Turkey Day Football Championship
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Every Thanksgiving, families gather to watch the Turkey Day Championship, an SFUSD tradition that began over 80 years ago as a match between Lowell and Polytechnic high schools. Nowadays, the game is between the current top two SFUSD football teams. It's a great family activity for Thanksgiving morning—join us on Nov. 24 at 11 a.m. at Kezar Stadium. Doors open at 9 a.m.
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Vote on Nov. 8
Several school-related measures are on the ticket, from Propositions A and N to Board of Education elections. Find your polling place or view your sample ballot.
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Veterans Day
All SFUSD schools and offices will be closed on Friday, Nov. 11 for Veterans Day.
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Thanksgiving Break
All schools are closed from Wednesday, Nov. 23 to Friday, Nov. 25 for Thanksgiving Recess. SFUSD offices will be open on Wednesday but closed Thursday and Friday.
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SFUSD in the News
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Idiom-based Halloween costumes at SF school hit the nail on the head
Halloween costumes worn at a San Francisco elementary school Monday appeared to kill two birds with one stone: Halloween fun and educational lesson. The fifth graders at Argonne Elementary School in San Francisco’s Inner Sunset District dress up as idioms, figures of speech that don’t always match the literal translation.
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San Francisco’s multilingual schools could forge path if California measure succeeds
The San Francisco Unified School District responded to Proposition 227 by changing the names of its programs and expanding language offerings—especially those that put immigrants with native-born kids in the same classroom to learn two languages at the same time. Today, thousands of students are learning English alongside Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese or Korean in dual-language immersion programs.
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Third-graders assemble a whale skeleton in SF City Hall
Sixteen third-graders from the Mission District turned a bunch of bones into the full-length skeleton of a long-dead juvenile gray whale named Gracie inside City Hall on Thursday, while a posse of politicians looked on amazed. [...] The kids who arrived by bus from Cesar Chavez Elementary School were met by 35 feet of assorted whale bones in City Hall’s vast rotunda, and their teacher, Nina Ravizza, quickly herded the students into teams of four.
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June Jordan students respond to school shooting, negative press
A week after the shooting outside June Jordan School for Equity, students at the Excelsior district school have bounced back from the violence that abruptly entered their school community, showing their strength in a new video.
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What it's like to be gay, out, or in drag at Mission High School
For decades, Mission High School has had the reputation as one of the roughest, toughest high schools in the San Francisco Unified School District. But the place has been safe-spaced up significantly for LGBTQ students in recent years, thanks in no small part to the efforts of Mission High’s Gay-Straight Alliance and a nonprofit called Queens of the Castro.
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SF makes push to protect teachers from eviction
With high rental costs exacerbating the teacher shortage in San Francisco, various city agencies and tenant rights organizations have banded together to ensure educators have the tools necessary to fight unlawful evictions and find housing. The United Educators of San Francisco, Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development and San Francisco Unified School District are among the collaborators working to unlock legal counseling and provide housing assistance for educators.
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SF high schools could soon offer more CCSF courses
For the first time, high school students in the San Francisco Unified School District could soon earn college credit for courses they take during the school day. Under a partnership up for approval today at the Board of Education, City College of San Francisco would offer courses at five high schools next semester in subjects ranging from hospitality to finance.
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Students come together in the aftermath of an on-campus shooting
Students returned today to June Jordan School for Equity, a small public high school in San Francisco, a day after four students were shot in the parking lot. Around noon, the student body, faculty, and staff came together in the courtyard to support each other.
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In school reform, relationships are key, say principals, teachers and students
Social and emotional learning is academic jargon for what many teachers already do—teach students how to listen respectfully, manage stress and set personal goals. It includes clear instruction about expectations and the reasons behind them, such as “We are quiet in the library because students are concentrating on reading.” And the idea, according to the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning, is to embed these concepts into academic instruction.
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City helps 2 teacher couples buy homes in SF
Two teacher couples in San Francisco have managed to do the impossible. No, not score same-day reservations at the French Laundry or walk downtown without smelling urine. Even crazier. They bought their very own single-family homes. In the city. On their meager salaries. “It’s totally, totally crazy,” said Bridget Early, 40, a social worker at Everett Middle School in the Mission District who just moved into a $1.1 million home in the Outer Sunset with her husband and two little kids. “It’s literally completely changed our lives for the better.”
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