Tagged With "Schools"
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How Much Would it Cost to Adequately Fund Schools in California? [edsource.org]
By Yuxuan Xie, Daniel J. Willis, and John Fensterwald, EdSource, September 24, 2019 California school districts need to significantly increase their education spending to ensure that students have adequate resources and support to provide the state’s content standards and meet its academic goals. Based on 2016-17 numbers, funding schools adequately to meet these goals would have required a 38 percent increase in spending, or $25.6 billion. That would mean an average increase of $4,686 per...
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How Parents and Teachers Can Calm Kids' Getty Fire Anxiety [latimes.com]
By Sonali Kohli and Nina Agrawal, Los Angeles Times, October 29, 2019 During this Santa Ana wind season, 12-year-old Nicholas Ladesich tends to go to bed worrying about what might burn overnight. He often has dreams of waking up in his old house that burned down in the Woolsey fire last year. But he awakens instead in the living room of the one-bedroom guest house he shares with his brother and parents. He demands that his mom turn on the news to monitor possible fires while his 15-year-old...
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How Some California School Districts Invest in Counseling-and Achieve Results [edsource.org]
By Carolyn Jones, EdSource, February 10, 2020 Geovanna Veloz, a senior at Mission High School in San Francisco, has always known she wants to be a nurse. What she didn’t know was how to get there. Her parents couldn’t help much. Immigrants from Mexico, they speak limited English, work long hours and don’t have much experience with education. Neither went to high school at all, in fact. Enter the school’s academic counseling staff. They ensured that Veloz took the right classes and helped her...
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In rural California, children face isolation, hunger amid coronavirus school closures [latimes.com]
By Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, April 22, 2020 With schools closed because of the coronavirus, educators in vast stretches of rural California are struggling not only to teach their students but to reach them. From the mountain hamlets of Northern California to the farming communities of the Central Valley to the desert towns near the U.S.-Mexico border, small schools are grappling with how to serve far-flung, impoverished students with less access to at-home internet, spotty...
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In Sacramento, Youth Activists Push to Get Police Out of Schools [chronicleofsocialchange.org]
By Susan Abram, The Chronicle of Social Change, January 6, 2020 As a 10th grader at Sacramento’s Luther Burbank High School, Stephanie Lopez remembers when she saw a school resource officer treat her brother like a criminal. Her brother had bumped into the officer and apologized, Lopez said. But the officer proceeded to question him and asked him for his ID. “It was all new to me,” said Lopez, now 17 and a senior, of the aggressive approach the officer used with her brother. “When I was...
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Re: [Re-Post] "Building Violence Free Schools & Communities " ONE DAY CONFERENCE!
What is the date of this conference?
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Re: [Re-Post] "Building Violence Free Schools & Communities " ONE DAY CONFERENCE!
Hi Brian, the date of the conference is November 13th.
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Re: Call for Presenters: Early Education Conference
Hi Sasha, Thank you for posting about "Time to Connect". Please consider posting on our home page calendar. The link with the steps to do so are; https://www.pacesconnection.com/...ost-a-calendar-event Please also consider posting on our ACEs in Child Care community. https://www.pacesconnection.com/g/aces-in-childcare What an exceptional opportunity for your attendees to learn more about the research, engage with others parents/teachers, and build their practical application learning through...
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Re: Chronic absence is widespread in California schools
Thanks for sharing this important new findings, Cassie! The interactive maps are impressive - folks should check them out!
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Supporting Students Means Taking Care of Parents, Too. Here's How Schools Can Help. [edsurge.com]
By Meredith Liu and Valentina Helo-Villegas, EdSurge, May 26, 2020 Over the past month, educators across the country have come up with creative ways to support the physical, mental and emotional wellbeing of children. From “ teacher caravans ” to virtual office hours, read alouds, and dance breaks, they have provided students with much-needed support to complement their education during a time of unprecedented disruption. But what about the wellbeing of parents? Should schools play a role in...
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Schools should encourage but not require students to wear face covering, draft guidance says [edsource.prg]
By Louis Freedberg, EdSource, May 28, 2020 Students should be encouraged but not required to use face coverings when California schools reopen for classroom instruction, according to a draft of “interim guidance” from the state obtained by EdSource. However, all staff should use face coverings, according to the document, which sources familiar with it say was drawn up by the California Dept. of Public Health in collaboration with the governor’s office. That is only one of the numerous issues...
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Emotional schools chief Tony Thurmond vows to address racism in public education [edsource.org]
By Dana Lambert, EdSource, June 1, 2020 California Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond’s voice broke as he recounted the last moments of George Floyd’s life as he lay dying on a Minneapolis street. “I am haunted by the sound of his voice, begging to breathe, begging for life and we must address that trauma head on,” Thurmond said during an address on Facebook Monday. “We must have hard conversations.” Floyd, an African American man, was asphyxiated by a white police officer...
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Students should expect masks, temperature checks and a lot of hand washing under California guidance [edsource.org]
By Diana Lambert, EdSource, June 8, 2020 California schools will look different when they reopen next year, according to new statewide guidance. Students should expect to wash their hands and have their temperature taken often. They will likely wear masks and only attend classes a few days a week with a small group of classmates. Signs and taped marks on the floor will tell them which direction to walk and where to stand in hallways and in the cafeteria. A 55-page guidance document, “...
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Calls to eliminate school police in two San Francisco Bay districts intensify amid protests [edsource.org]
By Theresa Harrington and Ali Tadayon, EdSource, June 10, 2020 Amid calls to defund municipal police in the wake of George Floyd’s killing by Minneapolis police, two Oakland Unified school board members are pushing to eliminate the district’s police force. This is an acceleration of a demand that dates back nine years, when activists began calling on the district to dissolve its police department after a black student was shot and killed by a district police sergeant. The proposal by board...
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California science teachers look for new ways to bring hands-on experiments to students [edsource.org]
By Sydney Johnson, EdSource, June 10, 2020 California schools were already undergoing a transformation to the way science is taught across the state before campuses were forced to close during the coronavirus pandemic. During the last few months of school, science teachers had to use a variety of tools to keep science lessons going at a safe distance, from at-home experiments to virtual simulations. The pandemic has forced teachers to adapt goals and lessons to a virtual setting where...
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Despite pandemic, one struggling California elementary school saw bright spots [edsource.org]
By Ashley A. Smith, EdSource, June 12, 2020 For Richmond’s Stege Elementary, the end of this school year was about showing progress as it begins a complete overhaul to a safe and enjoyable school where children want to come to learn. But like many schools across the country, the pandemic forced the teachers and students to adapt on the fly. Special education teacher Hannah Geitner found herself helping her students learn to read in less-than-ideal situations over Zoom. In one of her...
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Should police officers be in schools? California education leaders rethink school safety [edsource.org]
By Michael Burke, EdSource, June 11, 2020 A movement to reform California public school policing and drastically rethink school safety is quickly gaining momentum amid nationwide protests against police brutality following the killing of George Floyd. In Los Angeles, Oakland, Sacramento and San Francisco, administrators and school boards are under pressure from community groups who are renewing demands for police-free schools and calling on districts to instead hire more counselors and other...
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Re: Should police officers be in schools? California education leaders rethink school safety [edsource.org]
I think we should be asking why do we need police at schools? How can we can restructure our educational institutions to be resilience building and protective without the need for policing?
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Tiny foothill school district in California reaches out to other countries for reopening plan [edsource.org]
By Diana Lambert, Ed Source, July 17, 2020 Eureka Union School District’s seven campuses in Placer County may seem a little unfamiliar to students when they return to school on Aug. 13. The district, which serves 3,345 students at schools in Granite Bay and Roseville, will reopen its campuses — barring any major spikes in the number of coronavirus cases in their communities. But things will be a lot different from years past. Students will have lunch and spend recess with the same group of...
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Nearly all California schools ordered to shut down. Online classes mandatory [calmatters.org]
By Ricardo Cano, Cal Matters, July 17, 2020 Gov. Gavin Newsom announced today that more than 5.5 million California students will not be allowed to attend school for in-person education this fall. Instead, all education for at least 90% of the state’s children must be held online. Under the requirements , California school districts cannot reopen campuses until their counties stabilize coronavirus infections and hospitalizations. The governor’s announcement follows weeks of pleas from school...
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Richmond area students talk about what they'll remember from this year of protest and Covid-19 [edsource.org]
By Valerie Echeverria, Ronishlla Maharaj, Karina Mascorro, and David Sanchez, Ed Source, July 28, 2020 Black Lives Matter and the coronavirus have etched deep memories, as well as life lessons, this year for Richmond area students. Here are reflections from students and recent graduates, based on interviews conducted by participants in the West Contra Costa Student Reporting Project. Except for graduates, their class levels indicate their status in the upcoming school year. Irene Kou, 15,...
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Reopening K-12 Schools During the COVID-19 Pandemic [jamanetwork.com]
By Kenne A. Dibner, Heidi A. Schweingruber, Dimitri A. Christakis, JAMA Network, July 29, 2020 The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has presented unprecedented challenges to the nation’s kindergarten-grade 12 education system. 1 The rush to respond to the pandemic led to closures of school buildings across the country, with little time to ensure continuity of instruction or to create a framework for deciding when and how to reopen schools. States and school districts are now...
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These SF teens built a school supplies pipeline for low-income families [sfgate.com]
By Grant Marek, SF Gate, July 29, 2020 Lana Nguyen sits in a closet in her parents’ studio apartment in the Tenderloin. She has a Zoom background of the Bay Bridge, but every time she adjusts her body, the background flickers to reveal the tight confines of the surrounding clothes on hangers. “It sounds sad, but I had to take my AP exams in my bathroom,” she says. “It was the only place with a large flat surface.” [ Please click here to read more .]
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West Contra Costa Unified to rethink student safety after ending police contracts [edsource.org]
By Ali Tadayon, EdSource, August 5, 2020 West Contra Costa Unified is rethinking what it means to keep students safe after its school board voted in June to end contracts for campus police officers starting next school year. It’s a re-evaluation other California districts are making as well, following protests over the death of George Floyd at the hands of police in May as well as students saying armed police officers make them feel less safe at school. Instead of relying as much on police,...
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‘Trauma on top of trauma’: Bay Area students under stress from pandemic face wildfire risks [sfchronicle.com]
By Jill Tucker, San Francisco Chronicle, August 25, 2020 Students in the Bonny Doon school district had been back in class — virtually — for two days before the wildfires forced them to evacuate, many fleeing for their lives in the middle of the night Wednesday. Teachers and students lost homes to the powerful wildfires raging through the charming, wooded town in the Santa Cruz Mountains. School had just started, but now Superintendent Mike Heffner, who is also the principal of the...
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California to require ethnic studies to graduate high school under bill headed to Gov. Newsom [edsource.org]
By John Fensterwald, EdSource, September 1, 2020 California would become the first state to require that all high school students pass a one-semester ethnic studies course to graduate if Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a bill that the Legislature passed on Monday, the last day of the legislative session. But in order to get Assembly Bill 331 out of a Senate committee and on to a final vote, the primary author, Assemblyman Jose Medina, D-Riverside, proposed one amendment and accepted several others.
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ACEs Aware Virtual Professional Learning Collaborative for School-Based Health Center Medi-Cal Providers
With funding from the ACEs Aware Initiative, Education Training and Research (ETR), the California School-Based Health Alliance (CSHA), and consultants, Drs. Naomi Schapiro and Victoria Keeton, are partnering to host a 6-session, virtual professional learning collaborative with a cohort of 8 licensed Medi-Cal Providers from School-Based Health Centers (SBHCs) across California operated by community health centers and Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs). Please see the attached...
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Trauma-responsive school thinks outside-the-box to engage students during pandemic
Before the pandemic, Sara Buckley, an 8 th grade science teacher at Park Middle School in Antioch, California, could handle students who were acting out during class. Understanding that trauma lies beneath disruptive behavior, she didn’t send kids to the principal for punishment. Instead, she’d talk with them to find out what was going on at home or outside of school—and then work out a plan for how to respond differently the next time they were triggered. They could visit the school’s...
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Re: Trauma-responsive school thinks outside-the-box to engage students during pandemic
You guys are doing amazing work. Continue to trust yourself and your teammates and believing in our youth. Check out https://girlsleadership.org/po...ive-training-online/
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Equipping Hope: A Holistic Approach to Building Trauma-Informed and Resilient Communities - $15 Mini-Event
Are you seeking support to build a truly trauma-informed school or community? Trauma-informed work is never a one-size-fits-all program. It is about building a responsive and actionable culture that is rooted in the science of Hope. Building healthy communities takes a full-spectrum approach, from building the buy-in, to implementing and sustaining the process. In this online conference, you will learn the components for building change: understanding how to develop Hope ; learning how to...
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Understanding Adverse Childhood Experiences: What You Need to Know and How You Can Help
Toxic stress can have lifelong impacts. Here’s what you need to know about adverse childhood experiences and how you can help to mitigate the effects.
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Unprecedented new funding expected for California’s schools--is it enough to address the youth mental health crisis?
Dear Friends and Allies California schools are slowly beginning to reopen and billions of dollars in federal and state funds have been committed to support the long road of not only getting our kids in school but helping close the learning gap and address the social-emotional stress of the past 12 months. The specifics, as reported by EdSource , include: $15.3 billion in assistance to California’s K-12 schools from the American Rescue Plan. An additional $6.6 billion appropriated by Gov.
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Policing in schools: Redefining public safety to be supportive & healing, instead of punitive & criminalizing
A recent video , shared on the national news, shows a 16-year-old Florida student being slammed to the ground by a police officer working at her school. It’s one of many such incidents of school-based police violence against students captured in videos around the country. Some of the victims are as young as five years old. About 47% of U.S. schools employ armed police officers , known as school resource officers, who are there to keep students safe. But students who attend these schools...
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Webinar: School Mental Health - From Implementing ➜ Funding
In this webinar, we’ll discuss the unique importance of school mental health at this time, what schools can do to support it, and how these efforts can be funded (including accessing ARPA funds). Join experts in school mental health/trauma-informed program design, implementation, and funding streams to explore how schools committed to supporting student wellbeing can find a path that considers both your school capacity and the needs of your students. Learning Outcomes Planning &...
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PACEsConnection adds the role of ‘Trauma-Informed Education Consultant’ to their organization
It is with great excitement and enthusiasm that I have accepted the position at PACEsConnection as their full time Trauma-Informed Education Consultant. I have been with PACEsConnection since 2018 in the role of Community Facilitator, supporting cross-sector resilience initiatives in Southern California, managing the PACEs in Education site, and tending to education related topics as time allowed. The dream has always been, even before I started working here in an official role, to have...
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Now is the time for community schools for all
Community schools have been an effective school improvement strategy for over a century, implemented in both urban and rural areas across the country — yet many people have never heard of this dynamic approach to school design. Whole districts have invested in this model over the past several decades, from Oakland to New York City, from Duluth, Minnesota to Tulsa, Oklahoma. California recently approved $2.8 billion in the 2022 fiscal year budget for the implementation of community schools...
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October Edition of Education Upended: Talking Out of Turn- Reframing Mental Health: Moving from a disease to wellness, with special guest Yesmina Luchsinger
Please join us for our new series Education Upended: Talking Out of Turn . This monthly series will feature a conversation facilitated by Lara Kain, PACEsConnection Education Consultant , with special guests on education related current events and hot topics. We will use a trauma-informed and PACEs science aware lens to examine what is going on K-12 education, what needs changing, and strategies being used in the field to disrupt harmful policies and make positive changes in the system.
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California becomes first state to announce plans to mandate COVID-19 vaccine for schoolchildren
California will require eligible students to be vaccinated against COVID-19 to attend school in-person, but only after the Food and Drug Administration fully approves the vaccine for more school-aged children, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Friday. "I believe we'll be the first state in America to move forward with this mandate and requirement," Newsom said from a school in San Francisco. He said student vaccine mandates will keep more kids safe and learning continuously in classrooms. The...
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October Edition of Education Upended: Talking Out of Turn- Reframing Mental Health: Moving from a disease to wellness, with special guest Yesmina Luchsinger
Please join us for our new series Education Upended: Talking Out of Turn . This monthly series will feature a conversation facilitated by Lara Kain, PACEsConnection Education Consultant , with special guests on education related current events and hot topics. We will use a trauma-informed and PACEs science aware lens to examine what is going on K-12 education, what needs changing, and strategies being used in the field to disrupt harmful policies and make positive changes in the system.
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The growing battle over school mental health and social-emotional learning
This is an urgent call to those of us who believe in trauma-informed and healing-centered schools that support the whole person. After reading the recent NBC article “Parents protesting 'critical race theory' identify another target: mental health programs , ” I quickly put aside the blog I had been working on because I knew this was too important. Concerns from colleagues about the rising backlash against increased priorities of mental health and social-emotional learning (SEL) have been...
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Re: The growing battle over school mental health and social-emotional learning
Thank you for advocating what children and youth need!