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A CASE FOR REDEFINING MERIT IN EDUCATION As I conclude my first month as the new executive director of EdSource, I can’t help but reflect on how I got here — not just as the leader of the 44-year-old nonprofit organization that has helped shape the conversation around education but also as a champion for equity in the classroom WHAT TO REMEMBER AS WE RECONNECT POST-PANDEMIC WITH What to remember as we reconnect post-pandemic with student families. Teacher Voices. May 3, 2021. Thomas Courtney. Credit: Courtesy of Thomas Courtney. Credit: Courtesy of Thomas Courtney. If you asked me two years ago which student owned a guinea pig named Max or eight dogs, I am certain I could not have told you. But now I can. FIND OUT HOW MUCH CALIFORNIA SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND CHARTER The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) will send $15.3 billion in assistance to California’s K-12 schools, the biggest of three relief pieces of legislation that Congress passed in less than a year to combat the pandemic and the recession. CALIFORNIA TEACHER SHORTAGES COULD MAKE REOPENING SCHOOLS The ongoing teacher shortage, exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic, means more under-prepared teachers will be in California classrooms when school campuses fully reopen, according to a study released today by the Learning Policy Institute.. A decrease in the number of teacher candidates earning credentials, as well as the possibility of increased retirements and resignations, will make it CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES TO OFFER LIMITED EXPANSION After a year in which they operated almost entirely online, California’s community colleges are likely to offer more in-person instruction and activities this CALIFORNIA MATH CURRICULUM SPURS NEW CONTROVERSY ABOUT California math curriculum spurs new controversy about accelerated learning. California has a math problem. Nearly a decade after Common Core math standards were adopted in California, the majority of K-12 students are not yet meeting grade-level benchmarks, and Black and Latino students are underrepresented in rigorous accelerated programs. SEARCHABLE DATABASE: HOW MUCH WILL COLLEGES AND The federal stimulus bill includes $14 billion in aid to higher education including $1.7 billion to California colleges and universities to help the institutions and students cope with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. THE TENNESSEE STUDY OF CLASS SIZE IN THE EARLY SCHOOL GRADES 113 The Tennessee Study of Class Size in the Early School Grades Frederick Mosteller Abstract The Tennessee class size project is a three-phase study designed to determine the HIGHLIGHTING STRATEGIES FOR STUDENT SUCCESS Louis Freedberg looks back at EdSource and education in a monumental decade in California. May 28, 2021 - John Fensterwald interviews his co-host, Louis Freedberg, who is stepping down as head of EdSource, about growing up in South Africa and getting kids excited about learning in the United States. SoundCloud Widget. TEACHERS ON COVID: LESSONS LEARNED AND ADVICE TO PASS Teachers speak out. Teachers reimagine schools and themselves, post-Covid – a video with members of EdSource’s Teachers Advisory Committee. What California teachers want to share with other educators – a teacher survey by The Inverness Institute. In today’s EdSource, teachers reflect on the past year. In the latest findings ofa survey
A CASE FOR REDEFINING MERIT IN EDUCATION As I conclude my first month as the new executive director of EdSource, I can’t help but reflect on how I got here — not just as the leader of the 44-year-old nonprofit organization that has helped shape the conversation around education but also as a champion for equity in the classroom WHAT TO REMEMBER AS WE RECONNECT POST-PANDEMIC WITH What to remember as we reconnect post-pandemic with student families. Teacher Voices. May 3, 2021. Thomas Courtney. Credit: Courtesy of Thomas Courtney. Credit: Courtesy of Thomas Courtney. If you asked me two years ago which student owned a guinea pig named Max or eight dogs, I am certain I could not have told you. But now I can. FIND OUT HOW MUCH CALIFORNIA SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND CHARTER The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) will send $15.3 billion in assistance to California’s K-12 schools, the biggest of three relief pieces of legislation that Congress passed in less than a year to combat the pandemic and the recession. CALIFORNIA TEACHER SHORTAGES COULD MAKE REOPENING SCHOOLS The ongoing teacher shortage, exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic, means more under-prepared teachers will be in California classrooms when school campuses fully reopen, according to a study released today by the Learning Policy Institute.. A decrease in the number of teacher candidates earning credentials, as well as the possibility of increased retirements and resignations, will make it CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES TO OFFER LIMITED EXPANSION After a year in which they operated almost entirely online, California’s community colleges are likely to offer more in-person instruction and activities this CALIFORNIA MATH CURRICULUM SPURS NEW CONTROVERSY ABOUT California math curriculum spurs new controversy about accelerated learning. California has a math problem. Nearly a decade after Common Core math standards were adopted in California, the majority of K-12 students are not yet meeting grade-level benchmarks, and Black and Latino students are underrepresented in rigorous accelerated programs. SEARCHABLE DATABASE: HOW MUCH WILL COLLEGES AND The federal stimulus bill includes $14 billion in aid to higher education including $1.7 billion to California colleges and universities to help the institutions and students cope with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. THE TENNESSEE STUDY OF CLASS SIZE IN THE EARLY SCHOOL GRADES 113 The Tennessee Study of Class Size in the Early School Grades Frederick Mosteller Abstract The Tennessee class size project is a three-phase study designed to determine the MOST CALIFORNIA SCHOOLS OFFERING SUMMER SCHOOL, PLANNING Almost every school district in California plans to fully reopen its campuses in the fall and to offer summer programming, according to the Governor’s Office. To encourage parents, who may be wary of sending their children back to campuses in the fall, the California Departmentof Public Health is
CALIFORNIA TEACHER SHORTAGES COULD MAKE REOPENING SCHOOLS The ongoing teacher shortage, exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic, means more under-prepared teachers will be in California classrooms when school campuses fully reopen, according to a study released today by the Learning Policy Institute.. A decrease in the number of teacher candidates earning credentials, as well as the possibility of increased retirements and resignations, will make it QUICK GUIDE: ETHNIC STUDIES REQUIREMENT COMING TO Quick Guide: Ethnic studies requirement coming to California community colleges Students pursuing an associate degree will soon likely needto take a
CALIFORNIA SCHOOLS MOVE AHEAD WITH FALL DISTANCE LEARNING While parents and state officials are pushing to fully reopen campuses this fall, some families are fearful of sending their kids back into classrooms too soon. But options for distance learning this fall are unclear across the state. Gov. Gavin Newsom has said he expects schools to fully reopen LEAVING ‘APPLES TO ORANGES’ BEHIND, CALIFORNIA HAS A There are a few big reasons why students’ report cards are a useful measure of how well they are learning. Their previous report card is one. The next one is another. But without the context and trajectory provided by three, four or many years of grades in English language arts, math and other OUTDOOR CLASSES AND ‘FOREST SCHOOLS’ GAIN NEW PROMINENCE Learning amid the leaves is the hallmark of a forest school, an immersive outdoor education model devoted to the exploration of nature. Forest schools, which have their roots in Scandinavian educational tradition, generally focus on preschool age children. Instead of sitting quietly at their desks, these students build fortsin the forest, pick
LA UNIFIED EXPANDS EARLY LITERACY PROGRAM 21 hours ago · After months of distance learning, literacy assessments at the beginning of the 2020-21 school year showed faltering reading levels among Los Angeles Unified’s youngest students. But a new program aims to change that. Primary Promise waslaunched as
DISTANCE LEARNING STOKES FEARS OF EXCESSIVE SCREEN TIME Liz Shipsides has long worried that her boys, James, 12, George, 10, and Louis, 6, spend too much time playing the popular online game Fortnite, for instance. But it was during distance learning in the spring in Fremont Unified that she was horrified to realize that screen time had started to DISTRICTS SHOULD FOCUS ON FINDING CALIFORNIA’S MISSING Experts widely agree that high-quality early childhood education yields long-term academic benefits. But what happens when children miss out on this opportunity? The California Department of Education recently released data showing a 2.6% decline in K CALIFORNIA MOVES CLOSER TO ELIMINATING, REPLACING READING The California reading instruction test is a major hurdle for many aspiring teachers across the state. So much so that about one-third who take the test fail the first time, according to state data of the five-year period between 2012 and 2017. HIGHLIGHTING STRATEGIES FOR STUDENT SUCCESS Louis Freedberg looks back at EdSource and education in a monumental decade in California. May 28, 2021 - John Fensterwald interviews his co-host, Louis Freedberg, who is stepping down as head of EdSource, about growing up in South Africa and getting kids excited about learning in the United States. SoundCloud Widget. BUDGET PROPOSAL WOULD EASE TESTING REQUIREMENTS FOR California teachers may soon have more flexibility when it comes to the tests they are required to take to earn a credential. The state’s Assembly and Senate budget subcommittees on education are recommending that legislators approve a proposal in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s 2021-22 state budget that would allow candidates to earn a teaching credential without taking two tests currently SENATE AND ASSEMBLY CUT, THEN ADD, BILLIONS TO GOV. NEWSOM The Assembly and Senate budget committees Tuesday jointly recommended billions of dollars of both spending cuts and additions for K-12 in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s 2021-22 state budget. The additions include hundreds of millions more in funding for special education and billions in defraying districts’ payments for teacher and staffpensions.
TEACHERS ON COVID: LESSONS LEARNED AND ADVICE TO PASS Teachers speak out. Teachers reimagine schools and themselves, post-Covid – a video with members of EdSource’s Teachers Advisory Committee. What California teachers want to share with other educators – a teacher survey by The Inverness Institute. In today’s EdSource, teachers reflect on the past year. In the latest findings ofa survey
WHAT TO REMEMBER AS WE RECONNECT POST-PANDEMIC WITH What to remember as we reconnect post-pandemic with student families. Teacher Voices. May 3, 2021. Thomas Courtney. Credit: Courtesy of Thomas Courtney. Credit: Courtesy of Thomas Courtney. If you asked me two years ago which student owned a guinea pig named Max or eight dogs, I am certain I could not have told you. But now I can. FIND OUT HOW MUCH CALIFORNIA SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND CHARTER The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) will send $15.3 billion in assistance to California’s K-12 schools, the biggest of three relief pieces of legislation that Congress passed in less than a year to combat the pandemic and the recession. CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES CHANCELLOR URGES CAUTION IN April 9, 2021. 6 Comments. Gov. Gavin Newsom said this week that all schools and colleges should be able to reopen after June 15. He specifically mentioned community colleges in his announcement. But Eloy Ortiz Oakley, the chancellor of the 116 community college system, is expressing caution, and is calling for a more gradual approach.Oakley
ENROLLMENT DECLINES AT CALIFORNIA’S COMMUNITY COLLEGES FAR In a dramatic illustration of the impact of the pandemic on many students’ college plans, enrollments at California’s community colleges are down an average of 11% to 12% systemwide, far higher than the preliminary estimates of 5% to 7% after schools opened last fall.. According to a memo sent to the board of governors of the 116 community college system, the decline in student CALIFORNIA MATH CURRICULUM SPURS NEW CONTROVERSY ABOUT California math curriculum spurs new controversy about accelerated learning. California has a math problem. Nearly a decade after Common Core math standards were adopted in California, the majority of K-12 students are not yet meeting grade-level benchmarks, and Black and Latino students are underrepresented in rigorous accelerated programs. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SCHOOL SUSPENSION AND STUDENT academic achievement exists across the liter-ature is an important first step toward better understanding these explanations. SUSPENSIONAND SCHOOL
HIGHLIGHTING STRATEGIES FOR STUDENT SUCCESS Louis Freedberg looks back at EdSource and education in a monumental decade in California. May 28, 2021 - John Fensterwald interviews his co-host, Louis Freedberg, who is stepping down as head of EdSource, about growing up in South Africa and getting kids excited about learning in the United States. SoundCloud Widget. BUDGET PROPOSAL WOULD EASE TESTING REQUIREMENTS FOR California teachers may soon have more flexibility when it comes to the tests they are required to take to earn a credential. The state’s Assembly and Senate budget subcommittees on education are recommending that legislators approve a proposal in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s 2021-22 state budget that would allow candidates to earn a teaching credential without taking two tests currently SENATE AND ASSEMBLY CUT, THEN ADD, BILLIONS TO GOV. NEWSOM The Assembly and Senate budget committees Tuesday jointly recommended billions of dollars of both spending cuts and additions for K-12 in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s 2021-22 state budget. The additions include hundreds of millions more in funding for special education and billions in defraying districts’ payments for teacher and staffpensions.
TEACHERS ON COVID: LESSONS LEARNED AND ADVICE TO PASS Teachers speak out. Teachers reimagine schools and themselves, post-Covid – a video with members of EdSource’s Teachers Advisory Committee. What California teachers want to share with other educators – a teacher survey by The Inverness Institute. In today’s EdSource, teachers reflect on the past year. In the latest findings ofa survey
WHAT TO REMEMBER AS WE RECONNECT POST-PANDEMIC WITH What to remember as we reconnect post-pandemic with student families. Teacher Voices. May 3, 2021. Thomas Courtney. Credit: Courtesy of Thomas Courtney. Credit: Courtesy of Thomas Courtney. If you asked me two years ago which student owned a guinea pig named Max or eight dogs, I am certain I could not have told you. But now I can. FIND OUT HOW MUCH CALIFORNIA SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND CHARTER The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) will send $15.3 billion in assistance to California’s K-12 schools, the biggest of three relief pieces of legislation that Congress passed in less than a year to combat the pandemic and the recession. CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES CHANCELLOR URGES CAUTION IN April 9, 2021. 6 Comments. Gov. Gavin Newsom said this week that all schools and colleges should be able to reopen after June 15. He specifically mentioned community colleges in his announcement. But Eloy Ortiz Oakley, the chancellor of the 116 community college system, is expressing caution, and is calling for a more gradual approach.Oakley
ENROLLMENT DECLINES AT CALIFORNIA’S COMMUNITY COLLEGES FAR In a dramatic illustration of the impact of the pandemic on many students’ college plans, enrollments at California’s community colleges are down an average of 11% to 12% systemwide, far higher than the preliminary estimates of 5% to 7% after schools opened last fall.. According to a memo sent to the board of governors of the 116 community college system, the decline in student CALIFORNIA MATH CURRICULUM SPURS NEW CONTROVERSY ABOUT California math curriculum spurs new controversy about accelerated learning. California has a math problem. Nearly a decade after Common Core math standards were adopted in California, the majority of K-12 students are not yet meeting grade-level benchmarks, and Black and Latino students are underrepresented in rigorous accelerated programs. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SCHOOL SUSPENSION AND STUDENT academic achievement exists across the liter-ature is an important first step toward better understanding these explanations. SUSPENSIONAND SCHOOL
TEACHERS ON COVID: LESSONS LEARNED AND ADVICE TO PASS Teachers speak out. Teachers reimagine schools and themselves, post-Covid – a video with members of EdSource’s Teachers Advisory Committee. What California teachers want to share with other educators – a teacher survey by The Inverness Institute. In today’s EdSource, teachers reflect on the past year. In the latest findings ofa survey
WHAT TO REMEMBER AS WE RECONNECT POST-PANDEMIC WITH What to remember as we reconnect post-pandemic with student families. Teacher Voices. May 3, 2021. Thomas Courtney. Credit: Courtesy of Thomas Courtney. Credit: Courtesy of Thomas Courtney. If you asked me two years ago which student owned a guinea pig named Max or eight dogs, I am certain I could not have told you. But now I can. LA UNIFIED EXPANDS EARLY LITERACY PROGRAM 2 hours ago · After months of distance learning, literacy assessments at the beginning of the 2020-21 school year showed faltering reading levels among Los Angeles Unified’s youngest students. But a new program aims to change that. Primary Promise waslaunched as
REFORM CAL GRANT AND INVEST IN COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENTS As two of California’s 2.1 million community college students, we have an urgent plea to lawmakers: Fund the expansion and modernization of the state’s Cal Grant student financial aid system by enacting a framework that is more equitable for students who need it most.. The framework proposed by Assembly Bill 1456 (Media-McCarty) would finally put us on a fair path to ensuring that the CALIFORNIA SCHOOLS MOVE AHEAD WITH FALL DISTANCE LEARNING While parents and state officials are pushing to fully reopen campuses this fall, some families are fearful of sending their kids back into classrooms too soon. But options for distance learning this fall are unclear across the state. Gov. Gavin Newsom has said he expects schools to fully reopenLEARNING CARE GROUP
June 10, 2021 Transitional kindergarten for all would hurt early education providers A "mixed delivery" system, in which state-funded early learning programs can be in any school, would better serve theneeds of families.
QUICK GUIDE: ETHNIC STUDIES REQUIREMENT COMING TO Quick Guide: Ethnic studies requirement coming to California community colleges Students pursuing an associate degree will soon likely needto take a
LEAVING ‘APPLES TO ORANGES’ BEHIND, CALIFORNIA HAS A 1 day ago · There are a few big reasons why students’ report cards are a useful measure of how well they are learning. Their previous report card is one. The next one is another. But without the context and trajectory provided by three, four or many years of grades in English language arts, math and other MOST CALIFORNIA SCHOOLS OFFERING SUMMER SCHOOL, PLANNING Almost every school district in California plans to fully reopen its campuses in the fall and to offer summer programming, according to the Governor’s Office. To encourage parents, who may be wary of sending their children back to campuses in the fall, the California Departmentof Public Health is
CALIFORNIA’S K-12 FUNDING FORMULA LIKELY TO CHANGE, BUT For the first time since its adoption eight years ago, Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to change the formula that determines more than 70% of California school districts’ annual spending. But his plan to direct more money only to districts with the greatest concentration of low-income children is proving HIGHLIGHTING STRATEGIES FOR STUDENT SUCCESS Louis Freedberg looks back at EdSource and education in a monumental decade in California. May 28, 2021 - John Fensterwald interviews his co-host, Louis Freedberg, who is stepping down as head of EdSource, about growing up in South Africa and getting kids excited about learning in the United States. SoundCloud Widget. A CASE FOR REDEFINING MERIT IN EDUCATION Too often those qualities are described as being at odds. Scholarships, for example, are merit or equity based. We need to adopt new language that makes merit synonymous with equity and fairness. They are not mutually exclusive, a theme that runs through many of our stories at EdSource. My father’s path was a difficult one evenbefore he
TEACHERS ON COVID: LESSONS LEARNED AND ADVICE TO PASS Teachers speak out. Teachers reimagine schools and themselves, post-Covid – a video with members of EdSource’s Teachers Advisory Committee. What California teachers want to share with other educators – a teacher survey by The Inverness Institute. In today’s EdSource, teachers reflect on the past year. In the latest findings ofa survey
WHAT TO REMEMBER AS WE RECONNECT POST-PANDEMIC WITH What to remember as we reconnect post-pandemic with student families. Teacher Voices. May 3, 2021. Thomas Courtney. Credit: Courtesy of Thomas Courtney. Credit: Courtesy of Thomas Courtney. If you asked me two years ago which student owned a guinea pig named Max or eight dogs, I am certain I could not have told you. But now I can. FIND OUT HOW MUCH CALIFORNIA SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND CHARTER The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) will send $15.3 billion in assistance to California’s K-12 schools, the biggest of three relief pieces of legislation that Congress passed in less than a year to combat the pandemic and the recession. CALIFORNIA MATH CURRICULUM SPURS NEW CONTROVERSY ABOUT California math curriculum spurs new controversy about accelerated learning. California has a math problem. Nearly a decade after Common Core math standards were adopted in California, the majority of K-12 students are not yet meeting grade-level benchmarks, and Black and Latino students are underrepresented in rigorous accelerated programs. ENROLLMENT DECLINES AT CALIFORNIA’S COMMUNITY COLLEGES FAR In a dramatic illustration of the impact of the pandemic on many students’ college plans, enrollments at California’s community colleges are down an average of 11% to 12% systemwide, far higher than the preliminary estimates of 5% to 7% after schools opened last fall.. According to a memo sent to the board of governors of the 116 community college system, the decline in student CALIFORNIA TEACHER SHORTAGES COULD MAKE REOPENING SCHOOLS The ongoing teacher shortage, exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic, means more under-prepared teachers will be in California classrooms when school campuses fully reopen, according to a study released today by the Learning Policy Institute.. A decrease in the number of teacher candidates earning credentials, as well as the possibility of increased retirements and resignations, will make it SEARCHABLE DATABASE: HOW MUCH WILL COLLEGES AND The federal stimulus bill includes $14 billion in aid to higher education including $1.7 billion to California colleges and universities to help the institutions and students cope with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. THE TENNESSEE STUDY OF CLASS SIZE IN THE EARLY SCHOOL GRADES 113 The Tennessee Study of Class Size in the Early School Grades Frederick Mosteller Abstract The Tennessee class size project is a three-phase study designed to determine the HIGHLIGHTING STRATEGIES FOR STUDENT SUCCESS Louis Freedberg looks back at EdSource and education in a monumental decade in California. May 28, 2021 - John Fensterwald interviews his co-host, Louis Freedberg, who is stepping down as head of EdSource, about growing up in South Africa and getting kids excited about learning in the United States. SoundCloud Widget. A CASE FOR REDEFINING MERIT IN EDUCATION Too often those qualities are described as being at odds. Scholarships, for example, are merit or equity based. We need to adopt new language that makes merit synonymous with equity and fairness. They are not mutually exclusive, a theme that runs through many of our stories at EdSource. My father’s path was a difficult one evenbefore he
TEACHERS ON COVID: LESSONS LEARNED AND ADVICE TO PASS Teachers speak out. Teachers reimagine schools and themselves, post-Covid – a video with members of EdSource’s Teachers Advisory Committee. What California teachers want to share with other educators – a teacher survey by The Inverness Institute. In today’s EdSource, teachers reflect on the past year. In the latest findings ofa survey
WHAT TO REMEMBER AS WE RECONNECT POST-PANDEMIC WITH What to remember as we reconnect post-pandemic with student families. Teacher Voices. May 3, 2021. Thomas Courtney. Credit: Courtesy of Thomas Courtney. Credit: Courtesy of Thomas Courtney. If you asked me two years ago which student owned a guinea pig named Max or eight dogs, I am certain I could not have told you. But now I can. FIND OUT HOW MUCH CALIFORNIA SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND CHARTER The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) will send $15.3 billion in assistance to California’s K-12 schools, the biggest of three relief pieces of legislation that Congress passed in less than a year to combat the pandemic and the recession. CALIFORNIA MATH CURRICULUM SPURS NEW CONTROVERSY ABOUT California math curriculum spurs new controversy about accelerated learning. California has a math problem. Nearly a decade after Common Core math standards were adopted in California, the majority of K-12 students are not yet meeting grade-level benchmarks, and Black and Latino students are underrepresented in rigorous accelerated programs. ENROLLMENT DECLINES AT CALIFORNIA’S COMMUNITY COLLEGES FAR In a dramatic illustration of the impact of the pandemic on many students’ college plans, enrollments at California’s community colleges are down an average of 11% to 12% systemwide, far higher than the preliminary estimates of 5% to 7% after schools opened last fall.. According to a memo sent to the board of governors of the 116 community college system, the decline in student CALIFORNIA TEACHER SHORTAGES COULD MAKE REOPENING SCHOOLS The ongoing teacher shortage, exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic, means more under-prepared teachers will be in California classrooms when school campuses fully reopen, according to a study released today by the Learning Policy Institute.. A decrease in the number of teacher candidates earning credentials, as well as the possibility of increased retirements and resignations, will make it SEARCHABLE DATABASE: HOW MUCH WILL COLLEGES AND The federal stimulus bill includes $14 billion in aid to higher education including $1.7 billion to California colleges and universities to help the institutions and students cope with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. THE TENNESSEE STUDY OF CLASS SIZE IN THE EARLY SCHOOL GRADES 113 The Tennessee Study of Class Size in the Early School Grades Frederick Mosteller Abstract The Tennessee class size project is a three-phase study designed to determine the CALIFORNIA SCHOOLS MOVE AHEAD WITH FALL DISTANCE LEARNING While parents and state officials are pushing to fully reopen campuses this fall, some families are fearful of sending their kids back into classrooms too soon. But options for distance learning this fall are unclear across the state. Gov. Gavin Newsom has said he expects schools to fully reopen ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOLS JOIN WITH CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL TO 1 day ago · Faced with rates of adolescent suicide and self-harm that have been among the fastest-rising in the country, schools in Orange County have teamed up with a local hospital to boost mental health services on campuses. The partnership between Children’sHospital of
QUICK GUIDE: ETHNIC STUDIES REQUIREMENT COMING TO 4 hours ago · Soon, many students attending California’s community colleges will likely need to take a class in ethnic studies in order to receive a degree. Keep reading below to learn more about the specifics of the proposed requirement. Q: Who would have to take an ethnic studies course? Under the REFORM CAL GRANT AND INVEST IN COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENTS As two of California’s 2.1 million community college students, we have an urgent plea to lawmakers: Fund the expansion and modernization of the state’s Cal Grant student financial aid system by enacting a framework that is more equitable for students who need it most.. The framework proposed by Assembly Bill 1456 (Media-McCarty) would finally put us on a fair path to ensuring that the MOST CALIFORNIA SCHOOLS OFFERING SUMMER SCHOOL, PLANNING 1 day ago · Almost every school district in California plans to fully reopen its campuses in the fall and to offer summer programming, according to the Governor’s Office. To encourage parents, who may be wary of sending their children back to campuses in the fall, the California Department of Public Health is CALIFORNIA BILINGUAL PROGRAMS READY TO GROW AFTER SLOWING The pandemic slowed down many California school districts’ expansion of bilingual education programs, putting some new bilingual programs on hold. But now, several school districts are resuming their plans and enrolling students in new bilingual immersion programs in the fall. After years of A CALIFORNIA PROGRAM SPENT MILLIONS ON DEVICES FOR Following an outcry from districts, the Californians Dedicated to Education Foundation, a private nonprofit fiscal manager for the California Department of Education, launched the Bridging the Digital Divide Fund to raise money to buy technology. CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY CAMPUSES IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY A new initiative aims to increase the number of students transferring from community colleges in Los Angeles County to two of the county’s California State University campuses. A coalition of nonprofit organizations, called the Los Angeles Postsecondary CALIFORNIA’S K-12 FUNDING FORMULA LIKELY TO CHANGE, BUT For the first time since its adoption eight years ago, Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to change the formula that determines more than 70% of California school districts’ annual spending. But his plan to direct more money only to districts with the greatest concentration of low-income children is proving SEARCHABLE DATABASE: HOW MUCH WILL COLLEGES AND The federal stimulus bill includes $14 billion in aid to higher education including $1.7 billion to California colleges and universities to help the institutions and students cope with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. HIGHLIGHTING STRATEGIES FOR STUDENT SUCCESS Louis Freedberg looks back at EdSource and education in a monumental decade in California. May 28, 2021 - John Fensterwald interviews his co-host, Louis Freedberg, who is stepping down as head of EdSource, about growing up in South Africa and getting kids excited about learning in the United States. SoundCloud Widget. TEACHERS ON COVID: LESSONS LEARNED AND ADVICE TO PASS Teachers speak out. Teachers reimagine schools and themselves, post-Covid – a video with members of EdSource’s Teachers Advisory Committee. What California teachers want to share with other educators – a teacher survey by The Inverness Institute. In today’s EdSource, teachers reflect on the past year. In the latest findings ofa survey
A CASE FOR REDEFINING MERIT IN EDUCATION Too often those qualities are described as being at odds. Scholarships, for example, are merit or equity based. We need to adopt new language that makes merit synonymous with equity and fairness. They are not mutually exclusive, a theme that runs through many of our stories at EdSource. My father’s path was a difficult one evenbefore he
FIND OUT HOW MUCH CALIFORNIA SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND CHARTER The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) will send $15.3 billion in assistance to California’s K-12 schools, the biggest of three relief pieces of legislation that Congress passed in less than a year to combat the pandemic and the recession.JOBS AT EDSOURCE
CALIFORNIA MATH CURRICULUM SPURS NEW CONTROVERSY ABOUT California math curriculum spurs new controversy about accelerated learning. California has a math problem. Nearly a decade after Common Core math standards were adopted in California, the majority of K-12 students are not yet meeting grade-level benchmarks, and Black and Latino students are underrepresented in rigorous accelerated programs. MILLS COLLEGE ANNOUNCES PLAN TO CLOSE, TRIGGERING DEBATE The announcement Wednesday that Mills College in Oakland, an historic institution for the education of undergraduate women, will close by 2023 sent shock waves through California’s private college network and raised worries that other campuses might next succumb to financial problems worsened by the pandemic.. Mills is the second small private nonprofit college in California to NOW IS THE RIGHT MOMENT TO MEASURE EDUCATIONAL DISPARITIES Now is the right moment to measure educational disparities. Weeks of racial justice protests and the coronavirus pandemic have together drawn much-needed attention to the race-based disparities embedded in our institutions, from policing to health care. These disparities are also deeply rooted in our communities and schools. GOV. NEWSOM’S TASK FORCE RECOMMENDS MORE DISCRETION TO The 10-page task force report, with a short cover letter from Thurmond, was dated June 1. Thurmond released the report Friday afternoon. Newsom had set a June 30 deadline for the recommendations. A number of legislators have said they would use the report to determine their votes on bills calling for increased restrictions oncharter schools.
COLLEGE ADMISSIONS TESTS ARE A POOR INDICATOR OF COLLEGE But our research and practice keep revealing the same hard truth: The SAT and ACT tests are a poor indicator of college readiness and a barrier to college access for diverse student populations. It is time to end their use as a requisite for four-year college admissions. For this reason, my organization and other college access organizations HIGHLIGHTING STRATEGIES FOR STUDENT SUCCESS Louis Freedberg looks back at EdSource and education in a monumental decade in California. May 28, 2021 - John Fensterwald interviews his co-host, Louis Freedberg, who is stepping down as head of EdSource, about growing up in South Africa and getting kids excited about learning in the United States. SoundCloud Widget. TEACHERS ON COVID: LESSONS LEARNED AND ADVICE TO PASS Teachers speak out. Teachers reimagine schools and themselves, post-Covid – a video with members of EdSource’s Teachers Advisory Committee. What California teachers want to share with other educators – a teacher survey by The Inverness Institute. In today’s EdSource, teachers reflect on the past year. In the latest findings ofa survey
A CASE FOR REDEFINING MERIT IN EDUCATION Too often those qualities are described as being at odds. Scholarships, for example, are merit or equity based. We need to adopt new language that makes merit synonymous with equity and fairness. They are not mutually exclusive, a theme that runs through many of our stories at EdSource. My father’s path was a difficult one evenbefore he
FIND OUT HOW MUCH CALIFORNIA SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND CHARTER The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) will send $15.3 billion in assistance to California’s K-12 schools, the biggest of three relief pieces of legislation that Congress passed in less than a year to combat the pandemic and the recession.JOBS AT EDSOURCE
CALIFORNIA MATH CURRICULUM SPURS NEW CONTROVERSY ABOUT California math curriculum spurs new controversy about accelerated learning. California has a math problem. Nearly a decade after Common Core math standards were adopted in California, the majority of K-12 students are not yet meeting grade-level benchmarks, and Black and Latino students are underrepresented in rigorous accelerated programs. MILLS COLLEGE ANNOUNCES PLAN TO CLOSE, TRIGGERING DEBATE The announcement Wednesday that Mills College in Oakland, an historic institution for the education of undergraduate women, will close by 2023 sent shock waves through California’s private college network and raised worries that other campuses might next succumb to financial problems worsened by the pandemic.. Mills is the second small private nonprofit college in California to NOW IS THE RIGHT MOMENT TO MEASURE EDUCATIONAL DISPARITIES Now is the right moment to measure educational disparities. Weeks of racial justice protests and the coronavirus pandemic have together drawn much-needed attention to the race-based disparities embedded in our institutions, from policing to health care. These disparities are also deeply rooted in our communities and schools. GOV. NEWSOM’S TASK FORCE RECOMMENDS MORE DISCRETION TO The 10-page task force report, with a short cover letter from Thurmond, was dated June 1. Thurmond released the report Friday afternoon. Newsom had set a June 30 deadline for the recommendations. A number of legislators have said they would use the report to determine their votes on bills calling for increased restrictions oncharter schools.
COLLEGE ADMISSIONS TESTS ARE A POOR INDICATOR OF COLLEGE But our research and practice keep revealing the same hard truth: The SAT and ACT tests are a poor indicator of college readiness and a barrier to college access for diverse student populations. It is time to end their use as a requisite for four-year college admissions. For this reason, my organization and other college access organizations REFORM CAL GRANT AND INVEST IN COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENTS As two of California’s 2.1 million community college students, we have an urgent plea to lawmakers: Fund the expansion and modernization of the state’s Cal Grant student financial aid system by enacting a framework that is more equitable for students who need it most.. The framework proposed by Assembly Bill 1456 (Media-McCarty) would finally put us on a fair path to ensuring that the MOST CALIFORNIA SCHOOLS OFFERING SUMMER SCHOOL, PLANNING 1 day ago · Almost every school district in California plans to fully reopen its campuses in the fall and to offer summer programming, according to the Governor’s Office. To encourage parents, who may be wary of sending their children back to campuses in the fall, the California Department of Public Health is CALIFORNIA SCHOOLS MOVE AHEAD WITH FALL DISTANCE LEARNING 1 day ago · While parents and state officials are pushing to fully reopen campuses this fall, some families are fearful of sending their kids back into classrooms too soon. But options for distance learning this fall are unclear across the state. Gov. Gavin Newsom has said he expects schools to fully reopen WHAT TO REMEMBER AS WE RECONNECT POST-PANDEMIC WITH What to remember as we reconnect post-pandemic with student families. Teacher Voices. May 3, 2021. Thomas Courtney. Credit: Courtesy of Thomas Courtney. Credit: Courtesy of Thomas Courtney. If you asked me two years ago which student owned a guinea pig named Max or eight dogs, I am certain I could not have told you. But now I can. ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOLS JOIN WITH CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL TO 22 hours ago · Faced with rates of adolescent suicide and self-harm that have been among the fastest-rising in the country, schools in Orange County have teamed up with a local hospital to boost mental health services on campuses. The partnership between Children’s Hospital of Orange County and the Orange County CALIFORNIA BILINGUAL PROGRAMS READY TO GROW AFTER SLOWING The pandemic slowed down many California school districts’ expansion of bilingual education programs, putting some new bilingual programs on hold. But now, several school districts are resuming their plans and enrolling students in new bilingual immersion programs in the fall. After years of DISTRICTS SHOULD FOCUS ON FINDING CALIFORNIA’S MISSING 1 day ago · Experts widely agree that high-quality early childhood education yields long-term academic benefits. But what happens when children miss out on this opportunity? The California Department of Education recently released data showing a 2.6% decline in K QUICK GUIDE: HOW DO COLLEGE SAVINGS ACCOUNTS WORK? Q: What is a college savings account and how does it work? What are the different types of college savings accounts? A: College savings accounts, or CSAs, are broadly defined as long-term savings accounts administered by banks, nonprofits, school districts, cities or states that help children from birth to 18 save for tuition and other expenses related to higher education.TOPICS LEGISLATION
Legislation. During each two-year session of the Legislature, lawmakers introduce hundreds of bills on K-12 education, most of which amend or expand California’s voluminous Education Code. EdSource tracks about two dozen of the most important bills. Information on all bills can be found at leginfo.legislature.ca.gov. CALIFORNIA’S K-12 FUNDING FORMULA LIKELY TO CHANGE, BUT For the first time since its adoption eight years ago, Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to change the formula that determines more than 70% of California school districts’ annual spending. But his plan to direct more money only to districts with the greatest concentration of low-income children is proving HIGHLIGHTING STRATEGIES FOR STUDENT SUCCESS Louis Freedberg looks back at EdSource and education in a monumental decade in California. May 28, 2021 - John Fensterwald interviews his co-host, Louis Freedberg, who is stepping down as head of EdSource, about growing up in South Africa and getting kids excited about learning in the United States. SoundCloud Widget. A CASE FOR REDEFINING MERIT IN EDUCATION Too often those qualities are described as being at odds. Scholarships, for example, are merit or equity based. We need to adopt new language that makes merit synonymous with equity and fairness. They are not mutually exclusive, a theme that runs through many of our stories at EdSource. My father’s path was a difficult one evenbefore he
TEACHERS ON COVID: LESSONS LEARNED AND ADVICE TO PASS Teachers speak out. Teachers reimagine schools and themselves, post-Covid – a video with members of EdSource’s Teachers Advisory Committee. What California teachers want to share with other educators – a teacher survey by The Inverness Institute. In today’s EdSource, teachers reflect on the past year. In the latest findings ofa survey
WHAT TO REMEMBER AS WE RECONNECT POST-PANDEMIC WITH What to remember as we reconnect post-pandemic with student families. Teacher Voices. May 3, 2021. Thomas Courtney. Credit: Courtesy of Thomas Courtney. Credit: Courtesy of Thomas Courtney. If you asked me two years ago which student owned a guinea pig named Max or eight dogs, I am certain I could not have told you. But now I can. FIND OUT HOW MUCH CALIFORNIA SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND CHARTER The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) will send $15.3 billion in assistance to California’s K-12 schools, the biggest of three relief pieces of legislation that Congress passed in less than a year to combat the pandemic and the recession. CALIFORNIA MATH CURRICULUM SPURS NEW CONTROVERSY ABOUT California math curriculum spurs new controversy about accelerated learning. California has a math problem. Nearly a decade after Common Core math standards were adopted in California, the majority of K-12 students are not yet meeting grade-level benchmarks, and Black and Latino students are underrepresented in rigorous accelerated programs. CALIFORNIA TEACHER SHORTAGES COULD MAKE REOPENING SCHOOLS The ongoing teacher shortage, exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic, means more under-prepared teachers will be in California classrooms when school campuses fully reopen, according to a study released today by the Learning Policy Institute.. A decrease in the number of teacher candidates earning credentials, as well as the possibility of increased retirements and resignations, will make it HOW CALIFORNIA HIGH SCHOOLS PLAN TO PULL OFF ‘NORMAL A six-hour drive to the north of Fresno, Trinity High expects to hold a graduation ceremony on June 11 for its 65 to 70 graduates as it did last year, on its football field. Seniors will be in the bleachers and families will be seated in 10-by-10-foot squares separated 6 feet from each other. A lottery will determine the location of the squares THE TENNESSEE STUDY OF CLASS SIZE IN THE EARLY SCHOOL GRADES 113 The Tennessee Study of Class Size in the Early School Grades Frederick Mosteller Abstract The Tennessee class size project is a three-phase study designed to determine the GOV. NEWSOM’S TASK FORCE RECOMMENDS MORE DISCRETION TO The 10-page task force report, with a short cover letter from Thurmond, was dated June 1. Thurmond released the report Friday afternoon. Newsom had set a June 30 deadline for the recommendations. A number of legislators have said they would use the report to determine their votes on bills calling for increased restrictions oncharter schools.
HIGHLIGHTING STRATEGIES FOR STUDENT SUCCESS Louis Freedberg looks back at EdSource and education in a monumental decade in California. May 28, 2021 - John Fensterwald interviews his co-host, Louis Freedberg, who is stepping down as head of EdSource, about growing up in South Africa and getting kids excited about learning in the United States. SoundCloud Widget. A CASE FOR REDEFINING MERIT IN EDUCATION Too often those qualities are described as being at odds. Scholarships, for example, are merit or equity based. We need to adopt new language that makes merit synonymous with equity and fairness. They are not mutually exclusive, a theme that runs through many of our stories at EdSource. My father’s path was a difficult one evenbefore he
TEACHERS ON COVID: LESSONS LEARNED AND ADVICE TO PASS Teachers speak out. Teachers reimagine schools and themselves, post-Covid – a video with members of EdSource’s Teachers Advisory Committee. What California teachers want to share with other educators – a teacher survey by The Inverness Institute. In today’s EdSource, teachers reflect on the past year. In the latest findings ofa survey
WHAT TO REMEMBER AS WE RECONNECT POST-PANDEMIC WITH What to remember as we reconnect post-pandemic with student families. Teacher Voices. May 3, 2021. Thomas Courtney. Credit: Courtesy of Thomas Courtney. Credit: Courtesy of Thomas Courtney. If you asked me two years ago which student owned a guinea pig named Max or eight dogs, I am certain I could not have told you. But now I can. FIND OUT HOW MUCH CALIFORNIA SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND CHARTER The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) will send $15.3 billion in assistance to California’s K-12 schools, the biggest of three relief pieces of legislation that Congress passed in less than a year to combat the pandemic and the recession. CALIFORNIA MATH CURRICULUM SPURS NEW CONTROVERSY ABOUT California math curriculum spurs new controversy about accelerated learning. California has a math problem. Nearly a decade after Common Core math standards were adopted in California, the majority of K-12 students are not yet meeting grade-level benchmarks, and Black and Latino students are underrepresented in rigorous accelerated programs. CALIFORNIA TEACHER SHORTAGES COULD MAKE REOPENING SCHOOLS The ongoing teacher shortage, exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic, means more under-prepared teachers will be in California classrooms when school campuses fully reopen, according to a study released today by the Learning Policy Institute.. A decrease in the number of teacher candidates earning credentials, as well as the possibility of increased retirements and resignations, will make it HOW CALIFORNIA HIGH SCHOOLS PLAN TO PULL OFF ‘NORMAL A six-hour drive to the north of Fresno, Trinity High expects to hold a graduation ceremony on June 11 for its 65 to 70 graduates as it did last year, on its football field. Seniors will be in the bleachers and families will be seated in 10-by-10-foot squares separated 6 feet from each other. A lottery will determine the location of the squares THE TENNESSEE STUDY OF CLASS SIZE IN THE EARLY SCHOOL GRADES 113 The Tennessee Study of Class Size in the Early School Grades Frederick Mosteller Abstract The Tennessee class size project is a three-phase study designed to determine the GOV. NEWSOM’S TASK FORCE RECOMMENDS MORE DISCRETION TO The 10-page task force report, with a short cover letter from Thurmond, was dated June 1. Thurmond released the report Friday afternoon. Newsom had set a June 30 deadline for the recommendations. A number of legislators have said they would use the report to determine their votes on bills calling for increased restrictions oncharter schools.
MOST CALIFORNIA SCHOOLS OFFERING SUMMER SCHOOL, PLANNING 20 hours ago · Almost every school district in California plans to fully reopen its campuses in the fall and to offer summer programming, according to the Governor’s Office. To encourage parents, who may be wary of sending their children back to campuses in the fall, the CALIFORNIA SCHOOLS MOVE AHEAD WITH FALL DISTANCE LEARNING 1 day ago · While parents and state officials are pushing to fully reopen campuses this fall, some families are fearful of sending their kids back into classrooms too soon. But options for distance learning this fall are unclear across the state. Gov. Gavin Newsom has said he expects schools to fully reopen REFORM CAL GRANT AND INVEST IN COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENTS As two of California’s 2.1 million community college students, we have an urgent plea to lawmakers: Fund the expansion and modernization of the state’s Cal Grant student financial aid system by enacting a framework that is more equitable for students who need it most.. The framework proposed by Assembly Bill 1456 (Media-McCarty) would finally put us on a fair path to ensuring that the ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOLS JOIN WITH CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL TO 13 hours ago · Faced with rates of adolescent suicide and self-harm that have been among the fastest-rising in the country, schools in Orange County have teamed up with a local hospital to boost mental health services on campuses. The partnership between Children’s Hospital of Orange County and the Orange County CALIFORNIA BILINGUAL PROGRAMS READY TO GROW AFTER SLOWING The pandemic slowed down many California school districts’ expansion of bilingual education programs, putting some new bilingual programs on hold. But now, several school districts are resuming their plans and enrolling students in new bilingual immersion programs in the fall. After years of A CALIFORNIA PROGRAM SPENT MILLIONS ON DEVICES FOR Following an outcry from districts, the Californians Dedicated to Education Foundation, a private nonprofit fiscal manager for the California Department of Education, launched the Bridging the Digital Divide Fund to raise money to buy technology. CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY CAMPUSES IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY A new initiative aims to increase the number of students transferring from community colleges in Los Angeles County to two of the county’s California State University campuses. A coalition of nonprofit organizations, called the Los Angeles Postsecondary QUICK GUIDE: HOW DO COLLEGE SAVINGS ACCOUNTS WORK? Q: What is a college savings account and how does it work? What are the different types of college savings accounts? A: College savings accounts, or CSAs, are broadly defined as long-term savings accounts administered by banks, nonprofits, school districts, cities or states that help children from birth to 18 save for tuition and other expenses related to higher education. CALIFORNIA’S K-12 FUNDING FORMULA LIKELY TO CHANGE, BUT For the first time since its adoption eight years ago, Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to change the formula that determines more than 70% of California school districts’ annual spending. But his plan to direct more money only to districts with the greatest concentration of low-income children is proving SEARCHABLE DATABASE: HOW MUCH WILL COLLEGES AND The federal stimulus bill includes $14 billion in aid to higher education including $1.7 billion to California colleges and universities to help the institutions and students cope with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. EXPLORE: California's Community Colleges: At A CrossroadsQuick
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families are struggling with learning during the Covid crisis. TEACHERS REFLECT ON A YEAR OF COVID In a perfect night of taffeta and glitter, the most perfect thing of all was Lauren Toon’s sky-blue prom dress. Credit: Andrew Reed / EdSource _Lauren Toon of Tracy, in the gown her late mother helped her pick out, poses with date William Aviles._ Lauren’s mother helped her pick the sleek satin gown a year ago – blue to match Lauren’s eyes. Lauren planned to wear the dress at her high school prom last year when she was a junior, but school officials canceled the event at the last minute due to the pandemic. And then in September, Lauren’s mother died of Covid-19. Last weekend, Lauren finally got to wear the dress. The occasion: the senior formal at Merrill F. West High School in Tracy, southwest of Stockton in San Joaquin County. “I wanted to celebrate for my mom,” Lauren said during a break in the festivities. “It’s very emotional. I haven’t cried yet, but a lot of other people have.” Lauren wasn’t the only one feeling emotional at the event, held in the school’s central quad. West High’s outdoor, socially distanced “non-prom” was one of the few sanctioned, in-person celebrations for the Class of 2021 in California. After more than a year of distance learning and hardship related to the pandemic, more than 120 seniors gathered in tuxedos and long gowns to celebrate the end of a year like no other. Dancing was not allowed, but the event had everything else: a catered dinner, a DJ, games, photos, miniature golf, a caricature artist, balloons and streamers — all festooned with “Alice in Wonderland” decorations. The student leadership committee planned the entire event, raising money, collecting donations and handcrafting nearly 1,000 Cheshire cats, Mad Hatters and White Rabbits. For some students, the night was bittersweet. The celebration made them acutely aware of how much they had lost. Credit: Andrew Reed / EdSource _Marc Masana and Isabel Baughman exchange a boutonniere and corsage for photos in front of Tracy city hall with friends._ “I’m definitely really excited. And I’m so proud of our class. We’ve worked for weeks on this. It’s been such a long year, I feel relieved we made it,” said Marc Masana, a senior. “But I’m also kind of sad — with everything that’s happened, it feels like our senior year is incomplete.” Like schools throughout the state, West High closed its campus in March 2020, and students learned remotely for more than a year. In April the school re-opened for hybrid learning, although some students opted to stay remote. With a diverse, predominantly low-income student body, West High was hit hard by Covid. Many parents lost jobs or toiled long hours on the front lines, either as health care workers or providing otheressential services.
Some students looked after younger siblings while their parents worked. Others got jobs to support their families while keeping up with remote learning. Many said they suffered sadness or depression while isolated from their friends and feeling disconnected fromschool.
And some contracted Covid or had family members or teachers who did. Lauren Toon’s mother, Christine Toon, was a popular special education teacher and volleyball coach at West High before she died. Another teacher-coach, Armando Tailes, got infected twice, spending five days in the hospital the second time and nearly dying. Zachary Boswell, the West High principal, said the hardships and tragedies ultimately brought the school community closer. Younger teachers helped older teachers with distance learning technology, and everyone pitched in to solve problems. In the fall, the school held a gathering at the school for Lauren’s mom. “We learned how to help each other in hard times,” Boswell said. “We learned a lot about collaboration, how to support each other. We’ve always been a relationship-based school, and that’s what really helped us get through this past year.” Scott Benham, an English teacher and activities director, described the pandemic as “gut-wrenching and heartbreaking” for many students. Not only did they miss seeing their teachers and friends, but they also lost activities like sports, clubs, drama, pep rallies and dances — the heartbeat of any high school. Credit: Andrew Reed / EdSource _Senior Trista Zieska takes a selfie with her date at Tracy cityhall._
That’s why the senior formal was so important, he said. It was a chance to experience school spirit, if only for one night. “The pandemic was brutal for so many kids. So, for our seniors, we knew this event was critical,” he said. “If we didn’t do anything, we’d be cheating them out of the high schoolexperience.”
Students had jumbled emotions — mostly ecstatic but a little sad, too. In either case, they said they wouldn’t miss the event foranything.
West High senior Keona Siufana has a close-knit family and, as an introvert, said she was comfortable being home during the pandemic. But after months of distance learning, even she experienced a degree of loneliness, she said. And she worried about her parents working during the pandemic, her father at FedEx and her mother in retail. Helping plan the senior formal was a welcome relief from a year of uncertainty, she said. “I am super excited about the event and so thankful we’re able to do it,” she said. “But I guess I have mixed emotions because it means we’re all going to leave and become adults.” For Izaiah Quiruz, a junior who served on the event planning committee, there was nothing bittersweet about the event. It was a hundred percent joy. “I _love_ being back at school,” he said. “I had some real low points this year. School is my second home, so tonight means a lot. It’s a step towards normalcy. To be out, see friends, have a meal, have human interaction … it’s just so nice.” Credit: Andrew Reed / EdSource _Senior Jett Multanen (right) places a corsage on Leslis Ulloa Alcantar (left) arm._ Tianna Staveris, a junior, felt the same way: The senior formal represented “pure happiness.” Over the past year, several of Tianna’s family members contracted Covid, including her mother, who became seriously ill. Her father, a flooring contractor, was also out of work for a while. Quarantining at home was hard on the entire family, she said. “It was especially hard when my mom was sick,” she said. “We’re really close, but I couldn’t be with her. I had to stay back. I hated it. … To be able to see everyone tonight is just amazing. I’m so excited to finally see some smiles.” Raevyn Kaigler, ordinarily a straight-A student, was so sad being away from in-person school that her grades dropped this year, she said. “I’m a social person, and for me, it was really difficult to be isolated from my friends,” she said. “But I learned I can handle more than I thought I could. I found some hobbies, and figured out distance learning and got my grades back up. … I think I learned a lot about myself this year.” Credit: Andrew Reed / EdSource _Sophomores Ava Seguin and Hailey Felker helped planned the senior formal and pose in front of the photobooth._ Seniors Gianna Uribe and Stella Hunt, heads of the planning committee, said their friendship got them through the year of distance learning, especially when Stella and her father both contracted Covid. After Stella recovered, she and Gianna would drive to the canal — an agricultural aqueduct that runs through Tracy — and watch the sunset and muse on the state of the world. “It felt like we were living through history,” Stella said. That sense of momentousness was, for them, the main reason to plan a senior formal, they said. “We felt we needed to give people something to look forward to,”Gianna said.
Stella added, “If you’re in high school, the prom is a big deal. It’s the biggest night of your life. We felt we really had to makethis happen.”
After a night of socializing and celebrating, West High’s Class of 2021 will soon part ways. Keona plans to spend next year on a church mission. Raevyn is working at Jamba Juice this summer, then heads to Cal State Fullerton to study kinesiology. After a summer working at Ace Hardware, Marc plans to study economics at Cal State Long Beach. Stella and Gianna don’t have concrete plans yet but will probably stay in Tracy and go to community college. After her mother died, Lauren Toon decided to graduate early from high school — in December — and pursue a passion she and her mom shared: sports. In January, Lauren enrolled at William Jessup University near Sacramento, where she’s on the volleyball team. But when school officials invited her back to Tracy for the formal, she didn’t hesitate. The chance to return to the campus where her mother taught, wearing the dress her mother chose, was a chance to pay tribute to her mom, she said. Lauren even wore her mother’s pearlsto the event.
“I wanted to be here with my class,” she said. “I think that would have made my mom happy.” AFTER A ROUGH YEAR, SENIOR FORMAL THIS SPRING WAS BOTH JOYOUS,BITTERSWEET
One by one, students arrived at Lucerne Valley Elementary School this week. Before entering the campus, a staff member handed masks to students who needed one. They then had their temperatures checked as they made their way to their classrooms. One of the first districts to reopen last August in a hybrid mode, the small district in Southern California’s high desert is now among the latest across the state where all 840 students through high school have the option to attend classes in person for five days each week. Credit: Jennifer Molina/EdSource _Students outside Lucerne Valley Middle High School._ The elementary school, as well as the district’s middle/high school, both fully reopened this week. Elementary students attend each day from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m, while the middle/high school students attend from 8:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. Next year, the district plans to extend the school day to its normal end time of 3 p.m. Students like Colton Reichow, a 4th grade student, were excited to finally be back on a more traditional school schedule. “I like it a lot about because I get to see a lot of my friends,” Reichow said. “Distance learning was a lot of trouble because I couldn’t see my friends, and I had to be in school for three hours a day. I couldn’t play with my brother.” Credit: Jennifer Molina/EdSource_Colton Reichow_
Before this week, Reichow and other students across the district came to school for only part of the week. Reichow’s mom, Sarah Courtney, is also relieved to have her son backin class.
“It’s very exciting. I love it,” Courtney said about Lucerne reopening full-time. “They’re physically writing again, which is great because it seemed like that really suffered on computers. Just being back in class, they learn so much better.” Reichow and his mother are participating in an EdSource project to follow families across the state as they cope with the pandemic. Courtney, who also has a toddler, has had to juggle being a mother, at-home tutor and student this year studying to become a nurse. Like many parents, Courtney is ready to finally have some time back to focus on her ambitions, too. “It will definitely be easier to study without having to worry the whole time what he’s doing or getting texts from his teacher telling him to stop making noises or focus,” Courtney said. “It’s hard to study when I’m helping him do his classwork,” she said, adding that math has been a particular struggle for her son in a remotesetting.
Reichow is among more than 90% of elementary school students who have opted to return along with more than 80% of middle school students and high schoolers in Lucerne Valley. Over the next two months before students leave again for summer break, staff at the district said one of their top priorities is to help students deal with the emotional upheaval they experienced because of the pandemic. Many students have spent much or all of the last year socially isolated. The district also plans to use the next couple of months to gauge learning loss as much as possible among students and begin intervening to help students catch up, Superintendent PeterLivingston said.
Credit: Courtesy of SARAH COURTNEY _Colton Reichow (right) and younger brother Lane (left) showcase Colton’s award certificates for Most Improved in reading and Online Superstar for distance learning at a socially distanced spring schoolceremony._
“Even though it’s a very short time, and our emphasis is keeping the kids healthy and safe, every second we have counts, and we’re going to make the most of every second that our kids are on our campus,” Livingston said. “It’s a lot of fun seeing kids back. It’s rejuvenating,” headded.
Compared to when Lucerne’s elementary school first reopened in a hybrid mode in August, some normalcy has since returned. Last fall, kids were forced to stay distanced at lunch and sit 6 feet apart. This week, up to six students were sitting together at tables outside during lunch. They conversed and appeared to be thrilled to bewith one another.
Inside the 4th-grade classroom taught by Crystal Nelson, gone are plexiglass dividers that divided students last fall when classrooms were limited to about 10 to 12 students. Now, about 20 students are in each class and can be within 3 feet of one other. Since the beginning of the school year, enrollment across Lucerne has grown by about 6%, mostly at the elementary school. Livingston said he suspects that new families moved into the district after they saw that Lucerne was among the first to offer some in-person classes inAugust.
Livingston said it wouldn’t have been possible to fully reopen the district’s schools this year if not for new federal guidance that reduced the recommended physical distancing requirement within schools from 6 feet to 3 feet. California has adopted that recommendation.
“That’s what truly allowed us to expand this reopening,” hesaid.
When the district first opened in a hybrid mode, students in some classes brought packets to school, worked on them during class and then took the packets home to continue working on them during their distance learning days. Students in other classes brought laptops to school and did their schoolwork on those. Now, though, for students who are in school five days a week, the district has moved away from packets and laptops. Inside classrooms, teaching and learning is happening in a more traditional manner. Nelson said her 4th-grade students were “ecstatic” to be back at school five days a week. Before this year, the summer break was the longest that students typically had gone without seeing their teachersand friends.
“But for these kids, it’s been a year for them since they’ve seen certain friends,” Nelson said. Because of that, Derek Chip, who teachers social and emotional learning, said it will be important to be patient with students when it comes to their social behaviors. In his classes, Chip said he focuses on different aspects of socializing, such as self-awareness, social awareness and responsibledecision-making.
“I’m just reminding myself that these students got locked into this normative way of being where they were not socializing,” Chip said. “They’ve been sitting at home, a lot of them just by themselves, or with their door shut in the room for the majority of the day. I am reminding myself every day that we have to have more empathy, and we can’t get upset every time the students are not doing exactly what we want them to do, or maybe not interacting the way we want them to interact.” Livingston said the district will also be giving local assessments to students and will use those to measure learning loss. He added that the district is already planning to use additional intervention strategies next school year to address learning loss. That could include smaller class sizes so students have closer interactions with their teachers, as well as pulling more students out of classes for small group work. “We have to fill in these learning gaps because they haven’t been in school,” Livingston said. “We need to see where they are. And we need to digest what it is that we’re going to have to really focus on academically in the 2021-22 school year.” MASKS ON, TEMPERATURES CHECKED: LUCERNE VALLEY STUDENTS EMBRACE SCHOOLFIVE DAYS A WEEK
This video, “Teachers reflect on a year of Covid ” is part four of a continuing project by EdSourceon how California
families are struggling with learning during the Covid crisis. TEACHERS REFLECT ON A YEAR OF COVID In a perfect night of taffeta and glitter, the most perfect thing of all was Lauren Toon’s sky-blue prom dress. Credit: Andrew Reed / EdSource _Lauren Toon of Tracy, in the gown her late mother helped her pick out, poses with date William Aviles._ Lauren’s mother helped her pick the sleek satin gown a year ago – blue to match Lauren’s eyes. Lauren planned to wear the dress at her high school prom last year when she was a junior, but school officials canceled the event at the last minute due to the pandemic. And then in September, Lauren’s mother died of Covid-19. Last weekend, Lauren finally got to wear the dress. The occasion: the senior formal at Merrill F. West High School in Tracy, southwest of Stockton in San Joaquin County. “I wanted to celebrate for my mom,” Lauren said during a break in the festivities. “It’s very emotional. I haven’t cried yet, but a lot of other people have.” Lauren wasn’t the only one feeling emotional at the event, held in the school’s central quad. West High’s outdoor, socially distanced “non-prom” was one of the few sanctioned, in-person celebrations for the Class of 2021 in California. After more than a year of distance learning and hardship related to the pandemic, more than 120 seniors gathered in tuxedos and long gowns to celebrate the end of a year like no other. Dancing was not allowed, but the event had everything else: a catered dinner, a DJ, games, photos, miniature golf, a caricature artist, balloons and streamers — all festooned with “Alice in Wonderland” decorations. The student leadership committee planned the entire event, raising money, collecting donations and handcrafting nearly 1,000 Cheshire cats, Mad Hatters and White Rabbits. For some students, the night was bittersweet. The celebration made them acutely aware of how much they had lost. Credit: Andrew Reed / EdSource _Marc Masana and Isabel Baughman exchange a boutonniere and corsage for photos in front of Tracy city hall with friends._ “I’m definitely really excited. And I’m so proud of our class. We’ve worked for weeks on this. It’s been such a long year, I feel relieved we made it,” said Marc Masana, a senior. “But I’m also kind of sad — with everything that’s happened, it feels like our senior year is incomplete.” Like schools throughout the state, West High closed its campus in March 2020, and students learned remotely for more than a year. In April the school re-opened for hybrid learning, although some students opted to stay remote. With a diverse, predominantly low-income student body, West High was hit hard by Covid. Many parents lost jobs or toiled long hours on the front lines, either as health care workers or providing otheressential services.
Some students looked after younger siblings while their parents worked. Others got jobs to support their families while keeping up with remote learning. Many said they suffered sadness or depression while isolated from their friends and feeling disconnected fromschool.
And some contracted Covid or had family members or teachers who did. Lauren Toon’s mother, Christine Toon, was a popular special education teacher and volleyball coach at West High before she died. Another teacher-coach, Armando Tailes, got infected twice, spending five days in the hospital the second time and nearly dying. Zachary Boswell, the West High principal, said the hardships and tragedies ultimately brought the school community closer. Younger teachers helped older teachers with distance learning technology, and everyone pitched in to solve problems. In the fall, the school held a gathering at the school for Lauren’s mom. “We learned how to help each other in hard times,” Boswell said. “We learned a lot about collaboration, how to support each other. We’ve always been a relationship-based school, and that’s what really helped us get through this past year.” Scott Benham, an English teacher and activities director, described the pandemic as “gut-wrenching and heartbreaking” for many students. Not only did they miss seeing their teachers and friends, but they also lost activities like sports, clubs, drama, pep rallies and dances — the heartbeat of any high school. Credit: Andrew Reed / EdSource _Senior Trista Zieska takes a selfie with her date at Tracy cityhall._
That’s why the senior formal was so important, he said. It was a chance to experience school spirit, if only for one night. “The pandemic was brutal for so many kids. So, for our seniors, we knew this event was critical,” he said. “If we didn’t do anything, we’d be cheating them out of the high schoolexperience.”
Students had jumbled emotions — mostly ecstatic but a little sad, too. In either case, they said they wouldn’t miss the event foranything.
West High senior Keona Siufana has a close-knit family and, as an introvert, said she was comfortable being home during the pandemic. But after months of distance learning, even she experienced a degree of loneliness, she said. And she worried about her parents working during the pandemic, her father at FedEx and her mother in retail. Helping plan the senior formal was a welcome relief from a year of uncertainty, she said. “I am super excited about the event and so thankful we’re able to do it,” she said. “But I guess I have mixed emotions because it means we’re all going to leave and become adults.” For Izaiah Quiruz, a junior who served on the event planning committee, there was nothing bittersweet about the event. It was a hundred percent joy. “I _love_ being back at school,” he said. “I had some real low points this year. School is my second home, so tonight means a lot. It’s a step towards normalcy. To be out, see friends, have a meal, have human interaction … it’s just so nice.” Credit: Andrew Reed / EdSource _Senior Jett Multanen (right) places a corsage on Leslis Ulloa Alcantar (left) arm._ Tianna Staveris, a junior, felt the same way: The senior formal represented “pure happiness.” Over the past year, several of Tianna’s family members contracted Covid, including her mother, who became seriously ill. Her father, a flooring contractor, was also out of work for a while. Quarantining at home was hard on the entire family, she said. “It was especially hard when my mom was sick,” she said. “We’re really close, but I couldn’t be with her. I had to stay back. I hated it. … To be able to see everyone tonight is just amazing. I’m so excited to finally see some smiles.” Raevyn Kaigler, ordinarily a straight-A student, was so sad being away from in-person school that her grades dropped this year, she said. “I’m a social person, and for me, it was really difficult to be isolated from my friends,” she said. “But I learned I can handle more than I thought I could. I found some hobbies, and figured out distance learning and got my grades back up. … I think I learned a lot about myself this year.” Credit: Andrew Reed / EdSource _Sophomores Ava Seguin and Hailey Felker helped planned the senior formal and pose in front of the photobooth._ Seniors Gianna Uribe and Stella Hunt, heads of the planning committee, said their friendship got them through the year of distance learning, especially when Stella and her father both contracted Covid. After Stella recovered, she and Gianna would drive to the canal — an agricultural aqueduct that runs through Tracy — and watch the sunset and muse on the state of the world. “It felt like we were living through history,” Stella said. That sense of momentousness was, for them, the main reason to plan a senior formal, they said. “We felt we needed to give people something to look forward to,”Gianna said.
Stella added, “If you’re in high school, the prom is a big deal. It’s the biggest night of your life. We felt we really had to makethis happen.”
After a night of socializing and celebrating, West High’s Class of 2021 will soon part ways. Keona plans to spend next year on a church mission. Raevyn is working at Jamba Juice this summer, then heads to Cal State Fullerton to study kinesiology. After a summer working at Ace Hardware, Marc plans to study economics at Cal State Long Beach. Stella and Gianna don’t have concrete plans yet but will probably stay in Tracy and go to community college. After her mother died, Lauren Toon decided to graduate early from high school — in December — and pursue a passion she and her mom shared: sports. In January, Lauren enrolled at William Jessup University near Sacramento, where she’s on the volleyball team. But when school officials invited her back to Tracy for the formal, she didn’t hesitate. The chance to return to the campus where her mother taught, wearing the dress her mother chose, was a chance to pay tribute to her mom, she said. Lauren even wore her mother’s pearlsto the event.
“I wanted to be here with my class,” she said. “I think that would have made my mom happy.” AFTER A ROUGH YEAR, SENIOR FORMAL THIS SPRING WAS BOTH JOYOUS,BITTERSWEET
One by one, students arrived at Lucerne Valley Elementary School this week. Before entering the campus, a staff member handed masks to students who needed one. They then had their temperatures checked as they made their way to their classrooms. One of the first districts to reopen last August in a hybrid mode, the small district in Southern California’s high desert is now among the latest across the state where all 840 students through high school have the option to attend classes in person for five days each week. Credit: Jennifer Molina/EdSource _Students outside Lucerne Valley Middle High School._ The elementary school, as well as the district’s middle/high school, both fully reopened this week. Elementary students attend each day from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m, while the middle/high school students attend from 8:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. Next year, the district plans to extend the school day to its normal end time of 3 p.m. Students like Colton Reichow, a 4th grade student, were excited to finally be back on a more traditional school schedule. “I like it a lot about because I get to see a lot of my friends,” Reichow said. “Distance learning was a lot of trouble because I couldn’t see my friends, and I had to be in school for three hours a day. I couldn’t play with my brother.” Credit: Jennifer Molina/EdSource_Colton Reichow_
Before this week, Reichow and other students across the district came to school for only part of the week. Reichow’s mom, Sarah Courtney, is also relieved to have her son backin class.
“It’s very exciting. I love it,” Courtney said about Lucerne reopening full-time. “They’re physically writing again, which is great because it seemed like that really suffered on computers. Just being back in class, they learn so much better.” Reichow and his mother are participating in an EdSource project to follow families across the state as they cope with the pandemic. Courtney, who also has a toddler, has had to juggle being a mother, at-home tutor and student this year studying to become a nurse. Like many parents, Courtney is ready to finally have some time back to focus on her ambitions, too. “It will definitely be easier to study without having to worry the whole time what he’s doing or getting texts from his teacher telling him to stop making noises or focus,” Courtney said. “It’s hard to study when I’m helping him do his classwork,” she said, adding that math has been a particular struggle for her son in a remotesetting.
Reichow is among more than 90% of elementary school students who have opted to return along with more than 80% of middle school students and high schoolers in Lucerne Valley. Over the next two months before students leave again for summer break, staff at the district said one of their top priorities is to help students deal with the emotional upheaval they experienced because of the pandemic. Many students have spent much or all of the last year socially isolated. The district also plans to use the next couple of months to gauge learning loss as much as possible among students and begin intervening to help students catch up, Superintendent PeterLivingston said.
Credit: Courtesy of SARAH COURTNEY _Colton Reichow (right) and younger brother Lane (left) showcase Colton’s award certificates for Most Improved in reading and Online Superstar for distance learning at a socially distanced spring schoolceremony._
“Even though it’s a very short time, and our emphasis is keeping the kids healthy and safe, every second we have counts, and we’re going to make the most of every second that our kids are on our campus,” Livingston said. “It’s a lot of fun seeing kids back. It’s rejuvenating,” headded.
Compared to when Lucerne’s elementary school first reopened in a hybrid mode in August, some normalcy has since returned. Last fall, kids were forced to stay distanced at lunch and sit 6 feet apart. This week, up to six students were sitting together at tables outside during lunch. They conversed and appeared to be thrilled to bewith one another.
Inside the 4th-grade classroom taught by Crystal Nelson, gone are plexiglass dividers that divided students last fall when classrooms were limited to about 10 to 12 students. Now, about 20 students are in each class and can be within 3 feet of one other. Since the beginning of the school year, enrollment across Lucerne has grown by about 6%, mostly at the elementary school. Livingston said he suspects that new families moved into the district after they saw that Lucerne was among the first to offer some in-person classes inAugust.
Livingston said it wouldn’t have been possible to fully reopen the district’s schools this year if not for new federal guidance that reduced the recommended physical distancing requirement within schools from 6 feet to 3 feet. California has adopted that recommendation.
“That’s what truly allowed us to expand this reopening,” hesaid.
When the district first opened in a hybrid mode, students in some classes brought packets to school, worked on them during class and then took the packets home to continue working on them during their distance learning days. Students in other classes brought laptops to school and did their schoolwork on those. Now, though, for students who are in school five days a week, the district has moved away from packets and laptops. Inside classrooms, teaching and learning is happening in a more traditional manner. Nelson said her 4th-grade students were “ecstatic” to be back at school five days a week. Before this year, the summer break was the longest that students typically had gone without seeing their teachersand friends.
“But for these kids, it’s been a year for them since they’ve seen certain friends,” Nelson said. Because of that, Derek Chip, who teachers social and emotional learning, said it will be important to be patient with students when it comes to their social behaviors. In his classes, Chip said he focuses on different aspects of socializing, such as self-awareness, social awareness and responsibledecision-making.
“I’m just reminding myself that these students got locked into this normative way of being where they were not socializing,” Chip said. “They’ve been sitting at home, a lot of them just by themselves, or with their door shut in the room for the majority of the day. I am reminding myself every day that we have to have more empathy, and we can’t get upset every time the students are not doing exactly what we want them to do, or maybe not interacting the way we want them to interact.” Livingston said the district will also be giving local assessments to students and will use those to measure learning loss. He added that the district is already planning to use additional intervention strategies next school year to address learning loss. That could include smaller class sizes so students have closer interactions with their teachers, as well as pulling more students out of classes for small group work. “We have to fill in these learning gaps because they haven’t been in school,” Livingston said. “We need to see where they are. And we need to digest what it is that we’re going to have to really focus on academically in the 2021-22 school year.” MASKS ON, TEMPERATURES CHECKED: LUCERNE VALLEY STUDENTS EMBRACE SCHOOLFIVE DAYS A WEEK
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