Posts Tagged ‘unified’
Monday, January 23rd, 2012
Do people actually get paid to huck heavy pieces of metal off of the top of John Swett Alternative Elementary School on McAllister at sunrise?
People do.
Heck, if they called me up, I’d do it for free, watching them triangles accelerate at 9.8 meters per second until the satisfying crash landing. Boooooonk!
This activity sounds like a pile driver. It’s enough to wake the entire neighborhood on a Saturday morning.
What do these things weigh, 20 pounds? Fire in the hole!
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A third of a second later:
Another third of a second later:
And another third of a second later. See it at the bottom?
Hurray!
Tags: '08. 2012, alternative, bay area, california, civic center, construction, district, elementary, franklin, golden gate, gough, hayes, hayes valley, iron, John Swett, John Swett Alternative Elementary School, mcallister, pieces, San Francisco, school, steel, street, throwing, tossing, unified, Valley, western addition, worker, workers
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Friday, September 16th, 2011
Here’s the whole megillah from Leland Yee.
Board of Education Commissioner Kim-Shree Maufas, City College Board Trustee John Rizzo, and President of the United Educators of San Francisco Dennis Kelly with Senator Yee before yesterday’s presser in Chinatown:
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“The highlights of Yee’s plan include:
PUT STUDENTS FIRST
- Increase student success with wrap-around “community school” services
- Prioritize underperforming schools for community school reforms
- Reduce truancy and dropout rates, and expand programs for at-risk youth
- Free Muni for public school kids
- Promote school-based healthcare services for the entire family
- Expand nutrition education to improve healthy eating at home
- Bridge the digital divide
- Make college a goal for every student
- Make the Dream Act a reality
- Improve language proficiency for all students
RESPECT AND REWARD TEACHERS
- Expand teacher recognition and incentive programs
- Teacher Power: appoint educators to city boards and commissions
- Develop the best future educators by recruiting the best college graduates
- Real affordable housing for educators
- Help teachers pay for classroom materials
PROMOTE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS
- Create network of community partners to expand reach of wrap-around services
- Expand and formalize partnerships with universities to share space, service-learning opportunities, and align strategic plans
- Expand partnerships with businesses to ensure college and career connectivity
- Create alliance of school and parent advocacy groups to improve connectivity and collaboration
ENCOURAGE PARENT PARTICIPATION
- Time off to attend school functions and parent-teacher conferences
- Support and promote the SFUSD Parent Engagement and Partnership Plan
- Community school wrap-around services for parents”
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Monday, August 23rd, 2010
If you don’t like the public high school your kids are assigned to, is it too late to get them signed up for the brand-new San Francisco Flex Academy? I don’t know.
In fact, there’s a lot I don’t know about San Francisco’s newest public charter school, the one at 555 Post, the one that’s “expecting to” start classes on Tuesday, September 7, 2010. Appears as if you send your kids to Union Square five days a week and then they’ll get learning from a mix of real live teachers and online instruction. It’s called “bricks and clicks,” baby, and it’s ably explained right here.
(And you parents Down South won’t be left out - Flex Academy Silicon Valley is coming online in in San Joser next year.)
All the deets:
San Francisco Flex Academy to Open Downtown This Fall. New Public Charter School Now Accepting Enrollments for Students in Grades 9-12
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 23 — San Francisco Flex Academy (SF FLEX), an exciting new public charter high school and one of the state’s first full-time “hybrid” schools, will open this fall in downtown San Francisco. SF Flex is currently accepting enrollments for students in grades 9-12 and is expecting to start classes on Tuesday, September 7, 2010.
The school is conveniently located in downtown San Francisco at 555 Post Street, easily accessible by MUNI and BART.
The school will offer both onsite classroom instruction with highly qualified, credentialed teachers and state-of-the-art online learning provided by K12 Inc., America’s largest provider of online school programs for students in kindergarten through high school. There is no tuition to attend this public charter school.
The school:
So far, they’d been advertising with stuff like this at Alice 97.3 FM and a poster campaign – I saw something on a light pole at McAllister and Van Ness a couple months back.
Anyway, all the deets, after the jump
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Tags: 2010, 2011, 555 Post, academy, bay area, board, Bricks and Clicks, california, charter, distance, district, education, flex, flex academy san francisco, free, High, learning, online, pc, publixc, San Francisco, San Francisco Flex Academy, san jose, school, sf flex, silicon valley, street, unified, union square
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Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
Oddly-named Meraki wants to WiFi up your K-12 school with a quickness, so all the kids can watch the Lady Gaga (coming December 13th, 2009!) and AutoTune the News without all those pesky wires about. See?
“Meraki, the cloud-based wireless networking company, launched its “Wireless For Schools” program today, offering K-12 schools and districts a comprehensive 802.11n wireless LANat the price of $40 per student or less. The program enables schools to deploy a high-quality wireless network quickly, easily, and at less than half the cost of other solutions in the market. To qualify, schools must contact Meraki and make their purchases by December 22, 2009.”
Now that’s $40 per, but if you get some kind of E-rate rebate aka (Universal Service Fund for Schools and Libraries (USFSL) from Uncle Sucker, the Feds will kick in for 80% of the bill. I mean, they wanted to pay for the Bridge to Nowhere and they still want to pay for the bulk of the Chinatown subway – the Feds have all kinds of moola. So it’s time to get your fair share. You know…. for kids.
Meraki founders Hans Robertson and Sanjit Biswas want to Free the Net, or something:
“On Sanjit: Marc by Marc Jacobs army mélange jacket with zip-out vest ($528)[!] at Marc by Marc Jacobs. Cotton t-shirt and glasses, model’s own[!].” Photo by Bryan Davis.
All right, get cracking. One Call Does it All: (415) 632-5800
“Meraki Offers Wireless Networks to K-12 Schools for $40 Per Student or Less
Meraki’s “Wireless For Schools” makes it easy for schools to deploy a high-quality 802.11n wireless network across the campus
Meraki, the cloud-based wireless networking company, launched its “Wireless For Schools” program today, offering K-12 schools and districts a comprehensive 802.11n wireless LAN at the price of $40 per student or less. The program enables schools to deploy a high-quality wireless network quickly, easily, and at less than half the cost of other solutions in the market. To qualify, schools must contact Meraki and make their purchases by December 22, 2009.
The Hard Sell, after the jump.
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
A new program, Student Emergency Response Volunteers (SERV), is being put forth as an alternative to Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC) in San Francisco Schools.
Per Jane Kim, via Fog City Journal:
“Commissioners [Norman] Yee and I proposed this program so students can create emergency disaster plans for their families. They will learn CPR, first aid, and HAMM radio skills.”
Per popular District One Supervisorial candidate Eric Mar:
“This is a great example of real leadership opportunities we can provide to high school students to replace the military-run JROTC program as it is phased out.”
Eric Mar and Jane Kim speaking out yesterday.
JROTC remains popular with many parents – maybe they’ll see SERV as a viable alternative?
Tags: board, district, education, eric mar, franklin, High, Jane Kim, junior, Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps, Reserve Officers' Training Corps, rotc, San Francisco, schools, serv, street, Student Emergency Response Volunteers, Supervisor, unified
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