Guest Post by Mari Villaluna This Thanksgiving many families will celebrate a holiday founded on the genocide of Native people....
Read More
This post is part of a series exploring ways to decolonize Thanksgiving. Read Part 1 of this series here. When...
Read More
This post is part of a series exploring ways to decolonize Thanksgiving. Read Part 2 of this series here. As we...
Read More
An update on the SFUSD Enrollment conversation Last night I participated in a great discussion last night at the Ad...
Read More
I'm no longer interested in looking at charts of Black, Native American, Latinx, and Samoan/Pacific Islander lack of success in our schools. I'm interested in seeing what our students are saying about the system. Do they feel welcomed, valued, visible, cared-for, supported, heard, loved?
Read More
I am so excited about the work going on in SFUSD's Curriculum and Instruction Department! Last week, staff made a...
Read More
Last Monday, I attended an SFUSD Board of Education Ad Hoc Student Assignment Committee Mtg. which is taking on the...
Read More
Over the past several months SF Board of Education Commissioners have been have been inundated with emails about the Washington...
Read More
Last year in 2018, 153 students took part as artists in the Arts Festival. We have 54,000 students in SFUSD. That means the percentage of student artists who took part in last year’s Art Festival was only .02%! With numbers like these, many folks are wondering: Is the money we spend on events like the SFUSD Arts Festival really worth it if they reach so few students?
Read More
As I look closely at the VAPA budget, I can see discrepancies in where the money is going. I’ve been asking about these for a while now, from the VAPA staff. So far, I'm not getting clear answers...
Read More