School Bytes

21/12/2015

Legislators call for action in response to judge's ruling in Vergara lawsuit.

08/12/2015

Here's an important story from my good friends at EdSource

Gov. Jerry Brown recently signed a law that will make sexual education mandatory for students in grades 7 through 12. Here's what lead up to the law and how ...

20/08/2015

This is a great program for high school students. A fabulous opportunity!

Student Application

28/07/2015

Here's a good resource for young adults about the leave the foster care system

Know Before You Go Extended Foster Care Toolkit Why is this information important? As you transition to being an adult, it is important that you know your legal rights and what tools and resources are available to you. This toolkit is a place to keep your important documents organized and secure. Le…

21/05/2015

A little story about a big, 11-year-old artist.

22/04/2015

A good story on the origins of the backlash against the Common Core Standards

How a bipartisan education reform effort became the biggest conservative bogeyman since Obamacare.

07/04/2015

Teaching is hard already. And not having the appropriate materials makes it even more difficult. 

MONTEREY >> When teachers and administrators at the Monterey Peninsula Unified School District met early in 2014 to try to compare their existing math program with the Common Core Standards, they discovered the enVision Math program would not wo

20/03/2015

Take the girls in your life to this great event!

SEASIDE >> The Monterey Peninsula Branch of the American Association of University Women meets about once a month to discuss current events and share ideas on how to push for more equity for women and girls.But their meeting on Saturday w

18/03/2015

We should all help young children learn to love to read!

Daniel Willingham's new book is full of advice for parents and teachers hoping to nurture a love of reading in kids.

06/03/2015

Kudos to Sofia Chang, a budding businessgirl and student at Pacific Grove Middle School who won the Pacific Grove Young Entrepreneurs Award this week. 

Happy Chinese New Year!
This is Sofia's original design to honor the year of the sheep.

06/03/2015

A new Consumer Reports-style review of instructional materials for K-8 math has found that 17 out of 20 series fail to fully align with the Common Core State Standards.

25/02/2015

Read to a child today!

Only 17% of parents of kids ages 9 – 11 read aloud to their children. Yet reading aloud to older kids provides them with many important benefits.

24/02/2015

Chef Martin came to Gonzales High and I'm told students had a blast!

17/02/2015

To my dear readers, I failed to include the address where you can donate to Jordana Henry's AP class at Everett Alvarez High. In case you were wondering, here it is:

" AP Language and Composition Club, Everett Alvarez High School."
1900 Independence Blvd.
Salinas CA 93906

SALINAS >> For the past few months, students at Jordana Henry’s Advanced Placement Language and Composition class have been writing personal responses to classroom assignments.Halfway through the school year, Henry wants her studen

14/02/2015

¿Qué podemos hacer para que se le de más valor a la educación?

Es totalmente cierto, debemos de invertir en la educación de nuestros pequeños!!

¿Qué opinan ustedes?

Fuente: Martín Favelis.

13/02/2015

Monterey County High school students: Here's a good opportunity to take part in a really cool project.

Download and print the 2015 Mosaic Journalism Workshop application form.

10/02/2015

Radio Educación conmemora el Día Internacional de la Lengua Materna con un programa especial.

Escúchalo el sábado 21 de febrero a las 17 h

En vivo por el 1060 de AM o por Internet en: http://www.radioeducacion.edu.mx/

09/02/2015

Gonzales Unified School District teachers attend trainings!

09/02/2015

Reading!

05/02/2015

Could it be that the API will be gone?

A state advisory committee that spent more than two years trying to find a way to rejigger the Academic Performance Index is now recommending moving away from that single number in favor of a more comprehensive system allowing for a broader picture of school effectiveness.

30/01/2015

This is an important event. Make sure to attend!

26/01/2015

Do you code?

Girls Who Code are now accepting Applications for 2015 Summer Immersion Program! Please share the news far and wide, and encourage the young LATINAS in your life to apply. www.girlswhocode.com/applynow

23/01/2015

A must read for anyone interested in education

The Presidential hopeful talks a lot about school reform. Alec MacGillis takes a look at his record.

08/01/2015

New guidelines affect some 5 million English language learners across the U.S.

01/12/2014

Here's a good internship opportunity for energetic, ambitious students!

11/11/2014

Good resources from Gonzales Unified School District

Information and resources for parents and guardians that explain mathematics instruction used today and provide suggestions for supporting their child’s academic success.

07/11/2014

Coming late to the debate about the lack of diversity in Silicon Valley's workforce, but appropriate in light of a story I'm writing for the Herald.

First is the ways diversity benchmarks are calculated. [...] for both the U.S. military and Silicon Valley, the career choices of racial-ethnic and gender populations also matter. Corporate America is on the receiving end of a complex chain of social and educational factors that continue to leave mi…

02/11/2014

10/10/2014

"The highest-achieving states in the country - and the highest-achieving countries in the world - have the strongest protections for teachers."

[...] the reverse is true. The path to great teaching and good schools lies in recruiting top talent, preparing teachers extremely well, ensuring that they meet high standards for entry, and then providing them with resources, learning opportunities and ongoing feedback that enables them to continuo…

26/09/2014

This makes me worry.

"The explosion of investor interest in education raises a number of questions, among them: What kind of influence will the for-profit education sector attempt to exert over education policy? And if school reform is crafted to maximize the potential for investor profit, will students benefit, as boosters claim—or will they suffer?

There’s also the question of the effect of privatization on costs. And there, the healthcare example gives reason for concern. The privatization of health services has corresponded closely with skyrocketing costs, leaving millions of Americans without access to care or deeply in debt for seeking treatment for their illnesses. While new laws, including the Affordable Care Act, have extended insurance coverage to some 10 million Americans, many remain without coverage. The United States still spends $8,745 per capita on healthcare, far above the average for all other industrialized countries."

Venture capitalists and for-profit firms are salivating over the exploding $788.7 billion market in K-12 education. What does this mean for public school students?

17/09/2014

Some good work happening at Ord Terrace Elementary School

15/09/2014

Salinas girl does good!

The University of Texas at Austin announced Wednesday the launch of a Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies, delivering on longstanding plans to expand its academic offerings on the multicultural study of U.S. Hispanics. The new dep...

05/09/2014

Yay, libraries!

September is Library Card Sign-up Month: http://ow.ly/AX8ql - 2014 Honorary Chair: Stan Lee!:

19/08/2014

This just in...

Congratulations to the International School of Monterey on its authorization by the International Baccalaureate as Monterey County's first IB World School. Monterey County Superintendent of Schools Dr. Nancy Kotowski joined (from L to R) International School of Monterey Director Sean Madden, President of the Monterey Institute of International Studies Dr. Sunder Ramaswamy, Congressman Sam Farr, and Monterey Peninsula USD Superintendent Dr. P.K. Diffenbaugh at a celebration ceremony on August 19.

31/07/2014

Could this be the real problem and NOT teacher tenure?

Teachers are leaving the profession at an alarming rate and at a cost of billions of dollars per year.