PARENT VOICES

TEACHER RECRUITMENT

Social media segments

Social media can be an invaluable tool when it comes to teacher recruitment. A district can talk policy and programs but a school site is as strong as the teachers who work there. These teacher bios presented alumnae of the school who came back to give back to their respective communities.

SCHOOL VALUES

Leadership Public High School

Over the course of several interviews with staff members at multiple school sites, certain values and traits particualr to school culture became recurring topics of conversation. Those comments became their own segments fit for social media and continuing teacher recruitment.

MEET YOUR TEACHER

Enrollment recruitment

Social media segments can introduce teachers and staff to community and give a face and personality to a school site. This can be a powerful enrollment recruitment tool especially when teachers are from the same community as prospective students.

WHY I TEACH AT LPS

Leadership Public High Schools

LPS commissioned a series of teacher interviews asking the question "why do you teach at LPS?" What resulted is this video reflecting why teachers joined LPS and why they continue to work for the network of High Schools.

A FAMILY LITERACY NIGHT

A family engagement success

An overview of one school's successful approach to family engagement based on the training of teachers and administrators from the Family Learning Engagement Institute. The family literacy night offered learning experiences to help families help their kids.

PROJECT HEAL

Harvest to table

Project HEAL envisions a world where everyone understands the connection between our food, our health and our environment. Each year more than 4,000 students learn where their food comes from and why it matters through The HEAL Project's educational programs.

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REAL OPTIONS FOR CITY KIDS

Offering opportunity

Based in San Francisco's Visitacion Valley, ROCK's mission is to nurture the healthy development of children by listening attentively to their needs and providing opportunities to those who might not otherwise have access to resources such as after-school sports programming and academic tutoring support.

MODEL LESSON BEST PRACTICES

Silicon Valley Mathematics Initiative

The Silicon Valley Mathematics Initiative (SVMI) is a comprehensive effort to improve mathematics instruction and student learning. The Initiative is based on high performance expectations, ongoing professional development, examining student work, and improved math instruction. Model lessons along with pre lesson discussion and post lesson debrief are taped and edited and made available for ongoing professional development.

MATH IN COMMON

Lesson study

Ten school districts in California have been awarded significant support from the S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation to help the transition to the Common Core State Standards for Math (CCSS-M) in grades K-8. These districts will become leaders in the statewide transition to the CCSS-M and participate in a learning community where they share plans, lessons learned, and tolls with other grantee districts and statewide.

INSIDEMATHEMATICS.ORG

Tools for educators

Inside Mathematics grew out of the Noyce Foundation’s Silicon Valley Mathematics Initiative. SVMI is based on high performance expectations, ongoing professional development, examining student work, and improved math instruction. The initiative includes a formative and summative performance assessment system, pedagogical content coaching, and leadership training and networks. Coaches in SVMI learn strategies of re-engagement with students around mathematics assessments, and Public Lessons on re-engagement are featured here.

MISSION HIGH SCHOOL ASAP

Supporting student athletes

The Athletic Scholars Advancement Program (ASAP) is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to student athletes at Mission High School. ASAP creates and cultivates a college bound culture by providing access to summer college programs, one-on-one mentoring, individualized academic guidance and college counseling services.

EARLY LITERACY SUPPORT

Custom currciulum support

Mountain View Whisman school district wanted a tool to connect home support with developing readers. The resulting series of videos were produced and updated and distributed over ten years to support elementary-aged students. The series  expanded to include Mathematics skills. Initially, videos were sent home with students at conference time on DVD and later delivered online.

BIG LIFT TEACHER APPRECIATION

Teacher appreciation

The San Mateo County Big Lift convening need a big opening for its Spring kickoff event. This video expressing appreciation for the work Big Lift teachers do did the job.

LEADERSHIP PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS

New teacher support

LeaderShip Public Charter High Schools recruits new teachers to their network of four Bay Area sites. A series of (short) videos for social media reflect the LPS strategic focus in developing new teachers through coaching and collaborative structures designed to foster professionalism and quality classroom instruction.

A SCHOOL-BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP

Community business supporting schools

When ER Taylor School's funding for a Healthy Start Pre School expired, a a local business stepped in to not only keep the program afloat, but to expand services to children and families. ER Taylor became a "blue-ribbon" school, one of only two in San Francisco Unified School District, with standardized test scores normally associated with high-income communities.

CALIFORNIA SCHOOL DASHBOARD

Exceptional Achievement

California Department of Education rolled out the School Dashboard with a series of social media videos in multiple languages to educate parents and community on the power of the State sanctioned online school assessment tool.

MEET GARY WADDELL

Candidate for Superintendent

Gary Waddell was a candidate for San Mateo County Superintendent of Schools. This video presents Gary's commitment to equity and access to learning for all students.