Implementing Educational Language Policy in Arizona: Legal,
Historical, and Current Practices in SEI, edited by Chris
Faltis and M. Beatriz Arias, brings together scholars,
researchers, and educators to present a critical examination of
Arizona’s restrictive language policies as they influence teacher
preparation and practice. The Structured English Immersion model
prescribes the segregation of English learners for four hours a
day from English speakers and academic content for a minimum of
one year.
Vajra Watson, director of research and policy for equity,
discusses her work with youth and her new book, Learning to
Liberate: Community-Based Solutions to the Crisis in Urban
Education, on this podcast put out by Connect To Youth
(C2Y), located in Toronto, Canada. The interview is conducted by
Wolfgang Vachon. Listen
here.
UC Davis multicultural poetry slam an outlet for cries and
whispers
Fong Tran, program coordinator in the School’s CRESS Center, is
featured in a story about his poetry and how he uses it to
encourage youth to celebrate their cultures and to honor his
Vietnamese mother’s heroic efforts to raise him and his siblings
under difficult circumstances.
Read the story here.
New Summer Adventures in Enrichment Camp for Kids in Grades 4-12
In conjunction with Campus Recreation, the School of Education
offers an exciting Summer Adventures in Enrichment Camps for kids
in grades 4-12. And for the first time, there will be classes
offered in Woodland. Keep reading to learn more about the camps
and how to register students.
Center for Community School Partnerships Teams Up with CA
Department of Health
The Center for Community School Partnerships is partnering with
the California Department of Public Health to empower school age
youth to make healthy choices about food and exercise. The work
is supported through a $1.8 M. inter-agency agreement.
As a new partner in the California Department of Public Health’s
Network for a Healthy California, the new CRESS team faces a
tight schedule to fulfill the nine-month contract.
Excerpt from “Sacramento Area Youth Speaks (And the World
Listens)”
One day in high school, while on a field trip to Sac State for an
African-American student leadership conference [Dre-T] stumbled
upon a Sacramento Area Youth Speaks workshop. He was immediately
hooked.
As the group of teens shouted their poems from every corner of
the room in a guerilla poetry spectacle called Griots (which are
an ancient West African tradition that S.A.Y.S has adopted)
Tillman was captivated. “I’d always been hungry for knowledge,”
he explained, “S.A.Y.S had the food for the thought I was
starving for and they knew I was hungry.”
In his op-ed, “Time to rethink what makes a school great, keeps
kids learning,” Dean Harold Levine argues that engagement and
keeping kids in schools must be at the top of our list for what
determines a successful school. Read the piece at the
Sacramento Bee.
Congratulations to Socorro Shiels, a PhD student, who received a
$10,000 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Scholarship. The award is made
to only one student per year to recognize aspiring Latino
superintendents.
