jill, Author at Alameda Education Foundation

AEF Middle School Sports are Back with an Equity Focus

AEF is back at it with our Middle School Sports program, which we have been running since 2009 after it was cut by AUSD. AUSD and public middle school students are eligible to participate as part of their school teams. Girls Basketball games begin in January 2022 with the boys games following in March. Coed Volleyball and Track & Field will be spring sports.

AEF took advantage of the break in action to create Guiding Principles to steer the program.

AEF Enrichment Classes Support Educational Opportunities Beyond the Classroom

Enrichment classes have been the backbone of AEF programming since...

Alameda Asteroids at the Kennedy Grove Championship meet

Alameda Asteroids Blaze Trails

Over 40 6th – 8th graders competed in this fall’s...

Headsets for Remote Learning

What the pandemic and remote teaching and learning made painfully...

What is Equity?

by Vicki Sedlack, Executive Director of AEF

Equity is a word we hear a lot these days, even more so since the pandemic.

But what exactly is equity? How do we achieve it? And how do we know if we have?

It is easier to say what equity is not, and it is not equality. The illustration below is often used to make this distinction.

But does this illustration truly depict equity?

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AEF Teacher Mini Grant Makes an Impact

AEF recently awarded a mini grant to AUSD student support services to purchase a bicycle for a student in need. Here’s the scoop from the program manager:

“AUSD’s Coordination of Services team is so proud of the way this student has begun the school year—so positively! She recently got a job and she really wants to arrive at school and work on time this year. She mentioned to our attendance clerk that she is frustrated that she doesn’t have a lot of say of when she gets places,