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Registration for Spring Enrichment Classes Opens Jan. 9

WINTER/SPRING REGISTRATION OPENS THU. JAN. 9, 2025!

AEF’s After School Enrichment program offers fun, educational classes featuring small class sizes taught by experts in their fields. With the wide selection of programs, you’ll find enriching and engaging activities to match your student’s interests and passions as they learn and grow.

AEF classes are open to AUSD and charter school students. Most classes are conveniently located at your child’s school site.

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Rotary matching grant awarded November 2024

Alameda Rotary Club Gives Matching Grant to AEF

On Tuesday, November 19, 2024 the Alameda Rotary Club presented $19,750 in matching grants to nonprofit organizations to support the important services and support that they provide in our community. The grants were presented at a meeting at Trinity Lutheran Church, which provided its Fellowship Hall for the event. Alameda Education Foundation received a matching grant from the Alameda Rotary Club along with several other non-profits in Alameda.

The grants are “matching” because individual Rotarians can make a donation to a worthy nonprofit in our community and then have our club’s foundation “match” that amount to double their donation.

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Social Emotional Lessons

Social Emotional Learning for Elementary School Students

In the opening weeks of the 2024-25 school year, AUSD’s Student Services department partnered with Alameda Family Services to provide whole-class social emotional lessons for grades K-5. AUSD and AFS staff and therapists went into classrooms for 3 days of mini lessons focused on inclusivity, kindness, and being an ‘upstander’. AUSD Department of Student Services’ Cassie Ferguson, needed supplies for small arts and craft projects for students to create and take home or keep in the classroom as a reminder of the ideas and issues that were covered.

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