Category: Accomplishments

Enriching Lives, One at a Time

Enriching Lives, One at a Time

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The sheer volume of AEF’s Enrichment program is impressive enough – 400 after school classes and 70 summer camps serving upwards of 3,000 students per year. But it’s the impact it makes on the individual students that means the most.

Take Caitlin*. A second grader, Caitlin signed up for one of AEF’s “Beginning Violin” classes. She had missed almost the full prior year of school following three weeks in the hospital and was finding it hard to adjust to being back at school.

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Robotics

Students Power Up Robots for Competition

The Alameda Robotics Center is holding its inaugural Alameda Robotics Center tournament on Saturday, May 7, 2016 from 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM in the Wood Middle School Makerspace, located at 420 Grand St.

About 50 students from Wood Middle, Lum Elementary, Ruby Bridges Elementary, Nea, and Encinal Jr. High School will be participating in the competition in which teams compete to see whose robots can complete a series of tasks for the most points.  

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From “Bummed Out” to Sports Star

spotlight-bb-feb16Daniel transferred to his new middle school in the beginning of 6th grade. After a few weeks, the AEF Middle School Sports coach, who is also a P.E. teacher at the school, noticed he was hanging by himself and had little enthusiasm. Daniel told the coach he was having a hard time making friends and was feeling  “bummed out”. The coach suggested sports as a way for him to get involved.

The coach realized he had no experience with any sports,

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Wood Volleyball Team Raises Money for Breast Cancer Awareness

Our Middle School Sports program provides students with a safe, healthy after-school activity that supports sportsmanship, teamwork, goal setting, self-confidence and school spirit.  But you never know what else can happen when you put a group of determined middle schoolers together.

The Wood Middle School volleyball players decided they wanted to support breast cancer awareness.  Throughout the month of October the girls donned pink hair bows and the boys pink socks and laces.

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Helping Students Find Their Sine

Funds from the Equipped 4 Success school supply drive are used to purchase graphing calculators for Alameda public high schools.

Geometry can be challenging enough in itself. But imagine having to make calculations using a giant grid of trigonometry calculations and then using these calculations to multiply or divide to solve for a missing side length. Whew! It is surely as tedious as it sounds and it puts the emphasis on not making a math mistake rather than learning necessary geometry standards.

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Powering Up Students for Learning!

At the Sept. 11, 2012 Board of Education meeting, Alameda Education Foundation (AEF) president Bill Sonneman presented grants to Alameda High School and Encinal High School to support technology needs in the schools’ academic intervention programs.

The funds were generated by Power Up 4 Learning, a collaboration between AEF and Alameda Municipal Power (AMP), that enables AMP customers to designate an amount to be added to their monthly power bill. AMP collects these donations and provides them to AEF to support technology needs at Alameda public schools.

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AEF’s 2010-2011 Accomplishments

AEF’s 2010-2011 Accomplishments

SUPPORTING STUDENT SUCCESS!

Adopt A Classroom
This year, the community adopted 78 classrooms! That’s $39,000 that went directly into the classroom to impact student learning through such things as field trips, purchasing of materials, and special project. This is a 40% increase over last year!

Enrichment
The 2010-2011 school year saw 2,237 registrations for AEF’s after-school Enrichment program where students participated in classes in art, music, foreign languages, creative writing,

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AEF Presents Check for Art, Music & Drama in the Schools

AEF Presents Check for Art, Music & Drama in the Schools

AEF President Bill Sonneman, third from left, presents a check from “All Together Now” to Superintendent Kirsten Vital and several Alameda principals at the January 11, 2011 Board of Education meeting. These funds will support music, art and drama programs in Alameda public schools. Photo courtesy of AEF.

The Alameda Education Foundation presented a check for Art, Music and Drama support in the schools at the January 11, 2011 AUSD Board Meeting.

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