Microphones Help English Language Learners
Mandie Cline is the Instructional Coach at Maya Lin Elementary...
Category: Teacher Mini Grants
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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A Printer for Classroom Projects
Stephanie Lisle, 1st Grade Teacher at Ruby Bridges Elementary, asked...
Descendant of First Slave to Write a Narrative Speaks to High School Students
This article was featured in the Alameda Unified School District, Community Group for Newsletter
Students in AP African-American Studies at Alameda High School and Encinal Jr. & Sr. High School were visited last week by Regina Mason, the great-great-great granddaughter of William Grimes, an African-American barber who wrote the first narrative of a formerly enslaved American.
Ms. Mason has spent the last 20 years researching Grimes, whose book, Life of William Grimes,
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Farm to Table Curriculum
Julia Jawad, an SAI (Specialized Academic Instruction) teacher at Lincoln...
AEF Supports the Educator of the Year
In the 2022-23 school year, Derrick Lyons, Encinal Jr. Sr. High School’s CTE Marketing Pathway teacher, collaborated with the Alameda Chamber of Commerce to develop a Junior Chamber program with the help of AUSD CTE pathway specialist, Felicia Vargas. A Teacher Mini Grant from AEF supported Mr. Lyon’s research and planning for this program.
Number Writing Books for TK
“When we launched Transitional Kindergarten (TK) in the district 11 years ago, we got trained in a supplemental curriculum that supports developmentally appropriate letter and number formation. It was called Handwriting Without Tears (now called Learning Without Tears). This year, the District decided not to fund student “consumables” (materials). I have purchased much on my own this year, but was hoping to get support for the number writing books. The number writing book supports number orientation (not writing backward),
Supporting College Visits
AEF provided funds for lunch for a field trip to Santa Clara University and San Jose State for students at the College and Career Center at Encinal High School on March 6th. College and Career Advisor, Lee Kaplan, sent AEF the photo of the trip!
