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?
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,
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Artist and calligrapher, Rupy C. Tut, delves into her South...
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Irene Juarez O’Connell describes her Santa Cruz mural. Using math,...
The pandemic and remote teaching and learning made teachers, students and families painfully aware of just how vital technology is to student learning. No longer just optional, today technology is a crucial interface for learning.
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AEF is proud to announce that students at Paden Elementary school (Ruby Bridges has dropped out of the program) will be raising their voices and singing out proud in the 2021-22 school year with Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir’s Community Voices Choir. Through engaging songs and community-building musical games, students will build an understanding of their voice, musical skills in rhythm and matching pitches, and learn to read music.
