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Evacuation orders are in place as three major wildfires torch SoCal. A Los Angeles Unified construction project has uncovered a treasure trove of marine fossils. Hollywood bids farewell to the legendary James Earl Jones. Plus more.  Support The L.A. Report by donating at LAist.com/join and by visiting https://laist.com.Support the show: https://laist.com

Tune in here to this Wednesday edition of the Brett Winterble Show!   Brett kicks off the program by talking about Harris needs to be linked to Trump by Trump and put her in bed with Chutkan and Jack Smith The state of Mississippi is spending over $100 million on illegal immigration, according to a new report by the state with the governor blaming it on an "intentional failure" by the Biden-Harris administration to secure the border. and More schools are banning smartphones, but kids keep bringing them Gov. Gavin Newsom on Aug. 13, urged school districts statewide to "act now" and adopt similar restrictions on smartphone use, reminding them that a 2019 law gives them the authority to do so. Los Angeles Unified, the nation's second-largest school district, recently approved plans to ban phones in January. One bill before the state legislature would impose similar limits statewide while another would ban the use of social media at school. Another would prevent social media companies from sending notifications during school hours as part of a broader set of regulations intended to disrupt social media addiction. We're joined by Chad Stewart, the best-selling author of the Britfield series of books. Chad explains that the series launched with Britfield and the Lost Crown, the first installment in a seven-book series, in August 2019. He embarked on a national tour, visiting 23 states, over 200 schools, and reaching more than 40,000 students. The books are aimed at middle school, young adult, and adult readers. Chad also describes plans to expand the Britfield series beyond books, with seven major motion pictures in the works. The first movie is entering pre-production soon, with filming set to take place in England. The series aspires to become a global movement, focusing on education, literature, and film.  The Britfield series has launched in England and is expanding into other countries, with translations already available in Polish and ongoing negotiations for releases in India, South Korea, Japan, and 18 other countries.  Bo Thompson from Good Morning BT is also here for this Wednesday episode of Crossing the Streams. Brett and Bo talk about The Presidential Debate and Charlotte council  possible approval on new light rail . Bo also shares what He and Beth have coming up Thursday on Good Morning BT!  Listen here for all of this and more on The Brett Winterble Show!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In February 2024, with very little fanfare, Los Angeles Unified School District introduced a new grading policy, the first update since 2005. Based in Equitable Grading and Instruction principles, this new policy recommends that teachers to use equitable grading practices and states that grades should reflect student proficiency in learning outcomes. In this episode, Joe Zeccola joins Sharona and Bosley for a look into the process that went into crafting this new policy. This conversation provides some opportunities for reflection for school administrators thinking about doing this at a systemic level, as well as teachers who want to be change agents for their districts.LinksPlease note - any books linked here are likely Amazon Associates links. Clicking on them and purchasing through them helps support the show. Thanks for your support!Los Angeles Unified School District Equitable Grading and InstructionResourcesThe Grading Conference - an annual, online conference exploring Alternative Grading in Higher Education & K-12.Some great resources to educate yourself about Alternative Grading:The Grading for Growth BlogThe Grading ConferenceThe Intentional Academia BlogRecommended Books on Alternative Grading (Please note - any books linked here are likely Amazon Associates links. Purchasing through them helps support the show. Thanks for your support!):Grading for Growth, by Robert Talbert and David ClarkSpecifications Grading, by Linda NilsenUndoing the Grade, by Jesse StommelGrading for Equity, by Joe FeldmanThe Grading Podcast publishes every week on Tuesday at 4 AM Pacific time, so be sure to subscribe and get notified of each new episode. You can follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram - @thegradingpod. To leave us a comment, please go to our website: www.thegradingpod.com and leave a comment on this episode's page.If you would like to be considered to be a guest on this...

It's a new year, and Darren Buford is joined again by Amy Andrews McMaster to discuss how a regulated nervous system is essential to having a brave conversation, some of the causes of a dysregulated nervous system, and how self-regulation plays an important role in a massage therapist's career. Amy Andrews McMaster is a leadership coach, consultant, and workshop facilitator. She has worked with school leaders in Denver, Aurora, Douglas County, Los Angeles Unified, the University of Colorado, Boulder, the University of Denver, and in the country of Malta. She has collaborated with government agencies and organizations such as Whole Foods Market, JP Morgan Chase, FirstBank, DIRECTV, and Amazon Web Services.    For more information about Amy, visit chiefsoulofficer.com   Resources:   5-Minute Morning Yoga: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/09/06/well/move/morning-yoga-beginner.html   IFS Meditation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws28idoVTX0   Brave Conversations: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/brave-conversations-importance-regulated-nervous-amy-andrews-mcmaster/   Host: Darren Buford is senior director of communications and editor-in-chief for ABMP. He is editor of Massage & Bodywork magazine and has worked for ABMP for 22 years, and been involved in journalism at the association, trade, and consumer levels for 24 years. He has served as board member and president of the Western Publishing Association, as well as board member for Association Media & Publishing. 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AI is ramping up the urgency for digital citizenship while these initiatives are struggling to get traction. Our guests walk through some steps they've taken to strengthen digital citizenship in large school systems and help other school administrators do the same. Follow on Twitter: @Digital_Empower @ISTEofficial @mrhooker @jonHarper70bd @DrMonterosa @bamradionetwork @shellthief @hyphenatic #edchat #edtech #edtechchat Carrie Rogers-Whitehead (@Digital_Empower) is the founder of Digital Respons-Ability, which works with educators, parents and students to teach digital citizenship. Her company provides training to tens of thousands of students, parents, and educators across Utah and beyond. Carrie is also the author of several books, including Deepening Digital Citizenship (ISTE, 2022) with Vanessa Monterosa and Digital Citizenship: Teaching Strategies and Practice from the Field (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019). Vanessa Monterosa (@DrMonterosa) serves as a senior associate partner for NewSchools Venture Fund, a nonprofit committed to investing in bold, innovative ideas to transform education. Prior to joining the NewSchools team, Dr. Monterosa dedicated seven years to successfully shaping system-level digital citizenship efforts across Los Angeles Unified, the nation's second largest school district. She is co-author of Deepening Digital Citizenship (ISTE, 2022).

California's Local Control Funding Formula or LCFF took a major step towards advancing equity.  But as LCFF was coming into existence 10 years ago, education and community leaders in the state's largest school district, Los Angeles Unified, recognized this new formula might not go far enough in helping to address deeply rooted inequities within its student population.  Through a unique partnership between the local community and school district, the groundbreaking Student Equity Need Index (SENI) was born. In 2024, the SENI turns ten. It's an example of a powerful partnership between students, parents, community advocates and school district leaders to drive resource equity. SENI is a research-based index that uses comprehensive academic and community-based indicators to rank schools from highest to lowest according to student need. With these rankings, LAUSD can more accurately understand the needs of its schools and equitably distribute funds to address them.  In many ways, the SENI is a more robust precursor to the state's new Equity Multiplier,  adopted in the 2023 Budget Act, which will target some additional funding directly to schools.In this episode, Pedro Salcido, Deputy Superintendent of Business Services and Operations for Los Angeles Unified School District, and Jessenia Reyes, Associate Director of K-12 Policy for the Equity Team at Catalyst California, take us deep inside the SENI.  They share with host Jason Willis how SENI was developed and how it evolved, the impact it has had to date, and how the district and community groups worked together and through some difficult tensions to build the system. While the SENI originated in California's largest school district, it's an exciting homegrown model that districts around the state can learn from and potentially customize to better address their communities' unique needs.About Our GuestsJessenia Reyes is the Associate Director of K-12 Policy at Catalyst California, a systems change nonprofit organization, and part of the Equity Alliance for L.A.'s Kids that includes Community Coalition in South LA, Inner-City Struggle in East LA, and the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, which advocated for the SENI.Pedro Salcido is the Deputy Superintendent of Business Services and Operations for Los Angeles USD, the state's largest school district and the second-largest in the nation.  Prior to his current role, Pedro served as Chief of Staff managing all District academic and nonacademic operations, activities and  initiatives, as well as serving as the Superintendent's principal liaison to the Board of Education. Among many other roles and accomplishments, he served as the leading staff member who developed and implemented the District's SENI, an equity-based funding allocation that today has grown to distribute nearly $700 million to the neediest schools in the district..LinksCatalyst California SENI page LAUSD SENI pageBudgeting for Educational Equity podcast is presented by CASBO and WestEd. We are grateful to the Sobrato Family Foundation for additional support. Our series is written and produced by Paul Richman and Jason Willis. Music and editing  by Tommy Dunbar. Alyssa Perez and Hannah Jarmolowski at WestEd provide research and develop written briefs that go along with many episodes.

Next week, children as young as 5 attending Los Angeles Unified public schools will participate in a weeklong celebration of “National Coming Out Day.” Assassinations were a common occurrence in the Ancient World; recently, we have seen attempts on Steve Scalise, Brett Kavanaugh, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., with threats made against many more on both sides of the political aisle. Richard C. Lyons, author of The DNA of Democracy and Shadows of the Acropolis, joined me to discuss the possibility of assassinations becoming common in the United States. Ken Crow of Crow's Nest Politics joined me in the second hour to discuss the Speaker of the House drama, twenty miles of border wall, Hillary Clinton's call for "de-programming" of the "Deplorables," and the RFK, Jr. campaign.Richard C. LyonsThe DNA of DemocracyShadows of the AcropolisEgo in a Teabag: How Greed, Corruption and Deceit Threaten a Great American MovementRainbow Clubs in LA SchoolsVisit 4Patriots and prepare for whatever life sends your way.VNSH holster fits 99% of all semi-auto handguns, works without a tactical belt, lets you carry in multiple positions, and carries two fully loaded magazines. Go to http://vnsh.com/tapp to activate a $40 discount today.NativePath Antarctic Krill Oil has been shown to support healthy blood pressure, circulation, and brain health and reduce inflammation, swelling, and joint pain. Go to fixswollenfeet.com .On MyPillow's 20-year Anniversary, Mike Lindell wants to thank you by giving you the lowest price in history. Go to My Pillow and use promo code: TAPP.A Girl Known as STHero SoapPatriot DepotBlue CoolersFire & FlavorKoa CoffeeBrainMDDiamond CBD2nd SkullEinstokBeanstoxHoneyFund"Homegrown" Boone's BourbonIsland BrandsBlackout Coffee Co.Full Circle Brewing Co.Pasmosa Sangria

Next week, children as young as 5 attending Los Angeles Unified public schools will participate in a weeklong celebration of “National Coming Out Day.” Assassinations were a common occurrence in the Ancient World, recently we have seen attempts on Steve Scalise, Brett Kavanaugh, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. with threats made against many more on both sides of the political aisle. Richard C. Lyons, author of The DNA of Democracy and Shadows of the Acropolis, joined me to discuss the possibility of assassinations becoming common in the U.S. Ken Crow of Crow's Nest Politics joined me in the second hour to discuss the Speaker of the House drama, twenty miles of border wall, Hillary Clinton's call for "de-programming" of the "Deplorables," and the RFK, Jr. campaign. Visit 4Patriots and prepare for whatever life sends your way. VNSH holster fits 99% of all semi-auto handguns, works without a tactical belt, lets you carry in multiple positions, and carries two fully loaded magazines. Go to http://vnsh.com/tapp to activate a $40 discount today. NativePath Antarctic Krill Oil has been shown to support healthy blood pressure, circulation, and brain health and reduce inflammation, swelling, and joint pain. Go to fixswollenfeet.com . On MyPillow's 20-year Anniversary, Mike Lindell wants to thank you by giving you the lowest price in history. Go to My Pillow and use promo code: TAPP 

Los Angeles Public Schools Partner With Couple That Pushes Sex-Change Surgery On ChildrenChildren as young as 3 are being mutilated emotionally and physically because of Aydin and Johanna Oden-KennedyVisit the GWCC Page: https://www.gwcclancaster.org/ Visit our Merchandise Page: https://tableflippers.creator-spring.com/ Write me at: gwccrobert@gmail.com https://www.dailywire.com/news/los-angeles-public-schools-partner-with-couple-that-pushes-sex-change-surgery-on-children

Los Angeles Unified has opened a new grade to all 4-year-olds called universal transitional kindergarten. Who's enrolling, and why are some choosing not to? AP African American Studies became an official course at Dorsey High School in Crenshaw last year, and soon it'll expand to the rest of LAUSD. Schools around the state are feeling the effects of climate change. Now, after heavy parental lobbying, LAUSD plans to “green” 30% of all its campuses by 2035 to create more shade.

Struggling to find affordable childcare? Tips from our early education reporter Mariana Dale. Plus, part 2 of "Finding Home con DACA" with Brian De Los Santos recounting his physical and emotional journey through Mexico. Los Angeles Unified says chronic absenteeism is improving but students need an academic plan to catch up. And, home to the largest population outside Armenia, LA commemorates the 1915 Armenian Genocide. Support The L.A. Report by donating now at LAist.com/join  Support the show: https://laist.com

#82: Last week, more than 60,000 workers and teachers in the nation's second largest school district went on strike. It was led by SEIU Local 99 — members of the Service Employees International Union, representing about 30,000 essential workers in Los Angeles Unified. These are LAUSD's bus drivers, teachers' aides, custodians food service workers and other school workers – and they're among the lowest paid workers in the district. The teacher's union joined in solidarity.  On Friday, after three days of striking, LAUSD reached a tentative labor deal with the district effectively meeting the workers' demands for a 30% increase in salary and healthcare benefits for part-time employees. SEIU 99 union members will be able to vote on the agreement in-person and online throughout next week. The voting results will be announced on Saturday, April 8.  But it got us thinking, how effective are strikes anyway? What other tools do unions have to get their demands met? And how are they even organized?   Guests: Joshua Grunland, choir and music production teacher at Manuel Arts High School; Jonathan Harris, associate professor at Loyola Law School; Diana Reddy, doctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley.Shout out to LAist newsroom for assist with voice from the picket line!

On this special episode (brought to you by ClassLink), Chris and Eric the Intern take a trip to Austin and spend the week at the CoSN conference! Because they interviewed so many and got such good content, we'll be breaking this into two parts. You'll hear from:   -Eric Nicklas, Program Manager, MOREnet -Don Ringelestein, CTO, Maine Township High School District 207, CoSN Board -Evangelina Mendoza, CTO, San Antonio Independent School District, CoSN Board -Tim Clark & Monica Watts, 1EdTech -Melody Lam, Learning Tools Developer, Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools -Dayna Aravich & Dan Stoneman, Gartner -Shahryar Khazei, retired CIO of Los Angeles Unified, CoSN Board -Tom Ryan, Co-Founder at K-12 Strategic Technology Advisory Group, former CIO of Albuquerque Public Schools, and member of the Council of Great City Schools -Jan Mills, Senior Vice President of Sales, ClassLink -Steve Langford, CIO, Beaverton School District, Retiring CoSN Chair -Marlo Gaddis, CTO, Wake County Public School System -Keith Krueger, CEO, CoSN   ClassLink - Cybersecurity Rubric for Schools https://www.classlink.com/news/groundbreaking-new-cybersecurity-rubric-guides-schools-toward-improved-security-practices   ClassLink – DataGuard https://www.classlink.com/news/classlink-announces-dataguard-and-advanced-iam-tools

On this special episode (brought to you by ClassLink), Chris and Eric the Intern take a trip to Austin and spend the week at the CoSN conference! Because they interviewed so many and got such good content, we'll be breaking this into two parts. You'll hear from:   -Eric Nicklas, Program Manager, MOREnet -Don Ringelestein, CTO, Maine Township High School District 207, CoSN Board -Evangelina Mendoza, CTO, San Antonio Independent School District, CoSN Board -Tim Clark & Monica Watts, 1EdTech -Melody Lam, Learning Tools Developer, Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools -Dayna Aravich & Dan Stoneman, Gartner -Shahryar Khazei, retired CIO of Los Angeles Unified, CoSN Board -Tom Ryan, Co-Founder at K-12 Strategic Technology Advisory Group, former CIO of Albuquerque Public Schools, and member of the Council of Great City Schools -Jan Mills, Senior Vice President of Sales, ClassLink -Steve Langford, CIO, Beaverton School District, Retiring CoSN Chair -Marlo Gaddis, CTO, Wake County Public School System -Keith Krueger, CEO, CoSN   ClassLink - Cybersecurity Rubric for Schools https://www.classlink.com/news/groundbreaking-new-cybersecurity-rubric-guides-schools-toward-improved-security-practices   ClassLink – DataGuard https://www.classlink.com/news/classlink-announces-dataguard-and-advanced-iam-tools

Japan's Prime Minister makes surprise visit to Ukraine Senate moves forward to debate canceling resolutions that authorized war against Iraq “Third Act” climate elders stage protest against major banks that finance fossil fuel projects San Francisco Supervisors overwhelmingly approve 25 million dollar police overtime supplemental funds State Board of Equalization could be headed for termination   Photo by KPFA Reporter Gil Martel The post Japan's Prime Minister pays unexpected visit to Ukraine; Workers strike at the Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation's second largest; Third Act protesters urge big banks to stop financing fossil fuel projects: Evening News March 21 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

Japan's Prime Minister makes surprise visit to Ukraine Senate moves forward to debate canceling resolutions that authorized war against Iraq “Third Act” climate elders stage protest against major banks that finance fossil fuel projects San Francisco Supervisors overwhelmingly approve 25 million dollar police overtime supplemental funds State Board of Equalization could be headed for termination   Photo by KPFA Reporter Gil Martel The post Japan's Prime Minister pays unexpected visit to Ukraine; Workers strike at the Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation's second largest; Third Act protesters urge big banks to stop financing fossil fuel projects: Evening News March 21 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

In statewide and nationwide tests of K-12 academic achievement, California lags badly behind. Learning is especially deficient among children from poor families, but even kids from affluent California families tend to lag behind those in other states.  Arun Ramanathan, CEO of Pivot Learning, an Oakland-based non-profit organization that advises school systems on improving instruction, created a series of benchmarks to gauge how well school districts are prepared to embrace reforms. He also created a website that allows the public to view the results for every school district with at least 2,500 students. Users can see how the districts score in each, with overall ratings designated by colors. Blue is the best, yellow is in the middle and orange is the worst. Some of the state's largest districts are colored orange, including Los Angeles Unified, whose enrollment approaches 10% of the state's 6 million public school students. A few large districts achieved blue status for being well prepared, including Fresno Unified, Long Beach Unified and San Bernardino Unified. But most of the blue districts tend to be either in affluent suburbs – no surprise there – or in rural areas. - Listeners Comment   A moment on street racing. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In statewide and nationwide tests of K-12 academic achievement, California lags badly behind. Learning is especially deficient among children from poor families, but even kids from affluent California families tend to lag behind those in other states.  Arun Ramanathan, CEO of Pivot Learning, an Oakland-based non-profit organization that advises school systems on improving instruction, created a series of benchmarks to gauge how well school districts are prepared to embrace reforms. He also created a website that allows the public to view the results for every school district with at least 2,500 students. Users can see how the districts score in each, with overall ratings designated by colors. Blue is the best, yellow is in the middle and orange is the worst. Some of the state's largest districts are colored orange, including Los Angeles Unified, whose enrollment approaches 10% of the state's 6 million public school students. A few large districts achieved blue status for being well prepared, including Fresno Unified, Long Beach Unified and San Bernardino Unified. But most of the blue districts tend to be either in affluent suburbs – no surprise there – or in rural areas. - Listeners Comment   A moment on street racing. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Los Angeles Unified, the second-largest school district in the US, was hit with a ransomware attack a few days ago. Global cybercrime could reach $10.5 trillion by 2025. Cyberattacks cannot be seen, but their effects can be—a clear illustration of how Satan chooses to use secret sin in Christians' lives. Author: Jim Denison, PhD Narrator: Chris Elkins Subscribe: http://www.denisonforum.org/subscribe

The Cybercrime Magazine Podcast brings you our weekly alert, hosted by Paul John Spaulding, which provides boardroom and C-suite executives, CIOs, CSOs, CISOs, IT executives and cybersecurity professionals with the latest breaking news stories we're following. If there's a cyberattack, hack, or data breach you should know about, then we're on it. Airs weekly on WCYB and our podcast. For more on the latest cyberattacks, hacks, and breaches, visit https://cybercrimewire.com

Meta's virtual Connect event will stream live Oct. 11th; The Los Angeles Unified School District is dealing with a ransomware attack

Meta's virtual Connect event will stream live Oct. 11th; The Los Angeles Unified School District is dealing with a ransomware attack

In this episode I bring to light some of the dangerous things that children are being exposed in the Government Schools across America. According to Cathy Ruse (Senior Fellow and Director of Human Dignity at Family Research Council.) in a report from a few years ago titled "SEX EDUCATION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS: SEXUALIZATION OF CHILDREN AND LGBT INDOCTRINATION", "Year after year, sex ed programs push the limits on what is appropriate, both in terms of the material presented to students and the age at which it is presented. In many school districts today, lessons introduce sexual concepts to very young children and promote risky sexual behavior to vulnerable teens and pre-teens." She goes to say that "The LGBTQ movement demands that homosexual relationships be presented to children as good, healthy, and equal in every way to heterosexuality within man-woman marriage. Many sex ed developers and providers are all too happy to comply." In a recent article Film maker Chris Rufo said that he "obtained a trove of publicly accessible documents from Los Angeles Unified that illustrates the extent to which gender ideology has entered the mainstream of the nation's second-largest school district. Since 2020, the district's Human Relations, Diversity, and Equity department has created an infrastructure to translate the basic tenets of academic queer theory into K-12 pedagogy. The programming includes a wide range of conferences, presentations, curricula, teacher-training programs, adult-driven “gender and sexuality” clubs, and school-sponsored protests." These and many other reports should be cause for concern with regards to sending children to be educated by these institutions. This episode is a send in a series making the case for parents to consider removing their children out of Government School. Here is the Reoprt by Cathy Ruse: https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:a6de588b-e84c-31a2-9045-c3dea65eab8c Here is the article by Chris Rufo: https://christopherrufo.com/sexual-liberation-in-public-schools/?mc_cid=ee4a8dfb50&mc_eid=273c6688fc --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/i61-exploits/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/i61-exploits/support

Many parents haven't found tutoring options at their children's schools.

It's a question that is increasingly being asked within the field of education and beyond.  Have we reached a point within our culture in which it is now time to do away with grades and academic marks of any sort?As related in a recent article from the Los Angeles Times which relates that two of California's largest school districts--Los Angeles Unified and San Diego Unified--have radically restructured student feedback mechanisms and are, believe it or not, moving towards the elimination of grades.But, before we get on the "anti-California" bandwagon, perhaps we should seriously consider both the pros and the cons of current grading strategies.  Is there some virtue to these notions?"Kingdom Culture Conversations" is a podcast created through Frameworks, a Biblical worldview initiative of Northwest Christian School.For more information on Frameworks, please visit:  https://frameworks.ncsaz.org/For more information on Northwest Christian School, visit:  https://www.ncsaz.org/To reach out to Geoff Brown, please email gbrown@ncsaz.org or you can reach him by cell phone:  (623)225-5573.

Dr. Bertrand & Dr. Porcher, co-host with Ariana Bertrand, Reniya Johnson, Ms. Stacey Joy & Mrs. Marian Dingle about their experiences teaching and learning during both pandemics of racism and Covid-19; specifically going back into the school building after remote learning. Ariana Bertrand is a 15 year old proud black girl. She enjoys listing to music and reading a good book. She inspires to be a lawyer and live out her dream of traveling the world. Right now she into fashion and Steve lacy. Reniya Johnson is 17 years old. She is currently a senior at DePaul Cristo Rey High School and has been accepted into over 30 schools and has gotten over $200,000 in scholarships. She loves to dance and have fun. She is ready for college! Her one hope that you get from this podcast is that her one voice can only do so much. If we continue to stick together that's when real changes will occur. Stacey Joy is a National Board Certified Teacher, Google Certified Educator, and a former L.A. County Teacher of the Year. Stacey has been an elementary school educator for 37 years in Los Angeles Unified. Currently, she teaches 5th grade at Baldwin Hills Pilot and Gifted Magnet School. In addition to teaching her Joyteam scholars, she also mentors novice teachers, and is a teacher leader within her school community. Marian Dingle was a classroom elementary educator for twenty-two years. Her early career involved local advocacy for marginalized students and families, while her later work involved national activism through publications, presentations and leadership in educational organizations. Realizing that she could no longer accept current schooling structures, she left classroom teaching nearly a year ago to work with an organization devoted to better social and emotional outcomes for Black and Latinx learners. She speaks from the heart and strives to lead with authenticity, determined to leave the world better than she found it. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/black-gaze/support

Statewide, some hospitals are buckling under the pressure of Omicron. As the highly contagious variant continues to sweep through the state, a growing number of hospital staffers are testing positive. Reporter: Jackie Fortier, KPCC  When Governor Gavin Newsom releases his new state budget on Monday, it will include $2.7 billion to expand the state's COVID-19 response. Reporter: Scott Shafer, KQED  Over the weekend, Los Angeles Unified teachers and students lined up at schools across L.A. to get a COVID test. They're trying to beat a deadline to get a now required test before school starts on Tuesday. Reporter: Caleigh Wells, KCRW In an era of mounting student debt, a community college in Stockton is offering a little help. Administrators at San Joaquin Delta College have announced that COVID-19 relief dollars will be used to erase more than $3.5 million of student debt. Reporter: Alice Woelfle, KQED For months, the state of California has been working to help renters hurt by the pandemic. Now it's launching a program to assist homeowners.  Reporter: David Wagner , KPCC

Some of California's largest school districts will no longer be giving D and F grades to high school students. Los Angeles Unified, Oakland Unified and Sac City Unified are among the districts who are phasing them out, to take an unconventional tactic to re-engage students, and hopefully boost their chances of acceptance into the state public colleges.

By Sasha Hupka If Your Time Is Short: In recent weeks, several California school districts have announced that students over the age of 12 will be required to receive the COVID-19 vaccine to attend school in person. Some districts, such as the Los Angeles Unified School District, will only accept medical exemptions to the shot, while others, like the Oakland Unified School District, will also offer personal belief exemptions. California for decades has required schoolchildren receive vaccines for a range of diseases from measles to mumps to chickenpox, but experts say it's unclear whether districts can individually mandate vaccines under current state law.  California law allows the state Legislature and the department of public health to set vaccination requirements for schoolchildren but does not include a process for local school boards. Legal scholars expect that the mandates will be challenged in court. When the Culver City Unified School District announced in August it would require all eligible students to be vaccinated against COVID-19, the announcement was met with overwhelming support from the surrounding Los Angeles County community. But as other schools across California have announced similar mandates in recent weeks, questions have emerged about whether individual districts can legally require public schoolchildren to receive COVID-19 shots, spurring opposition. The Los Angeles Unified School District saw protesters when its board voted to mandate COVID-19 shots for students over 12 years of age on Sept. 9. The vote led to claims online that the district did not have the legal authority to require vaccinations. Last week, a crowd of parents holding signs with slogans like “My child, my choice” gathered outside a high school in Glendale, even though the school currently has no COVID-19 vaccination mandate in place for pupils. Experts say previous legal rulings indicate that schools can generally mandate vaccinations for students and employees. But in California, where the state Legislature has already passed laws on student vaccination mandates, it's unclear how much latitude districts might have to require schoolchildren to get the shot. Legal scholars expect that the courts will have to work out the details. In the meantime, here's what we know. Constitutional Challenges Leslie Jacobs, a professor of constitutional law at McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento and director of the Capital Center for Law & Policy, said legal scholars “always” expect to see constitutional challenges to vaccine mandates. But in the case of school vaccination mandates, she said those challenges “should not be strong” and are unlikely to succeed in court given past rulings. “Religious liberty shouldn't be a winner constitutionally and bodily integrity — ‘I can't have a shot in my body' — should also not be a winner constitutionally,” Jacobs said. Government entities like schools and the U.S. Army have historically been able to require vaccinations based on legal precedent set by Jacobson v. Massachusetts in 1905. At the time, Massachusetts law empowered local health boards to enforce mandatory, free vaccinations for adults if it was deemed crucial to the health and safety of the surrounding community. Adults who refused to get vaccinated faced a $5 fine. During a smallpox outbreak in 1902, the city of Cambridge mandated the vaccination of all of its residents. One resident, Henning Jacobson, refused, sparking a case that eventually went before the U.S. Supreme Court. The court upheld the vaccination requirement. That decision firmly established the power of states and other government entities to enforce compulsory vaccinations in the interest of public health, according to legal scholars. "A community has the right to protect itself against an epidemic of disease which threatens the safety of its members," Justice John Marshall Harlan wrote in the majority opinion in the case. California's Current Vaccination Laws Vaccinations for California schoolchildren are currently regulated by Senate Bill 277, which passed in June 2015. The legislation was prompted by an outbreak of measles at Disneyland in 2014 that ultimately infected more than 150 people from eight different states, Mexico and Canada. For decades, California has mandated vaccinations against measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, hepatitis B, influenza type B, polio, whooping cough, tetanus and chickenpox. But passage of the law removed personal belief exemptions, giving California one of the toughest vaccination mandates in the nation. Without a medical exemption, the only way parents could opt out of vaccinating their children was to home-school them or enroll them in an independent study program without classroom instruction.  The legislation also included several options for adding vaccinations to the mandated list. The state Legislature could pass a new statute or amend the law at any time, opting to add a new vaccination with or without a personal belief exemption. Alternatively, a clause in the law allowed the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) to mandate new vaccines, taking into consideration advice from health experts. But if a vaccination is added to the schedule in this way, the legislation stipulates that personal belief exemptions must be offered to parents and students. The law raises several legal concerns for school districts currently mandating COVID-19 vaccinations for students. Dorit Reiss, a professor of law at UC Hastings in San Francisco and a member of the Vaccine Working Group on Ethics and Policy, said the law can be interpreted as a minimum standard that schools must follow and noted that one clause in the legislation gives districts “broad authority” to act in ways that do not conflict with the law. However, Reiss said legal challenges could stem from the fact that state law does not lay out any sort of formal process for individual districts to add vaccination requirements. “The argument is that because the state has extensively regulated this area, the state has occupied it, and districts cannot deviate from state law at will,” Reiss said. “The broad school immunization law covers it, and there is no room for local action.” Ultimately, it's unclear where courts will land on the issue. Jacobs said schools mandating COVID-19 vaccinations are “pushing the envelope” legally. Will More California Schools Mandate COVID-19 Vaccinations? So far, just a handful of California school districts have mandated COVID-19 shots for students.  Culver City and Los Angeles Unified are the two largest districts to do so in Southern California. Neither are currently offering personal belief exemptions. Last week, the Oakland Unified School District and Piedmont Unified School District, both in Alameda County, became the first districts to mandate the vaccination in Northern California. While Piedmont Unified is only allowing medical exemptions, Oakland Unified will accept personal belief waivers. Other school districts seem less eager to jump into new mandates. Officials with the San Francisco Unified School District and the San Diego Unified School District told CalMatters earlier this month that they did not plan to set a vaccination requirement. When Culver City Unified announced its vaccination mandate, Superintendent Quoc Tran told EdSource that he believed the requirement was legally sound. He said school officials did not ask district lawyers to look at the policy. A spokesperson for Los Angeles Unified declined to comment on the school's legal authority for this article, and a spokesperson for Oakland Unified said they could not discuss legal specifics with PolitiFact California as the school believes “there is the possibility of litigation on this topic.” If school districts get challenged in court, Jacobs, with the McGeorge School of Law, said a judge could issue an emergency order to halt vaccination requirements as the case moves through the legal system. It's also possible that districts soon won't be making the vaccination rules in classrooms across the Golden State. During a media briefing last week, California Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly said officials are considering a statewide requirement, although no definitive decision has been made. Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday said school mandates are “still on the table.” In the meantime, whether or not California school districts can independently require students to get vaccinated will likely be fought out in the courts.  That process may be repeated across the country as districts in other places confront their own state laws on vaccinations in schools. “State law controls,” Jacobs said. “It will be up to a court to look at these sources of state law to determine what's happening.” Source List:  Email interview with Dorit Reiss, a professor of law at UC Hastings and a member of the Vaccine Working Group on Ethics and Policy, Sept. 23, 2021 Zoom interview with Leslie Jacobs, a professor of constitutional law at McGeorge School of Law and director of the Capital Center for Law & Policy, Sept. 23, 2021 The Los Angeles Times, Culver City Unified to require student COVID-19 vaccinations, in what may be a first, Aug. 18, 2021 The Los Angeles Times, L.A. school officials order sweeping student vaccine mandate, a first by a major district, Sept. 9, 2021 ABC7, Parents protest vaccine mandates despite Glendale Unified not having requirement for students, Sept. 24, 2021 Cornell Law Library Legal Information Institute, Henning Jacobson v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts California Legislative Information, Senate Bill No. 277 National Conference of State Legislatures, States With Religious and Philosophical Exemptions From School Immunization Requirements, April 30, 2021 The Los Angeles Times, California Legislature passes mandatory vaccination bill, June 29, 2015 SF Gate, State Assembly approves vaccine bill, June 25, 2015 Centers for Disease Control, Measles Outbreak — California, December 2014 - February 2015, Feb. 20, 2015 Culver City Unified School District, Facebook post, Aug. 17, 2021 Los Angeles Unified School District, Los Angeles Unified to Require All Students 12 and Older to be Vaccinated Against COVID-19 by January 10, 2022, Sept. 9, 2021 Los Angeles Unified School District, Safe Steps to Safe Schools: Frequently Asked Questions Piedmont Unified School District, PUSD Board Meeting Summary – September 22, 2021, Sept. 24, 2021 Oakland Unified School District, OUSD Board of Education Passes Vaccine Requirement for Students 12 Years Old and Up, Sept. 23, 2021 CalMatters, Other school districts in no rush to follow Los Angeles Unified vaccine mandate, Sept. 10, 2021 EdSource, Culver City Unified mandates Covid vaccine for students, possibly a first for California, Aug. 18, 2021 NBC Bay Area, California Considers COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for Students 12 and Up, Sept. 23, 2021

This Week: Huge, earth shattering news this week out of the nation's second largest school district. Los Angeles Unified becomes the first major district in the country to issue a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for students, which will effectively require all students 12 and over to be fully vaccinated by the end of the fall semester, in order to attend in-person school. LAUSD already has among the nation's most robust COVID testing, contact tracing and prevention programs, and is requiring all district staff to be fully vaccinated by mid October. The lawsuits will be coming, for sure, and the news breaks just days before the CA gubernatorial recall election where republicans are running black Ron Desantis, who promises to spread COVID far and wide, in the name of freedom. Manuel and Jeff discuss their takes, and offer some timely reflections on the 20th anniversary of 9/11 as well. Get your All of the Above swag, including your own “Teach the Truth” shirt! In this moment of relentless attacks on teaching truth in the classroom, we got you covered. https://all-of-the-above-store.creator-spring.com Passing Period is an AOTA Podcast extra that gives us a chance to check-in, reflect, and discuss powerful stories in between our full episodes. Watch, listen and subscribe to make sure you don't miss our latest content! Website: https://AOTAshow.com Stream all of our content at: linktr.ee/AOTA Watch at: YouTube.com/AlloftheAbove Listen at: apple.co/38QV7Bd and anchor.fm/AOTA Follow us at: Facebook.com/AOTAshow and Twitter.com/AOTAshow --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/aota/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/aota/support

All eligible children attending Los Angeles Unified public schools -- the nation's second largest school district -- will be required to be vaccinated against Covid-19 by the end of the calendar year, the school board of education has voted. In a special meeting held Thursday, the Los Angeles Unified School Board decided a mandate was appropriate based on the sudden surge of the virus brought about by the Delta variant and data showing lower rates of infection and hospitalization among those who are vaccinated.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

We're excited as the start of the 2021-22 school year approaches on August 16. We will be back in school, in-person with full-day instruction five days a week. This includes after school programs and extracurricular activities! Los Angeles Unified is prepared to welcome everyone back with the highest standard of safety protocols at every campus. We look forward to having everyone back together, learning safely. You should be receiving our Back To School Family Guide in the mail very soon. Please take a look and learn more about our academic, social and safety plans. You can also visit: https://achieve.lausd.net/backtoschool for additional information on everything we're doing to prepare for August 16. Legacy VAPA will host a Town Hall Meeting on Monday, July 26 at 2:30 pm to review protocols and options for families this school year including in-person and online learning. https://lausd.zoom.us/s/84741036968 Webinar ID: 847 4103 6968  

Austin Beutner, who has led the Los Angeles Unified School District through a period of unprecedented tumult, will step down as superintendent after his current contract expires at the end of June. In a letter sent last Wednesday afternoon, Beutner asked LAUSD board members to allow his contract to expire "as planned on June 30." Beutner's decision will plunge the nation's second-largest school district into its sixth leadership transition in a decade. Beutner is LAUSD's third non-interim superintendent in the last 10 years. In his letter, though, Beutner suggested that board members won't have to look far for a replacement. "I believe," Beutner wrote, "the next superintendent of Los Angeles Unified can be found amongst the current team and she or he will be well placed to continue the progress at this critical time." According to Beutner's letter, board members had asked him to consider extending his current contract. He wanted to take the opportunity to leave on what he deemed a high note. "In the meantime," he added, "I will remain focused on the task of ensuring that schools reopen in the safest way possible while helping in a seamless leadership transition." LAUSD board members responded with a warm, joint, unsigned statement thanking Beutner for his three years of service and promising a “robust and equitable search process to find our next leader.” On Friday, the board announced that Megan K. Reilly, who’s been a top financial officer in the Los Angeles Unified School District for 12 of the last 14 years, has been selected to succeed Austin Beutner as superintendent — at least temporarily. Today on AirTalk, Superintendent Beutner stops in to chat with Larry Mantle about his time as LAUSD superintendent, the lessons he learned along the way, the biggest challenges he faced during his time in office and what he hopes his legacy will be as a school administrator. For more on this story from KPCCLAist’s Kyle Stokes, click here. Guest: Austin Beutner, superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District; he tweets @AustinLASchools

Los Angeles County Is Now In The Orange Tier, Los Angeles Unified Prepares to Reopen Classrooms, The Pandemic Resistance of Tin Horn Flats

Today on AirTalk, we breakdown Los Angeles Unified's reopening deal with United Teachers Los Angeles. Also on the show, we discuss the impact remote work has had on the autistic community; talk about the rise of sports trading cards and NBA Top Shot; and more.

Los Angeles Unified is the second largest school district in the country and 80% of its students live in poverty.  Austin Beutner joins Axios Re:Cap to discuss how he made the decision to send students home, how he worked with Apple to procure half a million computers, and how he stood up one of the largest free meal programs in U.S. history — not just for students, but for anyone — which has now distributed over 110 million meals.  Plus, Axios Re:Cap revisits a White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing that hinted at where the days and months were headed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your news this morning: Health officials say Los Angeles County's number of new COVID-19 cases has dropped to "pre-surge levels"; Los Angeles Unified school superintendent Austin Beutner expects that a deal with the teachers union on reopening campuses could come as soon as this week; and more. This program is made possible in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the American people. Support the show: https://support.laist.com/laistnav

Handel on the news late edition with the morning crew discussing the LATEST in news such as Los Angeles Unified going to get 40% of school staff vaccine doses, China reportedly giving American diplomats anal COVID-19 tests, and students protesting as Utah lawmakers resist changing the word "Dixie."

It’s Tuesday, January 12th. I’m Mary Regalado, and here’s your local news from The Los Angeles Times. Today will be mostly sunny and nice, with a high of 70 and a low tonight of 49. Our top story: Los Angeles Unified students will need a COVID-19 vaccine in order to return to campus. Superintendent Austin Beutner made the announcement yesterday. He did not suggest that campuses remain closed until the vaccines are available.

California Doctors Ready for Reluctant Patients as Vaccines ArriveAs people start getting vaccinated, California doctors are preparing to talk to patients about it, and the physicians are expecting some resistance. Reporter: Sammy Caiola, KQED That number of restaurants likely to close could be significantly higher in the Bay Area and Los Angeles County where immigrants make up a larger share of restaurant owners. Reporter: Benjamin Gottlieb, KCRW L.A County health officials are going to use the Moderna vaccine at nursing homes, and it’s training nursing home staff to administer it. Unlike the Pfizer vaccine, Moderna’s doesn’t require deep-freeze storage. Reporter: Jackie Fortier, KPCC Early numbers show Sacramento City Unified enrolled about 600 fewer kindergartners this year, and Los Angeles Unified has thousands fewer. Reporter: Pauline Bartolone, KQED PG&E got out of bankruptcy protection almost six months ago. As part of that deal, the utility agreed to pay a billion dollars to California cities and counties harmed by the wildfires it’s equipment caused. It's unclear where all the money will go. Reporter: Lily Jamali, The California Report 

Today we are speaking with the Co-founder of Life insurance company Legacy Full Circle, Xelas Bar, and Nativo Bar. Corrissa Hernandez is a Native of Boyle Heights which is home to Xelas a favorite go to bar for Latinos in Los Angeles. In this episode we talk about Corissas trajectory from Los Angeles Unified school teacher to owning several businesses. She is dedicated to inspiring other Latina Women to take hold of their dreams and go for it! and she is doing a great job at it! Listen in as she gives us an insight on how she taps into creative ways to get financing, how she handles her mental health to keep in optimal performance and her latest projectshttps://www.instagram.com/corissahernandez/https://www.instagram.com/legacyfullcircle/https://www.instagram.com/nativohlp/****this episode contains an ad for Scholarraise. to sign up for a 529 plan click this link! https://scholarraise.com/csd

Governor Newsom is jacking up the economy by moving his dimmer switch up and down.  How are entrepreneurs supposed to manage their business? How are you managing you?  We discuss the recent wave of shutdowns of large portions of our economy, violation of individual rights and better ways to handle the pandemic.  We get into some of the “good deeds” put forward by local leaders here in Poway to help fitness centers and churches and question if their do-gooder approach really creates more harm in the long run.  We then discuss the pending economic implosion that is in our future when the stimulus payments end.  Finally we discuss skill building strategies that you can embrace to better position you for the new world that is coming.   We also discuss a range of other people and places including Steve Vaus, Facebook, liberty, Poway Unified School District, Poway Schools, PUSD, LA Unified, Los Angeles Unified, LA schools, COVID, charter schools, home schooling, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Who Moved My Cheese, PPP, Paycheck Protection Program, Tiny Homes, Wayne Gretzky, accounting, coding, blockchain, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, video production, corporate training, Larry Bird   Recorded July 21, 2020   #JohnRileyProject #COVID #Newsom #2020recession   JRP0144     John Riley Project Info:   Bookings? Inquiries? Contact me at https://johnrileyproject.com/   Sponsorship Inquiries: https://johnrileyproject.com/sponsorship/   YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJJSzeIW2A-AeT7gwonglMA   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/johnrileyproject/   Twitter: https://twitter.com/JohnRileyPoway   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/johnrileypoway/   iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/john-riley-project-podcast/id1435944995?mt=2   Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3llrMItpbx9JRa08UTrswA   Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/john-riley-project   Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9qb2hucmlsZXlwcm9qZWN0LmNvbS9mZWVkLw   Tune In: https://tunein.com/podcasts/Arts--Culture-Podcasts/John-Riley-Project-Podcast-p1154415/   Listen Notes: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/john-riley-project-john-riley-2l4rEIo1RJM/   Music: https://www.purple-planet.com  

Dr. David Baca, Chief of Schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District, discusses how his team supports the schools in their district and ensures the changing needs of their teachers and students are met. This interview was produced in collaboration with KLCS.

Teaching & Learning In The New Era: Alison Yoshimoto-Towery shares the quick and effective strategies being used to support students and educators.

When the coronavirus pandemic closed schools across the country in March, transitioning to online learning was a challenge for all districts. Large, urban districts faced especially big challenges in getting devices in the hands of hundreds of thousands of students, ensuring they all had internet access and providing training to thousands of educators. In this episode of Ed Influencers, edtech leaders from two of the country’s largest districts – Los Angeles Unified and Baltimore County – talk about how they got their online learning programs off the ground. Baltimore County, with 115,000 students, was well positioned to launch online learning because it had an established learning management system that its teachers were experienced using, said Ryan Imbriale, the district’s executive director of innovative learning. Its challenge was to implement a platform for connecting students and teachers in real time. To allow time to train teachers on the platform, the district distributed packets of paper learning materials to students. Meanwhile, the district called on its existing e-learning department to train teachers on how to deliver distance learning. On the student side, everyone in grades 3-12 already had a device. The district worked with internet service providers to ensure internet access. Imbriale said the key to the district’s success was patience and a methodical approach.Los Angeles Unified was faced with arranging distance learning for its 700,000 students. Sophia Mendoza, the district’s director of its instructional technology initiative, said the district’s first priority was to deliver training for teachers. It gathered its existing training programs around the ISTE Standards to give teachers a grounding in distance learning. It found that the ISTE Standards for global collaborator and digital citizen that it was already engaged in implementing gave the district some momentum as the pandemic unfolded. The district sought to balance the urgency of the situation with a longer-term view that its teachers would keep using the skills they learned in this transition to distance learning. In a week, the district was able to deliver 12 two-hour training sessions to about 6,000 educators. The district also found that digital equity efforts that were part of its five-year-old instructional technology initiative put it in a good position to address any internet access issues. To help other districts with online learning, Los Angeles also made its professional learning catalog available to any educator.

Weekly Updates April 19, 2020 Hello VAPA Community! This is Dr. Trimis with a few announcements! ¡Hola Comunidad de VAPA! Este es el Dr. Trimis con algunos anuncios!   We are continuing teaching and learning online this week as we find more and more tools to help us in this work and provide more support for our students. Today I will proovide new resources and information important for our families. Last week we held our first virtual Coffee With the Principal. Please look for information for the next Coffee With the Principal meetings online in May and in June. This week the South Gate Community of Schools will hold a Virtual Town Hall meeting on April 23 at 1 pm to provide an update on school services. Meeting information will be posted on our website and social media platforms. Please join us. We have a new website for our work as an online school, VAPA Online, which can be found at bit.ly/vapaonline the site has new teacher class hours and office hours, video updates, and other information to support families for the next several months. We also have a new Parent Request/Concern form to get the support you need in English or Spanish. The form is at bit.ly/vaparequestenglish for English and bit.ly/vaparequestspanish for Spanish.  Lastly, feel free to leave a message or text my Google Voice phone number at 323-596-7531. We will answer questions or address concerns as soon as possible. It is critical that all of our students continue to meet with their teachers in Schoology or Zoom live conferences, stay in contact their teachers through e-mail, and continue to complete assigned school work and assessments.   Grab N Go Centers at South Gate and Southeast High School continue to provide meals for students from 7am-11am, Monday through Friday. Free home WiFi options are posted on the ITD HomePage: bit.ly/itdhelp and can be coordinated via Charter Spectrum or Comcast. Technical Support Most technical support issues can be resolved over the phone via the Crisis Hotline posted on the ITD Homepage. For families: (213) 443-1300 and For employees: (213) 241-2700. Call centers are open 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Los Angeles Unified, PBS SoCal | KCET, and KLCS-TV have partnered to provide free supplemental educational resources on live television and online to help your family support learning during the school closures. Grades 9–12 KCET (Channel 28.1) from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. KLCS (Channel 58.1) from 2 a.m. to 6 p.m. Please check the LAUSD website at www.lausd.net or the VAPA website at www.vapalegacy.com for updates. There are two hot lines available for info, as well. For families at 213-443-1300 and for employees at 213-241-2700. Please be careful, be safe, for students, engage in our virtual learning. I'll plan on seeing you as soon as possible. Take care, Dr. Edward Trimis, Principal

Weekly Updates March 22, 2020 Hello VAPA Community! This is Dr. Trimis with a few announcements! ¡Hola Comunidad de VAPA! Este es el Dr. Trimis con algunos anuncios!   Please note that schools in LAUSD including school offices are closed for the next week.  Superintendent Beutner is planning to provide an update on Monday, 3/23/20, 11am to be broadcast on KLCS-TV and online in English and Spanish. We will more information after the update on Monday. It is critical that all of our students continue to meet with their teachers in Schoology or Zoom live conferences, stay in contact their teachers through e-mail, and continue to complete assigned school work and assessments. Grades are due next week from teachers and I am concerned that many students are not on track. Though we frequently hear “school is closed”, in fact, though our buildings are closed, we are continuing with teaching and learning through an online or virtual platform. Online learning is a legitimate form of instruction and can be effective, but students and their teachers must be engaged and participate for the system to work. Grab N Go centers, like the one at South Gate High School, will be open next week from 7am-11am. Thousands of meals were served last week. Free home WiFi options are posted on the ITD HomePage: bit.ly/itdhelp and can be coordinated via Charter Spectrum or Comcast. Technical Support Most technical support issues can be resolved over the phone via the Crisis Hotline posted on the ITD Homepage. For families: (213) 443-1300 and For employees: (213) 241-2700. Call centers are open 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Los Angeles Unified, PBS SoCal | KCET, and KLCS-TV have partnered to provide free supplemental educational resources on live television and online to help your family support learning during the school closures. Grades 9–12 KCET (Channel 28.1) from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. KLCS (Channel 58.1) from 2 a.m. to 6 p.m. Please check the LAUSD website at www.lausd.net or the VAPA website at www.vapalegacy.com for updates. There are two hot lines available for info, as well. For families at 213-443-1300 and for employees at 213-241-2700. Please be careful, be safe, for students, engage in our virtual learning. I'll plan on seeing you as soon as possible. Take care,  Dr. Edward Trimis, Principal  

Sophia Mendoza, the director of the Los Angeles Unified School District’s Instructional Technology Initiative, has led the implementation of digital learning tools in over 400 schools. In doing so, she has implemented several innovative professional development models for the district’s 25,000 teachers. In introducing technology, Mendoza says the district aims to meet teachers where they are, to ensure that they feel successful and supported as they learn to use edtech tools. The district’s PD programs, she said, “provide multiple entry points for learning opportunities so that there are these easy wins and that they feel successful, that they feel supported as they venture out and take those risks … ” Part of the district’s strategy is to create “change agents” at school sites, such as principals who embrace professional development as learners first and then model their learning in ways that are meaningful for their staff. The aim is to avoid a top-down approach and create grassroots learning led by people who are leaders in their school communities. The school district has also made the ISTE Standards a centerpiece of its implementation efforts. The district has developed curriculum that has the ISTE Standards woven into it. It has also created teams of teachers that develop lessons according to the ISTE Standards and then test them to find what works and what doesn’t. The district has also developed “practitioner schools,” where an ISTE Standard is instituted across all subjects and then can act as a model for other schools in the district. Mendoza has also worked with teacher preparation programs to ensure the ISTE Standards are part of their curriculum. That ensures new teachers coming in the district are familiar with the standards.

This week: We explore reasons for the Los Angeles Unified's Measure EE defeat and talk with LASUD board member Nick Melvoin and David Tokofsky, a former board member and strategist for the district administrators' union; and we reveal the name of California's new online community college.

Los Angeles Unified's adult education program doesn't get much respect, and its funding is always in danger. But for the 70,000 students taking classes, it can mean a second chance at a new life. Also, why is LA getting rain now? Isn't summer just around the corner?

This week, can teachers and L.A. Unified shed their acrimony from a strike and work together? Can the district afford commitments it negotiated? School board member Nick Melvoin and UCLA Professor John Rogers discuss the impact of the 7-day strike.

This week, John and Louis discuss the impending teacher strike in Los Angeles Unified School District with KPCC reporter Kyle Stokes, who has reported extensively on the crisis. They also speak with Kyla Johnson Trammell, superintendent of Oakland Unified, which is facing budget turmoil, school closures and tensions with teachers.

This week: Louis and John speak with John Deasy, the former superintendent of Los Angeles Unified, who on June 1 became superintendent of Stockton Unified, a 40,000-student district 1/15th as big as L.A. Unified. Louis and John also play an excerpt from Gov. Jerry Brown's remarks to California Community Colleges' board of governors in which he urges them to pursue the promise of a new online college.

1 - Word of the year. 2 - More on LAUSD threat. 3 - The News with Marshall Phillips.

1 - Washington Examiner's Joseph Lawler talks about his story: "How one state is solving the food stamp problem". 2 - Entire Los Angeles Unified School District closed down due to terror threat; Airline may charge to use the bathroom. 3 - The News with Marshall Phillips. 4 - Seattle says Uber drivers can now unionize.

"Teens Speak Out: Just because you live in South-Central Los Angeles doesn't mean you can't be empowered" Show Guests: SEA Students & Paul Palsa Tune in as students from the Student Empowerment Academy (SEA) join our hosts live in the studio to discuss SEA's educational contribution to the Los Angeles Unified school District (LAUSD) South-Central Los Angeles Region that is turning out a high percentage of 1st generation college bound students. An exciting part of the show zeros in on the fact that when you encouraging strong thought leaders you can expect the system to be challenged. SEA student-leaders did just that as they staged a school-wide protest April 29-May 5.. The outcome demonstrates the cores values the Academy in instilling empowerment and leadership in their students.

"Teens Speak Out: Just because you live in South-Central Los Angeles doesn't mean you can't be empowered" Show Guests: SEA Students & Paul Palsa Tune in as students from the Student Empowerment Academy (SEA) join our hosts live in the studio to discuss SEA's educational contribution to the Los Angeles Unified school District (LAUSD) South-Central Los Angeles Region that is turning out a high percentage of 1st generation college bound students. An exciting part of the show zeros in on the fact that when you encouraging strong thought leaders you can expect the system to be challenged. SEA student-leaders did just that as they staged a school-wide protest April 29-May 5.. The outcome demonstrates the cores values the Academy in instilling empowerment and leadership in their students.

Aaron Feuer is CEO and cofounder of Panorama Education, a Boston-based company that helps schools improve through data analytics that was developed during a 2012 YEI Fellowship. Panorama uses feedback surveys of students, parents, and teachers to improve teaching and school culture. Panorama is used in more 5,000 schools serving more than one million students, with clients including Los Angeles Unified, the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, New Haven Public Schools, Achievement First, and Teach for America. Aaron is a proud product of Los Angeles public schools.

The second largest school district in the country, Los Angeles Unified, recently made a commitment to go meat-free on Mondays.

Bích Ngọc Cao is a digital marketing and communications executive whose career spans media organizations, tech startups, the music industry, government, and nonprofits.She serves as senior adviser, communications, in the Superintendent's office of Los Angeles Unified. She has enjoyed an unconventional path that includes stints at organizations and companies such as Define American, (RED), the Los Angeles Times, Harvest Records, Warner Bros. Records, and MySpace. A lifelong Angeleno, she is currently president of the Board of Library Commissioners for the city of Los Angeles and also serves on the board of the investigative journalism organization Mother Jones.As a teenager, Bích Ngọc was a lead plaintiff in the education equity lawsuit Williams v California. The landmark class-action case settled for $1 billion for public schools and resulted in legislation that required the state to provide basic necessities for students such as books, safe classrooms, and qualified teachers. | madcao.com | @madcao Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy