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SFUSD highlights Golden Bell awards, enrollment fair turnout and community book donation
Summary
Superintendent Carranza announced two California School Boards Association Golden Bell Awards and acceptance into the League of Innovative Schools; the board also honored local teachers with RAVE awards and accepted a donation of Blossoms in the Desert for school libraries.
Superintendent Richard Carranza opened Tuesday—vening by announcing that the San Francisco Unified School District received two California School Boards Association Golden Bell Awards for district programs, and that SFUSD had been accepted into the League of Innovative Schools, a national coalition organized by the nonprofit Digital Promise.
Carranza and staff highlighted partnerships with Salesforce, IDEO, UC Berkeley and Stanford and noted the district's enrollment fair drew an unofficial estimate of about 10,000 attendees. He reminded families that first-round school enrollment applications are due January 15, 2016 and promoted upcoming community events including Discovery Day at AT&T Park.
The board recognized RAVE award recipients including Cheryl Redding (literacy specialist at Glen Park School) and Gabriel (Gabe) De La Cruz (second-year teacher at Thurgood Marshall); principals and colleagues read commendations and recipients spoke briefly.
The board also accepted a donation from the Fukuda family: Blossoms in the Desert, a collection of oral histories from Topaz High School alumni recounting Department of Justice internment at Crystal City, Texas, to be placed in middle- and high-school libraries. Nobusuke Fukuda and Somaro Ochi spoke to the book's importance in remembering the wartime incarceration experience.
Commissioners thanked staff and community partners for the recognitions and outreach events.
