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SFUSD incorporates African American history into the core curriculum throughout the year and throughout all grade levels.
Our schools also celebrate Black History Month in a myriad ways—with class lessons, schoolwide assemblies, read-alouds, etc.
Additionally, all of our high schools offer ethnic studies classes and several offer African American heritage electives.
I hope that every child feels their history is reflected in the curriculum and those children who have been historically underrepresented or misrepresented find school to be a safe and welcoming place where people who look like them are reflected in all subject matter.
—Dr. Vincent Matthews, Superintendent
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Follow three Mission High School seniors through a year of ups and downs as they navigate college acceptance letters, classes, jobs, friends, and prom in Snap Judgment's Senior Year Mixtape podcast episode.
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The latest School Accountability Report Cards (SARCs) are now online! SARCs contain information about the condition and performance of our schools. Find your school's SARC here.
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This flu season has been particularly bad, so make sure you and your family are protected! Find out where to get a flu shot and see what preventive actions you can take to decrease your chances of catching the flu.
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Did you know February is Oral Health Month? Several dental clinics in the city are giving free dental screenings and oral health education to children this month, no appointment necessary.
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Schools will be sending out our annual Family Survey in February. Please be sure to fill out the survey. Your feedback is essential to helping us understand how we can improve your school!
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Lunar New Year
All schools will be closed on Friday, Feb. 16 in observance of Lunar New Year. SFUSD offices will remain open.
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Presidents' Day
All SFUSD schools and offices will be closed on Monday, Feb. 19 in observance of Presidents' Day.
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SFUSD in the News
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Parcel tax measure in June could raise SF teachers salaries
San Francisco educators and their supporters exceeded their goal of raising more than 16,000 signatures to bring a measure before San Francisco voters that will increase teachers’ wages. On Wednesday, city leaders, educators and public school parents gathered on the steps of City Hall to hand over petitions for placing the Living Wage for Educators ballot measure on the June Primary Ballot to the Department of Elections.
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The Reckoning: Teaching about the #MeToo moment and sexual harassment with resources from the New York Times
The #MeToo movement has inspired a “tsunami” of stories, from newspaper front pages to social media to private conversations between friends and relatives. In this unit, we pull together a wealth of Times reporting, opinion and video to suggest several ways to begin confronting the questions and issues the movement raises. We asked Christopher Pepper, a health educator in the San Francisco Unified School District who helped design the district’s high school sex education curriculum, to co-write this piece with Learning Network staff.
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Summer learning for immigrant youth: A model from San Francisco
To support newcomers in graduating high school, SFUSD's Multilingual Pathways Department and Department of College and Career Readiness launched a summer program for integrated language learning, called EL Village, in 2013. Five weeks of intensive summer learning provide English language development in a supported, interdisciplinary context that allows students to recover English credits and become on-track toward graduation with peers.
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Children in S.F. who are bright spots for the future
If it were a made-for-TV movie, you’d never believe it. A new immigrant to the United States lives in poverty, attends a low-income public high school and wins a full-ride to Princeton! But it’s true.
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San Francisco public schools include human trafficking in health curriculum
The first day of October 2015 was a good day for Chris Pepper. As content specialist for health programs at the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), Pepper and his team had been working on a revised health education curriculum for the city’s high school students when news broke that California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law AB 329. Dubbed the California Healthy Youth Act, the law made comprehensive sexuality education mandatory for all middle school and high school students and “requires school districts to provide instruction on human trafficking.”
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SF School Board chooses Hydra Mendoza-McDonnell, Stevon Cook as new leaders
The San Francisco Board of Education on Tuesday unanimously elected its Vice President Hydra Mendoza-McDonell to replace Shamann Walton as president for the 2018-19 school year. The seven-member commission, which reconvened for its first meeting of the year on Tuesday, also elected Commissioner Stevon Cook to fill Mendoza-McDonell’s seat.
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Study shows most San Francisco teens don't smoke pot
Now that the sale of marijuana is legal in California, vendors expect a two-fold increase in the adult-use market. But the San Francisco Department of Public Health is doing everything it can to keep teens from using cannabis. That department began a social media campaign with the purpose of letting youth know the facts and risks of using pot at an early age.
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