|
Preparing our city’s young people for college, careers and life is an incredible honor and serious responsibility. When it comes to being ready for career options, nothing compares to first-hand experiences. That’s why we partner with businesses across San Francisco to create opportunities for work-based learning for thousands of high school students every year.
Read more below about ways to connect a young person in your life to paid internships and ways you can support by offering work-based learning opportunities to an SFUSD student.
In addition to more opportunities for our young people to learn, I hope 2019 brings great things to you and your family.
—Dr. Vincent Matthews, Superintendent
|
|
SFUSD has 42 College and Career Pathways across 13 high school campuses that prepare students for different career fields through project- and work-based learning. Learn more about them and see what our students have been doing at the 2019 College & Career Pathways Showcase on Jan. 30.
|
|
|
|
Come to the first districtwide college and career fair for students with learning supports. Join other families on Feb. 2 for workshops, panel discussions and more!
|
|
Help students develop personal and professional skills by hosting a paid fellowship from June 16 to July 26, 2019. Contact Bernadette Frias at friasb@sfusd.edu for more information or apply online.
|
|
Did you know the de Young Museum recently opened the de Youngsters Studio, a pioneering, interactive, free-play space dedicated to engaging children’s curiosity through state-of-the-art design and technology—and best of all, it's free to the public!
|
|
|
|
Enrollment application due
The deadline for round one of enrollment applications is Friday, Jan. 11. Turn in applications at 555 Franklin Street or other collection sites.
|
|
Your input matters
Come provide feedback on the new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between SFUSD and the SF Police on on Jan. 14.
|
|
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
All SFUSD schools and offices will be closed on Monday, Jan. 21 in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
|
|
|
SFUSD in the News
|
|
|
SF seeks equity with student surf program: ‘A wave doesn’t care who you are’
The average California surfer, studies show, is about 35 years old, college-educated and making $75,000 a year, enough income to own, on average, four surfboards. The typical surfer isn’t a low-income, Muni-riding San Francisco high school student who recently learned how to swim. Yet more than 100 teenagers from the Mission, Western Addition and other neighborhoods across the city are becoming part of the Bay Area’s surf scene, learning to catch waves and earning gym-class credit while wearing a wetsuit.
|
|
|
A special performance held at San Francisco City Hall to get people in the holiday mood
The holiday spirit was on full display Tuesday afternoon at San Francisco City Hall—with Mayor London Breed and ABC7's Dan Ashley playing a part. Ashley said it was wonderful to be in the City Hall Rotunda to perform with the fantastic choir from Lafayette Elementary School.
|
|
|
Special-education students spread seasonal cheer, and their wings, in SF
It’s not easy keeping track of how many lords are leaping, but the special-education students of the Access program in San Francisco nailed it for the 10th year in a row. Their annual holiday sing-along concert Monday seemed to make all of South of Market jingle like the things on one-horse open sleighs.
|
|
|
SF Preps: Lincoln finishes perfect season, wins football title in first state championship game hosted in San Francisco
Jovon Baker didn’t make a sound as he wrapped his arms tightly around his mother Laura at the 50-yard line of the City College of San Francisco’s football field. In a wordless embrace, there was only silent sobbing. Laura and her older son Joe have raised Jovon for the past 13 years. Laura leaves home at 6 a.m. and gets home at 11 at night to support her family, yet, she’s made it to every single one of her younger son’s football games, including Saturday’s state title game against Orange Glen, the first ever state title game hosted in San Francisco.
|
|
|
Nourse Theater to be renamed after the woman credited with its revival
The San Francisco school board voted Tuesday to rename the Nourse Theater after Sydney Goldstein, who is credited with bringing life back to the theater after it lay dormant for decades. “Sydney loved theaters, and she particularly loved the Nourse,” said Kary Schulman, director of San Francisco Grants for the Arts. “She had been thinking about the Nourse on and off for decades, speculating about what it could be.”
|
|
|
School board begins work on new student assignment process
The San Francisco school board voted unanimously Tuesday to begin developing a new student assignment policy, which determines the school new students are assigned to in The City. The resolution approved Tuesday night calls for the new policy to provide greater predictability, transparency, accessibility to neighborhood options, equity, and a strong commitment to integrated schools.
|
|
|
SF students learn how to code using "Pepper" the robot
More than 100 robots have been donated to schools across the country, including one in San Francisco. The idea is to promote computer science and robotics education in classrooms. KCBS Radio's Carrie Hodousek stopped by the Galileo Academy of Science and Technology Wednesday where she talked to "Pepper" the robot.
|
|
|
Students team up for special soccer game
There was all the pomp and pageantry of an Olympic soccer match at San Francisco's Washington High School Tuesday. But this soccer tournament had more than one kind of Goal in mind. "Just to create as inclusive environment as possible and to treat these students just like anyone else on the school's campus," says Sasha Trope of the Northern California Special Olympics.
|
|