During this special week - Teacher Appreciation Week - we would like to express our gratitude to all Partnership teachers for all they do to raise student achievement and contribute to the success of Partnership schools.
Partnership for Los Angeles Schools families have a new family engagement program where they can celebrate, learn, and engage in their child's learning. In addition to the existing myriad programs offered by the Partnership to parents and students, five "Family Clubs" were launched at Joyner Elementary, Carver Middle School, Gompers Middle School, Markham Middle School, and Santee High School to provide families with non-intimidating events and activities that open school doors to them.
Last month, the Southern California Committee for the Olympic Games announced Samsung's support of the "Ready, Set, Gold!" (RSG!) program at Figueroa Street Elementary.
RSG! is a legacy program of the city's bid for the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games and is designed to motivate children to set and reach their goals, primarily in the areas of health and fitness, in order to combat childhood obesity and diabetes.
The Partnership for Los Angeles Schools is pleased to announce the addition of two new members to its Board of Trustees; Cyrus Hadidi is the co-portfolio manager of JMB Capital, a hedge fund based in Los Angeles and Nancy Escobar is the first parent to serve on the Partnership Board of Trustees
The Richard and Melanie Lundquist Fellows Program was started in 2010 to identify young leaders in middle and high schools within the Partnership schools network. The program seeks to reward students for their commitment to their education and communities. This year, nearly 300 students applied for these 15 coveted positions to represent their school and earn an academic scholarship. Students selected this year are wonderful student leaders who have strong academic records, commitment, and are involved in their school and community.
The Partnership for Los Angeles Schools has filled two new positions to further its mission to transform some of Los Angeles’ most challenged schools. Katherine Nelson and Sergio Flores will be joining the Partnership as Senior Directors of School Transformation.
The Partnership for Los Angeles Schools announced the launch of a large-scale comprehensive Blended and Digital Learning strategy today on the first-ever national Digital Learning Day. The Partnership is unique in nationally implementing Digital and Blended Learning at scale in school turnarounds, across 22 inner city schools, impacting nearly 17,000 students.
You may have heard all the buzz about Digital Learning Day that occurred on Wednesday, Feb. 1--a national event in which some 33 states, 350,000 students and thousands of educators participated in.
We invited the media to tour four classrooms at Dolores Huerta Elementary to view the many ways blended learning is helping teachers and students.
The Google grant opportunity for Partnership high school teachers to win a cart of Google Chromebooks closed on January 31st. Among the many applicants, every Partnership high school was represented and the proposals were all strong with some very unique vision for working in the cloud and utilizing Google applications. A committee reviewed all of the proposals and carefully discussed each one before making its final decision. We are very happy to announce the winner…
The $4 billion philanthropists spend annually on public education is less than 1 percent of the $500 billion America spends on public schools each year. The thousands of committed reformers sent into schools or onto school boards pale in number to the millions of long employed and sometimes entrenched systems in place.
