Archive for January, 2011
Overview:
Metro Academies is designed to boost college completion for low-income and first-generation students by coordinating course requirements and accelerating academic development during the first two years college—a make or break time for many students—and institutionalizing educational “best practices” that will lead to improving college completion rate for both CCSF and SFSU. Metro Academy is a four-semester learning community (cohort). Metro Academy students receive one-on-one support from faculty and have individual education plans worked out with an academic counselor.
As we roll into our third year, Metro is seeking out ways to better support students in their first two years of college. In addition, our prior experience has demonstrated being proactive and beginning tutoring at the start of the semester, leads to higher passage rates in crucial courses like Math.
We are seeking Statistics tutors to work with students who are currently enrolled in Statistics courses at CCSF. We asking for tutors who can commit a minimum of 15-20 hours a week for the Spring 2011 semester. Tutors will receive a $10 an hour stipend. Please contact Rama Kased at ramak@sfsu.edu or 415-235-3513.
Rama Ali Kased, MA
Project Coordinator
Metro Academies of Health
San Francisco State University
Health Education Department
1600 Holloway Ave HSS 301
San Francisco, CA 94132
415-405-0777–office
415-235-3323–cell
ramak@sfsu.edu
***New Office Hours for Spring 2011***
SFSU: Thursday 1-3pm in HSS 301
CCSF: Tuesday 11:30-1:30pm in MUB 327
Overview:
Since Julia Robinson was a mathematics professor at UC Berkeley, it is especially fitting that the first 2011 Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival will take place on the UC Berkeley campus. This festival will have a morning session and an afternoon session on Sunday, January 30, 2011. The morning session will be from 9:00 am to 1:15 pm and the afternoon session will take place from 12:15 pm to 4:30 pm. There will be many tables with exciting mathematical activities set up in the Pauley Ball Room in the MLK Student Union on the UC Berkeley campus. These activities will range from levels that middle school students will enjoy, to levels that will challenge the brightest high school students.
Compensation:
For people with undergrad degrees they’ll be paying $100 for the morning or afternoon shift, $150 with lunch for morning and afternoon. They’ll be paying younger mathematicians (math majors) they’ll be paying $75 for the day or $ 35 for one session.
If you haven’t done this before then you can go to a training on Saturday, 1-3 at UC Berkeley Evans Hall. We’ll also be doing a training for people to become elementary math circle instructors which are needed weekly throughout the Bay Area, often paying $100-$200 a session. This session will run 9:15-11:15 at Evans Hall in UCBerkeley.
Contact Information:
If you have any questions or are interested in these activities. Please Contact
Brandy
530-220-0324
Overview:
Metro Academies is designed to boost college completion for low income and first- generation students by coordinating course requirements and accelerating academic development during the first two years college-a make or break time for many-and institutionalizing educational “best practices” that will lead to improving college completion rate for both CCSF and SFSU.
Metro Academy is a four-semester learning community (cohort). Metro Academy students receive one-on-one support student from faculty and have individual education plans worked out with an academic counselor.
As we roll into our third year, Metro is seeking out ways to better
support students in their first two years of college. In addition,
our prior experience has demonstrated being proactive and beginning
tutoring at the start of the semester, leads to higher passage rates
in crucial courses like Math.
Qualifications:
We are seeking Math tutors to work with students who are currently enrolled in remedial Math courses, for both CCSF and SFSU. We are looking for tutors who can commit a minimum of 15-20 hours a week for the Fall 2011 semester, working at both SFSU and CCSF. Tutors will receive a $10 an hour stipend.
For more information please contact:
Rama Ali Kased, MA
Project Coordinator
Metro Academies of Health
San Francisco State University
Health Education Department
1600 Holloway Ave HSS 301
San Francisco, CA 94132
415-405-0777–office
415-235-3323–cell
ramak@sfsu.edu
***New Office Hours for Spring 2011***
SFSU: Thursday 1-3pm in HSS 301
CCSF: Tuesday 11:30-1:30pm in MUB 327
Every voice makes a difference. How will your voice transform 2011?
Overview:
Teach For America is the national corps of outstanding individuals
from all majors, backgrounds, and career interests who teach for two
years in urban and rural low-income communities and help give all
students the educational opportunities they deserve. Watch this short
video to learn more about us.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjtRmsdK4h8
Visit our interactive Voices gallery to meet new corps members,
current teachers, and alumni at www.teachforamerica.org/voices. Learn
what drives our 8,200 corps members teaching in 39 regions across the
country, and 20,000 alumni working from inside and outside the field
of education.
Don’t miss the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of
students. Full salary and health insurance. Federal student loans deferred.
All majors and professional experiences.
FINAL Application Deadline: Friday, February 4, 2011
Overview:
The Mathematical Science Research Institute will host the eighth CIME workshop this Spring. MSRI and the workshop organizes are especially interested in encouraging mathematicians to participate actively in this workshop and to become engaged in the community of scholars working to improve mathematica teaching and especially the mathematical education of teachers.
The workshop will examine the Common Core State Standards and their implications, showcase materials and successful teacher education programs, and how mathematics education research can improve practice.
What To Expect:
The audience for the workshop includes mathematicians, mathematics educators, classroom teachers and education researchers who are concerned with improving the teaching of mathematics and, in particular, the mathematical education of teachers. The workshop will showcase materials and successful teacher education programs, examine the Common Core State Standards and its implications, and explore how mathematics education research can improve practice.
When: May 11-13, 2011
Organized by: Dave Auckly,
Sybilla Beckmann(chair)
Jim Lewis, and William McCallum
For More Information See:
http://www.msri.org/web/msri/scientific/workshops/show/-/event/Wm558
Overview:
Menlo School is seeking a full-time Science teacher to teach Ninth
Grade Conceptual Physics and another course, either in our core
chemistry and biology programs, or an elective according to the
teacher’s expertise.
Qualifications:
We are looking for a dynamic, inspiring teacher
who will be an active part of our school community, who can teach to a
range of student abilities, and who will commit to working closely
with science department colleagues. We prefer an advanced degree and
three years of high school teaching experience. Full time teachers
teach four courses, lead an advocacy group of about ten students and
sponsor an extracurricular activity. In the spring, Upper School
faculty teach or co-teach a course during “Knight School,” a week of
exploration outside the regular curriculum that emphasizes
experiential, in-the-field learning.
Please send a letter of interest, resume and contact information for
three professional references to: . Menlo
School, 50 Valparaiso Ave, Atherton, CA 94027 www.menloschool.org
California Academy of Sciences seeks School Program Intern to assist in the implementation of on-site field trip programs. Bachelor’s degree completed or in progress required. Part-time, January-May. Submit resume and cover letter to To learn more about student programs, visit: www.calacademy.org/teachers/fieldtrips or www.calacademy.org/teachers/rockprogram (Posted 12/21)
California Academy of Sciences seeks Teaching Collection Intern to assist in organization, cataloguing and maintenance of specimens. Bachelor’s degree or higher in biological sciences required. Part-time, January 12-May 27. Submit resume with cover letter to Michelle Rodriguez, (Posted 12/21)
Students in Service Awards (up to $5K) available for students who are positively impacting social and environmental challenges facing communities. Application deadline: January 28. For more information, visit: www.serviceawards.org
The Los Angeles Unified School District will be recruiting teachers in the San Francisco Bay Area March 9-13, 2011. They are recruiting Credentialed Teachers in Special Education and Non-Credential in Science to teach middle and high school students.
They are excited about the prospect of speaking with students who may have completed a Teacher Preparation Program or considered a career in teaching. Students considering a career in teaching may pursue their District Intern Program. The District Intern Program offers the opportunity to earn a Professional Clear California Secondary Single Subject (Grades 7-12) credential in Science Foundations, Biology, Chemistry, Geosciences or Physics. The District Intern Program is a tuition-free and supportive program. District Interns teach full-time, receive salary and District-paid benefits while completing their credential coursework. Please visit http://www.teachinla.com/cert/di_single.html for more information.
Thank you for helping us find talented teachers for LA’s children.
For more information, please contact Kendra Peterson at kpeter2@lausd.net or (800) 832-2452 ext.29296
Overview:
“Escape from the Textbook!”, is an online and in- person community for math teachers. We now have over 150 members worldwide, with maybe 1/4 here in the Bay Area. We will be holding our first conference on February 12, in San Francisco. It will be an opportunity to network with colleagues who want to escape from the textbook for a lesson, a unit, or an entire course.
Working together, we can help each other escape from the textbook, whether for a lesson, a unit, or an entire course.
While our schools are very different from each other (large and small, middle and high school, public and private), the challenges facing us are similar. The Escape from the Textbook! network can help us take up those challenges through:
- networking with like-minded teachers
- sharing of successful approaches
- multischool collaboration groups that focus on specific courses or topics
- strategies on how to complement or replace textbook material
- assessment ideas
- different lenses to analyze curricular and pedagogical ideas
Speakers: Jo Boaler of Stanford University (Author of “What’s Math Got To Do With It?) “The Many Colors of Algebra–Engaging Disaffected Students Through Collaboration and Agency.”
Paul Zeitz of the University of San Francisco (author of The Art and Craft of Problem Solving) “Games, investigation, and problem solving.”
Register for the conference here: http://www.escapethetextbook.org/
On line: we have a community on www.edWeb.net, for long-distance sharing and collaboration with fellow math teachers all over the US and the world. Members ask for suggestions on anchor problems for algebra, for feedback on new worksheets, for approaches to developing students’ understanding of angles, and so on. Other members respond with helpful ideas. Sign up by going to www.edWeb.net/escape — include a brief note about yourself.
In person: we have quarterly meetings in the San Francisco Bay Area, where we do math together and discuss pedagogical questions. (The meetings are announced on the edWeb site.)
Questions? Contact us: info(at)EscapeTheTextbook.org
Location: Urban School of San Francisco
1563 Page St, SF, 94117
