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OCDE NEWSROOM
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Sixth annual Language Learner Celebration to recognize exemplary OC educators and model programs |
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OCDE will honor Orange County educators, administrators, community liaisons and parents who have championed the success of language learners at the sixth annual Language Learner Celebration. Organized by the department’s Humanities unit and reflecting the theme “Navigating Emergent Bilingualism,” the presentation will start at 5 p.m. on May 10 at the Marconi Automotive Museum and Foundation for Kids |
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http://newsroom.ocde.us/sixth-annual-language-learner-celebration-to-recognize-exemplary-oc-educators-and-model-programs/ |
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EDSOURCE
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California university students are stretching...and it is all happening in writing class, not the gym |
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A “stretch class” in English composition extends a semester’s worth of college-level material over two semesters. That provides students with extra time to master topic sentences, persuasive arguments, citation standards and graceful transitions. And, best of all, students can earn academic credit toward a diploma for both semesters of the course. Such stretch classes are expected to become much more common around the California State University system as it moves to eliminate non-credit remedial classes in the fall on all its 23 campuses and replaces them with alternatives that carry academic credit yet also offer extra help. |
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https://edsource.org/2018/california-university-students-are-stretching-and-it-is-all-happening-in-writing-class-not-the-gym/597039 |
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Educators face new challenges in 'superdiverse' classrooms where multiple languages are spoken |
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Teachers of English learners find it challenging to communicate in classrooms where students come from a variety of language and cultural backgrounds. However, learning can improve by incorporating students’ languages in classrooms, increasing teacher access to dictionaries and books in the home languages of their students and encouraging families to participate in class activities, such as parents recording themselves reading books in their home languages for inclusion in a classroom library. |
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https://edsource.org/2018/educators-face-new-challenges-in-superdiverse-classrooms-where-multiple-languages-are-spoken/597026 |
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SI&A CABINET REPORT
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For-profit EMOs still dominate virtual schools |
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New research from the National Education Policy Center would tend to support criticism of virtual schools nationally for having “excessively” large enrollments and “shockingly” high teacher to student ratios. “Full-time virtual schools and blended learning schools represent promising ideas,” authors of the report concluded. “Unfortunately, the evidence is overwhelming that virtual schools as currently implemented are not working at primary and secondary levels of schools.” |
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https://k-12daily.org/curriculum-instruction/for-profit-emos-still-dominate-virtual-schools |
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KPCC
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Here's what LAUSD's new superintendent said in his first public appearance |
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Austin Beutner met the media Wednesday afternoon for the first time since he was named the Los Angeles Unified School District's next superintendent.
Flanked by dozens of students at Belmont High School, Beutner acknowledged he was an "unconventional choice to be superintendent." Beutner is a former investment banker who has never been a teacher or school administrator — though he has in recent months co-chaired a task force that's examined some of L.A. Unified's most intractable issues.
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https://www.scpr.org/news/2018/05/02/82734/here-s-what-lausd-s-new-superintendent-said-in-his/ |
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