Archive for April, 2010
League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) National Educational Service Center is seeking college students for Spring 2010 to provide on-site mentoring to students in grades 4-8 attending the Jefferson Elementary School District in Daly City.
The MODEL Mentoring program’s aim is to empower students to become life ling learner and leaders in their communities. Participants are provided with one-on-one mentoring, academic assistance and various enrichment activities such as life skills workshops and educational field trips.
MENTOR/TUTOR REQUIREMENTS:
1.) Provide guidance, support and encouragement
2.) Possess ability to work with youth in a non-judgmental manner
3.) Must be a junior or senior to mentor
4.) Any grade to volunteer as tutor
5.) Possess ability to work with youth in a non-judgmental manner
6.) Agree to be part of the MODEL program for 9 months (2 semesters)
7.) Attend orientation/training sessions
7.) Pass criminal history background check (paid for by organization)
For more information, please contact Karin Delgadillo at (415) 238-3204 or by email at kdelgadillo@lnesc.org.
Stereotype Threat & Mathematical Reasoning
Dr. Ben-Zeev has a passion for education and believes strongly that social contextual factors like stereotype threat are immensely important to understanding how to create safe intellectual environments for all students; including K-12 and beyond. His research focus over the past several years has been on understanding, in part, the failure of large groups of students to perform to their potential, such as women in math and science. These studies have been designed to identify a set of contextual factors that might profoundly affect the performance of devalued group members, pointing to the power that social context has in creating, perpetuating, or eliminating stereotyped individuals’ underperformance.
Learn about Dr. Ben-Zeev’s research & participate in a conversation about how to address the effects of stereotype threat in your classroom.
Biography
Avi Ben-Zeev received his PhD in Cognitive Psychology from Yale University in 1997 and taught and conducted research at Brown University and at Williams College before joining the faculty at San Francisco State University (SFSU) in 2001.
Date: April 23, 2010
Place: SCIENCE BLDG. RM 256
Time: 4:00-6:00PM
Dinner will be provided
This event is open to all Students, Teacher & Faculty.
RSVP to this event at this link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MSTI3
The MODEL After School Program at Thomas R. Pollicita Middle School in Daly City is seeking college mentors to work with some of their at risk students. This commitment requires at least one hour a week for nine months.
Volunteer tutors are also needed for this program. This is a good way to get any community service hours to graduate, get experience in the community, and help a young person who is struggling. Thomas R. Pollicita Middle School is year round so college mentors and tutors are needed presently, for the summer, and for next year.
For more information, please contact Karin Delgadillo, MODEL Program Coordinator, at (415) 238-3204.
The Department of Geosciences and the Center for Science and Mathematic Education will be hosting co-speakers for its Distinguished Speaker Series titled: “Making Learning Meaningful: Using Technology to Foster Place-based Teaching in an Introductory Physical Geology Course.” Drs. Julie Monet and Todd Greene of CSU Chico will be presenting some results of their collaboration on a science education project and lessons learned from working with each other across the education/subject matter disciplines.
Date: April 20th, 2010
Time: 1pm-2pm
Location: Thornton Hall Room 604
The Distinguished Speaker Series is open to the public.
UGM will be hosting their annual Spring Bowling event. Tickets for the event are currently being sold for $20 each (which includes three games and shoe rental).
It will be lots of fun, plus, there’s Karaoke! The event is Thursday, April 29 from 9:30-midnight at Serra Bowl (Daly City, Close to Century). We need to know ASAP if we will be reserving a ticket for you for the event. Feel free to bring some friends. Profits from the event will go towards the Spring 2010 Math/Stats graduation!
To reserve your ticket, pleasesend an e-mail to ugm.math@gmail.com.
The Teen Services Division for Daly City Parks and Recreation will be holding an event this Friday, April 16th focusing on LGBTQQI teen issues called EMPOWERMENT. This will be a facilitated panel discussion between 7 guest speakers and the audience. They’ll be sharing their experiences and struggles growing up. This event was put together in response to teens voicing out the lack of support for LGBT teens in the peninsula.
Event Details:
Friday, April 16th
Merced Room
145 Lake Merced Blvd.
5:30p-9:30p
(Discussion starts at 6:30)
Fundraiser: $5-$10 donation (sliding scale)
Our guest speakers include Kiely Hosmon from the GSA Network and Erik Martinez from The Center.
This is a really good opportunity for people to hear, learn, and ask about teen issues and how they can support! For more information, please see the event flyer.
The Math & Science Teacher Initiative(MSTI) invites you to…
The SFSU Planetarium and Observatory Resources for You and Your Students
The Planetarium and Observatory facilities at SFSU are resources available to all Bay Area teachers and their students. The Charles Hagar Planetarium provides tailored, interactive shows for 2000 Bay Area school children every year. Come join us as we use the planetarium and interactive laboratory activities to explore the reasons for the seasons on Earth.
We’ll also pay a visit to the SFSU Observatory, which is open to the public 2-3 nights per week during school year. Stick around until dusk to use the telescopes and catch a glimpse of craters on the moon, the rings of Saturn, a stellar nursery in Orion, and more!
Final phase of total lunar eclipse on February 20, 2008.
Speakers include…
Adrienne Cool – Faculty Member, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
Jim Gibson – Curator, SFSU Planetarium and Observatory
Tony Dunn – SFSU Observatory Docent and MSTI fellow
Jacqueline Benitez – SFSU Observatory Docent and MSTI fellow
Date: Friday April 16th in TH 422
Planetarium & Dinner from 4:30-6:30 PM
Observatory Tour from 6:30-8 PM
Open to SFSU Students, Community College Students, Faculty & Local Teachers interested in this campus resource!
This event is FULL, we are still taking wait list names if you would like to attend. Priority given to SFSU and CCSF students.
Dinner will be provided, please RSVP today by E-mail -or- at CSME offices in Science Building Room 211
RSVPs will be accepted till we have reached maximum capacity.
Thank you to the Physics & Astronomy Department for hosting us!
Maker Faire is coming up May 22 & 23 at the San Mateo County Event Center
Maker Faire is a two-day, family-friendly event that celebrates the Do-It-Yourself mindset. It’s for creative, resourceful people of all ages and backgrounds who like to tinker and love to make things. So much to see, you will need 2 days to see it all!
Apply here for free tickets for educators.
For more information, please visit the event website at http://www.makerfaire.com
Jaime Escalante, the math teacher who transformed a tough East Los Angeles high school and inspired the movie “Stand and Deliver,” died on Tuesday, March 30. He was 79. Escalante died at his son’s home near Sacramento after battling bladder cancer for several years, family friend Keith Miller said.
An immigrant from Bolivia, Escalante transformed Garfield High School by motivating struggling students to excel at advanced math and science. The school had more advanced placement calculus students than all but four other public high schools in the country.
Edward James Olmos played Escalante in the 1988 film based on his story. “Jaime exposed one of the most dangerous myths of our time–that inner city students can’t be expected to perform at the highest levels,” Olmos said. “Because of him, that destructive idea has been shattered forever.” 
Escalante was a teacher in La Paz before he emigrated to the U.S. He had to study English at night for years to get his California teaching credentials and return to the classroom.
At first he was discouraged by Garfield’s “culture of low expectations, gang activity, and administrative apathy,” Miller said. Gradually, he overhauled the school’s math curriculum and enabled students who were previously considered unteachable to master the advanced placement calculus test.
He used his outsized personality to goad his working-class Mexican-American students to succeed, said Elsa Bolado, 45, one of his former pupils. Bolado, now an elementary school teacher and trainer, remembers Escalante’s charisma–and the way he built her confidence with long hours of solving problems and how he inspired her career choice with his unorthodox approach to learning…
“To this day, I still think of the example he set–the study skills, how not to give up,” said Bolado. “I revert back to that every time things get rough.”
Escalante left Garfield in 1991, taught at schools in Sacramento and retired to Bolivia in 2001.
Source: Raquel Maria Dillon – The Associated Press
Alameda-Contra Costa Counties Math Educators (AC3ME) is pleased to present a Mini Math Conference:
Spring Forward into Math!
including workshops on Everyday Math! Join us for a morning of great math workshops presented by Bay Area expert teachers- Teachers Teaching Teachers!
Keynote: Ruth Cossey, Mills College (Co-Author of the FAMILY MATH Book) ”Dealing with the Unexpected in the Math Classroom”
Date: Saturday, April 17, 2010, 8:30 am to 12:30pm
Location: LeConte Elementary School, 2241 Russell Street, in Berkeley (close to Ashby BART & Telegraph Ave.)
~ This event is free to all educators* ~
No pre-registration required!
NEW TEACHERS: Don’t miss the math materials give-away!
*As a means to encourage and support our newest teachers we ask that educators with MORE than five years in the classroom bring a spare math manipulative, classroom material, resource book, game, or piece of children’s literature that can be donated to an attending new teacher.
Please click here to view the event flyer. For information contact Elizabeth Brooking at (925) 640-4524 or by email at oresbrooking@yahoo.com
