Our Early Learning Director, Dr. Dianna Ballesteros, talks to us about how school closures have affected her department.

As many of you know, Alum Rock partners with RAFT (Resource Area For Teaching).  Our partnership includes hosting the annual STEAM Showcase, providing memberships for our teachers, facilitating professional development, and much more.  Today, we talk to Qi and Chase from RAFT about how they are supporting distance learning and hands-on STEAM during school closures.

Today we talked to Alum Rock's Director of Special Education, Anthony Colonna.  He tells us about special education services during school closures.

On today's podcast, Jason and Brittany go over Academic Services updates and supports for distance learning.

On today’s podcast, we talk all about STEAM with The Tech Interactive (formally The Tech Museum).  They are supporting distance learning with design challenges you can do at home, teacher resources, and much more!

 

Here are some of their awesome resources: 

https://www.thetech.org/athome

https://www.thetech.org/en-casa

On today's podcast, we talk to Le Tran, principal at Painter.  She tells us about Painter’s distance learning efforts, her favorite edtech tools, and the opening of a Vietnamese strand at Painter next school year.

Jesus Araujo is a Coordinator in Alum Rock's Student Services Department.  He talks to us about the services they are providing families during these times. 

Alum Rock COVID Hotline: (408)928-6937

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On today's podcast, we talk to Denisse Mendez, Director of Alum Rock's Child Nutrition Services.  We discuss all the amazing things her staff has been doing for the Alum Rock community during school closures!

On today's episode, we talk to Ruby Hidalgo from the City of San Jose, Stacy Galdamez from Think Together, Jose Magana from City Year, Seung Lee from Citizen Schools, and Marisela Valdez from East Valley YMCA.  In a round-robin style interview, we discussed how our ASES (After School Education and Safety Programs) partners are helping to support distance learning.

On today's episode, we had the pleasure of talking to our Superintendent, Dr. Hilaria Bauer!