🎥 Watch this incredible highlight from last year’s Teaching Excellence Awards! Do you know a teacher at your school who’s making an extraordinary impact? 🤔
Nominate them today for this year’s award—let’s honor the educators who inspire and uplift their students every day!
⏰ Nominations close TODAY—don’t wait!
👉 Submit here: bit.ly/25TEA
🌟 Imagine this being one of the amazing teachers at your school this year! Watch this video from last year and get inspired to celebrate an educator who’s making a difference.
Nominations for the Teaching Excellence Awards close TODAY, so don’t miss your chance to spotlight a deserving teacher!
👉 Nominate here: bit.ly/25TEA
📽️ Watch this inspiring story from last year’s Teaching Excellence Award winner, Pilar Alvarado! Could this be a teacher at your school this year? 👀
Let’s make sure the amazing educators in our community get the recognition they deserve. Nominate a teacher today!
⏳ Deadline: TOMORROW
👉 Submit here: bit.ly/25TEA
✨ Take a moment to watch this incredible video from last year—this could be a teacher at your school! ✨
Do you know a WCCUSD educator who deserves to be celebrated for their dedication and impact? Nominate them for the Teaching Excellence Awards today!
🗓️ Don’t wait—nominations close TOMORROW!
👉 Submit here: bit.ly/25TEA
The sky’s the limit for Mr. Ajayi and Ms. Alvarado from Lincoln Elementary.☄️🌠 Listen to the kind words their Principal, Taylor Parham, shared about the high expectations they set for their students. 🦁 Go LIONS!!
Here are a few words from Katherine Acosta-Verprauskus, Interim Executive Director of Area 1 and former principal of Montalvin Manor K-8! 🗣️💬🍎
Empower West County families and students this Giving Tuesday! 🌟 The Ed Fund is proud to continue our mission of making education accessible to all. Join us in creating a brighter future! Give today at edfundwest.org 🏫📚✏️ #GivingTuesday
Last Friday, the Ed Fund team took a trip to Fab Lab Richmond at Kennedy High School for staff #HealthAndWellnessDay 🌟
What is Fab Lab Richmond? 🤔 Fab Lab Richmond is a digital fabrication lab that opened in September 2015 used to enhance STEM education within WCCUSD and the community. 🧬🧪It is a safe space for everyone to come together and play, explore, create, mentor, and invent. The Fab Lab was made possible through a grant from MIT’s Center for Bits & Atoms, in partnership with WCCUSD, the Ed Fund, and Chevron’s Social Investment Initiative. Fab Lab Richmond brings hands-on project-based learning to students, ensuring they can develop the critical thinking, problem solving and analytical skills to succeed in the jobs of the future. Did you know that there are additional resources across the district such as a satellite lab📡🛰️ at Betty Reid Soskin Middle School AND one of the only Mobile Fab Labs on the West Coast? 🚛 The Mobile Fab Lab is a 50 foot trailer pulled by a District van 🚐 that contains various fabrication machines and can be used to bring STEM experiences to school sites and classrooms across the district, and the ability to participate in school and community events. As of November 2019, there are now over 2,000 Fab Labs in over 120 countries. Antarctica is the only continent without one. 😯🌍
Fab Lab Richmond, located at Kennedy High School, serves as the main workspace for the entire District, and is also used by the Engineering Class at Kennedy. What is in a Fab Lab? 🤨 All Fab Labs have the same baseline of machines and materials, including: 3D Printers🖨️, Laser and Vinyl Cutters, Desktop Mills, Large CNC Routers (Shopbot), Electric Workbenches, and Digital Sewing/ Embroidery Machines 🧵🪡.
The Ed Fund team, as part of our Health and Wellness Day, took a trip down to the Fab Lab and created our own customized laser-cut crests with the assistance of the Fab Lab Manager, Alex Fleming. If you’d like
A day in the life of an Ed Fund Scholar at Stanford University! 🌲🧠📚🎓
Mara Bravo-Santos graduated from El Cerrito High School in 2021 and was awarded the El Cerrito High School Higher Education Scholarship! (Go Gauchos! 🐎) At Stanford, she is currently majoring in Management Science and Engineering. ⌨️💻 On her TikTok platform, she shares a lot of knowledge and resources for rising seniors looking for college essay and admissions guidance. Mara stated, “[There’s] community-based organizations such as the Ed Fund that make it so that I can tell my sisters and my friends and my neighbors that there is an opportunity for them, from their city, that make higher education more accessible.”
Mara, we are so proud of you for keeping your community at the center of your studies and future goals! We continue to wish you the best in all that you do!
The Ed Fund’s 2023-2024 Scholarship Application will open in February 2024! Stay tuned and make sure to apply!
September 30th is the deadline to apply for a Classroom Arts Grant and a Back-to-School Grant! Apply today:
🎨 Classroom grants of up to $500 are available to support Art Projects serving individual classrooms. School-wide grants of up to $1,000 are available to support projects serving 3 or more classrooms (all school-wide grants require the principal’s approval). Grants can be used on: art supplies, visiting artists, scripts, materials, instruments, costumes/props, etc.
🍎Grants of $250 are available to support teachers and their classrooms for back-to-school. Grants can be used on: supplies, books, instruments, teaching tools, costumes/props, etc.
Questions? Contact our Programs Manager, Sarah Camacho at [email protected]
http://ow.ly/ecsl50KLRTO
The deadline is coming up to apply for a Classroom Arts Grant and a Back-to-School Grant! Apply today:
🎨 Classroom grants of up to $500 are available to support Art Projects serving individual classrooms. School-wide grants of up to $1,000 are available to support projects serving 3 or more classrooms (all school-wide grants require the principal’s approval). Grants can be used on: art supplies, visiting artists, scripts, materials, instruments, costumes/props, etc.
🍎Grants of $250 are available to support teachers and their classrooms for back-to-school. Grants can be used on: supplies, books, instruments, teaching tools, costumes/props, etc.
Deadline is September 30! Questions? Contact our Programs Manager, Sarah Camacho at [email protected].
Apply today: http://ow.ly/k0uY50KFIIs
The Ed Fund works with community based organizations to create education environments where students can thrive and succeed.
