EVENT: How (& Why) Higher Ed. Contributes to Community
We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for a free event focusing on higher education’s role in building just and sustainable communities. We hope you will attend. Building Just and...
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Updating SFUSDs Arts Master Plan: A RFP
A visual and performing arts master plan is imperative if we want state school districts to benefit from successful arts education programs. Twelve years ago, the San Francisco Unified School District...
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Breaking Down Barriers to Education: Collaboration with the Center for Cities...
Imagine that there’s a girl waking up in her San Francisco apartment. Dressed for school, this girl, Nadine, hustles to catch the first available MUNI bus — one that will take her to her school across...
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Walter & Elise Haas Fund 2019 Annual Report
We are pleased to invite you to review the Walter & Elise Haas Fund 2019 Annual Report, now available online. This look back at the year highlights some of our grantees’ exceptional work and...
View ArticleAttempting Equity in Action: Iteration One of the Learning Lab
It is unusual for youth and adults to be in a room as peers, and to work together. Power typically flows in one direction: from adults to youth, from funders to grantees. This first iteration of the...
View ArticleBuilding in the Storm
“I’m holding onto hope even though many things are uncertain and scary.” -Rapid Response Learning Lab member and SFUSD high school senior Two weeks after Bay Area public schools closed due to COVID-19,...
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Public School, Pandemics, and the Future of Girls of Color
For many in California and beyond, these last weeks of August mark the first day of the public school year. And, for most, those first days, weeks, and months will be held virtually. While this is not...
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On the First Day of a New Kind of School Year
If, on the first day of my Junior year, you told me I was experiencing my last first day of high school class in person, I would have laughed. But here we are, and no one’s laughing. During this...
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The Ups and Downs of Virtual Eighth Grade
Hello. My name is Noah and I am an 8th grader in San Francisco. School has always been a bit of a struggle for me. I never got very good grades and I never loved school, but I know that going is how I...
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Reflections on Elementary School, from a Distance
This year, going back to school includes all the tumult and uncertainties particular to 2020. What does it feel like to return to the classroom — virtually or not — during a public health pandemic,...
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Back to School in a New Normal
Over the next few weeks, students across the Bay Area will be going back to school. Regardless of what grade level we’re in, for many of us it will feel like — or actually be — the first day of school...
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The Success of Arts Learning Pods
In the pandemic-mad spring of 2020, many students struggled academically and emotionally as schools quickly moved to distance learning. Private entities set up pods, in which small groups of children...
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