R-L Thomas, Eric, Helen, Sarah, Jean.
Right To Learn has recently just sent their five winning story tellers to Saramento to meet with the State Board of Education. Thomas Bruce from Fresno, Eric Seidman from Granite Bay, Helen Weng and Sarah Mojabi from San Diego and Jean Teodoro from San Francisco all came to Sacramento on July 9th and spent the day getting to know each other, discussing their different experiences with the education system, and writing out exactly what they wanted to tell the State Board.
The students got up bright and early the next morning and presented to the Board at 9am. They dicussed topics such as more aids in remedial classes, implementing block scheduling in high schools statewide, more culturally conscious education, focusing on main standard ideas instead of having very specific standards for kids to learn by, and including student input on decisions that effect them directly.
The Board was very impressed with the students and listened very intentely. They also invited the students back to talk about more topics!
If you are in the Sacramento area and want to speak your mind to the State Board, they openly call for more students to come and share their experiences. Their next meeting is September 10-11.
Check out more of our pictures here.
The part 1 of the presentation.
Tags: Right To Learn, sacramento, school board
