Principal Wyatt's Update/Actualización del Director Wyatt

Good to know, info:

• We are wrapping our targeted focus groups for our listening campaigns the first week of February.
• https://www.longfellowberkeley.org/ Please check the links in the upper left hand corner for fliers with listening campaign information. These campaigns are an effort to hear as many Longfellow voices as possible as we gauge our current instructional and community efforts and plan for next steps.
• Latino Youth Leadership Conference, 7/26-7/31 in Lake Tahoe. Application and information can be found in the main office, and through the Etree.
• Interested in STEM? Stop by the Longfellow office for two great Girls' STEM camps happening at UC Berkeley...One coming up soon and one in the summer..
  • Nuclear Science Day - Registration Open. We will be celebrating our 10th annual Nuclear Science Day for Scouts event at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on Saturday, March 21, 2020. This full-day event is designed for Girl Scouts and BSA youths in grade 8 or higher. Educational activities include a tour of the ALS, detection of cosmic rays, and investigation of radioactivity in our daily lives. For more information, visit https://nuclearscienceday.lbl.gov/ Registration needs to be completed by troop leaders by February 21, 2020.
  • Teachers can place SAGE-S Summer Camp - Nominations. SAGE-S (Science Accelerating Girls' Engagement in STEM) is a week long summer camp during August 2 - 8, 2020 that aims to foster innovation, grow the STEM community, and engage intelligent, creative, and passionate young women. This year, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab will be a host in addition to SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The program includes learning about the STEM community, experiencing the everyday life of a scientist or engineer, and meeting women in STEM with similar interests. Participants must first be nominated by a teacher to apply. Begin nominations as soon as possible as applications will be sent out in February.

What's Going on at Longfellow?:

• Uganda African American Library Project, see the 02/05/20 Etree for details on how to participate and support Longfellow in supporting others. We are building agency and empathy by giving our students an opportunity to support others.
• Makers and Scholars: A powerful collaboration Christopher Oakes (Umjoa teacher) felt it important to create a classroom environment in which the aesthetics reflected the scholars who showed up daily to class. As he and Umoja scholars began to source materials and images they were challenged by the availability of resources to support their idea of project based learning resulting in authentic representation. Faced with this challenge, scholars decided to produce the images themselves, inspired by their own vision. To do this, they needed help and the scholars knew just where to find it; Ms. Jen in the Makers Lab! Since November Umoja and Makers Lab scholars have collaborated to create Afro-centric artifacts. Engaging in the burgeoning Longfellow Integrated Learning Framework, scholars learned and demonstrated their command of certain STEAM competencies. Additionally, this collaborative project afforded Umoja 7th & 8th graders an opportunity to embrace 6th graders and show them the "Longfellow way.” What transpired was an amazing display of what our scholars can accomplish when they work together, are given space to use their voice, and are provided proper resources. The work from this collaborative effort is currently on display for Black History Month. Please stop by to check it out! See pics below!!
• Longfellow Teachers continue to read Culturally Relevant Teaching and The Brain, by Zaretta Hammond.

Highlights from Longfellow Parent Groups

PTA: The 2019 - 2020 Student Directory is out! Students will receive a copy in their advisory on Wednesday 2/5/2020. Check your student's backpack. The Readathon was a huge success. Thank you to everyone who participated, organized, counted up pledges, and read!

2/20/20, The PTA will participate in a Listening Campaign Focus Group.

ELAC (English Language Advocacy Committee): 2/20/20, The ELAC will participate in a Listening Campaign Focus Group.

SSC: 2/13, The SSC will participate in a Listening Campaign Focus Group. We will also review the progress of programs and positions that are funded by SSC monitored funds.