Workshop Title
Description
Presenters
Best for Grade Levels
The A-Z of a-g Graduation
Requirements
Find out about SFUSD's a-g graduation requirements,
options for credit recovery, and supports available to
help students graduate.
Stephen J Koffman and Linda
Wells
9-12
Hip Hip Hooray for PIPs! How Title I
Schools Can Use Your "Parent
Involvement Policy" to Strengthen
Family Engagement
This workshop will review the Parent Involvement
Policy and Home-School Compact required by Title I.
We'll share one school's work engaging families in this
process, and participants will identify “next steps” for
their school's PIP.
Dr. Roderick Castro
K-8
California’s Education System is
Changing Fast!
Learn How It Really
Works, So You Can Make a Difference.
Learn about Ed100.org, a free online course for parents
who want to help improve their schools. Use this
resource to learn more about how schools and districts
work, and support parent leaders at your school.
Carol Kocivar
PreK-12
Getting Started with Your School Site
Council (Part 1): An Overview
This discussion will take a practical look at the purpose
of School Site Councils (SSC), the role of the SSC in
developing your Balanced Score Card, and the
responsibilities of SSC members. Participants will
access resources, share ideas, and network with other
SSC members.
Stu Jernigan
K-12
What Every English Learner Family
Needs to Know about Reclassification
and Achievement Data
Participants will learn about key changes to the process
for reclassifying English Learner students as "Fluent
English Proficient," and look at data about EL student
achievement in our schools.
Christina Wong
K-12
Safe, Healthy and Ready to Learn:
Partnering to Meet Student Health
Needs.
Does your child have a chronic health condition, like
asthma, eczema, food allergy, diabetes? Learn how to
ensure your child's health condition is not a barrier to
coming to school, being safe, and learning to their full
potential.
Mary Jue, RN
RN
Hands-On Math Magic!
In this fun workshop we will explore and share activities
you can use to help your child learn counting,
estimation, and other essential math skills.
Barbara Chisholm
Deborah Zhao,
PreK-12
Pre-K
Workshop Title
Description
Presenters
Best for Grade Levels
Support at School that Can Help Your
Child SUCCEED!
Engage in conversation with a school social worker and
a school nurse to learn more about the structures and
supports available at school to help your child succeed!
Jennifer Donahue and Kathy
Babcock
ELAC: Making it work!
Participants will learn about the role of SFUSD's English
Learner Advisory Committees (ELAC) their relationship
to the School Site Council (SSC) - and receive new tools
to plan your ELAC's next steps.
Lucía Pérez Barrow
What Families Need to Know about
Math in the Age of the Common Core
Participants will get to experience the Common Core
State Standards for Mathematics by doing a hands-on
3rd grade math task. Parents will share ideas about
ways to help their students with homework.
Kathy Bradley and Joy Otake
PreK-12
Valuing Diversity and Creating
Community at Your School
Parents and school staff will share tools and strategies
that work to help create a school community that
honors your diverse student and family populations.
This interactive workshop will include real examples in
SFUSD, and model activities that you can use at your
own school!
Christina Cañaveral and
Georgia Williams Bratt
PreK-12
Putting the STUDENT and FAMILY into
parent-teacher conferences!
In this workshop we will share models and strategies for
engaging students and families in interactive studentparent-teacher conferences. Participants will learn
ways to build student and family investment and
responsibility for academic and social-emotional
success.
Nora Houseman
K-8
Helping your Child Understand Puberty
and Avoid Drug Use
Practice strategies for talking with your children about
drug prevention and puberty. Find out about policies,
data, and resources to help!
Martha Adriasola and Rosalia
Lopez
K-8
PreK-12
K-12
Workshop Title
Description
Presenters
Best for Grade Levels
Navigating Special Education and IEPs:
Being a Champion for your Student's
Success
Learn the basics about the IEP process and how to
navigate the Special Education system. We'll share
information about the IEP process, how to start the
assessment process, and where to go in the district and
in the community when you need help.
Laura Savage, Joe Goyos and
Kristine Thai
K-12
Independent Reading and the Common
Core
Help your student grow as a reader – learn how to find
books your student will love and explore how to have
meaningful conversations about books and reading.
Erin O'Brien and Suzy de Blois
K-5, 6-12
Growing Your SSC (Part 2): The Seeds
for Success.
How can schools cultivate diverse leadership and build
School Site Councils that are inclusive, collaborative and
serve the needs of all students? Learn about ways to
support diversity and collaborative decision making on
your SSC, including alternative meeting structures and
using Restorative Practices for community discussions.
Miranda Nye Martin
PreK-12
A Call to Engage, Empower and Equip
African American Parents!
Are you interested in starting an African American
Affinity group at your school? Come hear a panel of
parents share their experiences establishing an African
American parent group and/or leadership opportunities
at their schools. Explore how to build alliances within
your school and across the district with other African
American parents.
Carla Llewelyn-Vasquez and
Gailyn Anderson
PreK-12
New Year, New Assessment! Learn
about the new Smarter Balanced
Assessment
Smarter Balanced Assessments are new computerbased tests that will assess your child's learning of the
new Common Core State Standards. Learn what you can
do to support your child and your child's school to
prepare for this new test.
Alison Collins
K-12
Building Brain Power by Looking at
Books! Interactive Book Sharing with
Young Children
Learn about young children's brain development and
how families can help kids build important early literacy
skills - even when looking at picture books.
Michelle Callwood and Kelsey
Gottschalk
Pre-K
Workshop Title
Description
Presenters
Best for Grade Levels
New state standards for English
Language Development: Exciting
changes and promising practices you
can use at home!
Participants will learn about new California standads for
English Language Development (ELD), ways teachers
and families can help develop academic language skills,
and get connected with free on-line resources families
can use with their children.
Alicia Aleman and Julio
Moreno
K-12
Services for Families and Youth in
Transition
Becoming homeless can occur without warning. Find
out about the transportation, tutorning, school
supplies, and other services that are available to
support students and families in housing transition.
Jan Walker
K-12
Are You Ready for Willie Brown Middle
School?
SFUSD's new middle school is opening in August 2015
and will be a new model for public education. The
school will offer a rich science, technical and arts
program personalized for your child. Meet the new
principal, do a "STEM" activity, and find out more about
our newest school!
Demetrius Hobson and Joya
Balk
K-8
What's Culture Got To Do With It?
Find out what the district's Office of Access and Equity
is offering educators to support culturally and
linguistically responsive teaching. Participants will use
our model for Courageous Conversations about race, to
learn and talk about Implicit Bias, Stereotype Threat
and strategies for culturally responsive pedagogy.
Carla Llewelyn-Vasquez
Diverse Leadership: Train, Build, Value,
Celebrate
This workshop will share our stories and strategies that
work to deepen relationships, build stronger
communities, and promote leadership among families
from diverse cultures and backgrounds.
Laticia Erving and the John
Muir Community
Your Rights as a Parent
Learn about your rights as a parent in SFUSD schools!
This workshop will present the rights of parents, how to
best advocate for your child and how to get involved in
your child's school.
Christina Cañaveral, AJ Napolis
and Ramon Martinez
PreK-12
K-5
PreK-12
Workshop Title
Description
Presenters
Connecting the Dots: the Power,
Importance and Influence of Social
Networks and Connections to Support
your Children’s Educational Experience.
Participants will identify, explore and map their
informal and formal social connections and networks.
Learn how formal parent advisory groups can support
your children’s educational experience and build your
leadership skills.
Lourdes Alarcon, Miranda
Martin and Georgia WilliamsBratt
To Learn More, Stress Less
Stress affects all of us - and kids are no different.
Martha Merchant, Psy.D.
Chronic stress interferes with children’s learning
readiness, but each one of us can have an impact! Come
learn skills for decreasing stress and ways that schools
can help.
Find out about SFUSD's School Quality Improvement
Jill Hoogendyk
Index, our new accountability system, that measures
academic as well as social-emotional success, school
climate and community engagement. Learn how to
support this work at your school, and access online
resources to help.
PreK-12
Creating a Welcoming Environment for
Families
Hear about strategies that work to create a welcoming
environment for all families, foster leadership among
parents who might not think of themselves as "leaders,"
and build new traditions of family engagement within
your school.
Rebeca Flores and Kashina
Turner-Pierce
PreK-12
Developing the Next Generation of
Innovators: What SFUSD's Vision 2025
Means for You and Your Student
"Vision 2025: Reimagining Public Education for a New
Generation" is SFUSD's new road-map that redefines
what student success looks like in the 21st century.
Learn how families can help ensure that children
develop the skills they'll need to succeed in 2025, and
help make Vision 2025 a reality for all of our students.
Laura Moran
PreK-12
Including Everyone: Inclusive Practices
that Work
This workshop will share strategies and examples for
inclusive practices in schools across the district; tools
for educators and families; and promote participation in
celebrating "Inclusive Schools Week" December 1-5.
Laura Savage, Ombudsman,
SFUSD
PreK-12
Supporting the Shift: SFUSD's New
School Quality Improvement System
Best for Grade Levels
PreK-12
PreK-12
Workshop Title
Description
Presenters
Best for Grade Levels
Services for Immigrant Students and
Families
Learn about services available in SFUSD and in the
community for immigrant students and families,
including academic, health, housing, legal and
immigration assistance.
Christina Wong, SFUSD; Luis
Vasquez-Gomez, La Raza
Community Resource Center
PreK-12
Repairing Harm and Building
Community: Restorative Practices
across SFUSD
Learn how schools are implementing Restorative
Practices, practice strategies for building positive
relationships, and explore ways to resolve conflict.
Vickie Sargent, Restorative
Practices Coach
PreK-12