CA LSWP Collaborative Winning at Wellness AND National CACFP Week 2021Child and Adult Care Food Program - Nutrition (CA Dept of Education)

CA LSWP Collaborative Winning at Wellness - Nutrition (CA Dept of Education)

CA LSWP Collaborative Winning at Wellness

On Tuesday, March 16, at 10 a.m., the California (CA) Local School Wellness Policy (LSWP) Collaborative will discuss the comprehensive health needs of students highlighting three specific examples of the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model in action in the components of Health Education,Physical Education and Physical Activity, and Social and Emotional Climate.

The CA LSWP Collaborative hosts Winning at Wellness Webinars on the third Tuesday every other month to inspire school communities and stakeholders to implement highly effective LSWPs in schools to support student health and academic achievement. For more information visit the CA LSWP Collaborative web page.

The Winning at Wellness Webinar on the WSCC Model will include student collaborators and subject matter experts in WSCC implementation to the importance of using the WSCC model to strengthen LSWPs to address students’ needs during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Presenters will include:

• Ary, Zachary, and Isabel, Student Collaborators
• Maryam Shayegh, Los Angeles County Office of Education
• Dareen Khatib, Orange County Department of Education
• Michele Tabor, CalFresh Healthy Living
• Jessica Hwang, California Department of Public Health Substance and Addiction Prevention Branch

Target Audience

The target audience includes all state and local school nutrition professionals, superintendents, school business officials, and community partners involved in school wellness policies.

Schedule

CA LSWP Collaborative Winning at Wellness Webinar

Tuesday, March 16, 2021

10–11 a.m.

This webinar is free to attend. Please register in advance for the CA LSWP Collaborative Winning at Wellness Webinar.

After registering, you will see a screen that says Webinar Registration Approved with a link to the webinar. You will also receive several emails with the information about joining the webinar. First, you will receive confirmation the day you register and then you will receive two reminder emails: one day and one hour prior to the webinar. If for some reason you cannot find the email confirmation, or do not receive the reminders you can always reregister.

Audio only Connection Information

Dial by your location:

+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)

+1 408 638 0968 US (San Jose)

+1 646 876 9923 US (New York)

Webinar ID: 883 2847 8587

Tip for Attendees

To save time before the meeting, please check your system to make sure it is ready to use Zoom.

• Visit the Zoom test link.
• If you experience issues, visit Zoom Help Center web page for assistance.

If for some reason you receive an error message that the host has declined your webinar registration, try using an alternate email address. While not ideal, you may also join by phone if you have technical issues logging in from your computer.

Contact Information

If you have any questions regarding this subject, please contact Crystal Young, Nutrition Education Consultant, by email at cyoung@cde.ca.gov.

Questions:   Nutrition Services Division | 800-952-5609

National CACFP Week 2021

Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) Operators are cordially invited to celebrate the National CACFP Week, March 14–20, 2021!

As we work together to help young children develop healthy eating habits, we encourage you to promote this year’s CACFP Week with your staff, students, parents, and community. It’s easy to get started and here are a few fun suggestions:

• Start a garden and help children to grow their own vegetables
• Create a special menu for the week that highlights locally grown foods
• Add fun snacks during the week that the children can make themselves, such as yogurt parfaits, fruit salad, and vegetable sticks
• Offer taste testing opportunities to encourage children to try new or unusual foods and dishes

We look forward to celebrating National CACFP Week with you! For more ideas, resources, and information about the Social Media Challenge, go to the National CACFP Sponsors Association News, Events, and Conferences web page.

For more information about the CACFP, please visit the California Department of Education CACFP web page.

Contact Information

If you have any questions regarding this subject, please contact the CACFP by email at CACFP@cde.ca.gov to be directed to your CACFP Specialist.

Questions:   Nutrition Services Division | 800-952-5609

P Week 2021

Defamiliarizing the Idea of the Modern: Where Do We Begin World History?

Defamiliarizing the Idea of the Modern: Where Do We Begin World History?

Defamiliarizing the Idea of the Modern: Where Do We Begin World History?

By Paul Horton.

No question is more puzzling to teachers of World or Global History than, when did the modern world begin?

We inherited this question from the hand-me-down versions of Western Civilization and European history that served as the foundations for World History as it gradually evolved away from the “Rise of the West” approach of William McNeill in the 1950s to the decentered (“nonEurocentric”) and delinked Global History of today.

This debate moved to center stage with the recent controversy surrounding the curriculum of the AP World History course. While the new consensus of global historians is that we must move modern to earlier dates to critically assess “connected histories” that suggest that European Exceptionalism is on shakier ground, conservative historians and organizations like the National Association of Scholars argue that the Renaissance still represents a fundamental shift in the course of World History that demarcates “traditional” cultures from “modern” cultures.

When the College Board sought to begin a course revision at 1450, a date corresponding to the beginning of the Renaissance, historians pushed back to demand that the course begin at 1200 in order to incorporate new research on global economic and cultural exchanges that set the stage for the Renaissance.

But, despite this debate, the course still accepts the idea that what we call modern began in Europe with economic and cultural developments in Italy that were diffused to the rest of Europe in the 16th and CONTINUE READING: Defamiliarizing the Idea of the Modern: Where Do We Begin World History?

CONSTRUCTING UNICORN BARNS – Dad Gone Wild

CONSTRUCTING UNICORN BARNS – Dad Gone Wild

CONSTRUCTING UNICORN BARNS

“These stories aren’t told for the same reason you can’t go to the circus and see yetis riding on unicorns while playing bagpipes built out of skittles.” – Peter Greene, CURMUDGUCATION

 

I have two kids enrolled in MNPS. One is in 5th, the other in 6th grade. Both are remaining virtual for the duration of this school year. My thinking is, back in August I enrolled them into one experiment, why would I jump mid-stream into another experiment. And that’s exactly what in-person schooling is currently, an experiment.

It’s one that comes with heartwarming pictures and anecdotal tales of sudden student rejuvenation. It’s sold as a return to “normal”, whatever that is. But like most things in education, everything that glitters is not gold.

A return to school building means excepting a plethora of new protocols – safe distancing, rotating teachers instead of students, lunch in classrooms, and masks. Every input has unintended outputs. At this juncture, we have no concept of the long-term impact of these protocols intended for short-term safety. The reason being, we’ve never done school like this. Just like with remote schooling, we’ve never done in-person schooling with this level of safety protocols currently employed. As  CONTINUE READING: CONSTRUCTING UNICORN BARNS – Dad Gone Wild

Poetry of Pain, Poetry of Hope – radical eyes for equity

Poetry of Pain, Poetry of Hope – radical eyes for equity

Poetry of Pain, Poetry of Hope

When I posted my newest poem yesterday, we weathered winter (silence & shouting), I realized this is my first poem of 2021. It is unusual since it is mostly a poem of hope, a poem uniquely set in the Covid-19 pandemic.

As I looked back, I also realized that the last poem of 2020 was about my aunt’s suicide, a human throat (ineffable), a poem of pain anchored to the frailties of being human—although this poem too cannot avoid the ghost of the pandemic lingering there.

My newest poem feels out of character for me, a person prone to cynicism and a general negative outlook on life paraded as a “realistic” view. The poem is also unusual because most of my poetry comes in bursts; first there are entire sections that come to me whole (often in sleep or near sleep) and then several hours of tinkering and shaping the poem that is calling to me to bring it forth.

I ended 2020 in the paradox of writing about the ineffable, a suicide of a family member who filled me with contradictory and confusing emotions. So starting 2021 with some hope feels both odd and perfect as I sit in South Carolina CONTINUE READING: Poetry of Pain, Poetry of Hope – radical eyes for equity

They are gutting the most important privacy law you never heard of. | Parent Coalition for Student Privacy

They are gutting the most important privacy law you never heard of. | Parent Coalition for Student Privacy

THEY ARE GUTTING THE MOST IMPORTANT PRIVACY LAW YOU NEVER HEARD OF

These Republican lawmakers have introduced bills to weaken privacy.

You should have a choice whether a company uses photos of you or your family; you should be told when a company provides thousands of other companies and government entities access to photos of you.  There should be a law against this invasive use of your image and biometric data.  There is.  Illinois has one of the toughest biometrics laws in the country–the 2008 Biometric Information Privacy Act  (BIPA). The New York Times recently published a great piece about the importance of Illinois’ BIPA law: The best law you’ve never heard of.  The author, Shira Ovide, writes about BIPA:

“The law’s text is simple but profound, Adam Schwartz, a senior staff attorney with Electronic Frontier Foundation, told me.

First, companies behind technologies like voice assistants or photo recognition services can’t use people’s biometric details without their knowledge or consent. Few American privacy laws go this far — and probably none will again. Typically we must agree to whatever companies want to do CONTINUE READING: They are gutting the most important privacy law you never heard of. | Parent Coalition for Student Privacy

SPOTLIGHT BLOG OF THE WEEK JAN RESSEGER BLOG

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"That all citizens will be given an equal start through a sound education is one of the most basic, promised rights of our democracy. Our chronic refusal as a nation to guarantee that right for all children…. is rooted in a kind of moral blindness, or at least a failure of moral imagination…. It is a failure which threatens our future as a nation of citizens called to a common purpose… tied to one another by a common bond." —Senator Paul Wellstone — March 31, 2000

Pressure on Education Secretary Miguel Cardona Grows: Cancel Standardized Tests in this Crazy COVID-19 School Year

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Strategic Advocacy Over Decades Brought Us an Expanded Child Tax Credit: Can the Same Kind of Strategic Organizing Produce School Funding Reform?

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What Biden’s COVID-19 Rescue Plan Will Mean for American Poorest Children and for Our Public Education System

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Diane Ravitch Offers Pithy Prescription to Help Secretary of Education Cardona Remedy Education Policy

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By 2010, there were a lot of people who had grown very concerned about the No Child Left Behind Act and the use of annual high-stakes testing to identify so-called “failing” schools. It was a federal education scheme that imposed punishments on public schools serving America’s poorest students instead of providing help. The movement to condemn No Child Left Behind didn’t crystalize, however, unti

Beware: Here Is How to Wreck Your State’s Public Schools

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Many state legislatures are currently considering new private school tuition vouchers or planning to expand long running voucher programs, tuition tax credit vouchers, and education savings account vouchers. Ohio provides a stark warning about the potential damage of rapidly growing school privatization at public expense. In a column in Sunday’s Cleveland Plain Dealer , Peter Robertson examines h

Is President Biden a Supporter of Standardized Testing After All?

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A week ago a newly appointed Assistant Secretary in the Department of Education’s Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, Ian Rosenblum announced that this spring, the Department will require the annual standardized testing mandated first by No Child Left Behind, and now

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