ASSEMBLY WOMAN BONILLA: Save the Date -- 10/14/FRI/10 am to 12 pm - Walnut Creek

Posted:  30 Aug 13

On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 4:55 PM, <Assemblymember.Bonilla@outreach.assembly.ca.gov> wrote:

Problems viewing this E-Alert, click here. Save the DATE! Hearing of the Assembly Select Committee on Increasing the Integration of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math) in Education in California K-14 Schools Chaired by Assemblywoman Susan A. Bonilla (D-Concord) Special Guest:State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson Hearing Topic: STEM Task Force Report: From Planning to Implementation Friday, October 4, 2013 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Contra Costa Transportation Authority Board Room 2999 Oak Road, Suite 110 Walnut Creek, CA 94597 For more information, please contact Assemblywoman Susan A. Bonilla's  District Office at (925) 521-1511. Website: http://asmdc.org/BonillaEmail: Assemblymember Bonilla Capitol Office: State Capitol P.O. Box 942849 Sacramento, CA 94249-0014 Tel: (916) 319-2014 Fax: (916) 319-2114 District Office:2151 Salvio Street Suite 395 Concord, CA 94520 Tel: (925) 521-1511 Fax: (925) 602-1536

STS Academy Before & After School Programs -- Register: Aug 8, 9!

Posted: 2 Aug 13

STS Academy main website link

Programs available for grades K thru 5

1.  As Pittsburg students get ready for the new school year to begin, STS Academy is preparing to register students in their before and after school programs. 

2.  Registration is set for August 8 and 9 at Pittsburg High School (North Campus).

3.  The after school program for 1st - 5th grade students is free of charge and is limited to 100 students at each elementary school. This program is expected to fill up quickly.

4.  STS Academy offers two (2) fee-based before and after school programs for Kindergarten and 1st-5th grade students. These programs are held at 60 Civic Avenue.

5.  For complete details, click on links below:

STS After School 2013 Free program

STS Kindergarten 2013 Fee based program (also embedded in frame 1, below)
STS Before & After School 2013 Fee based program (also embedded in frame 2, below)

1.   STS Kindergarten 2013 Program

2.  STS K-5 Rate Flyer 2013-14 (2) by Decian1

Boys & Girls! "The JUNIOR GIANTS" Free Baseball Program Signup (6/17 to 6/21)

Posted:  8 May 13
Ref:  PUSD presentation at Neighborhood Improvement Team Meeting of 7 May
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The San Francisco Giants

2012 World Champions

Offering a Free, Non-competitive Baseball Program 

for Girls and Boys (Ages 5 to 18 years old)

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Building Confidence - Integrity - Leadership - Teamwork

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*PITTSBURG JUNIOR GIANTS LEAGUE 

STARTS ON 1 JULY!

To check for other leagues in other cities, 
please visit JRGiants.org -- Contra Costa Start dates (tick-tock):

• Antioch - July 6
• Concord -- June 17
• North Richmond/San Pablo -- June 7
• Pittsburg -- July 1
• Richmond -- June 11

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1.  Kids and Coaches should contact:

City of Pittsburg
Lollie Gutierrez
925-252-4842
RGutierrez@ci.pittsburg.ca.us

2.  Sign-up Period: between 3:00 to 5:00 pm from June 17 to June 21

• Online at: JRGIANTS.org
• OR
• In person at: The Senior Center, 300 Presidio Lane, Pittsburg

3.  A Few Snippets From Junior Giants Website:

About the Giants Community Fund (GCF)

The success of a Major League Baseball club is measured by more than game-winning rallies and pennant drives. Beyond the box scores, a ballclub has a unique opportunity to create partnerships to improve the quality of life in its community. It was that spirit that inspired the Giants to establish the non-profit Giants Community Fund in 1991.

Mission of the GCF

The Giants Community Fund collaborates with the San Francisco Giants by using baseball as a forum to encourage underserved youth and their families to live healthy, productive lives.

The Fund supports Junior Giants leagues throughout Northern California, Nevada and Oregon and provides assistance to targeted community initiatives in the areas of Education, Health and Violence Prevention.

Who are the Junior Giants?

Junior Giants, the flagship program of the Giants Community Fund, is a free, non-competitive and innovative baseball program for boys and girls ages 5-18 years old. (more...)

What makes Junior Giants baseball unique?

• It's a free program!
• The league is non-competitive
• It's a program for girls and boys
• Higher value placed on character than on wins and losses
• Programs in education, health, and violence prevention
• Pitching machines are used
• Professional training by the Giants is provided to the coaches
• (more...)

On the website, in addition to the above, is a wealth of other useful information including:

• Handbook for Coaches (pdf)
• Handbook for Parents and Players (pdf)

WHAT A FUN WAY TO HELP DEVELOP THE WHOLE PERSON ... MIND AND BODY -- and to increase wholesome options for our young folks -- our future leaders and followers!

MAJOR BREAK-THROUGH: The Kahn Academy

Posted: 14 Mar 13

MUCH MORE POWER OVER 

THE HUMAN KNOWLEDGE BASE (HKB)!!

A gold-strike in web space!!

Educating Self and Others Just Got a Whole Lot Easier and Surer

(and ever so much more pleasantly efficient)
ALL COMPLETELY FREE OF CHARGE!

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Purpose

This report is intended to give maximum public exposure to the awesome educational services provided by the Kahn Academy website -- for the greater public good, without a serious doubt.  (And, here is their Facebook page).

Assumptions

I confidently predict that what I'm reporting here, today, will become as indispensable to modern day-to-day living as Google, itself.  If you haven't looked at it yet, I believe you're going to be pleased at the enormous power the subject resource places in all our hands, instantly.

What I am so excited to share with you here is a perfect example of what I mean when I say that "society is only just beginning to learn all the good it can make of The Internet and the many other recent astounding achievements that place such unprecedented power in so many human hands."  

This, I think, is exactly how the Internet is "supposed" to be used -- toward the betterment of humankind and the oh-so-brief life-experience.

Background

This afternoon, my wife said, "David, here's something you might like to post in the Journal.  It might help parents get their children over homework hurdles."  

• She went on to tell me that last night's late-night dog-barking caused her to glimpse a brief impression of the "Jeff Probst Show" where he was raving about KahnAcademy.org. -- and how "The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation" and "The Google Foundation" (those magnanimous souls, all!!!) have donated vast fortunes -- to insure that this endeavor continues to improve our world -- as it is doing, person by person.  We both figured, there must be something to it if these shrewd and good people believe in it so much.  
• Then she went back to sleep -- but remembered to tell me.  
• FATEFUL!!   I always say that "fate has its own agenda and is far wiser than anything I can cook up, myself."  Lucky, lucky us! 

I immediately grasped the PROFOUND implications, with just-as-profound gratitude towards her.  THIS IS A VERY BIG DEAL!

• And, as I looked even closer, I felt my own mind (hence, life) begin to change for the better -- and I fell in love with it -- at first sight.  I'll bet it's gonna happen to you, too.
• And I soon realized, this is going to help a lot more humans than just parents and children -- this is going to help every rational mind that doesn't already know all there is to know and how to do all there is that needs doing (I think that means MOST of us).

It was almost as if that sequence was "meant" to happen... 

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Now, I'll let the facts speak for themselves

References

1. Google Search
2. Wikipedia Discussion
3. Main Website of Kahn Academy
4. Critiques and Reviews (positive and non-) of Kahn Academy
   (so we're better aware of strengths and limitations)

1.  What is the Kahn Academy?

According to Wikipedia 

The Khan Academy is a non-profit educational website created in 2006 by American educator Salman Khan, a graduate of MIT and Harvard Business School. The stated mission is "providing a high quality education for anyone, anywhere."

"Khan's long-term goal is to provide "tens of thousands of videos in pretty much every subject" 

and to create "the world's first free, world-class virtual school where anyone can learn anything."

2.  In their own words: 

(from their "About" page)

A free world-class education for anyone anywhere.

Khan Academy is an organization on a mission. 

We're a not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education for anyone anywhere.

All of the site's resources are available to anyone. 

• It doesn't matter if you are a student, teacher, home-schooler, principal, adult returning to the classroom after 20 years, or a friendly alien just trying to get a leg up in earthly biology. [smiles]
• Khan Academy's materials and resources are available to you completely free of charge.

3.  What does their website do?

The website supplies a free online collection of more than 4,000 micro lectures via video tutorials stored on YouTube, teaching: 

1. mathematics 
2. history
3. healthcare
4. medicine
5. finance
6. physics
7. chemistry
8. biology
9. astronomy
10. economics
11. cosmology
12. organic chemistry
13. American civics
14. art history
15. macroeconomics
16. microeconomics
17. computer science

Khan Academy has delivered over 240 million lessons!!!

4.  Since a picture is worth a thousand words:

Here's the partial, ready-to-use "feature playlist," <-- click here

to help solve life's little puzzles -- or prepare to solve the greater ones.  I have a feeling the world just changed for the much, much better.  What an amazing story history is to witness and participate in.

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Friendly Suggestion

I, for one, have already begun using it to fix some of the holes life has told me I have in my education -- as far as that's possible in the remaining minutes and hours.  More importantly, I will use it to help me discover and plug holes I didn't know I had.  I had been long and earnestly wanting EXACTLY such a tool as this.  This fell into my lap -- a little late, but who's complaining?

If I were still a parent (my girls are long-grown), I know I'd incorporate this into my "Child-rearing Strategy."  The little ones need every advantage they can get from us.

May I suggest that you bookmark the site and start (if it needs starting) or enhance a neat new (or old) life-long habit of using tools such as this, to explore ONESELF and the HKB and mine them for all they're worth? 

What an opportunity I wish my parents had -- they would have turned it upside down, inside and out -- in very good ways.   What would this world be like now?  Sad thought, there. (sigh!)

... and so, the great human chain-reaction and life-journey both continue to advance, magnificently!

David Nelson


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