Alliance 2019 Breakout Session   Presented by: Jennifer Bedon, Teacher Advisor, LAUSD Division of Adult & Career Education; Matthew Oberlander, Coordinator of Curriculum and Instruction The Los Angeles Unified School District’s Division of Adult and Career Education has created an innovative new program to support emergent bilingual families of school-aged children. The Family Success Initiative (FSI) contextualizes traditional ESL curriculum with parent content focused on empowering parents to become active participants and leaders in the school community. […]

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Read With Me: Let the children play, learn to read, and grow

(Ventura, CA) – Nestled in a picturesque community just north of Emma Wood State Beach, and adjacent to the Ventura River, Families in Schools (FIS) visited the Family Center in room 30 at Sheridan Way Elementary School in Ventura, CA. It was a joy at first sight to see the classroom inside filled with smiling and playful parents and their children under the age of four interacting, learning, playing as part of FIS’s Read with […]

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