Every Day Counts! Attend Today, Achieve for a Lifetime September is attendance awareness month. Berkeley Unified School District Student Services, Office of Family Engagement & Equity, and the City of Berkeley’s School Linked Health Services have teamed up to celebrate and encourage good school attendance. Every day of the school year counts! When children miss school for […]
Lunch Forms: Help Us Qualify for School Funding!
We need every family to complete an application for free/reduced price school meals, either online or by completing the paper copy provided by your child’s school. Even if your student does not intend to take advantage of the lunch program, every qualified application is counted towards bringing significant federal (Title I) and state (LCFF/LCAP) funding to […]
Black Parents Affinity Group Retreat; Next meeting: Dinner & Movie on March 8
A Message from Ann-Marie Callegari, Supervisor of the Office of Family Engagement and Equity Re: Black Parents Affinity Group Retreat, February 27 Note: Next Black Parents Affinity Group Event: Dinner and a Movie, Tuesday, March 8, 6-8pm at Malcolm X Elementary in the Library. We will be viewing ****More Than A Day**** (Race and Equality in […]
September – Attendance Awareness Month
Every Day Counts! Attend Today, Achieve for a Lifetime September is attendance awareness month. Berkeley Unified School District Student Services, Office of Family Engagement & Equity, and the City of Berkeley’s School Linked Health Services have teamed up to celebrate and encourage good school attendance. An attendance celebration at Berkeley High School took place on September 14. […]
César Chávez Essay Contest Winners
Congratulations to all the young writers in our schools who participated in the annual César Chávez Essay Contest. The following students have been awarded the prize for best essay at their respective grade levels: 2nd: Jing Li-Chou, Thousand Oaks 3rd: Luca Adnan Mirza, Jefferson 4th: Emily Lim, Thousand Oaks 5th: Jaedyn Tang-Gordy, Thousand Oaks 6th: […]
Berkeley Students Engaged and Inspired on College and Career Day
The third annual Berkeley College and Career Day (BCCD) kicked-off in Berkeley High’s College & Career Center on Thursday, March 12th. The day was dedicated to engaging Berkeley’s children and youth in imagining their futures and included activities held in each of our schools, from preschool to high school. The day was filled with rallies, […]
Black to School Week: Feb. 23-27
We invite all parents/guardians/caretakers of African American children to be an active participant in African American History Month and honor National African American Parent Involvement Day by coming to your child’s classroom during the week of February 23. In collaboration with the Regional Parent Network of the African American Regional Educational Alliances (AAREA) we encourage you […]
Join Author Andrea Davis Pinkney and Berkeley Families: September 19, 7pm
Best-Selling Children’s Author Visits BUSD Mark your calendars for Friday, September 19, for an interactive chat with New York Times best-selling and Coretta Scott King Award-winning author Andrea Davis Pinkney. Ms Pinkney is the author of more than 30 books, ranging from heartfelt historical fiction to inspiring nonfiction. All families are welcome to this event.
Attend Today! Achieve for a Lifetime
BERKELEY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF EDUCATION PROCLAMATION NO. 15-013, Board Approved on 9/10/14 Recognition of September 2014 as Attendance Awareness Month WHEREAS good attendance is essential to student achievement and graduation, and we are committed to dedicating our resources and attention to reducing chronic absenteeism rates, with a focus starting as early as kindergarten; […]
Building a Bridge: Schools, Families, Community
Research has consistently shown that when schools and families work together to support learning, everyone benefits: students do better in school and in life, parents become empowered, schools get better, communities grow stronger. To that effect, the Office of Family Engagement and Equity aims to build school, home and community partnerships to establish more inclusive […]