SFUSD - Americorps Partnerships

SFUSD and Americorps Work Together for San Francisco Children

Project FIRST, a branch of Americorps, is a nationwide program targeted at integrating technology into public schools. InSan Francisco, 8 Americorps workers, with the cooperation of the San Francisco Education Fund, have been working in 16public school libraries. Their activities have been varied: inservicing teachers, administrators, and librarians, designingtechnology use plans, generating CD ROM and Internet lessons, mentoring students, building web pages, recycling donatedcomputers, setting up LANs, offering community outreach and general technical support within San Francisco Unified. Wefocus on the library--attempting to integrate technology responsibly and comprehensively, with the growing demands of newinformation systems. This page has links to student projects on the web, various academic resources for teachers and students, listings of inservices for SFUSD, and space for library advocacy and literacy projects.
Partners in School Innovation is a national service program at work in the public schools of the San Francisco Bay Area. We commit for three to five years to schools that serve predominantly low-income children, have a commitment to whole school change, and have a strong leadership team working to achieve the school's vision for excellence. In each partner school, AmeriCorps members help to develop, implement, and institutionalize important projects to meet school priorities. At Bryant Elementary we are helping create a sustainable conflict management program, parent participation program, and student leadership initiatives. Contact us at partnerssi@aol.com