Greetings and welcome to the October 2021 issue of Dateline.
I know the start of the school year has been both inspiring and challenging with COVID-19 affecting schools throughout the county. Hopefully, things are getting better on your campuses and in your classrooms. I am glad to see that the data is trending in a positive direction. COVID infections and hospitalizations are down, while vaccinations are up. It is my sincere hope that we can continue this trend and reduce the impact this pandemic is having on the students and communities we serve.
One of the challenges we are facing due to the pandemic is a serious shortage of substitute teachers. This shortage faces school districts throughout the county and state. If you know of anyone who meets the minimum requirements, please encourage them to apply. They can visit www.cocoschools.org/becomeasub for more information on becoming a substitute teacher.
October continues the celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, but also recognizes Filipino American History Month. October is the month Filipino American labor leader Larry Itliong was born (October 25, 1913) and also marks the arrival of the first Filipinos who landed in what is now Morro Bay, California on October 18, 1587.
October is also LGBT History Month, which is meant to highlight and celebrate the history and achievements of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
In this issue of Dateline, we list a number of resources and events taking place in honor of both Filipino History Month and Hispanic Heritage Month. As always, there are a number of professional development activities that can help educators in the classroom and support students and communities. Most of these workshops are free and cover a variety of topics. In addition, you will find valuable resources for educators and students, such as available scholarships and the latest services offered by the county’s libraries.
Please enjoy this issue of Dateline and share it with your fellow educators.
In Partnership,
Lynn Mackey
Contra Costa County Superintendent of Schools
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Calling all Substitutes!
Make a Difference in Your Community!
As a substitute, your schedule is up to you! Work any day of the week at the location of your choice!
Make this a launching pad to a new career! Work with children and make a difference!
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Mount Diablo Centennial Celebration |
Saturday, October 16, 2021 |
This year Mount Diablo State Park turns 100. To mark the occasion, California State Parks and its partners invite the public to attend a special event on Saturday, October 16. This birthday celebration takes place at the foot of the mountain at Cal State East Bay’s Concord Campus from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
This will be a time for the community to celebrate the 100-year history of the park. The day will feature information and activities highlighting the natural and cultural treasures that have been preserved as well as the recreational and educational opportunities that abound in Mount Diablo State Park.
Activity booths will showcase the park’s fascinating wildlife, history, and ways to safely and responsibly enjoy the park. Discover the variety of creatures that call the park home as you meet live animals such as bats, snakes, and local birds of prey. Meet the volunteers and horses of our Mounted Assistance Unit who roam the trails on horseback, discover why the oldest rocks layers are on top of the mountain, and see how astronomers view the heavens from the mountain’s heights.
California State Parks, the Mount Diablo Interpretive Association, Save Mount Diablo and Cal State East Bay hope you will join us for this event to celebrate Mount Diablo State Park’s birthday, its many stories, and the community’s connection to this amazing place.
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California Dyslexia Initiative 2021-2022
Expert Webinar Series: Understanding Dyslexia & Literacy
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Join us for a FREE expert webinar series hosted by the Sacramento County Office of Education, project lead for the California Dyslexia Initiative (CDI), in partnership with Glean Education. Learn more about why some students struggle to learn to read, how to recognize risk factors in your students, and how to support reading difficulties and dyslexia in the classroom.
Audience: Pre-K through Grade 12 Teachers, Teacher Leaders, Teachers on Special Assignment (TOSAs), Instructional Coaches, Department Heads, RtI and/or Special Education Teachers, Instructional Support Staff, Site and District Leaders, Parents, Guardians, Caregivers, and Tutors.
Date: Thursday, October 7, 2021
Cost: Free
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English Learner Network (ELN) Lunch & Learn Hour
Focus Topic: ELAC and DELAC
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Friday, October 8, 12:00-1:00 pm |
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Join us for a Lunch & Learn Hour! Frequently requested topic(s) will be presented, followed
by time to discuss, share ideas, and learn from fellow ELN (English Learner Network) colleagues.
Date: Friday, October 8, 2021
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Cost: Free
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ELPAC & CAASPP Coffee Sessions |
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Friday, October 8, 2:00-3:00 pm |
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Staff from the California Department of Education and ETS will host these sessions
on the second Friday of each month to support local educational agencies (LEAs)
in the administration of the 2021–22 CAASPP and ELPAC.
Audience: LEA Assessment Coordinators
Date: Friday, October 8, 2021,
Time: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cost: Free
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Interim and Formative Assessment
Training Series
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October 19, 20, 26 and 27 |
The California Department of Education invites you to attend the
2021 Interim and Formative Assessment Training Series.
This training series will provide direct, online training opportunities focusing on leveraging components of the Smarter Balanced comprehensive system of assessments to inform teaching and learning. There will be three distinct, independent components of this training series, with multiple opportunities—in both the summer and fall—to attend. Sessions in the fall will contain the same content as covered in the summer.
Audience: This training series is intended for teachers, instructional coaches, and educators on special assignment. Local educational agency staff and administrators may also find this training series useful to further support educators locally.
Cost: Free
Module 1: 3 hour sessions from 1-4 pm on October 19, 2021 and October 26, 2021
Module 2: 3 hour sessions from 1-4 pm on October 20, 2021 and October 27, 2021
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Alternate ELPAC Workshop
For Test Examiners
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Monday, October 19, 3:00-5:00pm |
District teams of test examiners are invited to join us for some hands-on practice with the Alternate ELPAC after the completion of their Moodle modules. A Zoom link will be sent to participants who are registered by noon on 10/18/21.
Date: Tuesday, 10/19/21
Time: 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cost: Free
For more information contact
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A Conceptual Framework for Managing Conflict:
Prevention, Intervention and Restoration
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Tuesday, October 19 from 3:15-4:15 pm |
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In this day long presentation, we will explore a tiered approach to preventing and responding to conflict. We will begin by providing a conceptual framework for approaching conflict. Concrete tools for pro actively preparing for IEPs, including agendas and other visual supports, as well as communication and listening skills, will be shared. As the day progresses, we will deconstruct what goes wrong at IEP meetings and share specific strategies for responding effectively to the unexpected. We will conclude by putting our learning into practice by having the participants role play contentious, mock IEPs.
Audience: Special Education Teachers
Date: Tuesday, October 19, 2021
Time: 3:!5-4:15 pm
Cost: Free
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ELD for Elementary Teachers
and Administrators Institute
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Equitable access to a comprehensive education including both integrated and designated ELD instruction is a civil right for English learners. Brought to you in partnership with EL RISE! and SEAL, this Institute, with embedded pre-work, will support teachers in designing responsive designated ELD lessons that build upon students’ knowledge across the disciplines. Teachers will expand their understanding of backward planning to identify English learners’ strengths and needs to provide targeted language instruction. Scaffolds and supports presented in these sessions include language functions, graphic organizers, differentiated frames, language transfer strategies, and formative assessments that ensure students to effectively engage with complex texts and tasks. Through this work, teachers will develop the tools needed to create the academic conditions students need to flourish.
Audience: Classroom teachers, site administrators
Date: First session is October 21, 2021
Cost: Free
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Elementary Coaching to Enact the
English Learner Roadmap
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First session is on Monday, October 25 |
Instructional coaches play a critical role in creating classrooms and communities that respond to our students’ strengths, needs, socio-emotional health, and identities. Brought to you in partnership with EL RISE! and SEAL, this three-session webinar series, with embedded pre-session work and follow-up reflection and application, focuses on how coaches can support teachers in enacting the English Learner Roadmap policy. Participants will learn specific skills and strategies for supporting their teachers in leveraging students’ and families’ cultural and linguistic assets, harnessing formative assessment to guide instruction, and facilitating intentional, collaborative planning of integrated and designated ELD using the ELD standards.
Audience: All classroom teachers, Classroom teachers bilingual/dual language
programs, site/local teams of educators, paraeducators, COE staff
Date: First session is October 25, 2021
Cost: Free
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Building Fluency with Whole Number
Operations with Graham Fletcher
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October 26, 2021 (K - 3rd), October 27, 2021 (4th - 6th), & November 1, 2021 |
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In partnership with Sacramento COE and Placer COE we are excited to bring our local educators FREE Mathematics Professional Learning Virtual Learning Sessions with Graham Fletcher. Two professional learning sessions will be offered along with a follow up collaboration opportunity. In these sessions, we’ll explore the important role that context plays in developing fact fluency. By purposefully sequencing a series of tasks and activities through the same context, students can begin to make connections and develop an understanding that is scalable well beyond single digits.
Audience: K-6 teachers, instructional coaches, and administrators
Time: All sessions are 3:30 - 4:30 pm (virtual)
Dates: October 26, 2021 (K - 3rd), October 27, 2021 (4th - 6th), & November 1, 2021 (optional follow up)
Cost: Free
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Preliminary Administrative Services
Credential Program
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CCCOE is proud to announce the addition of a Preliminary Administrative Services Credential Program to our Administrative Leadership Program (ALP) offerings. Our 11 month program begins in February 2022, and features Saturday classes, online learning and PLC meetings, and a mid-program summer institute. Our coursework will be applicable to a Master’s degree in partnership with National University.
Interested in learning more?
Complete our interest form and plan to attend an upcoming virtual information meeting. Application window is now open!
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Take & Make Kits: Colors of the World |
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Color Your World with some fun and engaging activities! Craft projects include Juneteenth Confetti Poppers, Pride Ribbon Rings, Multicultural Peg Dolls, Diyas for Diwali, Koinobori (Carp streamers), Piñatas, and Parol Lanterns. Stop by each week to see which of these will be available!
Each kit will come with all materials and instructions needed for each craft project, plus books for each theme. Available on a first-come, first-serve basis while supplies last.
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Friday, October 1, 2021 from 3:00-5:00 pm |
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FREE, healthy meals for all kids and teens 18 and under!!!
Meals generously provided by West Contra Costa County Unified School District Food Services
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Bay Point Codes Scratch (3rd-6th Grade) |
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Saturday, October 2, 2021 from 10:00-11:00 am |
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Join us for a 60 minute session of programming activity in the Scratch programming language.
We will be meeting alternating Saturdays beginning September 4th (Sept 18th excluded) through December 11th. We will be using a custom curriculum. You can code by yourself or collaborate with a friend or two. Space is limited. This is a virtual online event hosted on Zoom by the Bay Point Codes Instructor Miss Heather.
*This program is open to all genders.
You are encouraged to create your own scratch account on www.scratch.mit.edu
(you can use your google account to login with)
You will receive the zoom link for the class just before the event. If you have any questions please feel free to email or call the branch phone number the morning of the class.
This program generously funded by the Friends of the Bay Point Library.
#baypointcodes #hourofcode #STEM #STEAM
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Saturday, October 2, 2021 from 10:15-10:45 am |
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"Ni Hao! Hello!" Join us online on Zoom for stories, songs, and fun fingerplays in Mandarin. For children and their families. Please fill out this online form and we'll send you the Zoom link the day before the event. Let's get together and learn some Mandarin! We meet every 1st and 3rd Saturday of the month. This program is made possible thanks to support from the LLLC Foundation and Friends of the Lafayette Library. |
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Bay Point Codes Scratch (3rd-6th Grade) |
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Saturday, October 2, 2021 from 11:15-12:15 pm |
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Learn Computer Programming / Interactive Game Design! For grades *5th through 11th
Join us every other Saturday for a 60 minute session of programming activity in Python and other advanced programming languages. You are not required to attend each session, these are workshops. We will be using a custom curriculum as well as curriculum offered by code.org. This program welcomes all genders. You can code by yourself or collaborate with a friend or two. Space is limited. This is a virtual online event hosted on Zoom by the Bay Point Library staff and Bay Point Codes Instructor Miss Heather. Space is limited. We will be using the replit.com programming editor. Login using a gmail account or create an account before hand. You will receive the zoom link for the class just before the event. This program generously funded by the Friends of the Bay Point Library Foundation.
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Take & Make Kits: Colors of the World |
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Monday, October 4, 2021, All Day |
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Color Your World with some fun and engaging activities! Craft projects include Juneteenth Confetti Poppers, Pride Ribbon Rings, Multicultural Peg Dolls, Diyas for Diwali, Koinobori (Carp streamers), Piñatas, and Parol Lanterns. Stop by each week to see which of these will be available!
Each kit will come with all materials and instructions needed for each craft project, plus books for each theme. Available on a first-come, first-serve basis while supplies last.
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The Castoffs Knitting Club |
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Tuesday, October 5, 2021, 6:30 - 7:30 pm |
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The Castoffs Knitting Club is open to all levels of knitters. We share ideas, tips, and favorite resources and patterns. Bring your own yarn!
The Club is currently meeting in person outside in Kensington Park. Participants bring your own camp chair or seating. For more information, please call the Kensington Library.
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Wednesday, October 6, 2021, 10:00 am – 10:15 am |
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Wednesday, October 6, 2021, 2:00 am – 3:00 pm |
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Get comfortable speaking English and have some fun, all levels welcome.
Every Wednesday, 2:00
Those interested in attending should email adam.daniels@library.cccounty.us and ask for link
to zoom meeting at least a day before event.
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Perfectly Whelmed: Zoom Improv Class for Teens |
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Wednesday, October 6, 2021, 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm |
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“With improv, it’s a combination of listening and not trying to be funny…” Kristen Wiig
In this class, students will be introduced to basic concepts of comedy improv such as “yes and” (enthusiastically accepting what is offered by classmates), “group mind” (listening to each other and working as a team) and “space object work” (miming objects and environments). Using warm-up exercises and improv “structures”, students will be encouraged to trust their instincts, think on their feet and actively support each other (it is said that a good improviser is one who makes his or her teammates look good). They will also laugh a lot!
A note about Zoom: In online improv classes, we are not trying to imitate in-person classes. Rather, we are creating a new form of improv using the features of Zoom to our advantage. We look to film and television (and youtube) as our guide and use features such as the edges of the screen and close-ups to our advantage. Students are encouraged to “reach across the screen” with high fives and the hand-overs and cross-screen combat.
This program is part of TeenTober, a month of awesome programs for teens! Check out Mr Abe's Halloween Anime Drawing Workshop and Livermore Shakespeare Festival's Combat Workshop as well.
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Perfectly Whelmed: Zoom Improv Class for Teens |
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Wednesday, October 6, 2021, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm |
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When we attend a musical theatre production, we go with certain ideas about what we're going to see and hear, but those notions took years to develop and are ever-changing. The majority of what we think about musical theatre comes from its Golden Age, spanning the years, people, and productions between Showboat and Fiddler on the Roof. In this presentation, Rob Seitelman will explain the building blocks that started the ball rolling for the American Musical, you will hear about some of the major works that established the genre, and ruminate on what makes the musical a quintessentially American art form.
A student of theatre, including musical theatre, for almost thirty years, Seitelman studied at Williams College (Williamstown, MA) and American Conservatory Theatre (ACT, San Francisco), where he earned his MFA in 2004. Seitelman has acted, directed, and written professionally, and has worked in various creative capacities with ACT, Berkeley Rep, and Berkeley Playhouse, among others. He co-founded a performing arts high school in Antioch Unified School District and has run theatre programs at high schools across the San Francisco Bay Area for the past ten years. His original musical based on Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost premiered at the New York Music Theatre Festival in 2008. Seitelman lives in Walnut Creek with his wife, two daughters, two dogs, and a cat, all of whom have Shakespearean names (except his wife).
This program is sponsored by the Walnut Creek Library Foundation.
To register, please visit: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aZxHkX62QtaO8PqS_RqsjQ
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Next Friends of the El Sobrante Library Book Sale
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Saturday, October 9, 2021, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm |
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The Friends of the El Sobrante Library are having a Book Sale on Oct 9th, 2021 in the Nancy Fahden House (behind the library at the back of the parking lot). Masks are required and please maintain social distancing as much as possible. Only a few people will be allowed in at a time. Every sale includes books that are new to the Nancy Fahden House. Friday sales are for members only. Memberships are available at the door. |
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Saturday, October 9, 2021, 10:30 am – 12:30 pm |
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Learn to play D&D along with other teens. Oakley Library is hosting our first virtual D&D club.
Meets every other Saturday, 10:30-12:30. Each game lasts 5 sessions. When you register, you are registering for: October 9, 23, and November 6, 20, December 4. Once you register you’ll be given a link and directions on steps to get started prior to our first meeting. Ages 13-17. Please email doug.thomas@library.cccounty.us when you have registered
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TeenTober: On-Stage Combat with Livermore Shakespeare Festival |
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Saturday, October 9, 2021, 10:30 am – 12:30 pm |
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Grab a dowel, stick, toy sword, wrapping tube, or even a wooden spoon! This class will get you up and moving. Learn the basics of single sword combat. Dress in comfortable clothes and find adequate space to move around, as Fight Director, Sydney Schwindt leads you through the basic foundations necessary for every stage combatant – footwork, sword parries, attacks, and more. |
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WOW presents: Legion of Honor Museum - Wangechi Mutu: I am Speaking, Are You Listening? |
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Wednesday, October 13, 2021, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm |
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You are invited to witness a cultural exchange hundreds of years in the making. "Wangechi Mutu: I Am Speaking, Are You Listening?" is a powerful exhibition currently at the Legion of Honor. This talk will introduce you to Wangechi Mutu and her art, which includes bold sculptures of powerful female characters and fantastical hybrid beings made from bronze, branches, bone, and gemstones. The Kenyan American artist’s work is installed throughout the Legion’s galleries to create a dialogue with the centuries-old objects in the museum’s collections. You will hear how these provocative pairings challenge long-established ideas about race, gender, and colonialism. A new video piece by Mutu is also included in the presentation
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco does not permit recording of this event due to the inclusion of copyrighted material.
This program is presented by the Friends of the Lafayette Library & Learning Center.
Register online at:
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Wednesday, October 13, 2021, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm |
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Teens ages 11-13 are invited to join El Cerrito Library's Tween Book Club. Discuss this month's book, Best Nerds Forever by James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein, online in our monthly Zoom meeting (while the library is still closed to the public). Limited copies of the book will be available behind the front desk to check out up to one month before the club meeting. Just stop by our Front Door Service during open hours and ask for a copy.
Please register and the Zoom meeting info will be emailed to before the start of the book club.
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STEAM Celebration Series presents Virtual Lindsay Wildlife Experience: Animal Adaptations |
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Wednesday, October 13, 2021, 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm |
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STEAM Celebration Series presents Lindsay Wildlife Experience: Animal Adaptations! Lindsay Wildlife will show and tell us about two animals, probably an owl and a chuckwalla.
Register with your email on this page. You will receive information on how to access the Zoom event on the day before the program. Closed captioning will be provided for this program. This program will be recorded for later viewing on our YouTube page https://www.youtube.com/user/t...
Sponsored by the Danville Library Endowment
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College Planning: Personal Statement 101 |
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Tuesday, October 19, 2021, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm |
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The personal statement is an essential component of today's college application. How can you make yours stand out? The Princeton Review will give a presentation followed by question and answer about how to put your personal statement above the rest.
Online registration is required. A link to the event will be sent out 24 hours in advance.
Closed captioning will be provided.
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Monster Slime Grab and Go Activity Kits |
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Thursday, October 19, 2021 |
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Come pick up our Grab and Go Activity Kits for kids while supplies last starting October 19th!
These kits will have everything you need to create spooky monster slime just in time for Halloween!
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Halloween Anime Drawing Workshop |
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Thursday, October 21, 2021, 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm |
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Teens, celebrate the spookiest season and learn some new drawing skills! Join Mr. Abe for a Halloween manga and anime style drawing class. All you need is paper, pencils, and your imagination.
Abe Rodriguez is an art teacher who has taught anime and manga style drawing classes for tweens and teens through the City of Antioch Recreation Department.
Register with your email on this page. You will receive information on how to access the Zoom event on the day before the program. Closed captioning will be provided for this program.
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The Puppet Company - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow |
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Wednesday, October 27, 2021, 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm |
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Join us virtually for a (not too) spooky show suitable for all ages based on the Washington Irving classic tale featuring Ichabod Crane, his love Katrina Van Tassel, the local bully Brom Bones, and, of course, the Headless Horseman! You may view the pre-recorded show on the Contra Costa Library's YouTube channel on the day of the event. The recording will remain available for a limited time.
Sponsored by The Danville Library Endowment
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CCCOE Curriculum Resources |
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LumpiaPalooza
by District Six San Francisco
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4th Annual Pinayista Summit 2021 |
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FAEAC 2021 - " Inherited Legacies: Identity, Impact, and Sustainability" |
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October 2, 2021
Professional Development Opportunity
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Diasporas of Resilience
SFUFF and YBCA
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The Wisdom of Guncles Book Tour, San Francisco |
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Concepcion: An Immigrant Family’s Fortunes
w/ Albert Samaha & Jason Bayani
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Thursday Nights:
Polyrhythmic Percussion of the Philippines
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Thursday, October 28, 5:30 PM |
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Kommunity Kultura presents: An Introduction
to Kali with Guro Manuel Dragon
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The Coca-Cola Scholars Program Scholarship |
The Coca-Cola Scholars Program scholarship is an achievement-based $20,000 scholarship awarded to 150 qualifying high school seniors who will pursue a degree at a post-secondary institution in the U.S. Students are recognized for their capacity to lead and serve, as well as their commitment to making a significant impact on their schools and communities.
Deadline: October 31
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College Scholarships For LGBTQ Students |
These general scholarships are offered to all students who identify as LGBT. Some are limited to students who reside in specific regions of the country, while others are available at the national level.
Deadlines: Vary
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The Safeway Foundation's Grants |
Safeway funds grant applications for communities where stores are located. Grants should focus on Safeway's priorities, including education. The Safeway Foundation's Grants are accepted throughout the year. Typical grants are between $2,500 - $10,000 |
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Ross Store-Based Giving Program |
The Ross Store-Based Giving Program provides donations to eligible schools and government programs within 25 miles of a Ross Dress for Less store. Funding is intended to build academic achievement and life skills in economically disadvantaged youth, ages 3-24. Schools must be either Title 1 designees or have at least 40% of their students participate in free or reduced lunch. Programs with a focus on literacy, STEM, tutoring, stay-in-school efforts, and college readiness can qualify. Support is provided primarily in the form of gift cards.
Deadline: Applications are ongoing
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The California State Library has launched a new website that streamlines all available state agency grants for education, small businesses, nonprofits, individuals, tribal governments, and more! |
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California State Parks
Adventure Pass
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Are you ready for an adventure?
The California State Park Adventure Pass is for all fourth grade students! See how you can visit some of the most amazing parks in the country with your family and friends—for free.
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The American Association
for the Advancement of Science
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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) website lets users create and administer online tests to their students and then compare their students' performance to national norms. You can assemble tests by selecting questions from more than 700 items that have been developed by AAAS Project 2061 to measure what students know in 16 key science topics. |
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Digital Citizenship Week
October 18-22, 2021
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Why is learning Digital Citizenship Important?
It is important to model for students the ethical, legal, and safe use of online information and resources. It is also important to help students learn about how they can protect themselves and their personal information in online environments.
How can Digital Citizenship week help?
Digital Citizenship week strives to educate school faculty and parents on the issues that surround technology and prepare them to support and supervise their child’s use of technology. By providing classroom lessons/units the goal is to educate students as they navigate the digital realm and maximize what technology has to offer, while minimizing its negative impacts.
You can help students reflect on how their digital lives impact their social and emotional well-being.
Engage students with daily activities!
Find more resources for Digital Citizenship Week here:
www.commonsense.org/education/digital-citizenship-week
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CCCOE's Coronavirus Web Page |
The Contra Costa County Office of Education is working closely with Contra Costa Health Services to keep our communities informed regarding the Coronavirus emergency. The CCCOE is providing updated information and resources to schools and school districts in our county so they can offer accurate news to their communities.
The CCCOE Coronavirus web page features:
- Meal Services Information
- Learning Resources and Distance-Learning Plans
- School Updates
- Wellness Resources
- COVID-19 Outreach Toolkit
- Parent/Guardian Communications
- CCCOE Employee Communications
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CCCOE’s Health & Wellness Matters e-newsletter |
We encourage anyone who is interested in receiving monthly updates on adolescent health and wellness-related issues, including upcoming professional development opportunities and parent/family webinars to check out Health & Wellness Matters.
Fee: Free
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New Tools for Teachers Website |
Tools for Teachers is a new website featuring lessons and activities designed to enhance instruction, save time, and boost student learning. This online collection is the new formative assessment component of the Smarter Balanced assessment system and was developed with teachers across the state. Resources are aligned with the California Standards to help K–12 teachers target student needs using the formative assessment process. Formative assessment and accessibility strategies are embedded in every instructional resource and can be used in distance or hybrid learning environments.
Fee: Free
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East Bay Regional Park
District Digital Learning
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East Bay Regional Park District is committed to the idea of lifelong learning and helping people make their own discoveries about our local parks. These resources are designed to be used at home, in a classroom, or part of any online education. Use these resources to build your own learning opportunities.
Fee: Free
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CASEL CARES is a new initiative that connects each of you in our global community with experts to address how Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) be most helpful in response to today’s circumstances. The program is filled with free resources and a weekly webinar. |
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teacher resources, and grant opportunities.
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Educational Programming of edTV |
Looking for some additional quality Monday-Friday educational programming at home or in the classroom? Check out the latest edTV broadcasts here.
Programs scheduled include (times are approximate):
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Number Talk, presented by the Khan Academy and CCCOE , K-5 math lessons in English and Spanish: 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
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Food Kids, lessons in purchasing, growing, and preparing healthy meals: 12:00-12:30 p.m.
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STEM in 30, Emmy-nominated program produced by the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum: 12:30-1:00 p.m.
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National Arts Gallery, outstanding stories about artists and art movements from around the world: 1:00-2:00 p.m.
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Number Talk (repeat of morning broadcast), presented by the Khan Academy and CCCOE , K-5 math lessons in English and Spanish: 2:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. (replay from the morning)
edTV can be found on Contra Costa County cable channels 32 (Comcast) or 99 (AT&T U-Verse)
For info: Daily schedule can be found here
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Contra Costa Community Warning System |
The Contra Costa County Community Warning System (CWS) is a comprehensive system designed to alert the public in the county of imminent threats to life or health. The system was developed by the Community Awareness and Emergency Response organization (CAER) and is operated by the Office of the Sheriff. The CWS mission is to alert the public of imminent threats to life or health, inform the public of basic hazard information and guide them to resources to gather more detailed information. The CWS uses a variety of tools to reach the public as quickly and reliably as possible such as:
- Telephone notification (cell and landline)
- Email
- Texting
- Social Media (Facebook and Twitter)
- Sirens
- Radio and TV
- NOAA Weather Radios
- Cable Television
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Published by the Contra Costa County Office of Education Communications Office |
Contra Costa County Office of Education
77 Santa Barbara Road, Pleasant Hill, California 94523
Lynn Mackey, Superintendent of Schools
Dateline is distributed during the school year to all public schools in the county by the Communications Office. The information must be received by the first of the preceding month. Publication does not signify the Contra Costa County Office of Education endorses the event or program mentioned.
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Contra Costa County Office of Education
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