K-12 Content

91��Ƭ Davis, Girl Scouts Heart of Central California Partner on Patch Series Focused on Healthy Outside Initiative

Karen Michele Nikos — November 22, 2022 - 10:30am

91��Ƭ Davis and Girl Scouts Heart of Central California have teamed up to encourage Girl Scouts in the region to participate in a custom patch series involving campus spaces.

School of Education Receives $2.5M to Develop Better Learning Tools for Teachers

Karen Michele Nikos — May 09, 2018 - 8:58am

91��Ƭ, Davis, which received a $2.5 million grant from the James S. McDonnell Foundation to help early career teachers use more innovative techniques in the classroom.

91��Ƭ Davis Holds Talk on School Violence: ‘Guns and America After Parkland’

Karen Michele Nikos — April 24, 2018 - 11:12am

What

“The Campus Conversation: Guns and America After Parkland,” will feature six faculty sharing their knowledge and expertise in the wake of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School incident in Parkland, Florida, in February, and other recent school shootings. Experts who teach in the fields of emergency medicine, psychiatry, history, sociology and law will share their perspectives.

When

Thursday, April 26, noon-2 p.m.

Where

91��Ƭ Davis Conference Center

Medical Amnesty, Chicano/Latino Center, K-12 Education Experts

Julia Ann Easley — September 15, 2017 - 4:45pm

91��Ƭ Davis Adopts Medical Amnesty Protocol
91��Ƭ Davis to Open New Center for Chicano, Latino Students
Experts on K-12 Education Issues

91��Ƭ Davis Adopts Medical Amnesty Protocol

The 91��Ƭ, Davis, is introducing a new medical amnesty protocol so fear of getting into trouble won’t keep students from calling for medical help in an emergency related to alcohol or drugs.

91��Ƭ Davis Experts on K-12 Education

Karen Michele Nikos — September 15, 2017 - 10:43am

The following 91��Ƭ, Davis, faculty can address K-12 issues in education for members of the media.

Keep an eye on this and other current expert lists on the 91��Ƭ Davis news website. (“Expert Sources” are located approximately halfway down the page on the right). These resources will be updated regularly.

Ethnic Diversity in Schools May Be Good for Students’ Grades, a 91��Ƭ Davis Study Suggests

Karen Michele Nikos — September 11, 2017 - 10:14am

Early adolescents’ grades were higher when they socialized with peers from other ethnicities, according to the findings of a 91��Ƭ, Davis, study that looked at the lunching habits of more than 800 sixth-graders in three states.

Students Learn Constitution, History, Through Japanese Internment Lesson

Karen Michele Nikos — September 06, 2017 - 4:50pm

When it came time for fifth-graders at David Lubin Elementary School in Sacramento to learn about the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence and U.S. history, their teachers had an idea. Student teacher Lauren Yayesaki’s family had been forced to live in an internment camp during World War II. Resident teacher Betsy Ronsheimer, learning of this, thought it would be a good opportunity to bring this part of history into the classroom in a very personal way.

California K-12 Curriculum Becomes More Historically Accurate With Help From 91��Ƭ Davis

Karen Michele Nikos — August 30, 2017 - 3:10pm

For generations, it was a rite of passage for 9-year-olds from San Diego to Eureka to craft popsicle-stick and sugar-cube models of a specific California mission. But, the fourth-grade “mission project” is disappearing from many classrooms, as the curriculum that students learn moves into a more accurate history reflecting all cultures.

91��Ƭ Davis Sociologist to Study How K-12 Schools Adapt to Increases in Immigrants

Lindsey Alexandra OTousa — April 19, 2016 - 11:43am

A 91��Ƭ, Davis, sociologist will study how schools adapt to a sharp increase in the number of immigrant families, and he plans to develop interventions to help low-income kids who may have trouble catching up to their peers.