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Collaborative Spotlight
July 2016 Newsletter
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Photo/Video Credit: Jake Nicol/The Wall Street Journal.
Dear Dear Community Partner,
At a time, when we seem to be unable to constructively navigate through conflicts at the international, national, and local level, some experts are pushing for a radical solution: teaching empathy in schools. Coronado Elementary School in Richmond is using Dovetail Learning's TOOLBOX Project to teach social emotional learning to its students. Dovetail Learning is a non-profit organization dedicated to strengthening children’s innate capacity for resilience, self-mastery, and empathy for others through its TOOLBOX™ curricula, practices, and methods. TOOLBOX gives children, teachers, parents, and schools a common language and the tools necessary to form a cohesive, collaborative, nonviolent, and caring community which leads to hope for a meaningful and positive future.
Due to the tireless efforts of Principal Linda Cohen and the success of their work with TOOLBOX, Coronado Elementary School just received a California Gold Ribbon Award. This video was recently featured in the Wall Street Journal and shows that there is another way to avert violent and self defeating behaviors by fostering the innate strength and resilience within all children.
We are proud to have Dovetail Learning as one of our Out of School Time collaborative partners and to highlight their work in our newsletter this month. Our Collaborative is a partnership between over 25 agencies that support the success of children and youth who attend public schools within the enrollment area of the West Contra Costa Unified School District. The Collaborative is a collective impact initiative committed to ensuring that every West County child graduates from high school prepared for college, career and life.
Sincerely,
Joel Mackey
Executive Director
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Our scholarship recipients are college bound! On June 14th, the Ed Fund hosted its annual Scholars Retreat, a transition day event for Ed Fund's scholarship recipients.
The day included an overview of the Ed Fund Cohort Program, team building, and a panel of Ed Fund Scholar alumni who shared their experiences from their first year of college. Click here to read the success stories of our scholars and their advice to our new scholars.
We are so very proud of our scholars and wish them the best in their first year of college. Click on these links to see the full list of where all of the Ed Fund Scholars will be heading to college in the fall and the Scholars Photo Album.
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