City Year Team Report
When City Year asked our team to report on the Fern Bacon Middle School community, I picked up a camera. Some stories are better shown than written."
City Year Legacy Project
Every City Year team leaves something behind for the next. I made sure ours was a film.
Materials
Multiple Subjects Methods
Unit Plan
A 15-day 6th grade ELA unit plan exploring human-animal relationships through Jane Goodall, Hachiko, and xenotransplantation: building toward an exploratory essay while centering bilingual supports and UDL accommodations for a majority English Learner classroom.
Literacy
Literacy Portfolio
A literacy assessment portfolio documenting a student's phonics, fluency, and vocabulary development over time: with targeted instructional strategies addressing specific decoding gaps and a reflection on prosody, comprehension, and English Language Learner supports.
Bilingualism
Language Biography
A personal language biography tracing how growing up in a racially homogeneous Pittsburgh shaped a narrow, utilitarian relationship with language: and how teaching English Learners in East Palo Alto transformed that into a deeply political commitment to multilingualism, translanguaging, and linguistic justice.
25-26 Midyear Data
Midyear iReady results, Year 2. The majority of students entered below grade level. As of this report, significant grade-level growth has been achieved, with half a school year remaining to meet stretch targets.
