http://missionlocal.org News From San Francisco's Mission District Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:30:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://missionlocal.org/2013/05/nations-top-educator-visits-mission-district-classrooms/ http://missionlocal.org/2013/05/nations-top-educator-visits-mission-district-classrooms/#comments Thu, 02 May 2013 14:15:42 +0000 Tay Wiles http://missionlocal.org/?p=232104 U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan paid a visit Wednesday to 826 Valencia, the Mission-based writing nonprofit founded by educators and authors Níneve Calegari and Dave Eggers. “This is [like] coming home,” Duncan told the volunteers, teachers, parents and children who were at 826 on Wednesday to participate in the tutoring program. He recalled that as a child he attended an after-school educational program founded by his mother in 1961 on Chicago’s south...]]> http://missionlocal.org/2013/05/nations-top-educator-visits-mission-district-classrooms/feed/ 5 http://missionlocal.org/2013/04/tamale-contest-raises-funds-for-marshall-elementary/ http://missionlocal.org/2013/04/tamale-contest-raises-funds-for-marshall-elementary/#comments Sun, 28 Apr 2013 13:45:35 +0000 Alicia Avila http://missionlocal.org/?p=231755 The smell of a savory home-cooked meal filled the air near Marshall Elementary School on Saturday afternoon as nine women peeked into steaming pots filled with dozens of tamales. The women, mothers of Marshall students, were competing in the school community’s first tamales contest. The event was part of the fourth Dia de los Niños, or Day of the Children, festival hosted by the school. “I’ve always dreamed of a...]]> http://missionlocal.org/2013/04/tamale-contest-raises-funds-for-marshall-elementary/feed/ 8 http://missionlocal.org/2013/04/18-reasons-members-fund-scholarships-for-kids-food-camp/ http://missionlocal.org/2013/04/18-reasons-members-fund-scholarships-for-kids-food-camp/#comments Tue, 09 Apr 2013 14:00:08 +0000 Tay Wiles http://missionlocal.org/?p=230009 For the next two weeks, all membership fees for 18 Reasons, the Mission-based nonprofit dedicated to programs on food and community, will go directly to funding scholarships for a food and culinary education camp for kids this summer. This will be the third summer running for the “All Plant Parts” camp, but if all goes well, it will be the first time that most participants will be able to attend...]]> http://missionlocal.org/2013/04/18-reasons-members-fund-scholarships-for-kids-food-camp/feed/ 0 http://missionlocal.org/2013/04/spca-hosts-community-service-saturday-in-the-mission/ http://missionlocal.org/2013/04/spca-hosts-community-service-saturday-in-the-mission/#comments Sun, 07 Apr 2013 13:45:06 +0000 Jamie Goldberg http://missionlocal.org/?p=230120 “Do the cats really watch TV?” asked local eighth-grader Fernando as he stared at a television set inside a cat “apartment” at the San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. “It’s actually really good mental stimulation,” said Jamie Lundy, an SPCA staff member. Lundy was there to teach a group of six youth volunteers how to care for and work with animals at the SFSPCA as part of the...]]> http://missionlocal.org/2013/04/spca-hosts-community-service-saturday-in-the-mission/feed/ 1 http://missionlocal.org/2013/03/national-pi-day-at-mission-high-school/ http://missionlocal.org/2013/03/national-pi-day-at-mission-high-school/#comments Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:45:10 +0000 Claudia Escobar http://missionlocal.org/?p=228363 One way to get students excited about learning math is to create a holiday for one of the discipline’s most iconic numbers: pi, or 3.14. March 14 was National Pi Day, and Ann Lyon’s ninth-grade math class at Mission High School celebrated with pi-centric poems, pie eating, jewelry-making and recitations of the seemingly infinite number. Pi is a staple of many geometric formulas. When multiplied by the radius of a circle...]]> http://missionlocal.org/2013/03/national-pi-day-at-mission-high-school/feed/ 0 http://missionlocal.org/2013/03/mission-high-principal-takes-dreamcatcher-arts-award/ http://missionlocal.org/2013/03/mission-high-principal-takes-dreamcatcher-arts-award/#comments Fri, 08 Mar 2013 17:19:19 +0000 Carly Nairn http://missionlocal.org/?p=227676 Mission High School Principal Eric Guthertz has received the annual Dreamcatcher Award from the San Francisco Unified School District Arts Festival for his support of the arts in schools and in the community. The award was presented at a community celebration Thursday evening at the city’s Asian Art Museum in Civic Center. “[Eric] supports community spirit, empowers art teachers at Mission High, and is supportive of arts partnership and collaborations...]]> http://missionlocal.org/2013/03/mission-high-principal-takes-dreamcatcher-arts-award/feed/ 0 http://missionlocal.org/2013/03/ignite-conference-inspires-young-women-to-engage-in-politics/ http://missionlocal.org/2013/03/ignite-conference-inspires-young-women-to-engage-in-politics/#comments Sun, 03 Mar 2013 14:45:20 +0000 Alicia Avila http://missionlocal.org/?p=227033 Young women filled the halls of Mission High School on Saturday for a daylong conference organized by Ignite, a California-based organization that encourages young women from low-income communities to become civically engaged and pursue careers in politics. The third annual Tomorrow’s Women Leaders Today Conference was the first time the event had been held in the Mission District. It drew 150 women from all over the Bay Area. “This year...]]> http://missionlocal.org/2013/03/ignite-conference-inspires-young-women-to-engage-in-politics/feed/ 0 http://missionlocal.org/2013/02/free-muni-program-for-youth-kicks-off/ http://missionlocal.org/2013/02/free-muni-program-for-youth-kicks-off/#comments Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:27:54 +0000 Tay Wiles http://missionlocal.org/?p=226716 Dozens of San Francisco youths and several city leaders, including supervisors David Campos and John Avalos, gathered Wednesday afternoon on the steps of Everett Middle School to celebrate a new pilot program that will allow local youth to ride Muni for free. As of Friday, March 1, kids from 5 to 17 years of age who live in San Francisco households of low to moderate income will be eligible for...]]> http://missionlocal.org/2013/02/free-muni-program-for-youth-kicks-off/feed/ 4 http://missionlocal.org/2013/02/buena-vista-horace-mann-students-learn-the-art-of-the-interview/ http://missionlocal.org/2013/02/buena-vista-horace-mann-students-learn-the-art-of-the-interview/#comments Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:00:51 +0000 Andrea Valencia http://missionlocal.org/?p=206049 Mission Local teaches a seminar during the fall at one of the neighborhood schools, Buena Vista Horace Mann. The seminar, titled “Reporting in the Mission,” is an opportunity for students and our volunteers to learn from each other and the neighborhood. The students are given a digital camera, and every week for six months we head out into the neighborhood to practice taking pictures and shooting video. After downloading the...]]> http://missionlocal.org/2013/02/buena-vista-horace-mann-students-learn-the-art-of-the-interview/feed/ 0 http://missionlocal.org/2013/02/dream-act-students-get-a-shot-at-state-financial-aid/ http://missionlocal.org/2013/02/dream-act-students-get-a-shot-at-state-financial-aid/#comments Fri, 08 Feb 2013 14:45:16 +0000 Erica Hellerstein http://missionlocal.org/?p=225065 Karen Franco remembers the first time she stepped inside an American classroom. She was 14 years old, undocumented, and didn’t speak a word of English. She and her mother, fleeing gang violence, had moved to San Francisco from the small town of Ilopango, El Salvador. Franco remembers walking into her biology class and staring blankly at her teacher, who was speaking in a language she didn’t understand. “I didn’t know...]]> http://missionlocal.org/2013/02/dream-act-students-get-a-shot-at-state-financial-aid/feed/ 4