Have you ever heard the Maya language spoken in San Francisco? If not, listen to our audio story to the right. It will open your ears to a little-known language spoken by thousands of people in the...
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...
Coach Hoa Tran of San Francisco International High School loves the sport of badminton so much that he volunteers his time to work in a school with no gym. “One thing about this school is...
Over 100 Christmas carolers braved the cold Thursday night to sing outside the City College of San Francisco Board of Trustees meeting. The chorus included faculty, staff and students who earlier had lobbied for San...
Tech Tales, a program of Mission District non-profit Streetside Stories, helps students tell the true stories of their lives through art, and improves literacy skills in the process. The organization is tailored to middle schoolers who...
“The reason why I’m wearing a bird, everyone’s wearing a bird, is because birds, they tweet and that’s how they communicate with each other,” Jinen Kamdar from Twitter told the third-, fourth- and fifth-graders at...
If you wanted to ask a Mayan whether or not the world will end on Dec. 21 — as the Mayan apocalypse myth has it — you would have to no look further than one...
It’s a noisy Tuesday afternoon on Mission and 16th. Music blares through the crackle of static, tires screech and vendors hawk their wares. But just one block down from the raucous intersection, the soundtrack of Mission...
