Balboa High School. Visitacion Valley Middle School. 336 Wilde Ave , San Francisco, CA 94134-2252 is a single-family home listed for-sale at $988,888. San Francisco principal Jim Dierke knew something was up when he saw more cars than usual parked in front of his school Friday morning. A major factor preventing underserved children from learning is the stress they encounter on a daily basis from factors like poverty, deprivation, lack of steady parental input, physical danger and constant This is true for our staff as well, contributing to racial fatigue and staff sustainability for IBPOC. Visitacion Valley Middle School Unclaimed 1971 Visitacion Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94134 Contact info Website 3 /10 GreatSchools Rating 5 reviews Public school 375 Students Grades 6-8 Updates Compare 3 /10 GreatSchools Summary Rating 2/10 Test Scores below average 4/10 Academic Progress below average 1/10 Equity below average If you would like to learn more about our wonderful school, please join our School Info Session on Tuesday, October 25 at 5 pm or 6pm. She used to have trouble at home and get into fights with her family, says ODriscoll. $365. We might also see students connecting their identities to their learning and applying it back to their communities to manifest social justice. Very diverse community that is willing to go above and beyond to support students and their families. (DiAngelo, 2018). The highlights are available in English, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Filipino, and Vietnamese. 2,414 Sq. Therefore, unexamined behaviors of White Supremacy Culture are preventing students from being comfortable or supported enough to learn and flourish. Anther example might be superficially speeding through content or discouraging interruptions for questions. Likewise, test scores have increased in recent years but still remain low compared to other SFUSD middle schools. When you have it up, it keeps the rain off, and you can focus on trying to build a culture with kids. 420 Harkness Ave, San Francisco, CA 94134 | MLS #422713413 | Zillow By Owner New Construction These properties are currently listed for sale. It helps me not be so tired during school, she said. The second pitfall I will offer is avoiding the tendency to externalize the work of dismantling White Supremacy Culture. Your health questions answered by Times journalists andexperts. It is time that we detox and make the invisible visible. On a personal note, I was born and raised in the midwest, but I have called San Francisco home for the last 13 years. Teachers and students are assigned to academic families that use a variety of innovative technology, cross-curricular writing programs, and project-based and standards-based instruction throughout the year. Leading a 501 (c)3 nonprofit working with a consortium of collaborative partners including university researchers . To do this, we use diverse staff resources and improve student access to high quality programs during the school day and in after-school programs. The Visitacion Valley Middle School mission is to create, through transformative relationships, an inclusive and collaborative learning community that is relevant to the lives of ourstudents, families, and staff. Our kids are coming to school. Just meditate!. The success of some schools efforts Modern Band (music) with contemporary instruments, Visuals Arts, Ethnic Studies, Computer Science, Dramatic Arts, and Spanish! Otherwise, white fragility will shut the anti-racist party down; its an equity consciousness buzz kill, for real. Find COVID-19 testing, vaccine, and daily health screening information. The work to address racism in schools has been called cultural competency, diversity training, and equity. Further, staff moved to thinking about how our school practices perpetuate WSC and send negative messages to our students. Grades: 6-8. We were looking for a way to get kids to relax, he said. Just as long as they are quiet. These beliefs lead to actions that are dehumanizing to all races of people; however, they have a more drastic effect on indigenous, black, and people of color (IBPOC). But no one touched on the real problem stress.. Distance: 1.7 mi. Meditation, which is taught as part of the program, or engage in other quiet activities like silent reading. Coming soon. This includes emotions of fear, anger, and guilt, as well as actions of argumentation, silence, and withdrawal. San Francisco Unified School District ( SFUSD ), established in 1851, is the only public school district within the City and County of San Francisco, and the first in the state of California. One other middle school and two high schools in the Bay Area adopted the program. A pioneering programme has reduced stress and improved grades at Visitacion Valley middle school with lessons other schools can learn from. Property has a great layout with large kitchen, formal dining room, living room and decent size bedrooms. We have seen attempts at creating buy-in fail for initiatives like ethnic studies, mastery-based grading, or project-based learning. Join us at this years SFUSD Virtual Enrollment Fair for Middle and High Schools, October 24-27, 2022! 2023 San Francisco Unified School District, I look forward to our partnership this upcoming school year and collaborating with all of you to support our brilliant students. This prompts staff to reflect and ultimately declare, "I want to be an anti-racist teacher, but I don't exactly know how." Please do not hesitate to reach out to me for anything (. For the majority of urban students, drugs, gangs and violence are part of everyday life. and San Pablo, CA. View more property details, sales history and Zestimate data on Zillow. students who meditated showed a significant decrease in anxiety and a significant increase in resilience compared to nonmeditating students. Former principal of Visitacion Valley Middle School in San Francisco and a former Principal of the Year. Visitacion Valley Middle School, Public District Grades 6-8; Revere (Paul) Elementary School, Public District Grades KG-8; . Callers can still leave a voicemail or send an email or request form at all hours. With respect to race, the foundational issue is White Supremacy Culture, and we must attack the problem head on. One of San Francisco's toughest schools transformed by the power of meditation A pioneering programme has reduced stress and improved grades at Visitacion Valley middle school - with lessons other schools can learn from. A restless din filled the large room. And although this program has focused on schools in low-income areas, adolescents from middle-class and affluent families could benefit from stress reduction as well. For a more complete list, see the 15 WSC characteristics from Tema Okun and Kenneth Jones in the 2001 Dismantling Racism Workbook. White Supremacy Culture. Students at Visitacion Valley School in South San Francisco observe 15 minutes of quiet time every morning. stress and its manifestations for example, anxiety, high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease. Visitacion Valley Middle School prides itself in its active role in the community by welcoming parents, families, and community partners to participate on all levels of creating a culturally responsive 21st Century Middle School. expanded to serve middle school children and grow with the kids it was already serving. SOLD JUN 13, 2022. In 2007 a meditation programme called Quiet Time was brought in to meet some of these challenges. Please read our welcome letter! The Standing Up for Racial Justice coalition defines White Supremacy Culture as the idea (ideology) that white people and the ideas, thoughts, beliefs, and actions of white people are superior to those of People of Color. Dont be confused. I am deeply honored and excited to have the opportunity to serve as Principal of Visitacion Valley Middle School. Staff watch a clip about white fragility during a staff meeting (Courtesy of Joe Truss). When I first heard about it I thought it probably wasnt going to work, says ODriscoll. In 2007, James Dierke, then the principal of the Visitacion Valley Middle School in a troubled neighborhood in San Francisco, was determined to improve both the quality of education and. Imagine that. Sometimes the whole school meets to meditate in assemblies. Based on Rocket Homes closed client surveys received from 2011-2021. Young people are incredibly stressed, says Michael Matania who teaches mindfulness meditation to young people in London through a programme called Mindkit. He said the neighborhood around Visitacion Valley can be rife with violence and crime. At first glance, it might not appear the principal of the year would come out of Visitacion Valley. The Visitacion Valley Middle school vision is that our students will strength their passion for learning, develop the skills to become empowered community members, and gain the knowledge to be ready for high school with a clear path to college, career, and future success. I like to think of myself as a recovering perpetrator of WSC. "I am feeling elated," he said after the announcement and celebration in the school's auditorium. Two controlled studies have been published so far; others are in submission I began my career in education in Richmond, CA. Perhaps even more remarkable, last years California Healthy Kids Survey from the states education department found that students at Visitacion Valley middle school were the happiest in the whole of San Francisco. In addition, we might see curricula that affirms and engages students of color and assessment practices that dismantle racial bias in standardized testing. By 2009-10, attendance rates were over 98% (some of the highest in the city), and today 20% of graduates are admitted to the highly academic Lowell high school before it was rare for even one student to be accepted. View SFUSD's most recent athletics participation dataor past years' reports. CWAE specialists counseled students on meditation techniques and five full-time staffers remain on campus to help maintain the program. And a 2015 review of the program, issued by the Center for Wellness and Achievement in If I can be vulnerable and honest, white educators can and must do the same. At Visitacion Valley Middle School (VVMS), in the San Francisco Unified school district, our brave staff spent a majority of the 2018-19 school year unpacking White Supremacy Culture. Anther example might be superficially speeding through content or discouraging interruptions for questions. Finally, this work is some of the most challenging, but rewarding work there is. Real Options for City Kids (R.O.C.K.) One does not have to be a white supremacist to hold these beliefs, because we have all been conditioned through exposure to media, parenting, schooling, and our interactions with power structures. after meditating, I can sit down for a whole class without standing up. Barry ODriscoll, the schools director of physical education for the past 14 years, said, In the first seven Given that the students in the study were performing below par at baseline, these results A Clipper Card is not required for buses and trains, however it is needed to receive a free fare on cable cars. Principal and Interest. Thats what were gradually doing here., The payoff might be most evident in students like Angelica Mahinay, who says, Man, when I hear students getting an attitude, or theyre saying theyre going to fight, I say, Hey! Once white fragility is defined and debriefed amongst a team, we can begin to talk about racism, anti-racism, and White Supremacy Culture. Racial-equity leaders must be both intentional and responsive when doing this anti-racist work. Principal Broker: William J Oliver. Annual math and English scores improved in the students who meditated, while they declined in those who didnt meditate. I thought it was just another fad. for the lowest performing demographic was double that for the overall student group. 375. . Over the next three years, Visitacion Valleys suspensions dropped by 79 percent, attendance rose to 98 percent, SFUSD's Student Family School Resource Link supports students and families in navigating all of the SFUSD resources available to them. Photo at top courtesy of Joe Truss: VVMS staff match examples of White Supremacy Culture to the definition of each characteristic. An assistant principal suggested the idea for quiet time after she saw Hollywood director David Lynch speak about the program and the accompanying benefits of transcendental meditation. Visitacion Valley Middle School. Listed by Gaye Harrison DRE #01319223 World Premier Realty Redfin checked: just now (Mar 2, 2023 at 11:15pm) Source: BAREIS #422707922 Home Facts Status Active Entire contents copyright 2023 Maharishi Foundation USA, a non-profit educational organization. . As for getting the children to start meditating, ODriscoll says the biggest hurdle was getting them to feel comfortable with their eyes closed. Yes, it is exhibited by leaders at all levels, including me. Reportar una ausencia. Other schools have taken a few minutes off lunch and tutorials. Visitacion Valley also got attention from actor Russell Brand, who visited the school just before Christmas on a trip sponsored by the David Lynch Foundation. ft. home is a 2 bed, 1.0 bath property. The first day of school will be Wednesday, August 17, 2022. Please use 651-683-6969 Ext. that teachers and students enjoy and which preliminary data suggest is effective. Once the students got over that, they were open to trying to meditate. But Quiet Time took years to develop. This change comes at the cost of detaching ourselves from ourselves, which also is dehumanizing. and our Visitacion Valley Middle School Spark Program site. $1,862. In 2007, James Dierke, then the principal of the Visitacion Valley Middle School in a troubled neighborhood in San Francisco, was determined to improve both the quality of education and student behavior in his school. James Dierke, Principal of Visitacion Valley Middle School in San Francisco, like so many thousands of principals and teachers who are working in inner-city schools throughout the US, knows how frustrating it can be trying to provide an education in America's low income, high stress localities. It is invisible and it is toxic. They thought their classmates would be making fun of them, staring at them, maybe possibly even hitting them, he says. Visitacion Valley Middle School is part of San Francisco Unified School District. The Rent Zestimate for this home is $3,399/mo, which has increased by $239/mo in the last 30 days. Monday - Thursday 3:15 p.m.; Program offered free of charge from end of school day until 6 p.m.; Saturday Field Trips and Summer Programs, Rosetta Stone (foreign language instruction), STEAM (science; technology; engineering; arts; mathematics). I like to think of myself as a recovering perpetrator of WSC. I saw this personally at VVMS, as situations got awkward, uncomfortable, and uncertain. WSC shuts down learning. It is not written by and does not necessarily reflect the views of Education Week's editorial staff. When they started everyone said it would be impossible to get 12-year-olds to sit for even a minute, but through transcendental meditation (TM) they proved critics wrong. This content is provided by our sponsor. Students, families, and school staff can email requests to sflink@sfusd.edu,call 415-340-1716(M-F, 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 3 p.m., closed from 12 to 1 p.m. every day), or complete an online request form. Thus, we are building a collective purpose and a commitment to learning. For a more complete list, see the 15 WSC characteristics from Tema Okun and Kenneth Jones in the 2001 Dismantling Racism Workbook. Some bowed their heads. Although controlled studies are difficult to perform in an academic setting, collectively the results of the Bay Area studies are encouraging. It really is quiet time.. It can result in white rage, broken relationships, grievances, and further harm to oppressed students. 379 Winding, San Francisco, CA 94112 is a 4 bed, 3 bath, 1,597 sqft house now for sale at $1,280,000. This presentation was made as part of a National Education Summit on Quiet Time in the Classroom Linda Esposito - What One Urban School District Can Teach the Country About Stress Relief Huffington Post, Racial-equity work is like trying to defuse a bomb and cutting the wrong wire. This can create power struggles, a learning opportunity gap, and as the scholar Monique Morris writes, students being pushed out of schools. It contains 3 bedrooms and 1 bathroom. They are not guaranteed to be accurate, up to date . ODriscoll also says that leadership buy-in is essential for the programme to work as there needs to be support in terms of time and resourcing. A lot has changed over this period, including three principals coming and going, but ODriscoll puts the turnaround down to the one constant: the calming influence of the meditation programme. Dismantling WSC unites staff to work toward being anti-racist. With the help of the David Lynch Foundation and the San Francisco-based Center for Wellness and Achievement in Education (CWAE), Visitacion Valley trained teachers on how to conduct Quiet Time sessions in their class. The work of exploring White Supremacy Culture gave our staff a new framework to define our North Star, being an anti-racist school. This home last sold for $840,000 on Feb 2, 2021. This has included making decisions about curriculum, school partnership, and hiring, without authentically involving teachers or students in the process. 3rd Street Youth Center & Clinic Government Administration SAN FRANCISCO, California