Naturalist staff at the Sunol Visitor Center welcome you to the park. They also teach about natural and cultural history to children that meet current State Science and Social Science Curriculum Standards during the school year. The Sunol naturalist staff provides additional opportunities to enjoy the park by leading nature hikes and coordinating special events. Visitors should bring drinking water because there is no drinking water in the park. Today, camping, picnicking, hiking and back-packing attract thousands of park visitors a year. Under the East Bay Regional Park District's multi-use land management policy, cattle continue to graze in the 6,859-acre wilderness. For the past century, however, the land known today as Sunol Wilderness Regional Preserve was used almost exclusively as ranch land. Camping is OPEN: Click here to make reservation s for Backpack Camping.īedrock mortars used by Native Americans for pounding acorns that were found in the area are reminders of Sunol's first inhabitants.Visitor Center is OPEN > In-Person Programming has Resumed (Limited Hours & Capacity).I highly recommend (insert name of district or school) schedules a call with their partnership team. Their recently completed external advised study shows that 80% of Springboard students made significant gains in literacy outcomes and 11% of students moved from reading below grade level to at or above grade level after Springboard programming.īased on our current programming needs, I believe Springboard would be a solid option to consider for our teachers, families, and most importantly our students. And they have the research to back it up! Moreover, their programs are designed with as much (or as little) management support that teachers need to implement the program and connect with families. What sets them apart from other supplemental literacy programs is their focus on family engagement.Īll of their programs are backed by a methodology called the Family-Educator Learning Accelerator (FELA) which helps teachers and families build relationships and host workshops to support student learning (they even have an open-source toolkit available for download).
Springboard provides summer and afterschool programming to help students in kindergarten through third grade read on grade level. I hope all is well since we last spoke! I know our (insert summer or afterschool) programming is still being decided, but I wanted to share some info about an organization called Springboard Collaborative. Don’t forget to name your robot and decide what it’s special skills are.ĭear (insert your school leader’s name and title), When your child is doing their alone-time reading, you can invite them to try switching from “robot voice” to scooping.ģrd: Try not to laugh challenge Activity (optional)īuild a robot out of household materials (empty cardboard boxes, cans, paper towel rolls) or draw a robot on a piece of paper. Switch roles and play again with a new page. Is it on their back? On the bottom of their shoe? When they push the button, the robot turns into a human!Īs a new human, the robot can’t wait to read the sentence in their new human (smooth) voice. Then their partner looks for the magic button on the robot. Take turns being the robot that gets “saved” and turned into a human.įirst, whoever is the “robot” reads aloud a sentence (or page) in their best robot (choppy, word-by-word) voice.
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