More than 900 students, teachers, parents and supporters waited to hear those words on May 6 at the Sacramento Educational Video Awards ceremony, held in a Sacramento State University ballroom.
Students from all over the Sacramento area participated in the SEVAs this year and submitted a total of 345 student-produced videos.
For the first time, Fern Bacon Middle School’s Media Production class submitted videos to the SEVAs. To their surprise and delight, two of the video submissions were finalists.
Students from John F. Kennedy High School’s Visual Communications class were recently honored for their illustration work on a children’s storybook.
In a contest hosted by the California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom, young elementary school authors were tasked with writing a story inspired by agriculture. Eight winners were selected from thousands of submissions by young authors.
Oak Ridge Elementary School teacher Stephanie Smith’s passion for building relationships with her students goes far beyond her classroom walls.
Since 2009, Smith has participated in SCUSD’s Parent Teacher Home Visit Project (PTHVP). She writes eloquently about her commitment to visiting families at their homes in “Would You Walk Through My Door?”, an article published in this month’s Educational Leadership.The magazine’s May 2013 issue focuses on “The Faces of Poverty.”
