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high quality after school programming.
Perez has created a strong collaboration
with the school district and his site, helping
to provide high quality programs that serve
their students.
• David Constancio III, ASES pro-
gram manager, William Land Elementary
School, Chinese Community Service
Center, has first-hand knowledge about
the benefits of Expanded Learning. He was
in the first student group to participate in
the Sacramento START program when it
began in 1995 and his mother was the site
coordinator. Constancio believes the ben-
efits of Expanded Learning helped open up
economic and educational opportunities for
himself and his family. Constancio’s experi-
ence drew him to a career in the field, so he
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found to be unconstitutional because it is
preempted by federal law.
Juice from vending
Assembly Bill 836 authorizes the state
Department of Public Health to modify
previous requirements of the California
Retail Food Code that prohibit the dis-
pensing of certain bulk foods from vending
machines. Specifically, the bill requests that
can now help others.
• Francine Stewart, director, Monterey
Peninsula USD, brings a lifetime love of
learning and effective leadership skills to her
role as the director of Expanded Learning
programs. Having spent two decades in
the Monterey Peninsula USD, Stewart has
established a strong relationship between
the district and the Expanded Learning
programs to ensure students are receiving
quality enrichment and academic services in
a safe and supportive environment.
Expanded Learning programs provide
after school and summer learning to near-
ly 500,000 California students at almost
5,000 sites. The CDE Expanded Learning
Division oversees all of the Expanded
Learning school sites for the state.
The division started the award cere-
mony in 2013 and receives nominations
from county education offices that have
Expanded Learning services.
DPH modify this prohibition to permit
juice stored in bulk containers to be dis-
pensed from a vending machine under
certain conditions.
Specialty vending machines are pur-
ported to offer healthy food options to
customers by making it easy and convenient
to access freshly made vegetable and fruit
juices. See Health and Safety Code 113936.
For more information on these bills or
on law governing school nutrition programs
in general, please contact one of eight
Lozano Smith Attorneys at Law statewide.
Visit www.lozanosmith.com.
Report examines continuous improvement
Policy Analysis for California Education
has a new report out called “Continuous
Improvement in Practice.” PACE notes
that although the term gets bandied about,
definitions are hard to come by and the
nuts and bolts of exactly what continuous
improvement looks like is hard to pin down.
PACE examines the literature that
exists, both in K-12 as well as other fields.
Researchers were able to determine some
characteristics of continuous improvement
that can inform school leaders and policy-
makers. These include:
• Shared, evidence-based processes and
practices.
• Shared responsibilities, organizational
goals and priorities.
• A common, shared improvement
methodology.
• A data infrastructure that provides
feedback tied to organizational outcomes.
• A culture and discipline of learning
from failures and near-failures.
• Leadership practices that build and
sustain a continuous improvement culture.
The research also examines the barriers
to continuous improvement:
• A lack of clarity about what continuous
improvement looks like in practice and how
to get there.
• Insufficient strategies and supports
to grow internal capacity for continuous
improvement.
• Difficulty prioritizing continuous
improvement in a resource-constrained
environment.
The full research brief can be accessed at
www.edpolicyinca.org.
professional
development calendar
www.acsa.org | 800.608.ACSA
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ACSA’S PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAMS, CALL 800.608.2272.
ACSA’S PD CALENDAR IS AVAILABLE ONLINE AT WWW.ACSA.ORG/CALENDAR
Lights On Afterschool was launched in
October 2000 with celebrations in 1,200
communities nationwide.
Lights On Afterschool is a project of the
Afterschool Alliance, a nonprofit organiza-
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tion dedicated to ensuring that all children
have access to quality, affordable afterschool
programs. For more information, visit the
Lights On Afterschool website at www.
afterschoolalliance.org/loa.cfm.
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