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Our school is committed to the individual needs of our students.  We are dedicated to improving student performance, teacher instruction and the enhancement of knowledge and skills required for working, living and learning in our ever-changing society.  Our children participate in a range of programs including:  art, music,...

We offer a variety of high quality education environments to serve the learning needs of every student.

Sacramento City Unified School District is one of the oldest K-12 districts in the western United States (established in 1854). SCUSD serves 43,175 students on 75 campuses spanning 76 square miles.

SCUSD is home to a 2013 California Distinguished School (West Campus High School), the only public Waldorf-inspired high school in the nation (George Washington Carver) and the only Hmong language immersion program in the state (Susan B. Anthony Elementary School).

Alumni from SCUSD’s schools include U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, California Supreme Court Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye, nationally renowned political scholar Dr. Cornel West and author Joan Didion. Recent graduates from SCUSD are currently attending Harvard, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UC Davis and host of other prestigious universities.

Our Board-adopted mission statement promises the community that our students will “graduate as globally competitive life-long learners, prepared to succeed in a career and higher education institution of their choice to secure gainful employment and contribute to society.”

SCUSD’s students reflect the rich diversity that is the hallmark of Sacramento’s central city. Our student population is 37.1 percent Hispanic or Latino; 17.4 percent Asian; 17.7 percent African American; and 18.8 percent white. About 5.3 percent of students are of two or more races or ethnicities.

Residents within SCUSD speak more than 40 languages; 38 percent of students do not speak English at home.

SCUSD employs 4,213 people and operates with a budget of $383 million.

The Early Childhood Laboratory (ECL), Center for Child and Family Studies, serves as a resource for early childhood educators and child development professionals. It is accredited by the National Association for the Education for Young Children. Specific programs are developed, evaluated, and then disseminated widely to advance the health and well being of young children and their families. Notable projects include:

Gesturing as a precursor of spoken language

Infant Garden: a collaboration between child development and landscape design to create a sensorimotor texture and terrain yard that uniquely engages infants and toddlers

Development and implementation of a Nature Explore Classroom model and preschool Outdoor Classroom curriculum

Enriched early language and literacy environment

Infusion of STEM active learning elements into all age group programs

Inclusion of children with special needs into all age group programs

Implementation and demonstration of California Preschool Learning Foundations and Curriculum Frameworks

Piloting of California Transitional Kindergarten Implementation Guide Curriculum and Teaching Strategies

Demonstration programs, open for tour, offer a model of high-quality early learning environments and intentionality in child-initiated and adult-guided learning. Workshops exploring approaches to meeting early learning standards through environmental design and playful adult-child and peer-to-peer interactions are offered on site during the year. Demonstration lecturers and other program staff are also able to create customized, onsite training and technical assistance presentations.

Demonstration Programs
Early Childhood Workshops
Customized trainings and technical assistance
For more information about scheduling a tour, upcoming workshops, and arranging a customized training, please contact:

Janet Thompson, Director, 530-754-4000, jethompson@ucdavis.edu
Kelly Twibell, Child Development Demonstration Lecturer, Early Childhood Laboratory, 530-752-6239, kktwibell@ucdavis.edu
Education
A major mission of the CCFS is to give students hands-on experiences with young children to supplement their academic coursework in human development. Students from introductory courses, first-year seminar participants, medical students observing typical development, and graduate students learning child-friendly research techniques are periodic observers. All are directly supervised during their time here.
The heart of our education program is the course we teach on site, Communication and Interaction with Young Children (HDE 140). Fifty students each quarter enroll to learn about infants, toddlers and preschoolers by working as student caregivers in our ECL classrooms while they also attend accompanying lectures and discussions and write observations based on their experiences and readings. Working in caregiving roles with the children enriches their educational experience while enabling the ECL to offer highly individualized care and education to the program's children.
Questions concerning demonstration or observation opportunities can be directed to the CCFS Director.

Outreach
Those interested in designing or implementing an outreach program at the CCFS or at the Eichhorn Family House can download the Application Forms. Questions concerning outreach opportunities can be directed to the Chairperson of the CCFS Advisory Committee.

Easterseals Superior California is dedicated to empowering people with disabilities by offering a wide range of services and leadership opportunities designed to encourage maximum independence.

Established in 2013, Eco-Alpha Environmental and Engineering Services, Inc. is a certified small women-owned minority firm with projects nationwide. Our firm’s specialties are rooted in our founders’ expertise.

Our Mission. To provide for the health, inspiration and education of the people of California by helping to preserve the state's extraordinary biological diversity, protecting its most valued natural and cultural resources, and creating opportunities for high-quality outdoor recreation.

Access to a quality education is an important right of all children. EdSource believes that an informed, involved public is necessary to strengthen California’s schools, improve student success and build a better workforce.

EdSource works to engage Californians on key education challenges with the goal of enhancing learning success. It does so by providing timely, useful and accurate information to key education stakeholders and the larger public; advancing awareness of major education initiatives being implemented in California and nationally; and highlighting effective models and strategies intended to improve student outcomes, as well as identifying areas that are in need of repair or reform.

This is an open-enrollment high school, serving the Arden Arcade and other areas in the San Juan Unified School District. Students of all ethnicities and socioeconomic backgrounds attend the school.