By Guest Blogger Jaime Velis, San Francisco State University Student and 2014-2015 San Francisco International High School Span Scholar, with Introduction by Kyle...
Read MoreBy Guest Blogger Ben Trefny, KALW News Director It was a real pleasure to celebrate the Audio Academy Class of 2015 last night with a graduation party. The Red Poppy...
Read MoreBy Guest Blogger Ben Trefny, KALW News Director I just got back from visiting the site of the upcoming Audio Academy graduation with former member, and current KALW...
Read MoreBy Ben Trefny, News Director, KALW Public Radio Hello! It was an intense week around the station – it always is when we come upon the close of a membership drive. For...
Read MoreBy Guest Blogger Riley, Alpha Public Schools ACE Poetry Contest Mascot It’s a treat to announce the winners of the Alpha Public Schools ACE Poetry Contest. There were...
Read MoreBy Guest Blogger Ben Trefny, News Director, KALW Radio and Jasmin Lopez, Audio Academy Alumni Now that we’ve got next year’s Audio Academy selected, the...
Read MoreBy Guest Blogger Samosa, Oakland International High School ACE Poetry Contest Mascot Hooray for poetry! The winning poems at Oakland International High School reveal...
Read MoreBy Guest Blogger Ben Trefny, News Director, KALW Public Radio, and Chris Hambrick, Student, KALW Audio Academy Just want to start off by saying what a first class group...
Read MoreBy Guest Bloggers Cronos and Mr. Gizmo, San Francisco International High School Poetry Contest Mascots It gives us great pleasure to present to you, dear readers, the...
Read MoreBy Guest Bloggers Ms. Cristina, Teacher at San Francisco International High School and Marcos and Ronaldo, SFIHS Spark Students Guest Blogger Ms. Cristina With the...
Read MoreBy Guest Blogger Samosa, ACE Poetry Mascot, Oakland International High School Indifferently Aloof, I enjoy poems, But dogs, not so much. Ah, National Poetry Month! A...
Read MoreBy Guest Blogger Cronos, San Francisco International High School Poetry Contest Co-Mascot, and Shuyi Luana Hu, SIHS Student Poet Cronos here for San Francisco...
Read MoreBy Guest Blogger Ben Trefny, News Director, KALW Public Radio One word sums up the feeling around our news department these days: anticipation. The current class is...
Read MoreBy Guest Blogger Riley, ACE Poetry Contest Mascot, assisted by Martha Sessums Woof! Thought I’d try my paw at writing a poem, and it’s a slam poem. I call it doggerel...
Read MoreBy Guest Blogger Mr. Gizmo, Co-Mascot, ACE Poetry Contest, San Francisco International High School I, Mr. Theodore Aloysius Gizmo, AKA Mr. Gizmo, have the honor of...
Read MoreBy Guest Blogger Ben Trefny, News Director, KALW Last Sunday, I had the pleasure of hearing KALW Academy mentor Leila Day on NPR‘s Weekend Edition: On Steel...
Read MoreHello Out There, Cronos here, representing SF International High School, as we get on the road to poetry month. (Lobo sends his best from Treasure Island, but the...
Read MoreBy Guest Blogger Riley, ACE Poetry Contest Mascot, assisted by Martha Sessums This poetry story is so cool I can barely control my tail from wagging. Once again, our...
Read MoreBy Guest Blogger Ben Trefny, News Director, KALW Public Radio It’s fair to say, at this point, that the bulk of reporting coming through KALW‘s...
Read MoreBy Guest Blogger Riley, assisted by Martha Sessums Doggone it. I can’t believe how fast April has arrived. And April means that it’s National Poetry Month. Hi. Riley...
Read MoreBy Martha Sessums, President, ACE “Viva las familias,” said Blanca Alvarado, namesake of Alpha Public School’s Blanca Alvarado Middle School. “Parents are part and...
Read MoreBy Guest Blogger Ben Trefny, News Director, KALW Public Radio It’s always a real treat when public radio’s most influential producers come by KALW....
Read MoreBy Guest Blogger Ben Trefny, News Director, KALW Public Radio This was a packed week in the KALW newsroom, showcasing the versatility of Crosscurrents as a program and...
Read MoreBy Guest Blogger Ben Trefny, News Director, KALW Public Radio Been a very busy couple of weeks! I was away at a health care journalism conference, we’ve been...
Read MoreBy Martha Sessums Numbers have power. While they are often a key to solving problems, they are also misused and have superstitious meanings, which can make them even...
Read MoreBy Guest Blogger Ben Trefny, News Director, KALW Somebody told me, last week, that March can be a tough month. It’s long, it’s not quite winter and not...
Read MoreBy Guest Blogger Ben Trefny, KALW, News Director This week, we had a bingo: a member of the Audio Academy reported a feature story every single day! This is a really...
Read MoreBy Guest Blogger Ben Trefny, News Director, KALW This week, the Audio Academy really filled up our broadcast schedule. For the last several weeks, the members have been...
Read MoreBy Guest Blogger Ben Trefny, News Director, KALW We’re just past the halfway point for this year’s Audio Academy, and the class’ productivity is...
Read MoreBy Martha Sessums, President, ACE On an increasingly overcast morning, the day before the last pair of rainstorms hit San Francisco, a group of high school students...
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