By Riley, ACE Poetry Contest Mascot, Alpha Public Schools The cool thing about poetry is that is comes in all shapes, styles and patterns. What counts is the message,...
Read MoreBy Riley, ACE Poetry Contest Mascot, Alpha Public Schools, assisted by Martha Sessums (for spelling purposes only) April. What a month. When it’s National Poetry...
Read MoreBy Chupe, ACE Poetry Contest Mascot, San Francisco International High School Our students wrote cool poems. Then entered them into the ACE Poetry Contest to honor...
Read MoreBy Thor, ACE Poetry Contest Mascot, Oxford Day Academy Like my namesake, that Norse god, I know good thunder and lightning when I see it. And our winners of the ACE...
Read MoreBy Violet, ACE Poetry Contest Mascot,Oakland International High School Style. Class. Brevity. Truth. These are descriptors of the winning poems of the ACE Poetry...
Read MoreBy Riley, ACE Poetry Contest Mascot, Alpha Public Schools These high school poets from Alpha: Cindy Avitia High School are the coolest. They know about technology and...
Read MoreBy Riley, ACE Poetry Contest Mascot, Alpha Public Schools I’m howling for the ACE Poetry Contest winners from Alpha: Jose Hernández. These are grades 5 – 8...
Read MoreBy Ben Trefny, News Director, KALW Public Radio The studios of KALW were filled with more than their usual share of talented audio journalists over the last few weeks,...
Read MoreBy Riley, ACE Poetry Contest Mascot, Alpha Public Schools Arf! Arf! I’m barking to announce the first of the ACE Poetry Contest winners. These are students from...
Read MoreBy Riley, ACE Poetry Contest Mascot; and Chupe, ACE Poetry Contest Mascot at San Francisco International High School This is the most fun day of National Poetry Month...
Read MoreBy Riley, ACE Poetry Contest Mascot, Alpha Public Schools Hi all you poets out there. Just wanted to remind you that tomorrow is Poem in Your Pocket Day. That’s...
Read MoreBy Ben Trefny, News Director, KALW Public Radio Earlier this month, Audio Academy alum Colin Peden (’15) and KALW‘s justice reporter Holly J. McDede spent...
Read MoreBy Thor, ACE Poetry Contest Mascot, Oxford Day Academy Hello Everyone, this is Thor once again. I was on Spring break last week and enjoyed reading your posts while...
Read MoreBy Chupe, ACE Poetry Contest Mascot, San Francisco International High School Hello poets near and far! Thanks to the encouraging words, woofs and meows from our ACE...
Read MoreBy Riley, ACE Poetry Contest Mascot, assisted by Martha Sessums (for spelling purposes only) The ACE Poetry Contest Mascot posse of Chupe, Cronos, Violet and Thor are...
Read MoreBy Riley, ACE Poetry Contest Mascot, Assisted by Martha Sessums (for spelling purposes only) This is awesome. We mascots are writing rhymes to each other because...
Read MoreBy Sailaja Suresh, Director, Oakland International High School Learning Lab, and Poetry by Violet, OIHS ACE Poetry Contest Mascot Oakland International High...
Read MoreBy Thor (or Huckleberry or Thorckleberry), ACE Poetry Contest Mascot, Oxford Day Academy Hello, I’m Thor, also known as Huckleberry, ODA (Oxford Day Academy...
Read MoreBy Chupe and Cronos, ACE Poetry Contest Mascots, San Francisco International High School It’s that time of year again. Spring has sprung and San Francisco...
Read MoreBy Ben Trefny, News Director, KALW Public Radio and Bo Walsh, Audio Academy Fellow About a month ago, I had the real pleasure of attending one of KALW‘s Sights...
Read MoreBy Riley, ACE Poetry Contest Mascot, assisted by Martha Sessums (for spelling purposes only) It’s National Poetry Month again. April. Not only the month where we...
Read MoreBy Karen Martinez, Alpha Parent Learning Center Manager This year, our Alpha Parent Center has held two parent meetings on immigration to provide free legal service,...
Read MoreBy Ben Trefny, News Director, KALW Public Radio It’s been quite a while since I’ve sent a blog, but it’s not for lack of goings on at KALW! In fact, I...
Read MoreBy Ben Trefny, News Director, KALW Public Radio The week of Valentine’s Day featured a lot of lovely stories on Crosscurrents, led by Audio Academy fellows and...
Read MoreBy Martha Sessums, President, ACE Mid-school year, it’s always great to see how well an ACE Learning Center is doing. Getting its stride. Staying steady. Turning out...
Read MoreBy Ben Trefny, News Director, KALW Public Radio The Audio Academy‘s impact is growing on KALW, its audience, and an increasingly greater public. This week...
Read MoreBy Ben Trefny, News Director, KALW and Christine Nguyen, Audio Academy Fellow It’s been a little while. Our team took a two-week break for the winter holidays,...
Read MoreName: Marian Frances B. School: San Francisco State University Major: Pre- Nursing Why are you in college? There are many reasons why I am in college, striving to...
Read MoreName: Cristhian S. School: Skyline College Major: Mechanical Engineering Why are you in college? I’m in college because I want to be the first person in my family to go...
Read MoreName: Cristhian P. School: UC Berkeley Major: Social Welfare, Minor in Public Policy Why are you in college? I’m in college since I want to represent minorities and my...
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