Classroom-Based Services in an Urban Middle School: Strategies for Becoming Part of the Solution

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 395-401
Author(s):  
Laura Epstein ◽  
Prutha Shah
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
San Francisco Bay ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Urban Middle School ◽  
Bay Area

Purpose Low-performing middle schools are often urban, culturally and linguistically diverse communities. Classroom-based speech-language service delivery is a best practice in these schools. This article provides strategies that have enhanced service delivery in a diverse and low-income urban middle school located in the San Francisco Bay Area, through a partnership between the San Francisco State University, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Nicholas J. Certo Communicative Disorders Clinic, and a small local San Francisco Bay Area public school. Method Service delivery at a low-performing school incorporated classroom-based services in order to optimize classroom time for middle school children served by the speech-language pathologist. Results The incorporation of classroom-based services resulted in several service delivery innovations. Conclusion Service delivery models must accommodate to the learning needs of children and the school community.

City as borderland: Gentrification and the policing of Black and Latinx geographies in Oakland

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret M Ramírez
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Low Income ◽  
San Francisco Bay ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
Sound Studies ◽  
Housing Crisis ◽  
Geographic Thought ◽  
The Past ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Foreclosure Crisis

From the foreclosure crisis of 2008, to the tech boom-provoked housing crisis currently engulfing the San Francisco Bay Area, low-income residents of Oakland, California have been displaced from their homes at an alarming rate over the past decade. In this piece I draw from Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands and engage with Black geographic thought, urban and sound studies to build a borderlands analytic. I consider how the “tension, ambivalence and unrest” of the borderlands provides a lens to understand the volatility of cities gripped by rapid gentrification. Using a borderlands analytic to make sense of the borders that are produced and policed in gentrifying cities, I consider how Black and Latinx life has been criminalized spatially and sonically so as to be displaced by forces of racial capitalist extraction. To do this, I look to the implementation of gang injunction zones in Oakland in 2010, and then to two moments in 2015 when the city’s soundscapes were policed and criminalized. This piece centers the Black and Latinx geographies experiencing dispossession in Oakland, and considers how residents are imagining and fighting for their city’s future.

A Qualitative Study of Ecstasy Sellers in the San Francisco Bay Area

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheigla Murphy ◽  
Paloma Sales ◽  
Micheline Duterte ◽  
Camille Jacinto
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
San Francisco Bay ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
Bay Area

Cyborg Jotería Pedagogies: Latinx Drag Queens Leveraging Communication Ecologies in the Age of the Digital and Social Displacement

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-66
Author(s):  
José Ramón Lizárraga ◽  
Arturo Cortez
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
San Francisco Bay ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Drag Queen ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Online Presence ◽  
Drag Queens

Researchers and practitioners have much to learn from drag queens, specifically Latinx queens, as they leverage everyday queerness and brownness in ways that contribute to pedagogy locally and globally, individually and collectively. Drawing on previous work examining the digital queer gestures of drag queen educators (Lizárraga & Cortez, 2019), this essay explores how non-dominant people that exist and fluctuate in the in-between of boundaries of gender, race, sexuality, the physical, and the virtual provide pedagogical overtures for imagining and organizing for new possible futures that are equitable and just. Further animated by Donna Haraway’s (2006) influential feminist post-humanist work, we interrogate how Latinx drag queens as cyborgs use digital technologies to enhance their craft and engage in powerful pedagogical moves. This essay draws from robust analyses of the digital presence of and interviews with two Latinx drag queens in the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as the online presence of a Xicanx doggie drag queen named RuPawl. Our participants actively drew on their liminality to provoke and mobilize communities around socio-political issues. In this regard, we see them engaging in transformative public cyborg jotería pedagogies that are made visible and historicized in the digital and physical world.

scholarly journals Elegy

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 6-9
Author(s):  
David L. Ulin
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
San Francisco Bay ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
Early Adulthood ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Experience Of Time

Traversing the kaleidoscope of memory of early adulthood in the San Francisco bay area, David Ulin describes the places as he remembers them with picturesque account: Andrew Molera State Park, Fort Mason, Marin Headlands, Old Waldorf, and Sutro Tower, with the particulars, and what happened to his experience of time in those places that summer of 1980. Experienced as a series of fleeting memories, joining together with others who lived there for a time. They left, and so did the author, experiencing the power of temporality or “abandon” both in and from this place.

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