District

(See also Schools and Departments)
About the Academic Performance Index and Adequate Yearly    Progress
Calendar
Claims  (See also Workers' Compensation)
Course templates  
Directory of Schools
MARC (Math Assessments for the Report Card)
Survey: Music, Visual & Performing Arts and Physical Education
Transfer Manual

WCCUSD-Employee Contracts
> United Teachers of RIchmond
> Public Employees Union Local One
> School Supervisors Association
> West Contra Costa Administrators Association

Forms

Furniture
Grade-level expectations
Grant support
Human resources
Indepedent study (short-term)
Photo release
Photo release form/Spanish
Purchasing
Special education
Technology
Other

Instructional aide NCLB requirement

Maps

 Alvarado
 El Portal
 Vista Hills
District offices at 1108 Bissell, Richmond

Technology

SASI handbook
More technology support information
MIS & Technology department home page
Warehouse catalog

Benefits-related links

STRS
CalPERS
Vision Service Plan
Delta Dental
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan
Blue Shield of California
Contra Costa County Schools Insurance Group

County Costa County Office of Education
Teachers' section

State
California Department of Education
Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment
Commission on Teacher Credentialing
Credential status/renewal online
Blueprints for CSTs
Content standards
Reading First
Safe Schools
School Site Council guide
Standards for the Teaching Profession

Federal

US Department of Education
Improve student performance: reading
Improve student performance: math
Improve student performance: other subjects
Put Reading First (National Reading Panel)
National Institute for Literacy
Alcohol and Drug Information

Universities

Cal State East Bay, College of Education
San Francisco State, College of Education
St. Mary's, School of Education - graduate
St. Mary's, School of Education - undergraduate
UC Berkeley, Graduate School of Education
UC Extension, Education Department
UC Santa Cruz, New Teacher Center
New Teacher Center's links page

Education news

Educator's Reference Desk (Ask ERIC)
Education Week
Educationnews.org
Special Education News
CA Department of Education news
US Department of Education news
Rough & Tumble (Calif. news, all subjects)

Equity resources

District equity statement
Beyond Diversity
California State Assembly Select Committee on Bridging the Achievement Gap
Conversations about race need to be fearless: An interview with Glenn Singleton (National Staff Development Council)
Equity Research Brief: The Color of Discipline: Understanding Racial Disparity in Discipline Practices, January 2001 (Bay Area School Reform Collaborative)
Equity Research Brief: The Achievement Gap: Oct 1999 (Bay Area School Reform Collaborative)
Facing History and Ourselves
Institute for the Advanced Studies of Black Family Life and Culture
NAACP
Newsletter on Equity Oct. 1998 (Bay Area School Reform Collaborative)
Racism:NoWay
Tolerance.org
Tool for assessing school equity (developed by a WCCUSD teacher based on materials from Beyond Diversity)

Home loans for school employees

California Housing Finance Agency
CalSTRS

More...

KQED educational programming
North Coast Section CIF
SF Chronicle Newspapers in Education
The Watershed Project

See the families' resouces page for more useful links!