by Growing Inland Achievement | Dec 2, 2022 | EDUCATION INSIGHT, NEWS
About This Episode Season 2. Episode 10. This past month the Toward A Shared Vision education summit was held at the Riverside Convention center. It was aimed at bringing education leaders from Inland Southern California together to collaborate and in many cases to...
by Growing Inland Achievement | Nov 7, 2022 | EDUCATION INSIGHT, NEWS
About This Episode Season 2. Episode 9. This week we’re talking with two women who fought relentlessly for their education. As a daughter of migrant farm workers, Avisinia Rodriguez spent much of her childhood in the Oasis Trailer Park community in the Coachella...
by Growing Inland Achievement | Sep 6, 2022 | EDUCATION INSIGHT, NEWS
About This Episode Season 2. Episode 8. The last few years have been tumultuous for everyone. From lockdowns, drought, protests, shootings, bullies, a global pandemic, and politics. But no one has been hit harder by these issues than our kids. They have become the #1...
by Growing Inland Achievement | Aug 8, 2022 | EDUCATION INSIGHT, NEWS
About This Episode Season 2. Episode 7. We’ve all heard the saying “it takes a village to raise a child”. Well, two Inland community-based programs heard that and said “I think that’s our cue”. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Inland Empire and...
by Growing Inland Achievement | Jul 1, 2022 | EDUCATION INSIGHT, NEWS
About This Episode Season 2. Episode 6. Technology-focused industries are popping up all over the Inland Region, and that begs the question, are students learning the skills they need for highly technical jobs that are right here in our own backyard? From grade...
by Growing Inland Achievement | Jun 4, 2022 | EDUCATION INSIGHT, NEWS
About This Episode Season 2. Episode 5. We hear stories on the news of threats to teachers, mass suspensions, and bullying. Some teachers say that laws just don’t protect them in the class like they used to, so we’re digging deep into the handling of discipline at...