Tours: Monroe, Sunnyside, & Jose Ortega

	Tour	Language	Hours	Distance	Greatschool Rating	API Score	Type	Middle school	Asian	White	Hispanic	African American	2 or more races
Monroe	10/2/2014	Spanish	8:25-2:30	0.34	5	806	k-5	Hoover	33.00%	7.00%	52.00%	3.00%	2.00%
Sunnyside	10/14/2014	GE	8:40-2:40	0.72	7	862	k-5	Denman	13.00%	37.00%	27.00%	4.00%	7.00%
Jose Ortega	10/22/2014	Mandarin	7:50-1:50	1.78	7	857	k-5	Aptos	38.00%	14.00%	15.00%	13.00%	8.00%

Monroe 10-2-2014
- Neighborhood/community feel.
- demographic seems very white (latino?)
- small outdoor spaces, small classrooms (in hindsight)
- Spanish immersion seems more fun than the GE, cantonese speaking kids are grouped into english learners, quieter. homely looking.
－tour guide is a Japanese American dad, who used to teach in SFUSD, wife is caucasian, their son is happy at Monroe Spanish immersion
- students seem pretty happy, active, high energy
- principle is male, seems approachable yet with authority
- ~15 parents on tour, half are latino, we are the only asian

Sunnyside 10-14-2014
- really nice facility, high ceiling auditorium/cafeteria,
- very large classrooms, very well organized, i especially like the entry area where kids keep their backpacks
- very vivid art works in the hallway from students,
- school feels very sunny, high energy, and positive
- street parking relatively easy
- tours very organized. lots of parents volunteers on the tour, one Asian american woman, everyone else white. mostly moms, 2 dads.
- ~30 parents in our tour group, much much larger than Monroe, almost all white
- divided into 3 groups to tour classrooms.
- didn't see too much teaching interaction
- principle is new (female and professional)
- students demographics seems very white, estimated 10% Asian kids we saw on the tour.
- the almost finished new wing looks really modern, bright and nice

Jose Ortega 10-22-2014
- facilities seemed run-down
- kids and the entire school seemed low energy
- all parents volunteers are women, quite a few brought their children, it felt the least professionally ran among the three schools we toured so far.
- but i'm most impressed with the teaching we saw, one class was teaching English writing (1st grade?) i found the material the teacher was trying to convey very sophisticated. about an author the teacher liked when she was a kid, and the reason she liked it was because the main character is like herself; all the Chinese  classes we toured were teaching Math in Chinese, and students are answering in chinese back, impressive. the composition on the wall in Chinese from 4th graders were like a dream to me. If Noah could write like that by 5th grade, i would be in heaven.
- parking is a nightmare since the school is on such a big hill. all the side streets are steep slopes like where we used to live on Cole.
- the groups we saw in the library were the least impressive. one kid sat down at the computer and started playing computer games, the Chinese section was very small no kids were looking at them.
- the school simply seemed less sunny than the previous two. it is odd. since it was a sunny day.
- class rooms are just as large as sunnyside, but much less well organized and seemed messy.