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"content": "\u003cp>For many in the Bay Area, Labor Day weekend also means Burning Man weekend. This year however, more than 70,000 festival goers are caught in the mud and sheltering in place after rains made the playa and roads too wet to open for people to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As of 9am Sunday 9/3, the roads remain too wet and muddy to officially open them for Exodus,” according to the Burning Man traffic account on X, formerly known as Twitter. “There is also an uncertain weather front approaching Black Rock City.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/bmantraffic/status/1698387626288632252\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, friends, family and coworkers may be returning home to the Bay Area later than expected due to weather. Festival organizers shut down the gate and airport Friday night, preventing access to the playa and cancelled all the scheduled burns for the evening as well. The gate and airport are still closed as of Sunday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burning Man’s official weather forecast for Black Rock City can be found \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AfpmyriBHIFQ_Jymw3wHn9dtAGTgLcAjbnogNPsLvEA/htmlview#gid=0\">here (DOC)\u003c/a>. There’s a 70% chance of precipitation today. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Sheel Mohnot, San Francisco-based venture capitalist at Burning Man\"]‘You share your food, you share your drinks, and it’s been pretty lovely so far.’[/pullquote]A press release from the Pershing County Sheriff’s Office on Saturday, stated that most festival operations have been halted or significantly delayed after a meeting with \u003ca href=\"https://burningman.org/\">Burning Man\u003c/a>, Bureau of Land Management, and the Pershing County Sheriff’s Office due to “unusual weather conditions on the playa.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burning Man has asked people to shelter in place until the ground has dried sufficiently to move safely. However, not everyone is heeding the shelter in place recommendation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11960022\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11960022\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/PHOTO-2023-09-03-10-29-27-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"A middle finger made out of mud sits in a muddy scene with clouds in the background. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/PHOTO-2023-09-03-10-29-27-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/PHOTO-2023-09-03-10-29-27-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/PHOTO-2023-09-03-10-29-27-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/PHOTO-2023-09-03-10-29-27-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/PHOTO-2023-09-03-10-29-27.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A muddy art piece at Burning Man after the rains, on Sept. 3, 2023. \u003ccite>(Image Courtesy of Sheel Mohnot)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Right in front of me right now, I can see an RV that’s stuck in the road because they tried to go and they couldn’t,” said San Francisco-based venture capitalist Sheel Mohnot on Sunday morning. He described another car that got stuck, and started a fire. “The woman accelerated and the engine melted,” he added. “Luckily, there were eight fire extinguishers in the nearby cars and they got it out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/bmantraffic/status/1698365772291281170\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are truly, literally and seriously stuck in the mud,” Eric P. Jansen said via email on Saturday. Jansen works for KQED, and said he would not be able to make it in for the next few days. “Access roads have to dry at least a day before anyone can drive on them,” he said. “[It’s a] huge logistics challenge to get so many people out on a two-mile dirt two-lane road with heavy thick alkali mud that even big trucks can’t drive on yet, as it sticks to tires in globs so big that wheels just can’t turn.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burning Man, the week-long festival in the Nevada desert, \u003ca href=\"https://burningman.org/about/about-us/\">describes itself\u003c/a> as “a network of people inspired by the values reflected in the Ten Principles and united in the pursuit of a more creative and connected existence in the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While social media might make it seem like a disaster, Mohnot said yesterday was one of the most fun days he’s had since he began attending the festival in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t bike because the roads are not really passable, and because of that you end up talking to a lot more people than you normally do,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mohnot, who also held his wedding at Burning Man this year, said some of the Burning Man principles — like radical self-reliance and gifting — are relevant to the current situation. “You share your food, you share your drinks, and it’s been pretty lovely so far.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11960019\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11960019\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/PHOTO-2023-09-03-10-27-49-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two people stand dressed in Indian clothes with sand in the background.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/PHOTO-2023-09-03-10-27-49-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/PHOTO-2023-09-03-10-27-49-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/PHOTO-2023-09-03-10-27-49-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/PHOTO-2023-09-03-10-27-49-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/PHOTO-2023-09-03-10-27-49.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheel Mohnot and Amruta Godbole at their wedding on the Playa at Burning Man on Thursday Aug. 31, 2023.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Water and portable toilets are the obvious concerns with a self-created community of more than 70,000 people. However, Mohnot said he’s seen a lot of people sharing. Around the corner from his camp is another camp with a sign saying “take as much water as you need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the porta-potties have been fine, but “a few more days and it will be messy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mohnot said he’s also seen that people are engineering-minded and able to figure things out — even in the mud there is creative problem-solving happening: “People have done things like, put your shoes on, then a plastic bag, then socks outside your shoes, because socks give you a little bit more traction in this mud,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/WashoeSheriff/status/1698102892610400677\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the shelter in place remains in effect, the Pershing County Sheriff’s Office is also investigating a death which occurred during the rain event. 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But crews built a half-dozen huge plywood boxes that each hold a completely realistic room, like an office or a den.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So many people touched all of this before you could even think about putting food into this set,” McSorley said, with awe.\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She made sure everything on the commercial kitchen set was perfect before filming began the next day when actors were expected to flip burgers and stir polenta. The set was incredibly realistic, from rubber mats covering the floor to food containers labeled with blue painter’s tape. 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As a girl, she remembers driving past fans lining up to watch \u003cem>The Tonight Show\u003c/em> being taped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was [an actors’] strike that happened when I was in high school, and it affected a lot of the families that I grew up with,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when she told her family that she would never work in entertainment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never wanted to work in an industry where people were so expendable,” she said. “Nobody cared how many lives these strikes could disrupt. And so, I was never, ever, ever going to be in this industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melissa was a kid with a creative streak, growing up in a structured home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I was in high school, I actually wanted to go to school for photography, and my parents said that I could do that as a hobby any time I wanted,” she said.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Melissa McSorley, Hollywood food stylist\"]‘I decided I was just going to do it part-time for a little while before I decided what I really wanted to do. It turned out that I loved it. And here I am, almost 20 years later.’[/pullquote]They expected her to pursue a degree that would lead to a stable career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Culinary arts falls under the term ‘arts,’ and it would not have been acceptable to my parents,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So she studied biology and psychology. She learned the basics of cooking as a kid by whipping up casseroles for her hungry siblings when her mom was working.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After college, she started taking cooking courses in her spare time. She cycled through several different careers, working at an electrical engineering company, drawing blood and producing commercials at an advertising agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she yearned for more creative work. While working at the ad agency, she encountered her first “food stylist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I decided I was just going to do it part-time for a little while before I decided what I really wanted to do,” McSorley said. “It turned out that I loved it. And here I am, almost 20 years later.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Not home cooking\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In her work kitchen on the set of \u003cem>Good Trouble\u003c/em>, McSorley demonstrated how cooking for the screen is a lot different than cooking at home. For example, in one scene an actor makes a pizza. To pull that off, she needed to prep at least 18 pizzas so the crew could shoot the actor in all stages of pizza-making.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So you’ll see her grab a dough ball, that’s been proofed and looks amazing,” McSorley said.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Melissa McSorley, Hollywood food stylist\"]‘Then, you might see her start to sauce it. Then, you might see it finished, but uncooked. At the very, very end of the scene, she’ll pull out that perfect pizza.’[/pullquote]McSorley will then swap out that dough for another that’s been perfectly shaped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Then, you might see her start to sauce it. Then, you might see it finished, but uncooked,” she said. “At the very, very end of the scene, she’ll pull out that perfect pizza.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And to make sure that shot is just right, McSorley will have three or four perfect pizzas prepped — just in case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her job depends on making sure that food looks as delicious as possible, and that it looks identical, take after take.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A bizarre set of skills\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>What’s clear is that a Hollywood food stylist needs an eclectic array of skills that go way beyond cooking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, they have to be organized. Even the simplest scene has many moving parts. 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There were full, perfect turkeys, turkeys staged just for carving, turkeys that fell on the floor, turkeys that the dog came too close to, and even turkeys in the oven. McSorley had to find them, buy them, store them and cook them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were a lot of turkeys,” she said, shaking her head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second, a food stylist needs to be a nutritionist — and a problem-solver. In that same scene in \u003cem>Love the Coopers\u003c/em>, stars like Diane Keaton, John Goodman, Marisa Tomei and Alan Arkin all sat together.[aside postID=news_11958720 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66538_230623-wahpepahs-kitchen-05-ks-KQED-1020x679.jpg']“When you went around the table, there was a vegetarian who loves cheese; a vegan that also doesn’t do sugar or sugar substitutes; [and] other people who ate no carbs,” McSorley said. “You have to make sure that you’ve made something that everybody can eat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Third, food stylists are often technical advisors, making sure kitchens on set seem real to viewers. They’ll organize a fictional restaurant’s fridge according to safety regulations, with raw meat on the bottom level, not sitting on top of produce, for instance.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Amplifying scenes with food\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“The highlights of my career are the times when I’ve been able to do something that is, like, so amplified,” McSorley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like the time she dug into research for a period-perfect meal in \u003cem>Mad Men\u003c/em> or \u003cem>Perry Mason\u003c/em> or making food for imaginary worlds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0844441/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">the vampire drama \u003cem>True Blood\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, McSorley’s first task was to concoct a substance worthy of the show’s title — a drink that actors could gulp down, that also looked and functioned like blood, not juice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It had to leave a trail when it went down the glass,” she said, “And so, that was a lot of fun, using a little bit of wheatgrass to give it the opaqueness that it needed, and then to add a little bit of methyl cellulose to get the viscosity that it needed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added pomegranate-cherry juice to get the right color and to lend it a decent taste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was like a little chemistry experiment in the kitchen,” she said.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McSorley also created the food seen in science-fiction shows like \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8806524/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_2_nm_6_q_picard\">\u003cem>Star Trek:\u003c/em> \u003cem>Picard\u003c/em>\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13668894/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_boba%2520fett\">\u003cem>The Book of\u003c/em> \u003cem>Boba Fett\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. And that’s not as simple as it might seem.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Melissa McSorley, Hollywood food stylist\"]‘I was able to work with the prop master to come up with a \u003cem>nuna\u003c/em> skeleton and skin that I could work with. Then, I filled it with turkey meat so that it looked like the meat was just coming off in layers.’[/pullquote]“The food couldn’t look like anything that we’ve seen here,” McSorley said. “Was it a planet that actually had an environment: air, water to it? Was it a dry planet that maybe everything would have been from root vegetables? And then, you just figure out what exists in the edible world that you can make look like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one scene in \u003cem>Boba Fett\u003c/em>, McSorley helped fill a 30-foot-long table for a feast. One element was a roasted \u003cem>nuna\u003c/em>, a swamp turkey from the planet Naboo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And it was really awesome because I was able to work with the prop master to come up with a \u003cem>nuna\u003c/em> skeleton and skin that I could work with,” she said. “Then, I filled it with turkey meat so that it looked like the meat was just coming off in layers. And you really get the idea that these came from another planet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the hands of a stylist like McSorley, food becomes a character on screen. It can help set the mood with party food, home cooking or upscale bites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It can mirror the personality of a character — like a meticulous assassin who also bakes with precision. One glance at a plate and the viewer should get a sense of the person in the scene with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It takes a lot of labor to make the shimmering fantasy that Hollywood sells to the world. There are a lot of behind-the-scenes industry people like Melissa whose work is largely invisible — and they’re all feeling the impact of recent labor disputes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I guess I wish people knew that the job existed, that the food didn’t just miraculously appear on the plate,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Lisa Morehouse’s series \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://californiafoodways.com/\">\u003cem>California Foodways\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> is supported by California Humanities, a nonprofit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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It was taken.’[/pullquote]In America, Black prosperity — especially economic prosperity — has always been met with oppressive hostility. Sometimes it comes in the form of a lynch mob of rabid racists, like the one in 1921 that presided over a two-day massacre that destroyed the Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, known as “Black Wall Street.” Sometimes, like in the case of Bruce’s Beach, it comes in the form of eminent domain, a law that gives the government the right to expropriate private property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s just a sanitized way of saying that Bruce’s Beach was stolen by the city of Manhattan Beach. This racially motivated process has been used in cities and states across the country. 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"content": "\u003cp>Amid a \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/07/19/teaching-instruction-pandemic-scores/\">national reckoning\u003c/a> over the deepening achievement gaps caused by the pandemic, arts education may be one of the keys to boosting children’s engagement in school, \u003ca href=\"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pam.22449\">research suggests\u003c/a>. Like sports, the arts can spark the kind of excitement that makes students, and their families, look forward to coming to school. Both realms tap deeply into the primal impulse to play and learn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Children are already artists in many ways,” said Allison Gamlen, visual and performing arts coordinator for the San Mateo County Office of Education. “They already kind of know what to do. If you give a bunch of 6-year-olds musical instruments, they’re going to know what to do. They just can jam more than adults can.”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Rush Rehm, professor of drama and classics, Stanford University\"]‘Encouraging students from an early age to explore their creative interests can set them up for a life that recognizes the arts as an essential part of life, both as a means of expression and of understanding the world.’[/pullquote]The need to ignite that innate creativity is why principals, superintendents and arts educators across the state are brainstorming new and expanded arts education plans in the wake of \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2023/arts-education-funding-in-california-how-will-proposition-28-roll-out/685800\">Proposition 28\u003c/a>, which guarantees an annual funding stream for music and arts education that equals 1% of the state’s general fund spending on K–12 — roughly $1 billion this year. This \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2023/prop-28-a-windfall-for-arts-education-but-implementation-poses-challenges/692858\">game-changing legislation\u003c/a> means that the arts can be more than a luxury enjoyed by the privileged few who can afford it. It can be a source of discovery and joy for all students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Encouraging students from an early age to explore their creative interests can set them up for a life that recognizes the arts as an essential part of life, both as a means of expression and of understanding the world,” said Rush Rehm, professor of drama and classics at Stanford. “Education should provide the basic skills one needs to survive in an imperfect world. But living is more than surviving, and for that reason funding the arts makes good, common sense. That is, if one has any hope of making the world a little less imperfect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bolstered by this infusion of arts funding, which is \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/eo/in/prop28artsandmusicedfundingfaq.asp\">currently expected to arrive\u003c/a> late this fall, some schools are launching something big in the 2023–24 school year while others are planning ahead and setting the stage for new programs. Schools can accumulate funds over three years toward a bigger goal. Other principals, particularly those who have long championed the power of the arts to transform children’s lives, are eager to raise the curtain on new programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take Chris Read, the principal of San Pablo’s E.M. Downer Elementary School. He’s a true believer in arts education as a tool to spark student engagement. That’s why he’s spending money out of his tight budget to pay roughly half the cost of a full-time arts teacher and using his Proposition 28 allotment to pick up the other half of the tab. Over the years, he has come to see the pivotal role arts education can play in a student’s personal development, a view buttressed by \u003ca href=\"https://www.amacad.org/sites/default/files/publication/downloads/2021-Art-for-Lifes-Sake.pdf\">exhaustive research (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The impact will be great within a number of areas,” Read said. “Mainly with skills in problem-solving, critical thinking, creativity, social-emotional learning, physical or emotional trauma and with enhancing social skills. We have tried to introduce or give different art experiences or opportunities in all the art disciplines.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, it’s far more important to him that his students have exposure to the arts at large than any particular craft or discipline. Given the state’s teacher shortage, which worsened during the pandemic, he is not pursuing an artist whose specific expertise might speak to his students, instead searching high and low for the right individual, the arts educator whose personality and character best clicks with his school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are wanting to offer the position to the best candidate in whatever medium they are best at,” Read said. “We’d rather have the best possible candidate to support our learners because we believe all of the arts are important.”[aside postID=\"news_11954066,news_11928837,news_11934191\" label=\"Related Stories\"]The readiness is all, as Shakespeare put it. Planning ahead may be the key to making the most of the funds on the table, experts say. After decades of cutting and scrimping, arts educators finally have money to spend. It should be noted, however, that \u003ca href=\"https://createca.org/create-cas-request-to-cde-for-urgent-staffing-and-guidance-about-prop-28/\">many arts advocates\u003c/a> feel the California Department of Education, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/eo/in/prop28artsandmusicedfundingfaq.asp\">which is administering the program\u003c/a>, has yet to provide sufficient guidance regarding the rules of implementation, perhaps due to lack of staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s awesome and amazing, and we need it so badly,” Gamlen said. “There is solid arts funding coming for the first time that I can remember. Arts programs and electives are often the first thing on the cutting board, although they’re so crucial to student well-being.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her advice to schools is to first take the temperature of their community to see what parents, students and teachers are most passionate about, whether it’s high-tech animation or ancient Indian dance, and then dig in with serious planning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do hope that parents and community members can join in and share their voices and tell schools what they would like to see,” Gamlen said. “We’re trying to encourage districts to go slow and have a plan. Have a one-year, five-year, 10-year plan. This money is coming in perpetuity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some schools are going all in with a single artistic discipline that resonates most deeply with their students. The Pacifica school district, for example, plans to strike up the band, using Proposition 28 funds to have music embedded throughout the K–8 curriculum, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a sequential music program,” Gamlen said. “Kids will finish second grade and they’ll know how to do X, Y and Z. And their third grade music teacher will know that and can take them further. I appreciate that they are going deep with one art form.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fillmore Rydeen, who is visual and performing arts director at Oakland Unified, notes that the OUSD already has a robust arts program, including music and dance, so that makes it more complicated to hammer out a plan than a school that previously had no arts at all. He is advising principals to begin planning but cautions against moving too hastily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of different circumstances the principal may want to think about when they’re doing this,” he said. “What do you have currently? What would you like to add to it? Where does it make sense to add, and does that addition actually give more kids art?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With only about 5,000 credentialed arts teachers in the state and a need for roughly 15,000, some warn of a coming arts teacher shortage. While some schools may tap working artists, as opposed to credentialed arts teachers, to flesh out their new programs, some say that may also create complications. For example, working artists may come into the classroom to teach their expertise, say, script writing or sculpture, as \u003ca href=\"https://cacountyarts.org/wp-content/uploads/California-County-Superintendents-Teacher-Brief.pdf\">classified staff (PDF)\u003c/a>, but the classroom teacher also needs to be present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where are we going to get the people to fill these positions, and if we fill the positions with unqualified people, how do we support them?” Rydeen said. “If you have no teaching credential, no teaching experience, but we put you in front of a classroom, sometimes it works out. But oftentimes folks struggle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By contrast, San Diego Unified, which also already has a vibrant arts education program, is planning to hire enough teachers to expand its arts program in five different genres: dance, music, theater, visual art and media arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The new funding will be transformative because we are expanding all five programs,” said Anne Fennell, K–12 music program manager for San Diego Unified, “so that more students can have the arts as well as meeting the students’ needs in the arts classes that they want to study.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like a work of art, experts say it may well take time to craft and then fine-tune an arts ed plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The classes should reflect what the students want and what the families want,” said Gamlen, “and what they want might be really different from what the school principals want.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also likely that the needs and wants of the student body will evolve over time. One cohort of students may be drawn to digital arts, another to dance. That’s why experts say most arts ed plans will be a moving target.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The therapeutic power of movement is one thing Gamlen hopes educators will consider as they explore their options in arts education. Sitting still for most of the day is trying for many children — particularly in the post-pandemic era. After months of online studies during the shutdown, many students struggle to focus in in-person school, and physical activity may be a balm for the anxious ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dance might feel extra to some administrators, but it’s such a great way to teach musicality and rhythm, and it can also be really culturally relevant to students,” Gamlen said. “It’s a way to teach history, and it’s very physical. Students with disabilities and English language learners can access dance in a different way than some of their other classes that might be much more verbal or text dependent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many arts advocates suggest that the myriad challenges of launching a new program will almost certainly pay off in higher student engagement, which may be critical to \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/07/19/teaching-instruction-pandemic-scores/\">boosting lackluster pandemic recovery efforts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The restorative nature of the arts — giving children permission to express themselves against the backdrop of the alarming \u003ca href=\"https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2023/05/23/surgeon-general-issues-new-advisory-about-effects-social-media-use-has-youth-mental-health.html\">youth mental health crisis\u003c/a> — may help spark joy in a generation traumatized by the stress and strain of the last few years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Joy is fundamental to the learning process,” said Shantel Meek, founding director of the Children’s Equity Project, an advocacy/research organization based at Arizona State University. “First, it’s critical for establishing intrinsic motivation for learning and associating positive feelings with school. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The readiness is all, as Shakespeare put it. Planning ahead may be the key to making the most of the funds on the table, experts say. After decades of cutting and scrimping, arts educators finally have money to spend. It should be noted, however, that \u003ca href=\"https://createca.org/create-cas-request-to-cde-for-urgent-staffing-and-guidance-about-prop-28/\">many arts advocates\u003c/a> feel the California Department of Education, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/eo/in/prop28artsandmusicedfundingfaq.asp\">which is administering the program\u003c/a>, has yet to provide sufficient guidance regarding the rules of implementation, perhaps due to lack of staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s awesome and amazing, and we need it so badly,” Gamlen said. “There is solid arts funding coming for the first time that I can remember. 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The Pacifica school district, for example, plans to strike up the band, using Proposition 28 funds to have music embedded throughout the K–8 curriculum, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a sequential music program,” Gamlen said. “Kids will finish second grade and they’ll know how to do X, Y and Z. And their third grade music teacher will know that and can take them further. I appreciate that they are going deep with one art form.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fillmore Rydeen, who is visual and performing arts director at Oakland Unified, notes that the OUSD already has a robust arts program, including music and dance, so that makes it more complicated to hammer out a plan than a school that previously had no arts at all. He is advising principals to begin planning but cautions against moving too hastily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of different circumstances the principal may want to think about when they’re doing this,” he said. “What do you have currently? 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He said the Bay Area’s landscape and nature also has impacted his creativity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan id=\"playhead\" class=\"EmbeddedScript-module--KwqFyJ\" data-word=\"true\" data-location=\"19705\" data-start-time=\"1545.47\" data-end-time=\"1545.615\">“The\u003c/span> \u003cspan id=\"\" class=\"EmbeddedScript-module--KwqFyJ\" data-word=\"true\" data-location=\"19709\" data-start-time=\"1545.615\" data-end-time=\"1546.005\">natural\u003c/span> \u003cspan id=\"\" class=\"EmbeddedScript-module--KwqFyJ\" data-word=\"true\" data-location=\"19717\" data-start-time=\"1546.01\" data-end-time=\"1546.545\">landscape\u003c/span> \u003cspan id=\"\" class=\"EmbeddedScript-module--KwqFyJ\" data-word=\"true\" data-location=\"19727\" data-start-time=\"1546.545\" data-end-time=\"1546.875\">of\u003c/span> \u003cspan id=\"\" class=\"EmbeddedScript-module--KwqFyJ\" data-word=\"true\" data-location=\"19730\" data-start-time=\"1546.875\" data-end-time=\"1546.995\">the\u003c/span> \u003cspan id=\"\" 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"content": "\u003cp>An aggressive sea otter in California is hassling locals by riding boards she stole from surfers in the lineup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steamer Lane is a legendary point break nestled along the rocky shores of Santa Cruz, home to swaths of experienced surfers, as well as a 5-year-old female sea otter with a growing reputation for repeatedly confronting surfers and kayakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CuiOma5rRWT/?hl=en\">Videos across social media\u003c/a> show the otter hoisting itself out of the ocean and onto boards while surfers sit back in awe. At times she’s chewed on the boards or forced surfers to surrender their boards altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CuiOma5rRWT\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Onlookers in the videos can be heard laughing in jest at surfers’ misfortune, but officials with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service say the otter poses a public safety risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While there have been no confirmed reports of injury, due to the highly unusual behavior of this otter, kayakers, surfers, and others recreating in the area should not approach the otter or encourage the otter’s interactions,” the USFWS said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sixty-year-old Santa Cruz native and photographer Mark Woodward said he has photographed hundreds of otters over the years, but has never seen something like this. He’s witnessed the otter bully surfers three times in less than a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I saw the first incident on June 18 and I didn’t know what was happening,” Woodward told NPR. “… It was quite astounding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955606\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1464px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11955606\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/dsc_8874-b39a539e52ced1b99245c7d9733c10d36381b32c.jpg\" alt=\"a large sea otter sits at one end of a blue surfboard while a surfer lays under the board with their feet up on either side\" width=\"1464\" height=\"1098\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/dsc_8874-b39a539e52ced1b99245c7d9733c10d36381b32c.jpg 1464w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/dsc_8874-b39a539e52ced1b99245c7d9733c10d36381b32c-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/dsc_8874-b39a539e52ced1b99245c7d9733c10d36381b32c-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/dsc_8874-b39a539e52ced1b99245c7d9733c10d36381b32c-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1464px) 100vw, 1464px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An otter at a popular surf break in Santa Cruz has been confronting surfers, going as far as stealing their boards and riding waves. \u003ccite>(Mark Woodward/@NativeSantaCruz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The USFWS said the otter’s behavior is “concerning and unusual,” and though the exact cause is unknown, officials said it could be associated with hormonal surges or being fed by humans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Southern sea otters are listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act and are protected under the Marine Mammal Act as well as California law, the USFWS said. After being hunted to near extinction for their fur in the 1700s and 1800s, the population has rebounded since becoming a protected species and is a key predator in California’s coastal ecosystems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A team from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) and the Monterey Bay Aquarium is looking for the otter to catch and rehome her. Unfortunately once the otter is caught, Monterey Bay Aquarium spokesperson Kevin Connor told NPR, she won’t be able to return to the wild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The animal, officially known as otter 841, was born in captivity — because it’s mother had also been too friendly with humans — and then successfully released into the wild in June 2020, Connor told NPR. It wasn’t until September 2022 that she started exhibiting her bizarre behavior at Steamer Lane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, CDFW and aquarium staff were able to drive the animal out of the area, a process called \u003ca href=\"https://icwdm.org/hazing/\">hazing\u003c/a>, in hopes of deterring her from interacting with people. 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