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CASTRO VALLEY FORUM A COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SERVING CASTRO VALLEY SINCE 1989
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2024
YEAR 36
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New Programs Cooking at Robin Olivier ‘ lways Castro Valley High School Has A Been a Reader’ By Michael Singer
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Health Advisory Health officials urge vigilance as measles cases rise in county
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Flower Fiction
CV artist’s drawings now on display at the Castro Valley Library
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Senior Q&A
Can bequest from will, trust, or beneficiary be changed after Death?
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An expanded Culinary Arts program is cooking at Castro Valley High School. At its March 27 meeting, the Board of Trustees was presented with a plan to grow the school’s current Career Technical Education (CTE) Culinary and Hospitality Pathway, a cohort for like-minded students. The vision involves building a state-of-the-art culinary building in the 400 wing of the high school campus at a cost of $3,506,242. Half that amount is expected to come from state grant funds, and the district’s building funds will cover the remainder. School officials said they expect to open bidding for the new cooking classroom this summer. Construction is expected to begin in the fall and end sometime in the spring or summer of 2025. Classes are expected to be held in the new PHOTO COURTESY OF CVUSD building starting in the 20252026 school year. Additional Girls Flag Football is coming to Castro Valley High. A costs for maintenance, pilot program will start in the 2024-2025 school year, see PROGRAMS on page 10 with it becoming an official fall sport starting in 2025.
By Josie de la Torre
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Every Saturday, Robin Olivier volunteers a portion of her time to help run the Friends of the Castro Valley Library, the small bookstore near the Chabot and Canyon Room. Preparing for the book sale happening next month is a lot of Robin Olivier preparation. “I’ve always been a reader,” said Olivier. “Reading was something I did from early childhood. I went through phases, liking stories of historical people and different jobs. Later, I escaped work stress by reading mysteries and gothic novels after work.” Olivier has been a long-time Castro Valley resident. She has been involved with the library since they moved from Redwood Road and helped with the “Great Castro Valley Book Pass.” When the current Castro Valley Library opened to the public on Oct. 31, 2009, nearly 2,000 people participated in this event, creating a human chain to pass books from the old library to the new one. “We moved a couple of hundred books from the old library to this one, and people were walking on the street. see OLIVIER on page 5
Software Helps Teachers Make the A ‘ I’ Grade along with other subjects as needed. He has seen class sizes rise A former Bay Area teacher in both states, which are also noted for modest teacher salhas figured out a way to use aries and a high cost of living. Artificial Intelligence (AI) to With more students to teach, do a particularly time-consuming part of a teacher’s job: more work is required to just grade all their work in a way grading. Sam Anderson-Moxley used that gives them proper feedto teach at Bret Harte Middle back to learn more effectively, he said. School in Oakland and elsewhere here on the mainland “The problem is that teachbut now teaches 8th-grade sci- ers typically work seven hours ence at a public charter school more than the average working on the Big Island of Hawaii, adult per week, and 25 percent By Mike McGuire
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of their work is uncompensatIt does that by cutting way ed, plus they don’t qualify for down on grading time, he said. overtime pay,” Anderson-Mox- It’s an add-on to Google Docs, ley wrote in an email. “Teacher but uses the GPT (Generative shortages and high turnover are Pre-training Transformer) prevalent across the nation.” engine from OpenAI. “Teachers and students “My innovation was integrating that with the Google deserve better,” he added. He thinks he can help with Docs add-on,” Anderson-Moxsome of that with his new soft- ley said. ware product, Roborubrics. Using huge data sets of previously graded student work, As Anderson-Moxley put Roborubrics uses AI to comit, “It’s made by teachers for teachers. It’s a technology that pare specified grading criteria actually makes teachers’ lives to each student’s assignment. see AI on page 4 easier.”
Sam Anderson-Moxley