This week, The special education advisory commission, Measure G, a look at Yemeni students, talking with children about race, Measure N commission, LCAP meetings, a happy hour for school designers, a panel on desegregation, and much much more, all the info and links are below please read, share and get involved
This Week
4/16 6:00 PM Measure G Parcel Tax Independent Citizens Oversight Committee
4/16 5:30 PM Community Advisory Committee-Programs for Exceptional Children
4/17 4pm – 6pm Yemen: From Global to Local to Household
4/17 6:30pm – 8:30pm TBS Talks: Talking With Children About Race
4/17 5:00 PM Measure N – College and Career Readiness Commission
4/18 9:00 AM Measure N – College and Career Readiness Commission
4/18 5:00 PM Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP) Parent Advisory Committee
4/19 9:00 AM Measure N – College and Career Readiness Commission
4/18 5:00pm – 8:00pm Meeting of the LCAP Parent and Student Advisory Committee
4/18 6pm – 8pm 4.0 Schools Oakland Education Happy Hour (Tix on Eventbrite!)
4/19 5:30pm – 8:00pm A path to school desegregation: a Bay Area community roundtable
Further Out
4/28 10:00am – 2:00pm Young Men’s Conference
5/6 3pm – 6pm Radical Mama Support Group: The Importance of Mental Health
5/7-11 Asian American Read-In, Oakland Public Education Fund
5/10 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM – Author Talk with Richard Rothstein (the Color of Law), electeds, activists, and community- Segregation and the Responsibility of the State
5/12 10am – 1pm – The Chinese Exclusion Act & U.S. Immigration Policy
Opportunities / Funding for Educators and Youth
5/16 Earn and Learn East Bay Summer Job Readiness Workshop
Nomination for 2018 Mayor’s “Fulfilling the Promise” Teaching Award
Mills-Oakland Promise Scholarships
SMASH Academy Accepting Applications
How you can help
Help ICS survive the OUSD budget cuts
Ms. Zissis, from Sankofa Elementary, needs iPads for her speech students
Wondering how to support students and staff through the OUSD #budget cuts?
Help out ICS, Sankofa, or other youth being affected by budget cuts
This Week
4/16 5:30pm – 8:00pm Meeting of the Community Advisory Committee for Special Education (CAC) – Participants will:
- learn about community resources available to students with disabilities;
- understand what is coming up in the LCAP process for Special Education students, families, staff, and community.
Childcare, refreshments, and Spanish interpretation will be provided. For additional meeting requests, please contact Ray Bermudez at [email protected].
*LCAP is our “Local Control and Accountabilty Plan.”
4/16 5:30 CAC GENERAL MEETING FOR APRIL 2018
Greetings OUSD Community,
I hope everyone had some time to rest during our spring recess. We cordially invite you to our resource faire happening during our next our Community Advisory Committee (CAC) meeting in April. Our meeting will take place on Monday April 16th and will take place at Cole. Cole is located at 1011 Union St. The CAC is a space for us to build community, find support with each other, and dive into critical conversations that impact all of us in our Special Ed. community, our students and their peers. Your voice is very important in our conversations.
Our community concerns portion of the evening is from 5:30 to 6pm. This part of the evening is for community members or parents that need to file any type of concerns or issues that need immediate attention. SpED staff and CAC members will be doing the intake of those concerns.
This month we will have a very important LCAP update, LCAP is OUSD’s Local Control Accountability Plan. We will review what the LCAP plan consists of, review some of the key indicators and goals when it comes to Special Education. There will be an opportunity to for questions, discussion and to collect input from our participants. We are also looking forward to partnering up with some of our community resources as they will highlight their services and provide information on how our participants can take advantage of their services. Some of the presenters include Easter Seal, The Regional Center and The Center for Independent Living to name a few.
We will be providing Spanish interpretation and Childcare.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Mary Busby at [email protected]
Thank you and we hope to see you there!
4/16 5:30 PM Community Advisory Committee-Programs for Exceptional Children, Auditorium – Cole Elementary School Site – 1011 Union Street, Oakland, CA 94607
4/16 6:00 PM Measure G Parcel Tax Independent Citizens Oversight Committee, KDOL TV Studio, B-237, Met West High School Entrance, 314 East 10th Street, Oakland, CA 94606-2291
4/17 5:00 PM Measure N – College and Career Readiness Commission, KDOL TV Studio, B-237, Met West High School Entrance, 314 East 10th Street, Oakland, CA 94606-2291 Special Meeting
4/17 4pm – 6pm Yemen: From Global to Local to Household – In partnership with the UC Berkeley Office of Resources for International and Area Studies (ORIAS) and OUSD APISA Initiative, we invite you to learn more about our Yemeni students and their country, from a variety of perspectives.
We hope to promote better understanding of the parts of Yemeni students’ lives that they may not bring into school with them, but which are important to be aware of.
● UC Berkeley Grad Wadie Algaheim will overview the historical and current situation in Yemen and how it connects to migration.
● OIHS teacher Madenh Hassan, together with Yemeni OUSD students , will share the history of Oakland’s long-established Yemeni community and the dynamics of students lives that may be invisible to educators.
● Q&A for participants to engage & dialogue.
4/17 6:30pm – 8:30pm TBS Talks: Talking With Children About Race – The Berkeley School welcomes child psychologist and Wright Institute professor Dr. Allison Briscoe Smith to dialogue with educators and parenting adults about cultural accountability and talking to children about race. Guests will learn what children can developmentally understand when it comes to race and have the opportunity to bring their questions and challenges. Parenting adults and educators will leave with a deeper understanding of how to build an anti-racist culture versus just a non-racist culture in our families and in our classrooms.
4/18 9:00 AM Measure N – College and Career Readiness Commission, KDOL TV Studio, B-237, Met West High School Entrance, 314 East 10th Street, Oakland, CA 94606-2291 Special Meeting
4/18 5:00 PM Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP) Parent Advisory Committee, Fruitvale Elementary School, 3200 Boston Ave, Oakland, CA 94602
4/19 9:00 AM Measure N – College and Career Readiness Commission, KDOL TV Studio, B-237, Met West High School Entrance, 314 East 10th Street, Oakland, CA 94606-2291 Special Meeting
4/18 5:00pm – 8:00pm Meeting of the LCAP Parent and Student Advisory Committee – Participants will: Learn about OUSD’s strategies to improve outcomes for identified student groups (African Americans, Students with Disabilities, English Learners, Homeless) in specific areas Understand overlaps in the various group experiences and needs Review key elements of 2017-18 Annual Update. Childcare, Spanish interpretation, and a light meal will be provided. For additional meeting requests, please contact Cintya Molina at [email protected] Phone: 510-491-6069
4/18 6pm – 8pm 4.0 Schools Oakland Education Happy Hour (Tix on Eventbrite!) Do you or someone you know have an idea for how to improve education? Join 4.0 Schools to learn about two opportunities to help you develop and launch your idea for how we can improve education – the Essentials Fellowship and the Tiny Fellowship. Grab a drink and snacks on us and chat with the 4.0 Schools alumni fellows about their experiences launching their organizations in the Bay Area. Whether you’re curious about education entrepreneurship or have been working on a specific problem in education for a while, we’d love to meet you and hear your idea for the future of education. Cheers!
4/19 5:30pm – 8:00pm A path to school desegregation: a Bay Area community roundtable by The Camp Common Ground Team (Zach Bell, Ron Towns, and the Board)
Even in as diverse of a place as the Bay Area, schools and communities are more segregated by race and class now than they were in the 1980s. Three years ago, Camp Common Ground was founded to disrupt cycles of segregation. Recently, this issue of school segregation has received a lot of attention, and it’s time for our community to come together to answer the following questions:
What are the challenges and barriers to integration?
What’s being done about them and what can Bay Area communities do about it?
Join us as we bring community residents, educators, parents, and leaders from the non-profit, education, legal, housing, and policy sectors together to understand the challenges to integration and brainstorm solutions across sectors. Dinner to be provided, and will be covered by ticket sales.
Envision Academy of Arts & Technology
1515 Webster Street
Oakland, CA 94612
Further Out
4/24 The Past, Present, and Future of Activism for Black Families in Oakland; A Conversation with the NAACP– The Oakland NAACP has been a critical ally for Black families. We are hosting an intergenerational conversation focused on the setting a historical frame for Educational Activism in Oakland. Collectively the community will discuss issues, solutions, and key narratives for catalyzing progress within our schools, children, educators, and the community. Details are coming but you can register here
4/28 10:00am – 2:00pm Young Men’s Conference – The purpose of the Building Beloved Community Through The Young Men’s Conference is to provide young black males with the tools to realize personal and professional growth when faced with life challenges, and provide them with a safe space to have identity affirming experiences that are not readily addressed in school curriculum.
Attendees will be able to attend 2 of the 4 workshops offered below to learn more about:
(1) The Man Book: Understanding Yourself
(2) Taking Off the Mask
(3) STEM Training for Athletic Students
(4) Media, Mass Incarceration, and Black Men
Location: Claremont Middle School, 5750 College Avenue, Oakland, CA 94618
5/6 3pm – 6pm Radical Mama Support Group: The Importance of Mental Health One of the silent conditions of motherhood are the feelings of sadness and anxiety.
As Mothers, we are often confronted in secret with feelings of inadequacy, not wanting to be mothers anymore, and/or feeling completely alone on this journey. A lot of mothers are still coping with postpartum depression years after their births. The hope is to shed light to these feelings. To give them the safe space they need to breathe, to water them, to normalize them, and to release them. Mental health is one of the most stigmatized illness, yet science proves that its significance cannot be understated.
Postpartum Depression is an epidemic in America. We will explore this topic with a documentary film, “When the Bough Breaks” and follow up with a discussion and sharing of tools and resources for you to take back to your community.
Please RSVP through this invite and please let me know if you will be bringing children or a support friend in the comments.
Feel free to bring a friend, a pillow, your favorite stone, or something to take care of yourself.
*This event is for POC*
5/7-11 Asian American Read-In, Oakland Public Education Fund In honor of Asian Pacific American History Month, the Oakland Public Ed Fund is hosting a citywide appreciation of Asian Pacific American writers and illustrators. From May 7-11, 2018, schools across Oakland will host volunteer read-alouds in classrooms, Family Literacy Nights, cross-grade buddy reading, and more.
The Oakland Literacy Coalition is a proud partner of the Read-In. We invite you to grab a friend or colleague and head into an Oakland Classroom for what promises to be a rewarding hour with Oakland kids. No previous experience is required.
Volunteers wanted! To sign up as a volunteer reader, fill out the form here.
Schools Wanted! Click here to sign up your school to participate in the read-in.
5/9 9am – 11am Attention High School Students: Attend the Oakland Athletics Sports Career Education Day & College Fair, May 9, 9am – 11am, at the Oakland Coliseum. This is a special pregame “How to Work in Sports” program led by A’s front office and local Sports Management university leaders. Houston Astros vs. Oakland Athletics game starts at 12:35pm.
5/10 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM – Author Talk with Richard Rothstein (the Color of Law), electeds, activists, and community- Segregation and the Responsibility of the State– NY Times bestselling author, Richard Rothstein, will discuss his recent book, The Color of Law, and the role of the state in creating and maintaining segregation, to the detriment of African Americans and society as a whole. This panel will situate the author’s work in West Oakland, a community that was created/disadvantaged by redlining, “urban redevelopment,” nearby industrial zoning, and other government actions. The panel will pull together activists, electeds, and community members, to reflect on how we got here and the role of government and private actors in remedying it.
5/12 10am – 1pm – The Chinese Exclusion Act & U.S. Immigration Policy The Chinese Exclusion Act Film / Dialogue / Workshop
This May, during Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, APISA and the Sanctuary Schools Taskforce along with Chinatown community organizations and the Center for Asian American Media will host a screening of the new PBS documentary, The Chinese Exclusion Act, a groundbreaking documentation of largely forgotten history of the anti-Chinese movement across the Western United States from the mid-1850s to World War II.
APISA will lead a community discussion afterward with Professor Greg Mark whose family fought anti-Chinese laws in Oakland Chinatown in the 1930s, and OUSD teachers will lead a Curriculum Workshop sharing classroom activities our district is using to engage students this year, which will be launched nationally this year. Please join us for this unique opportunity to better understand our country’s history of immigration policy within today’s political context.
For more information about the OUSD Sanctuary Schools “Dream, Resist & Educate” Event Series: https://www.ousd.org/Page/17294
For more information on the Asian Pacific Islander Student Achievement Initiative: www.ousd.org/apisa
This event is generously supported by War Taxes Redirected by the People’s Life Fund and the SF Foundation Rapid Response Fund, and co-sponsored by the Chinese American Citizens Alliance, OUSD Office of Equity, OUSD Sanctuary Schools Taskforce, Oakland Asian Cultural Center, Center for Asian American Media, and OUSD’s History Department & Teachers. Location: The Oakland Asian Cultural Center | 388 9th St, Oakland, CA
Opportunities / Funding for Educators and Youth
Nomination for 2018 Mayor’s “Fulfilling the Promise” Teaching Award The Oakland Mayor’s “Fulfilling the Promise” Teaching Award recognizes and honors Oakland teachers who demonstrate a deep commitment to engaging with the broader school community and creating a college-going culture in their classroom and school. The Mayor will honor three teachers, one primary (Pre-K -5th grade), one middle school (6-8), and one high school (9-12).
The award is available to teachers who teach in both district and charter schools. Teachers must have taught for at least two years.
5/16 Earn and Learn East Bay Summer Job Readiness Workshop by Oakland Workforce Development Board
Earn and Learn East Bay Summer Job readiness workshop will help you get that J-O-B! We will focus on developing skills in interviewing, developing winning resumes and keeping a new job. Attendees will be guaranteed a job interview at the Earn and Learn East Bay Summer Youth Job Fair May 16th! Must be an Oakland Resident between the ages of 16 – 24.
Laney College, 900 Fallon Street, F-170, Oakland, CA 94607
Free Prom Dresses! Do you know an Oakland student in need of a prom dress? In partnership with the Oakland Ed Fund, Lesley West – of Dressed by West – is giving away brand-new dresses to any high school junior or senior who needs one! Students simply sign up for a time slot on Sunday, Mar. 18, browse the Dressed by West collection at Rakuten Performance Center (1011 Broadway), then walk out with the perfect dress!
Mills-Oakland Promise Scholarships-Mills College is committed to providing a diverse, inclusive environment dedicated to helping Oakland girls and young women succeed in college. To make a transformative Mills education accessible and affordable, we are offering generous scholarships and financial aid to qualified students.
Mills will provide a minimum financial aid scholarship of $7,000 to every Oakland Public high school student (district or charter) admitted in fall 2018 with a minimum high school GPA of 3.2. Higher scholarship amounts may be offered to admitted students with higher GPAs.
In addition to these awards, beginning fall 2018 we are excited to debut 10 new Mills-Oakland Promise Scholarships, including the African American Female Excellence Scholarship, the Latina Excellence Scholarship, and eight additional Mills-Oakland Promise scholarships.
Our district-wide scholarship is now live! Apply for the East Bay College Fund Opportunity Scholarship today and share with all Oakland high school seniors. Let’s get to college!
SMASH Academy Accepting Applications– Since 2004, SMASH has helped bring a rigorous STEM education to hundreds of students from low income, underrepresented communities. A few SMASH facts: Impact: SMASH is a 3 year STEM acceleration summer residential and academic year program that works: check out their alumni outcomes here. Free of Cost: SMASH is a free program — equivalent to a $24,000 scholarship.
Nationwide: SMASH is continuing to expand to serve more students across the nation. In addition to existing sites at Berkeley, Stanford, UCLA, Davis, and Morehouse College, SMASH will be opening two new sites in 2018: Wayne State University and the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. The SMASH 2018 application deadline is March 1, 2018. Students can apply here.
Registration Is Required For These Trainings. Please Use The Links Below:
How to Read the IEP April 9, 2018
Learn how to read and understand an Individual Education Program (IEP). We will go over the sections on California’s IEP Form so you know what to make sure is complete and where to focus.
Behavior & Mental Health June 11, 2018
When behavior interferes with learning: connecting the dots between disability and mental health needs at school
LOCATION:
Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF)
Ed Roberts Campus
3075 Adeline Street (between Tremont and Woolsey Streets at the Ashby BART Station)
Berkeley, CA 94703
DATES/TIMES:
2nd Monday Evenings (6-8:30 pm)
March 12
May 14
4th Tuesday Mornings from (10am-12:30 pm)
March 27
April 24
May 22
June 26
NEW: Special Education Topic Series
2nd Monday evenings (6-8:30 pm)
April 9, How to Read An IEP
June 11, Behavioral Support and Mental Health
How you can help
Help ICS survive the OUSD budget cuts Oakland Unified is facing another enormous budget shortfall. District level budget cuts are being shouldered by teachers and families, with each school being asked to cut on average $120 per student. What this means for many schools is an IMMEDIATE LOSS of after-school programs, support staff, access to technology, field trips, and many of the enrichment activities that make their schooling experience enjoyable and equitable. At schools in Oakland’s wealthier neighborhoods, these cuts will be offset by parent donations and annual fundraisers that bring in an average of $300,000 per year. At flatland schools, populated predominantly by students of color, these cuts will be felt by teachers and children, and they will be felt deeply. Please click here to help.
Ms. Zissis, from Sankofa Elementary, needs iPads for her speech students. An iPad would be a great supplemental therapy tool. Learn more about similar projects from Oakland teachers that still need funding. GO will match your contribution!
Wondering how to support students and staff through the OUSD #budget cuts? Here are 5 ways — from donating school supplies to staying engaged!