The Oakland Ed Week in review 9/5-9/12

Last week, declining attendance and enrollment at OUSD, talking to families, vaccine mandates, the Curry’s latest, the recall and education, a powerful reparations task force from the state, the enduring effects of ethnic studies, our podcast on the digital divide, a great new book on Oakland Ed, Learning in Public, a powerful PD opportunity with…


Getting to Reading; A Discussion with Decoding Dyslexia on the Class Action Suit in Berkeley and How the Settlement will Help Children there and Elsewhere

Join Decoding Dyslexia CA for an in-depth conversation with Deborah Jacobson, one of the lead attorneys for the plaintiffs in the Berkeley USD dyslexia class action lawsuit. The discussion will be focused on the terms of the settlement and the resulting positive changes that will be made in the district for all of their students that struggle…


Digital Redlining – A recap!

Yesterday, we had a fantastic conversation with Public Knowledge‘s Chris Lewis on Digital Redlining. You can catch the full broadcast here. Its not a coincidence that the old redlining maps, which racially restricted housing, align almost perfectly with the current mapping of broadband access. And this lack of connections in places like Oakland is not…


OUSD’s Troubling Attendance and Enrollment Numbers

School is back in for OUSD, but for many students, they aren’t really showing up. Almost a third of OUSD’s students are chronically absent right now, and nearly half are at risk of being so.  That alongside a loss of nearly 2000 students over the last couple of years. OUSD is a district that will…


Jazz, Democracy and You; An Impactful Opportunity for Educators, Check it Out

“I definitely learned about the impact of Jazz, but in a way I didn’t expect. I was thinking J&D would be more about how jazz movements gave way to greater democracy, but I think I learned about how current jazz standards or skills can be used as a framework to create/understand what an equitable democracy…