It’s time for the Oakland Ed Week in Review! We’re back with our roundup of education news from around The Town, the Bay Area, State, and Nation for your weekend reading. This is a Dirk favorite and one of the last blogs he published for Great School Voices. Here’s what’s been going on: Here in…
State of Black Education
SoBEO Interview with Dr. Clifford Thompson
State of Black Education Oakland (SoBEO), a collective co-founded by our founder Dirk Tillotson, is gathering information from the Oakland public education community about the state of Black education in Oakland through a survey we developed. (We would love to hear from you, please take five minutes to complete it!) With the 2024 election right around the corner,…
From The Black Teacher Project: Teacher Truth Perspectives 2024 and What Data Shows about the Black Teacher Experience
Great School Voices joined Black educators and other concerned community members from New York City, Chicago, Atlanta, St. Louis, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and, of course, from Northern and Southern California for a virtual forum, as The Black Female Project shined a light on the numbers and their voices.
GSV Talks Black Teacher Retention with San Francisco Unified School District
While San Francisco Mayor London Breed was making news by unveiling her plans to support SFUSD schools with a new School Stabilization Team, GSV was engaged in a timely discussion with the District’s Senior Executive Director HR, Swen Ervin, about the State of Black Education in San Francisco. Ervin talks challenges, solutions, and the unique approaches…