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To administer assessments in their Early Learning Grades across the organization to give the schools a baseline of student progress. This data will inform teachers’ plans to address gaps in their practices.

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To develop the leadership of Black, Latino and immigrant parents to transform early childhood education and public schools so that all students achieve academic success.

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To serve over 200 families with their family stability, child development and literacy services.

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To expand the number of SEEDS of Learning classroom tutors and coaches to foster effective practices and leadership skills. They will also provide professional development centered on peer coaching and facilitation of professional learning communities.

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To build the capacity of Family Engagement Action Teams of teachers, parents, administrators, after-school staff and SEEDS of Learning coaches at ten Oakland SEEDS of Learning school sites.

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To facilitate anti-racist training for cohorts of school instructional leaders. The training encourages leaders to engage their staff in and hold them accountable to a community of practice that builds trust, allyship and instructional problem solving.

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To integrate literacy and intensive social-emotional supports with strength-based parent engagement and case management. They will provide year-round programming, which includes four weeks of Afro-centric literacy-focused summer programming.

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To support Kidappolis, an academic mobile app that targets low-income and emergent bilingual families. Literacy Lab will also distribute free books, providing parents and caregivers with learning content to support their child’s language development and early literacy.

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To build infrastructure to support the San Antonio Family Resource Center, a hub of research, training and knowledge sharing resources for the greater community.

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To provide weekly 25-minute whole classroom and small group mindfulness sessions to support students. Lessons connect everyday student experiences and deliver mindfulness-based social-emotional skills through trauma-informed and culturally relevant methods.

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To engage over 50 local organizations for learning, networking and partnering, and leverage these connections to ensure that Oakland’s youngest learners have access to quality early education and opportunities for future success.

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To make information and resources available to the public and provide opportunities for families to engage with literacy.

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To offer a mix of programming to increase educational outcomes for students. The Hub will feature online and in-person development in literacy, math and technology for students in kindergarten through twelfth grade.

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To provide coordination and logistic support for the Oakland Early Learning Symposium, a city-wide collaborative effort. The Symposium offers formal and informal early childhood educators and providers the opportunity for professional development that is unified, evidence-based and responsive. The Symposium offers formal and informal early childhood educators and providers the opportunity for professional development that is unified, evidence-based and responsive.

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To provide training to young men of color, who are on a path to becoming teachers, to help current classroom teachers facilitate early childhood literacy development. The project also provides early learners, who are mostly Black and Brown, with classroom role models that reflect themselves.

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To support the creation of play groups and reading programs in social service organizations and increase access to early mental health interventions and family navigators. They will also expand parent engagement by changing organizational practices within direct service agencies, increasing culturally competent, whole-family centered learning environments, and making it easier to access childcare services.

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This effort includes assessing the devices and technology needs for distance learning, curating accessible learn-at-home resources for families, and providing technical assistance to housing agency staff. And, in partnership with Reading with Relevance, they will offer literacy support that centers social emotional development and culturally affirming books.

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To support their new virtual platform, Reading Partners Connect. Their student-tutor pairs work together twice a week using Reading Partners’ curriculum, a series of research-based lesson plans.

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To support Oakland Unified School District in providing a five-week summer literacy program for up to 1,200 kindergarten through third grade students and their families. The program includes home visits, reading instruction, family reading workshops and coaching to improve teachers’ instructional practice.