For a five-week summer school program with daily reading instruction for 1,290 rising kindergarten to fourth grade students coming from 11 district and charter schools. The program includes weekly workshops that train parents to teach reading at home, teacher professional development and coaching, and home visits.

To support an intensive afterschool program that will provide one-hour of guided reading support, three days per week, for up to 360  students. The Afterschool programming is modeled after their summer programming, combining teacher coaching, small group instruction, home-visits, family workshops, and incentives.

For the StoryCycles take home book bag program, to provide access to books for 198 transitional kindergarten and preschool classrooms and over 3,600 children and their families.

To support Unity Council’s Children & Family Services department in creating a set of strategic objectives that build on and improve program performance. Effort will also assess client outcomes and impacts, and provide recommendations to improve data capture, analysis, and action planning.

To support SEEDS of Learning, an evidence-based professional development program for teachers, that includes classroom tutor resources and ongoing coaching support. Funding will benefit 51 transitional kindergarten classrooms.

To support 15 elementary schools. School leaders, teachers and coaches will work intensively to boost instruction in transitional kindergarten to first grade. As a learning community, one of the key goals is to strengthen Oakland’s understanding of effective long-term, sustainable strategies that will result in all children reading successfully by third grade.

To provide transitional kindergarten and preschool classrooms, and Faith-based organizations with family engagement early learning programs. These programs include: LitTab (eReaders), take home books, parent/caregiver workshops, and a new texting service designed to share ongoing and interactive early learning and school readiness content with parents/caregivers. Funding will also support a collaboration project with ideas42 to […]

To support the Oakland Public Library’s Children’s Literacy Programming Fund, which supports early literacy and promotes a love of reading through a range of services, with a focus on initiatives that create access to books (e.g., summer reading, winter bingo, books for wider horizons, and Share the Love outreach distribution).

To support a Research Associate position that will focus on pre-kindergarten to third grade alignment of educational programs, student outcomes through data, and continuous improvement of early literacy strategies district-wide.

To support the distribution of Talk, Read, Sing materials to 2,800 families with young children ages 0-3, via Oakland clinics. Emphasis will be placed on children 0-1 at the time of delivery and the well child checkup so that messaging can get to families as early as possible.