To aid staff at ten Oakland public housing agencies in addressing pressing needs for residents with children. 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 […]

For implementation of High Expectations Parental Service’s dual capacity-building framework for family-school partnerships. High Expectations will establish and build the capacity of Family Engagement Action Teams and deliver their Family Engagement Institute for prekindergarten through third grade teachers at seven Oakland SEEDS of Learning school sites.

In collaboration with SEEDS of Learning, to support over 800 transitional kindergarten through third grade students to develop critical social-emotional tools for self-management, focus, and metacognitive skills. The program includes weekly mindfulness lessons for teachers and students to implement inside and outside the classroom.

For the Reading with Relevance Pilot, a standards-aligned program to provide relevant, culturally diverse books to support children’s reading comprehension, vocabulary, and social-emotional learning.

To support their five-week summer programming with Oakland Unified School District. Over 1,500 participants in Oakland will receive 2.5 hours of Springboard instruction as well as 30 minutes of SIPPS (Systematic Instruction in Phonological Awareness, Phonics, and Sight Words) throughout the program.

To support the hiring and training of 35 literacy tutors. Oakland REACH provides families and students with high-dosage literacy tutoring through their Literacy Liberation Center. They aim to grow their impact by building out a robust cohort of literacy tutors.

For their capital campaign to establish the San Antonio Family Resource Center, which is a hub of research, training and knowledge sharing resources for the greater community. They aim to engage young learners and their caregivers in culturally relevant, responsive programming and parent leadership development.

The Brilliant Baby program empowers families to create wealth through asset building, financial coaching and entrepreneurship training. To date, Brilliant Baby has enrolled more than 1,100 families and provided information, resources and support to advance their children’s early development and financial well-being.

To support their community and school-based early learning programming in Oakland. In 2022-2023, Tandem aims to grow services in Oakland and provide high-quality early learning experiences for children ages birth to five. This includes adding new StoryCycles classrooms, deepening community-based early learning programs and offering families greater access to high quality books and materials.

They aim to codify the eight demands of their administrative petition with Oakland Unified School District in order to increase the number of students reading proficiently, on time, and to facilitate detection of dyslexia and other reading challenges.