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.

To engage over 250 literacy changemakers, educators, funders and community leaders through the Second Annual Literacy & Justice for All Symposium in October 2022. The Symposium is at the heart of Oakland Literacy Coalition’s strategy to create accessible, affordable and impactful opportunities for the field to learn, collaborate and champion literacy to strengthen student outcomes.

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.

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.