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.

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.

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.

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.

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.