To support Lotus Bloom’s (LB) Parent-Child School Readiness Playgroups & Family Resource Services. In addition to connecting families to resources and services, LB will offer playgroups, twice weekly for 40 weeks for three hours each. LB will also provide training to family, friends & neighbor partners to build their capacity to start and sustain their own […]

To support a Program Manager (PM) position to develop and implement a series of continuous learning programs for the Oakland Literacy Coalition’s membership Literacy Service Providers. Funds will also support securing an Outreach Coordinator for the Oakland Reads mini grants programs (Family Reading Celebrations during the school year and Summer Reading Mini Grants), establishing additional partnerships […]

To fund small grants to district and charter schools for supplemental literacy supports.

For 11 elementary schools to support building on core instruction and literacy supports for transitional kindergartners to first grade students and their teachers. Funding includes: transitional kindergarten to first grade focused literacy coaches, tutor resources and a facilitated monthly professional learning community for site leaders and teachers to support data analysis and application of evidence-based literacy practices that help children […]

To support Reach out and Read (ROR) in maintaining delivery of their birth to 5 early literacy program at 18 clinics in Oakland. Pediatricians are trained to speak with families during well child visits about the importance of reading aloud & interacting with their children. Families also receive a free book at each visit. ROR […]

To fund a second year of a teacher development and assessment system project that triangulates: 1. community-specific “Indicators of Impact” (III); 2. teacher effectiveness; and 3. classic academic indicators (CA State Achievement data). Data will be used to design teacher growth plans and to measure the impacts of teacher development on teacher performance and student outcomes.

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.