To support a continued partnership focusing on transitional kindergarten to second grade literacy with 18 district schools. The goal is to reduce the number of second and third graders who are reading below grade level by providing targeted and data driven support in earlier years. Support includes leader and teacher professional development, SEEDS of Learning […]
Funding over two years to support the multi-year Men of Color Early Education Teaching Fellows Pilot Project. Year one will focus on building infrastructure to recruit and support a sustainable pipeline of men of color in classrooms. Thirty participants will be onboarded over the course of two years.
Pediatricians are trained to speak with families during well-child visits about the importance of reading aloud and interacting with their children. Families also receive a free book at each visit.
To support the enrollment and service to 800 unduplicated students at 17 sites (14 reading centers) across Oakland with twice weekly 45-minute literacy tutoring sessions.
To support the development of a plan for an early childhood leadership post-BA program at San Francisco State University. Planning will lay the groundwork to establish a program that will leverage EDvance’s current model of preparing first generation college students from underrepresented populations to be future early childhood leaders in Oakland.
To support a five-week summer school program with daily reading instruction for 600 rising kindergarten to fourth grade students from district schools. Program includes weekly workshops to train parents to teach reading at home, teacher professional development, and coaching and home visits.
To help maintain the take home book program for 174 classrooms and 3,383 children and provide capacity building for Father Corps program staff.
To support cross-sector collaborations, led by the Mayor’s Director of Education, to advance early childhood education efforts, support kinder readiness goals and provide continued support for Oakland Promise’s cradle-to-career efforts.
For the West Oakland Literacy Initiative which is designed to strengthen literacy skills for kindergarten to third grade students at four elementary schools in West Oakland. Culturally affirming literacy skill-building supports will be provided throughout the school year and for six weeks in summer via their Freedom Schools program. They will combine these services with responsive parental supports.
For a planning grant to develop the Men of Color Early Education Teaching Fellows Pilot. The Unity Council, OUSD’s Office of Equity and Office of Early Childhood Education will plan this collaborative effort where they will investigate similar models, convene stakeholders in Oakland, and design a pilot that will leverage the SEEDS of Learning model of providing […]
