Centering Community In Decision-Making
The Community Strategy Council, composed of racially and ethnically diverse community members, offered their wisdom and worked alongside Rainin Foundation staff to strengthen our Education Program strategies.
![Collage of Community Strategy Council member headshots.](https://krfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/CommunityStrategyCouncil.jpg)
![A group of young children standing in a circle with their hands stacked on top of each other in the center.](https://krfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/1080__575_TurningPoints-Education-Aspire-1-1024x545.jpg)
Foundational Skills
After the immediate success of SEEDS of Learning in transitional kindergarten (TK), we found that to maintain a child’s learning trajectory to third grade, literacy instruction and intervention in kindergarten through second grade (K-2) had to improve. We partnered with Oakland Unified School District, Education for Change Public Schools and Aspire Public Schools to pilot initiatives.