Sentences with phrase «oakland public»

Meena's current work implementing Social Emotional Learning in the Oakland public school district embodies her commitment to transforming our nation's education system from the inside out.»

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Oakland, CA About Blog Through lacrosse we support Oakland Public School students in becoming healthy, confident, and self empowered youth who effectively navigate systems, overcome challenges, and achieve their education, and life goals.

OFFICE ASSISTANT INTERN Jobs Plus Program $ 14.00 - $ 18.00 per hour 12 Month Part - Time (20 hrs per week) Project Position (Must be a West Oakland Public Housing Resident to Apply) DEFINITION Under...

Civic minded, King is a Commissioner on the Oakland Public Ethics Commission.

Members of the 2008 Newbery Award Committee are: Chair Nina Lindsay, Oakland Public Library, Oakland, Calif.; Yolanda Foster Bolden, Forsyth County Public Library, Winston Salem, N.C.; Barbara Jones Clark, Birmingham Public Schools, Southfield, Mich.; Monica Edinger, The Dalton School, New York; Carol A. Edwards, Denver Public Library; Tami Chumbley Finley, Bettendorf Public Library, Bettendorf, Iowa; Kathleen Isaacs, children's literature specialist, Pasadena, Md.; Bonnie Kunzel, youth services adolescent literacy consultant, Germantown, Tenn.; Cindy Lombardo, Cleveland Public Library, Ohio; Martha V. Parravano, The Horn Book Magazine, Boston; Michael Santangelo, Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, N.Y.; Victor L. Schill, Harris County Public Library, Houston; Dean Schneider, Ensworth School, Nashville, Tenn.; Luann Toth, School Library Journal, New York; Maureen White, associate professor, University of Houston - Clear Lake, Canyon, Texas.

I'm assuming your job at the Oakland Public Library gave you material for one of my favorites of your books, Bookhunter.

2000 Notable Children's Books Committee: Leslie Molnar, Chair, Cuyahoga County Public Library (OH); Toni Bernardi, San Francisco Public Library; Teffeny Edmondson, Oakland Public Library (CA); Maeve Visser Knoth, (CA); Kathryn McClelland, Perrot Memorial Library (CT); Caroline Parr, Central Rappahannock Regional Library (VA); Martha Parravano, Horn Book, Inc. (MA); Penny Peck, San Leandro Public Library (CA); Janice Smuda, Cuyahoga County Public Library (OH); Helen Cannon Wiley, Katherin Burke School (CA); Wendy Woodfill, Hennepin County Public Library (MN).

Barbara Bibel is a reference / collection development librarian and consumer health information specialist at the Oakland Public Library.

Sharon McKellar is the Community Relations Librarian for the Oakland Public Library in California.

Several nonprofit organizations, including the Urban Strategies Council, Great Oakland Public Schools Leadership Center, and the Oakland Public Education Fund, are collaborating to help boost attendance at Oakland schools.

This program will provide up to $ 100,000 in funding to Oakland public school educators in district and charter schools to design and pilot strategies to improve teacher satisfaction and retention in their schools during the 2016 - 17 school year.

We now have an easier, visual, way to understand the current state and trajectory of OUSD schools, with a plan to add all other Oakland public schools (i.e. charters) this coming year.

Going to an Oakland public school can sometimes be a challenge.

Details: This fellowship will take place from June 2018 - May 2019 and is open to all Oakland public school educators, both district and charter.

Since August, I have watched and listened to over 40 Oakland public school leaders and teachers from many of the diverse public schools here in Oakland — from district managed neighborhood schools to charters schools at varying stages of their own organizational development.

We intentionally work to build a donor network of families, educators, and community that is socio - economically, racially, culturally, and linguistically inclusive and that shares a positive, solutions - and results - oriented vision for improving Oakland public schools.

Its been about five months since I left my former life of 14 years as an Oakland public school leader and jumped into my exciting new role as the Director of Educate78's School Design Lab.

The mission of TeachOakland is to help retain and recruit the most talented educators for Oakland public schools.

The Educate78 Supply Closet was set up to give away classroom supplies to hundreds of Oakland public school teachers.

In the article Support Principals, Transform Schools, the authors describe the positive impact of a leadership coaching initiative in Oakland Public Schools on both teacher and principal turnover.

Approximately, 30 % of Oakland public school students are English Learners and 74 % are low - income.

In 2016 - 17, Oakland public schools are serving 52,140 students in 86 OUSD schools, 37 OUSD - authorized public charter schools, and 7 Alameda County - authorized public charter schools.

And, to close it out strong, we hosted an Educate78 Supply Closet at the Oakland Public Education Fund's outstanding Teacher Appreciation Party.

Spring 2017 marked the second year that our Teacher Advisory Group used the Gallup employee engagement survey to evaluate Oakland public school teacher satisfaction.

As a foundation for GO, during the spring of 2009, our network of families and educators drafted a founding vision statement that we called our Declaration of Community Beliefs and Visions for Oakland Public Schools.

Restorative Justice programs like those in Oakland Unified School District have proven to be effective in decreasing the overall incidence of student misbehavior as well as reducing racial gaps.36 Restorative Justice in Oakland Public Schools Implementation and Impacts (Rep.).

Carolyn is a former teacher and Oakland public school principal.

Sarah supports three groups of teacher scholars: a cross-district team of Oakland Unified Computer Science teachers participating in a two - year effort to bring quality computer science instruction to every Oakland school; the staff at Lorenzo Manor Elementary in San Lorenzo Unified serving a diverse population of more than 600 students; and the teachers at MetWest High School, a small Oakland public school and member of the Big Picture Schools network.

, a new blog series that takes a data - driven approach to important, relevant questions facing Oakland public schools, thanks to the hard work of our data analyst Carrie Chan (who is an OUSD alum!).

Over the next several years, this group will work through the complex process of envisioning, designing, prototyping, launching, and continuously improving a transformational set of Oakland public schools.

Gratitude and hope for Oakland public education: a Thanksgiving appreciation for some of those who inspire us.

Together, this cohort will have the collective capacity to serve 4,000 Oakland public school students.

We are an honest broker of Oakland public education solutions, building and activating inclusive partnerships with local organizations and leaders.

During her nine years as a 4th - and 5th - grade teacher in Oakland public schools she regularly engaged in collaborative, teacher - led inquiry with Mills Teacher Scholars.

In 2012, GO convened diverse community - based organizations to form the Oakland Achieves Coalition focused on monitoring and analyzing student learning and opportunity gaps in Oakland public schools.

Lee serves on the Boards of the National Equity Project and Great Oakland Public Schools.

«I'll apologize in advance to the parents, and to the teachers, and to the Oakland public, because I will be faced with some difficult financial choices.»

Support our work in bringing equity, student success, critical thinking, joyful school culture, and a shift to learner - driven practice to Oakland public schools, and beyond.

These families are picking outside of Oakland public school options going to private schools, driving, or taking the bus outside of Oakland to take their children to school, not going to school at all, or home school.

New projects for the Superintendent this year will include the Blueprint for Quality Schools and the Oakland Public School Pledge.

«Oakland public school teachers and all the other OEA unit members are poised to receive the largest increase in pay in over a decade,» Wilson said.

Professor of Educational Leadership and Former Superintendent of Oakland Public Schools

The big money from billionaires was mostly funneled through Great Oakland Public Schools which is GO's independent expenditure committee registered under tax code 501 C4.

The following tables are based on data from the City of Oakland Public Ethics Commission.

The article «Oakland is California's Destroy Public Education Petri Dish» describes the Rogers Family Foundation and it relationship to GO Public Schools Oakland, Educate78 (previously New Schools Venture Fund) and the Oakland Public Education Fund.

(1) The Vergara Decision: This case pits nine Oakland public school students against the State of California, arguing that (a) granting tenure after less than two years, (b) retaining teachers during layoffs based on seniority instead of merit, and (c) the near impossibility of dismissing incompetent teachers, is harming California's overall system of public education, and is disproportionately harming public education in low income communities.

The Oakland Public School Report Card is a local version of the California Schools Dashboard.

Gloria Lee has been a leader in Oakland public education for the past 15 years.

Our School Design Fellows receive personalized coaching, funding, and support over multiple years in order to design, launch, and lead high quality Oakland Public Schools.