Program Highlights - Lead by Learning

Four teacher scholars look at video data of student learning

Lead by Learning Alumni Network

December 5, 2023 | Charley Brooks

Last month, Lead by Learning hosted our second Alumni Connect meet-up event and reconnected past Lead by Learning participants with their roots in inquiry! Designed to be 1-hour professional learning experiences, alums have an opportunity to...

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Lead by Learning’s Anti-Racist Networks

November 9, 2023 | Malia Tayabas-Kim and Charley Brooks

In 2021-22 Lead by Learning started the BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) Leaders Network (BLN) in order to create space for BIPOC leaders to share their lived experiences without having to defend, manage other’s feelings or excuse the actions...

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“Are We Who We Say We Are?” A Look Inside an ILT Partnership with Luther Burbank Middle School

October 4, 2023 | Mahru Elahi

Luther Burbank Middle School is located in Highland Park, a largely Latino and immigrant community nestled close to the arid hills of northeastern Los Angeles county. Christine Moore, the longtime Principal, continually asks herself as...

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Public Learning Promotes Vulnerability and Courage

September 13, 2023 | Brooklyn Joseph

It was mid-afternoon, about 15 minutes into our Instructional Leadership Team meeting at one of our partner schools. When it was the next teacher leader’s turn to be our Public Learner, about one...

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“Tending our Roots: Cultivating Joy” OUSD Expanded Learning Office Summer Institute

August 15, 2023

This summer Oakland Unified School District’s Expanded Learning Office brought together Site Coordinators and Agency Directors for their annual Summer Institute. This year’s theme is “Tending our Roots: Cultivating Joy.” Lead by Learning supported the OUSD Expanded Learning...

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Building Collective Efficacy by Marking Learning Visible

June 2, 2022

At Lead by Learning, we know that collaborative inquiry builds teachers’ and leaders’ local knowledge about how best to support their students’ and colleagues’ learning. By sharing that knowledge publicly, they develop a collective understanding of where their...

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Program Highlight: How the Oakland Library Leadership Team Brought Inquiry District Wide

May 17, 2022

What would it look like to use our monthly professional development time to support our librarian community to grow as professionals? How can we be less reactive and operational and more proactive and adaptive?...

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What Happens in a Lead by Learning Design Team Meeting?

April 13, 2022 | Jennifer Ahn

For every partnership, Lead by Learning holds monthly design team meetings. In these meetings, Lead by Learning facilitates a conversation that invites educators to engage in design thinking to deepen adult learning in their system.

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Celebrating Supportive Challenge

March 6, 2022 | Priscilla Parchia

At the beginning of another unprecedented year, the 2021-22 school year, for educators riddled with extreme changes and new guidance, it is a daunting task to lead capable and dedicated educators as an Expanded Learning Program Manager for...

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What does being a Teacher Leader mean to you?

March 6, 2022

On February 8, Lead by Learning Teacher Leaders from across our partner sites met over Zoom for our Spring Teacher Leader Network. Asked why being a teacher leadership matters to them, our educators shared: “Allows...

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