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...
As a high school assistant principal, I work to understand student issues I am working on through Dr. Rochelle Gutierrez’s notion of windows and mirrors. Dr. Gutierrez defines a window as students being...
As an English Language Development teacher, I want to empower students to understand how English works. In service of this goal, my students and I embarked on a year-long prefix-based vocabulary study to increase their Tier...
It was a cycle I had been through before; choose focal students and watch them slip like water through my fingers. In a school district that has become predominantly White in recent years, I felt it...
In the fall of 2021, I was appointed to my first district-level position as a Director of Secondary Education. After fourteen years of experience as a site administrator; seven years as a high school assistant principal and seven...
Several years ago, I was walking down the primary grade hallway and popped my head into a kindergarten classroom. A group of about 5 kindergartners was actively moving around gathering materials while the rest of their classmates were...
This school year, I learned something even *more* valuable than excellent organizational skills or awe-inspiring unit plans. This year I learned something new about data. Up until the 2021-22 school year, I...
Our relationship with writing can color our entire experience as a student. It can give us the confidence to tell our story and to use the depth of language to express what we know. But if we never...
