Oakland Unified School District is Rooted in Reading

Partnerships in Action In 2023, Leading Educators concluded a two-year partnership with Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) to build and implement a strategy for curriculum implementation efforts focused on realizing the community’s deep investment in the right to read. Following a robust curriculum review process involving community input, OUSD partnered with Leading Educators to launch … Continued

How Oakland Literacy Educators Are Growing Together

Q&A with Rebecca Anderson, Literacy Coordinator in OUSD  Scaling and changing curriculums is hard, but the model that Leading Educators used to train our coaches helped. We wouldn’t have been able to do that alone,” says Rebecca Anderson, a literacy coordinator in Oakland Unified School District (OUSD). For the district, high-quality curricula presented an opportunity … Continued

How Oakland is Turning a New Page in Literacy

Q&A with Jamilah Sanchez, Literacy Coordinator Students needed access to the Common Core, and our data reflected that. We realized we needed to be aligned with the science of reading and ensure our students had access to foundational literacy, a strong core curriculum aligned to the standards, and robust literature that allowed students to see … Continued