2024, Alameda County, Interdisciplinary, High School, Funded Projects
Oakland Technical High School, Oakland As a committed group of educators in the Race, Policy, & Law Academy, we seek to build our collective efficacy in supporting our future social justice leaders. While we teach in various content areas, we know the power of...
2024, Social & Emotional Learning, Alameda County, Elementary School, Funded Projects
Yu Ming Charter School, Oakland This project aims to develop and implement DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) curricula through project-based learning that incorporate diverse perspectives, cultures, and voices in a K-8 Mandarin immersion school. We aim to create...
Language, Alameda County, 2024, Middle School, High School, Funded Projects
Madison Park Academy 6-12, Oakland Our project aims to transform our classrooms into spaces filled with the voices of our English language learners and newcomers (rather than teachers). With this funding, we will hire Lead by Learning (LxL) to get much more out of our...
Reading/Writing, Alameda County, 2024, Elementary School, Funded Projects
Manzanita SEED, Oakland We will reinvigorate SEED’s mission by designing Project-Based Learning units infused with best practices in Dual Language and Universal Design for Learning (UDL). The Units will incorporate reading, writing, math, language and...
2023, Social & Emotional Learning, Alameda County, Elementary School, Funded Projects
William G. Paden Elementary School, Alameda Play theorist Brian Sutton-Smith concluded, ‘The opposite of play is not work–the opposite of play is depression.’ While research supports this, traditional schools continue to treat play as frivolous and double down...
Interdisciplinary, Alameda County, 2023, Elementary School, Middle School, High School, Funded Projects
Maya Lin School, Alameda Wood Middle School, Alameda Island High School, Alameda We want to deepen our understanding of environmental justice, indigenous wisdom and creative practice, to better understand our world, and as educators advocate for just climate...
