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The first day of school is always one of the most exciting times in any school district, and that’s especially true in Oakland. It’s a day when students and staff come back together, most after not seeing each other since the previous school year.
Excitement is likely reaching a crescendo among students and staff with the start of the 2024-25 school year now just three days away. Among those feeling the most anticipation and excitement, are the new teachers who will be stepping in front of their classes for the first time on Monday, August 12.
It’s hard to believe that we wrapped up another successful school year of teaching and learning across the District last week. These annual times of transition often get me thinking, reflecting on our shared educational journey at the end of every school year.
The final month of the school year is always busy as students and teachers wrap up instruction, schools prepare for promotion ceremonies and graduations, and families get ready for summer. This month in Oakland has been particularly busy as OUSD has been celebrating student success in numerous academic excellence events.
March is Women’s History Month, and today is International Women’s Day - a time to lift up and celebrate the contributions that women have made and continue to make for the betterment of our society and world.
We are now well into the spring semester in the 2023-24 school year. I know that our students are working hard and growing every day in class, our families are gaining support where needed and building a stronger community, and our staff is becoming even more entrenched in the work to improve our schools and the outcomes we help our students achieve.
At its most recent meeting, the Oakland Unified Board of Education approved the 2024-25 academic calendar. It took a few days to finish formatting the new calendar, and today, that task was completed.
The gymnasium at Oakland Technical High School was filled with excitement and anticipation on Thursday morning, February 15. That’s where more than 800 students from across the District came together for the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Caravan.
There is so much Black History to celebrate here in Oakland. Of course, we can always point to the Black Panthers and all they did for our society, or to Ida Louise Jackson who was Oakland’s first Black teacher and the first Black woman to teach high school in California, or to Vice President Kamala Harris who was born at Kaiser Permanente in Oakland. But this Black History Month, I want to celebrate people who are here in our district right now or products of OUSD. Let’s start with our amazing staff.
We hope that the new year is off to a great start for you and your family and we look forward to another year of enriching academic programs, exciting community partnerships, and above all, putting students at the center of everything we do.
In a fusion of technology, education, and community collaboration, Oakland Unified School District recently partnered with automaker Tesla for a special event to start the new robotics competition season. The December 21st event brought together 70 students from seven OUSD schools to tour the Tesla factory, participate in the season’s first robotics scrimmage, and experience hands-on engineering demonstra
Dear Oakland Unified Community,
Today is the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year which is accompanied by the longest night. Of course, that also means starting tomorrow, our days will grow longer little by little. We’ll have more daylight each day moving forward until we reach the summer solstice in June, the longest day of the year.
We’re live!
New websites for the District and all of our schools formerly housed on the Blackboard platform have launched. Please visit www.ousd.org or your school’s website and check out the new look and feel of District websites.
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Friday, May 19, 2023 | Learning Policy Institute | Restorative Justice at Fremont High School: Transforming Relationships and School Culture | Read Article |
Thursday, March 30, 2023 | EdSource | Social media has some significant upsides for teenage girls, survey finds | Read Article |
Saturday, March 25, 2023 | NBC Bay Area | Oakland Recognizes High-Achieving Latino Students | Read Article |
Monday, February 6, 2023 | The OaklandSide | Oakland graduation rates are up. School leaders say career education is one reason why | Read Article |
Friday, December 2, 2022 | SF Chronicle | Oakland is renaming a street after this Bay Area rap icon | Read Article |
Wednesday, November 30, 2022 | Washington Post | These teens won the right to vote. Their county disenfranchised them | Read Article |
Monday, October 17, 2022 | ENR California | Award of Merit – K-12 Education: Fremont High School Transformation | Read Article |
Thursday, October 13, 2022 | OaklandSide.org | 2022 Election: Meet the OUSD school board candidates for District 6 | Read Article |
Wednesday, September 7, 2022 | NYT | Lesson Plan: On ‘School Is for Us’ | Read Article |
Thursday, September 1, 2022 | NYT | What Grown-Ups Don’t Understand About School What is school really for? – Students at Oakland’s Fremont High answer this question with their cameras. | Read Article |
Tuesday, August 30, 2022 | KQED | With classroom behavior issues on the rise, restorative justice offers solutions | Read Article |
Thursday, June 16, 2022 | EdSource | At this Oakland high school, restorative justice goes far beyond discipline | Read Article |
Thursday, April 14, 2022 | Hechinger Report | How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students | Read Article |
Friday, December 3, 2021 | EdSource | Why some California school districts are changing how students earn grades | Read Article |
Tuesday, October 5, 2021 | Archinect Firms | LCA Architects and Quattrocchi Kwok Architects Complete Campus Transformation at Oakland Unified School District’s Fremont High School | Read Article |
Monday, October 4, 2021 | Spaces4Learning | Fremont High Debuts Modernized Facilities | Read Article |
Wednesday, June 2, 2021 | KQED | For Oakland Student and Her Teacher, Graduation Means Both Celebration and Loss | Read Article |
Friday, May 14, 2021 | KQED | Jose Castro: High Tech Learning is High Stress | Read Article |
Thursday, May 13, 2021 | Oakland News Now | Oakland Schools: OUSD 2021 Classified School Employees Of The Year | Read Article |
Wednesday, April 28, 2021 | KQED | Kimberly Higareda: Not Ready For Real Life | Read Article |
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 | KQED - Julia McEvoy | Boredom, Anxiety and Hope: Bay Area High School Students on Their Year of COVID | Read Article |
Thursday, March 4, 2021 | KTVU - Rob Roth | Hall of fame H.S. basketball coach from Oakland dies days before 100th birthday | Read Article |
Tuesday, March 2, 2021 | Mercury News - Jon Becker | Legendary East Bay boys basketball coach dies at 99 | Read Article |
Friday, December 11, 2020 | ACOE | OUSD 2020 Teacher of the Year | Watch Video |
Thursday, August 13, 2020 | EdSource - Theresa Harrington | Oakland: OUSD Opens Virtually With Thousands Of Students Lacking Computers And Hotspots | Read Article |
Tuesday, June 9, 2020 | YouTube - Celebrity Substitute (S1 E10) | Bill Nye Explains How You Got Here | Celebrity Substitute | Watch Video |
Thursday, June 4, 2020 | YouTube - Celebrity Substitute (S1 E9) | Bill Nye’s Road Trip Across The Universe | Celebrity Substitute | Watch Video |
Thursday, May 28, 2020 | EdSource | Oakland Unified helps seniors overcome graduation challenges | Read Article |
Friday, January 10, 2020 | OUSD News | Demonstration of Mastery Summer 2019 | Watch Video |
Sunday, May 5, 2019 | OUSD News | CA Seal of Biliteracy 2019 | Watch Video |
Thursday, August 23, 2018 | OUSD News | Pre-Apprenticeship Programs in OUSD | Watch Video |
Monday, May 14, 2018 | EdSource | RJ Program | Watch Video |