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April 25,2013
\nBy Caitlin Healey<\/p>\n
Which Oakland schools are producing promising results and raising achievement for all students? Who are the people teaching in our schools and what are they like? How is OUSD meeting its goals for operational excellence and student achievement?<\/p>\n
We are running a series of blogs at GO Public Schools Leadership Center and our sister organization, GO Public Schools:<\/p>\n
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\u2022 Oakland achieves bright spot schools<\/p>\n
\u2022 Getting to know Oakland teacher policy fellows<\/p>\n
\u2022 OUSD scorecard updates<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s a sampling of each:<\/p>\n
Oakland achieves bright spot schools<\/p>\n
Where are Oakland students thriving? And what are these schools doing right? The Oakland Achieves report identifies “bright spots” – areas in which Oakland schools are beating expectations. In this post, Manzanita SEED third grade teacher Anne Perrone discusses how reading is an essential part of the school day at her school:<\/p>\n
“Students are processing language at SEED throughout the day, and using their expertise in one language to help understand another. This makes reading and rereading text, even more essential, as students absorb and process vocabulary and concepts they may only be hearing, talking, reading and writing about at school.<\/p>\n
“Students soon learn that they are experts for part of the day and depend on the expertise of classmates for another part of the day. This need to collaborate also makes SEED unique, as students support each other as they process difficult texts and concepts.”<\/p>\n
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