Oakland’s Melrose Branch Library Workers During COVID-19: Photo Essay by William Truong
Oakland School for the Arts Digital Media student William Truong shares photo essay on Melrose Branch of Oakland Public Libraries.
Tag Archives: distance learning
Parenting During a Pandemic: Candase Chambers Says Lack of Peers and Sports Biggest Gap
One Oakland mom says lack of peer interaction and sports one of the biggest gaps during distance learning.
Talk of the Town: OUSD Teachers in a Distance Learning World (Part 2)
OUSD teachers share the challenges of distance learning, and what it would take to go back to the classroom.
Talk of the Town: OUSD Teachers in a Distance Learning World
Oakland Voices spoke with some teachers about the challenges and surprises of distance learning.
Parenting During a Pandemic: Oakland Mom, Malinda Bun, of Cambodian Street Food
Managing distance learning with five children.
Parenting During a Pandemic: Oakland Mom Dina Kenna Says Services for Autistic Child Are Limited
"It shouldn’t be a struggle. I shouldn’t have to go through no sleep and a migraine because I have a child with autism." - Dina Kenna, parents of two elementary-school children.
Alameda County in Red Tier; OUSD likely won’t open classrooms before Jan 2021
While we move to the red tier, for now, OUSD schools will continue distance learning through the end of 2020.
Free Meals for all Oakland Students; Mayor’s Town Hall on Distance Learning Today
Starting today, the meals will again be open to all Oakland students, including those attending charters and schools outside of Oakland.
Oakland Unified and Teachers’ Union Come to Agreement on Distance Learning
"We will continue to work to improve crisis distance learning and organize to get the funding and resources for a safe school reopening. We have an opportunity to make schools better than they were pre-COVID.”[Read more]
Alameda County will pay those with COVID to stay home; OUSD trying address tech gap
OUSD schools and the district are offering to fill the technology gap, including loaning out Chromebooks and WiFi hotspots, while the clock is ticking closer to first day of school on August 10.
