OUSD’s Restorative Justice: A Portal to Possibility
Oakland Voices correspondent Debora Gordon chats with 9 Restorative Justice leaders in OUSD.
Tag Archives: Teachers
Oakland COVID News: Playgrounds Can Be Open, Alameda County Cases Rise
County ICU hospitalizations increase; Teachers push back on district's re-opening plan; playgrounds can open
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.
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]
Talk of the Town: Seven OUSD teachers give sneak peek of first week of school
7 OUSD teachers respond to distance learning, and what the first week of school might look like.
Educators Propose Safety Precautions As OUSD Seeks To Reopen Some Preschools Next Week
OUSD needs to successfully negotiate Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) with seven labor unions before school of any type can resume.
COVID-19 in Oakland: OUSD and al fresco dining updates
Oakland now has 3,259 positive COVID-19 cases. Alameda County is at 8,478 cases (data as of July 14), nearly doubling the number of cases from just a month ago (there were 4,390 cases on June[Read more]
Teachers in East Oakland Rise to the Challenge Eight Weeks after School Closure
Two months into schools being closed, three East Oakland teachers say some students have yet to have internet access during this time, and how many students do not like online learning.
Academic and Social Absence
"It's not just the virus that I'm afraid of. It is this human contact that has made me realize and admit it's the solitude that I am afraid of. The admission that I depend on[Read more]
