COVID-19
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 […]
Teachers
COVID-19
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. […]
Education
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. […]
COVID-19
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.” – OEA President Keith Brown […]
COVID-19
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. […]
COVID-19
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
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 […]
COVID-19
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. […]
COVID-19
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 touch therapy.” […]
COVID-19
How Oakland Teachers are Adapting to Distance Learning after School Closures
Last Friday, in response to the COVID-19 Coronavirus outbreak, the Oakland Unified School District announced that all schools and child development centers would be closing for three weeks at the end of the day. On […]