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Professional Learning

Writing Not to Win But to Learn at Oakland Unified School District

OUSD turned the three steps a U.S. presidential candidate took in a famous speech into a tool to help students address multiple perspectives in their writing.
Why Schools Need to Change

Experiential Learning about Race

​An educator from Oakland Unified School District shares why he is passionate about experiential learning that is both rigorously intellectual and profoundly moving, especially when students learn about race and racism​.​
New Designs for School

Slowing Down Student Research to Encourage Critical Thinking

​Is the ease and speed of digital technology at odds with the critical thinking students need to complete a research paper?​
New Designs for School

Deep Community Partnerships Lead to Authentic Project-Based Learning at OUSD

How to create authentic PBL? In Oakland Unified, community partners and teachers are working together from the very beginning to design projects.
Why Schools Need to Change

Oakland's Graduate Profile: A Spotlight on What Matters Most

A graduate profile can help build coherence for a school district by focusing instruction and learning on what truly matters. To create its graduate profile, Oakland Unified listened to students, alumni, and teachers and is now aligning resources toward the vision it set.
Reimagining Assessment

Student Research Takes a Hopeful Turn in Oakland Unified

When OUSD Graduate Capstone research projects focused on solutions, students became more hopeful than stressed and took action on issues close to them.
New Designs for School

Student Voice: A Look Back as We Plan Ahead

These stories of learner agency and co-creation feature young people designing their own learning and redesigning their schools and communities in the process.
Reimagining Assessment

18 Things You Will See If You Are Doing Ethical Assessment in Your School

How do you know if your assessment is ethical? Look for evidence of these 18 observable outputs.
Designing for Equity

How to Make Senior Capstones Truly Anti-Racist

Alternative assessments are not inherently equitable without concerted effort.
Building Community

Pipelines, Shortages, and Workforces: Why Do We Still Think of Teachers as Workers on an Assembly Line?

The terms “teacher pipelines,” “teacher shortages,” and “teacher workforce” reflect assumptions about the teaching profession that hide the systemic challenges behind teacher recruitment and retention.