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Professional Learning

Learning to Teach by Listening to Students

In this excerpt from the recently released book, Sparks Into Fire, author Young Whan Choi relates a story of how one student's question shaped his growth as a teacher.
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?​
Reimagining Assessment

How to Address Racial Bias in Standardized Testing

COVID-19 has disrupted springtime testing; now is the time to ask why we use standardized tests, considering the racial bias in them.
New Designs for School

The Equity Imperative: Project-Based Distance Learning

Find out how PBL went virtual at Oakland High School: when the world shut down, students' authentic project on safe transportation continued, to great success!
Professional Learning

Teachers Need to Experience Powerful Learning Too

This excerpt from the recently released book, Sparks Into Fire, is a story of teacher PD that underscores why improving schools will require powerful changes to teacher learning.
Professional Learning

For Teacher Professional Growth, Study the Soil

Professional learning needs to meet teachers where they are. To do that well, facilitators need to know the teachers and their context.
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.
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.
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.
Building Community

How I Was Raised as a Teacher

New and aspiring teachers—and their students—would be better served with extensive coaching and mentoring by experienced, competent, expert teachers.