Welcome to GO's OUSD Strategic Planning Portal!

Oakland Unified has just over a month remaining on its timeline to complete Thriving Students, a new 5-year strategic plan for public education in the City of Oakland. On Wednesday, May 18, the Board of Education reviewed the first draft of the plan. 

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4
• Appendices A, B, and C - 1, 3, and 5 Year Landmarks
  
• Summary Presentation
  

Have feedback on this first draft? Share it here!

OUSD's Family and Community Office has organized a variety of opportunities for community celebration and engagement around the draft plan:

• English Language: May 24, 5-7pm, Westlake Middle School
• Spanish Language: May 26, 5-7pm, Lazear Elementary School
• Asian Languages: June 4, 9:30-11:30am, Lincoln Elementary
• Arabic Language: June 7, 5-7pm, Santa Fe Elementary

This process is a powerful opportunity for community members -- parents, students, teachers, principals, taxpayers, school and central office employees, charter school employees and families, nonprofit, labor, faith, elected, and business leaders -- to provide input and resources, and build relationships to realize the aspirations of our ambitious new strategic direction -- Community Schools, Thriving Students. 

The process began in June 2010, when our Board of Education approved Thriving Students and announced 14 task forces that will each draft chapters of a 5-year strategic plan. The expectation is that each chapter will include 1-, 3-, and 5-year implementation milestones for the Oakland Board of Education to review and adopt by June 2011.

At a December retreat, the Board of Education heard 5-minute updates from each of the task force leaders about the objectives and progress of their work.

Click the images for video clips of the individual task force updates.

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Effective Teaching
Will make recommendations to improve the evaluation system, hiring practices, compensation, career pathways, and professional development for OUSD teachers.

 

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African American Male Achievement
Has opportunity to develop out-of-the-box solutions and bring together resources to ensure that African-American males thrive in Oakland.

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Quality Community Schools Development
Will develop school quality standards for all Oakland public schools and a process through which to support and hold all schools in the portfolio accountable for meeting the standards -- implications for closures, new school development, turnarounds, and role of charters.

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Regional Governance
Will 1) make recommendations about how local community and OUSD can share governance of schools; 2) do asset mapping of each region and align resources and services, 3) identify specific strategies for moving region forward

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Effective Principal and Leadership

Will define the criteria by which Oakland hires, develops, and evaluates principals

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Results Based Budgeting
Will make recommendations about 1) what decision-making authority school communities have over budgets and spending and 2) the funding formulas for allocating resources (how much money each school receives)

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Options and School Choice
Will determine the future of school choice in Oakland

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Facilities and Asset Management

Will identify potential revenue sources from facilities assets and make recommendations on the optimal number and size of schools in each region.

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Core Curriculum

Will answer the question of what students will need to know and be able to do at each grade level in order to be ready for both college and careers upon graduation.

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Financial and Operational Readiness

Will make recommendations to eliminate OUSD's structural deficit and improve the efficiency of OUSD operations and support systems.

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Full Service Community Schools

Will define what OUSD means by full service community schools (FSCS) and full service community district. Will design a rubric for the components of a FSCS so that schools can rate their status in becoming a FSCS and determine where they need to work.

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Healthy Kids, Healthy Oakland Data

Will develop a single-shared data system which will include academic performance, test scores, attendance, truancy, nutrition, housing, physical/mental health, recreation, crime/violence, etc.

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Literacy
Develop approach to ensuring literacy for college and career readiness pre-k to grade 12

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Secondary Experience and Achievement

Will make recommendations to redesign the secondary experience to ensure that all students graduate and meet the board's new policy around UC/CSU A-G requirements.

Click here to view a 90 minute video of the presentations.

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CALL TO ACTION

One of our most deeply held values as Oaklanders is that those impacted by decisions should be included in the decision-making. Many community organizations and voices expressed interest in helping shape this new strategic plan for Oakland public schools.

Over the next 3 months, it is up to each of us as parents, educators, and community members to show up to listen, share, dialogue, and create the bright future our children and youth deserve.

We urge members of the GO network (particularly teachers and parents) to consider joining and/or participating on a task force.

This is our education community's opportunity to shape the future of Oakland public schools.

Together, we can seize this moment to establish an innovative and student-centered direction for our city's public schools.

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FIVE IDEAS FOR IMPACT

1) Start participating in a task force yourself - and ask one friend or colleague to join you!

2) Bring task forces up at your School Site Council, PTA, or ELAC meeting and ask other parents and teachers to commit to participating.

3) Send an email directly to the Task Force lead with your experiences and perspective.

4) Make the OUSD Calendar or GO's OUSD strategic planning portal the homepage on your browser so you stay informed about the latest news.

5) Be positive and solution-oriented whatever you do!

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RELATED CONTENT

GO statement from June 2010 expressing support for the Board of Education's unanimous adoption of this new direction developed with the leadership of Superintendent Smith and asking for greater emphasis and further discussion about the role of effective teaching and empowered school communities within the new framework.

GO letter from October 2010 raising questions about the pace of the work and task force membership, composition, and participation expectations.

Blog post about October 28 meeting when GO hosted OUSD task force leaders for an update on the planning process and dialogue within each strategic planning task force.

OUSD Task Force Website and Calendar

Click on the links below to learn more about each of the task force's goals, deliverables, leadership, process, and time line, and click here for a calendar of upcoming task force meetings.

• Empowering and Ensuring Effective Teachers
• Effective Principals and Leadership
• Core Curriculum for College and Career Readiness
• Full Service Community Schools
• Regional Governance Team
• Options and School Choice Inquiry
• Results-Based Budgeting
• Regional Neighborhood Zone Approach
• Quality Community Schools Development

Since June, OUSD has shared a variety of documents overviewing the strategic vision and planning process:

1) Letter from Superintendent Smith inviting the OUSD community to participate in the process

2) Building the Plan Together Part I: A one page "at-a-glance" overview of the 10 strategic areas for work and discussion during the 2010-2011 strategic planning year.

3) Building the Plan Together Part II: An eleven page overview of the proposed planning process, community engagement, workplans and outcomes for the 2010-2011 year.

4) Building the Plan Together Part III: A proposal to create task forces to lead the work within each strategic area with questions for board feedback during tomorrow's discussion.

5) Thriving Students: A 57-page narrative further detailing the strategic direction, theory of action, and plans to ready OUSD to become a full-service community district.

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