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Our OUSD: Realizing our Strategic Plan
All OUSD children and educators—regardless of their background or their circumstances—will have the opportunity to reach their highest potential.
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Focused on high academic achievement while serving the whole child, eliminating inequity, and providing each child with excellent teachers, every day.
EXPLORE OUR FOUR PILLARS
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Ensuring Strong Readers by the Third Grade
Accelerating Citywide Efforts to Guarantee Literacy for all Third Graders
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Supporting Empowered Graduates
Developing Essential Skills to Secure Post-Secondary Success
School
Creating Joyful Schools
Reimagining Schools to be Places of Joy, Inclusion, and Beauty
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Growing a Diverse and Stable Staff
Attracting and Retaining Staff Reflective of Oakland’s Rich Diversity
EXPLORE OUR FOUR PILLARS
Ensuring Strong Readers by the Third Grade
Accelerating Citywide Efforts to Guarantee Literacy for all Third Graders
Ensuring Strong Readers by the Third Grade
Oakland’s vision is that its youngest students develop a joyful curiosity and a love of reading, writing and self-expression.
Supporting Empowered Graduates
Developing Essential Skills to Secure Post-Secondary Success
Supporting Empowered Graduates
Oakland’s vision of powerful graduates is one in which students are empowered with skills, knowledge, and opportunities, along with having a clear vision for themselves.
Creating Joyful Schools
Reimagining Schools to be Places of Joy, Inclusion, and Beauty
Creating Joyful Schools
In Oakland’s vision, students feel safe, welcomed, and liberated in their daily environments — at home, in school, and in the community — and are active participants in their academic and social emotional success.
Growing a Diverse and Stable Staff
Attracting and Retaining Staff Reflective of Oakland’s Rich Diversity
Growing a Diverse and Stable Staff
Oakland’s vision is that our students’ diverse and rich backgrounds are reflected by Black, Brown, and multilingual educators.
Grow With Us
Learning is growing, and every student deserves a safe, joyful environment that equips them to be lifelong learners and leaders.
OUSD offers music, language, hands-on learning and STEAM opportunities for preschoolers to seniors in high school. Our 77 K-12 schools are located in the country's second most racially diverse city and are spread across 78 square miles. We prepare students to be engaged civic leaders ready to pursue their college, career and post-K-12 educational dreams.
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OUSD in the News
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OUSD Celebrates Pride Month in September; Join Us For the Pride Parade This Sunday
September is Pride Month in Oakland Unified School District, thanks to this 2022 resolution passed by the Board of Education. Throughout the month, Progress Pride flags are flying at many school sites, and we are celebrating and supporting our LGBTQIA+ community with a variety of events and activities across the District.