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Meet PE Teacher Marcella Wasson of Martin Luther King, Jr Elementary
Wasson relishes being "everyone's teacher" and advocates for more PE in schools
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Golden Employee: Arvella Hayden
Ms. Hayden has been teaching kindergarten since 1964 and is the only OUSD employee with over 50 years of service!
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2017-18 Teacher of the Year: LaRavian Battle
Mrs. Battle has taught for over 20 years - providing support and leadership to the OUSD community, serving as a coach for beginning teachers.
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2017-18 Teacher of the Year: Stephanie Taymuree
Ms. Taymuree has spent her 37-year career at OUSD refining her greatest accomplishment of supporting children.
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Police Services: Ride Along with Officer Lam and Skyline's School Site Officers
Officer Roland Lam says the typical day “doesn’t exist, we just have to be ready for things to pick up fast.” He invited us to ride along to see what it takes to keep the schools and community in District 4 safe day in and day out.
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OUSD Police Services: Safety & Learning Go Hand in Hand
20 sworn personnel and 120 SSOs who cover schools and neighborhoods across Oakland with one crystal clear priority: the safety of OUSD students.
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OUSD Food Hero: Donnie Barclift
Spending time figuring out how to get the most nutrition into the 7,200 breakfasts, 21,200 lunches, 8,400 snacks and 500 suppers that are served across the district each day.
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Leading Experiments in Science and Personalized Learning at Urban Promise Academy
Seventh grade teacher Nora Hurab teaches science to a full-inclusion classroom where students are busy learning about biodomes and the chemical reactions that support life such as photosynthesis and cellular respiration.
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Connecting Cultures Through Local Customs
Room 8 at Manzanita Community School looks like an ordinary elementary school classroom - filled with books, brightly-colored posters and groups of small tables and chairs - but it functions more like a mini United Nations.
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Call To Action: Using Drama Skills to Prepare for the MLK Oratorical Festival
Ms. Awele has been the director of the MLK Oratorical Festival, now in its 38th year, for the past three years. During this time, she also became the Drama Director at Skyline.
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From Eritrea to Oakland: Pursuing the Noble Profession
Michael Gebreslassie came to OUSD last year after spending his early teaching career in Japan and his home country of Eritrea in Eastern Africa
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Dr. LuPaulette Taylor: 42 Years and Counting as Part of the Mack Family
She has more institutional knowledge than anyone else and is a cherished member of the Mack family and community - having taught an array of subjects over the years.
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CCPA Students Push Boundaries Abroad
The Peruvian Amazon may be the last place you’d think to look for AP Amy Boyle and students from Coliseum College Prep Academy but that is precisely where 10 students spent 10 days during November.
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Chabot Space & Science Center Selects New Director of Education from OUSD
OUSD and Chabot Space & Science Center announce that Caleb Cheung, OUSD Director of Science Programs, is now designated as Administrator on Loan to Chabot, serving as Director of Education
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The Center’s Construction Liaisons Steer Residents to Jobs
Working hard to get the West Oakland community engaged in the building process.
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Beauty, Joy and Wonder at Burckhalter’s Astronomy Program
Panagos is leading the first year of a unique TK-5 astronomy curriculum at the school, building off the afterschool and community events program he began 13 years ago.
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Woodshop Persists at Montera Middle School
Eric Runge runs the only woodshop classes in OUSD, and he’s proud to keeping building a program that he first joined as a student at Montera years ago.
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