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Spanish

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Interpretation

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Let’s get ready!

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Grab Coffee, grab a nametag say hello to someone!

Grab Your Binder + Pencil

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Lit for Literacy

Session 4

MARCH 7, 2023

Naborina Alonso, Lodestar Family Engagement Coordinator

Marisol ,

Parent Leader

Norma ,

Parent Leader

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Check In

Did you try any reading practices from last week? How did it go?! If not, how can you incorporate it into your routine?

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Session 3 Homework Celebration!

Share Out: Lighthouse & Lodestar

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Session 4 Homework Celebration!

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Session 4 Lighthouse Homework Celebration!

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Recap of Session #3

Which of these literacy skills are 1st graders working on?
pre-reading, beginning letter sounds, using letter sounds
blends and digraphs, R controlled vowels, Vowel consonant E, Vowel Teams
multisyllabic decoding, fluency and comprehension

2. A second graders fluency goal is to read 30-40 words per minute.

TRUE b. FALSE

3. Who can you partner with about your child’s literacy at your school?

their teacher b. the literacy dean/AP of literacy

c. the principal d. family coordinator

e. all of the above

4. Our “Story of Now” shares what we are being called to do right now as a parent and as an LCPS community...

TRUE b. FALSE

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In order to….

effectively work together to increase literacy rates for your child and all of our students at LCPS.

Session #4: Purpose & Outcomes

Celebrate our progress in home reading and literacy activities.
2. Learn how to build on content unit themes at home.
3. To preview and plan our Family Accountability Walk + Academic Town Hall
4. Combine our Story of Self, Us, and Now into a powerful Call to Action.

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Welcome, Purpose, Recap (15)

01

02

04

Fishtank Content Unit Themes (25)

Break out groups (20) & report back(5)

Taking Action Beyond the Institute (20)

Breakout groups (20) & report back (5)

05

Next Steps / Homework (10)

Adjourn

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06

07

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Literacy Lesson #4

Content Unit Themes & Library

Session 4

March 7, 2023

Cody Marshall, Principal, Lodestar

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Home-School Collaboration Follow Up

Grade

3

Home-school collaboration is essential to getting students to grade level.	You are not alone! Find a partner like the Family Coordinator to be your buddy.
1. Meet with your child’s teacher to make a plan. You don’t need to wait for conferences. What will the teacher do? What can you practice at home? What growth should we see?	2. Check on your child’s reading data every month.

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Winter Aimsweb Plus and MAP data

At LCPS (Lodestar/Lighthouse TK-5), we have started a new round of testing to measure students progress in reading.

Now you will be able to tell if your student had GROWTH, stayed the SAME, or went BACKWARDS

Have a conversation with your student’s teacher about the root cause for their progress.

Ask your teacher about the quality of your student’s practice. Are they practicing the right skill, in the right way, for the right amount of time?

If your student is significantly below where you think they should be, your student’s teacher can share intervention options (extra support)

FALL

WINTER

New Scores! Did the numbers go up? Did they go up enough?

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Parents MUST KNOW:

Science-based Reading Instruction

By Grade

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Language Arts Module Topics- 8wks each

What topic is my child studying during now?

How can I build on the topic at home?

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Content Rich Home Learning

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Questions for Content Rich Home Learning

Discuss the pros and cons of _________.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of _______?
How is _______ connected to __________?
What caused __________?
What are the effects of ___________?
How do you explain _______?
Using the information in a chart/graph, what conclusions can you draw?
What does the data show or not show?
What was a character’s motivation for a specific action?

Is _________ better or worse than _________?
What are the best parts of __________?
How will you know if __________ is successful?
Are the stated facts proven by evidence?
Is the source reliable?

How can you verify ____________?
Design an experiment to __________.
Defend your opinion on ___________.
How can you solve this problem?
Rewrite a story with a better ending.

Analyze, Evaluate, Create!

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LCPS Families Use the Public Library!

The Oakland Public Library is a great resource for your family.
You can get a FREE library card, attend fun programs and borrow books to read at home.

There are 19 public library locations in Oakland!

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Content Themes Break it Down

01 Every moment with our children is a learning opportunity!

Friendship, Noticing the World Around Us, How everyone can make difference!

02 Resources at our fingertips!

Local library, Museums, Nature Walks

03 Challenge students to answer questions that are rigorous!

Analyze, Create, Evaluate!

04 Support children in making connections!

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BREAKOUT GROUP TASKS

01 Debrief the literacy training.

Why is “content rich home learning” important? Is there

anything that you have a question about?

What other questions can we add to the conference question bank?

02 What you can do at home.

How can I build content rich home learning?

03 Commitments:

Go around the group: What are you committed to incorporating into your home reading routine?

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BREAKOUT GROUP SHARE OUT

01 English 1 Lighthouse - Lila + Shaina

02 English 2 Lighthouse - Naimah + Dr. Dickey

03 English 3 Lighthouse/Lodestar - Chrisciel + Tania

04 Spanish 1 Lighthouse - Susan

05 Spanish 1 Lodestar - Norma + Paulina

06 Spanish 2 Lodestar - Erlinda + Naborina

07 Spanish 3 Lodestar - Marisol + Cody

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A Call to Action:

Power =

People + Knowledge +

A Plan

Paulina Sepulveda

FIA Bilingual Family Organizer

Naborina

Lodestar

Family Coordinator

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Power Principle

Power is organized people with access to knowledge who have a plan for action.

read/call on someone to read; and ask audience “what do you think this means?” affirm responses.

In sessions one and two and three we tapped into our personal power (story of self) and collective power/agency (story of us) and the challenge we are currently facing together (the story of now).

We learned that having power begins with a decision to put on our power coat and then joining with other parents with whom we share the same values and interest and then collectively facing the moment we find ourselves in….

Now we need to be clear about inviting other parents to join us!

Remember, our power is a product of our relationships. The more parents we are talking to the more power we will have to create the change we want to see for our kids.

Let’s review the pieces to this power equation. We will start with People!

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The foundation of our organizational power for change

is building parent literacy leadership in your schools!

Lighthouse

Lodestar

PEOPLE: We are stronger together

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Knowledge: Building Family Literacy Power

students of Lit4Literacy parents 30-100 points reading growth (FastBridge)

Paulina

The next piece is Knowledge:

This is our second year organizing lit for literacy institutes within our LCPS Schools.

In 2023-24 Lit for Literacy, we partnered with:

220 parents graduated from L4L and they outreached to 1,100 parents
10 schools (9 elementary schools and 1 high school)

Most importantly, 88% of students in L4L have shown at least a reading growth of at least 30 points.

Parents have participated in L4l developing their knowledge of reading proficiency data for their child, their school and the city of Oakland while learning practical ways they can support accelerating their child's reading proficiency. Themes from Sessions

Parents felt confident moving forward and understood how possible it is to support at home. Lots of appreciation for the opportunity to learn.

Parents felt like it was their responsibility to help increase the literacy rate. They were affected by the Data.

Parents were excited to form teams and eager to tell others about their call to action.

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Knowledge: Family Accountability Walk

“We go in smart and come out smarter!”

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What is an Accountability Walk?

A practice to bring families into partnership with school leaders on instructional needs and practices.

An opportunity to “Level Up” our leadership!

A practice to bring families into partnership with school leaders on instructional needs and methods.

An opportunity to observe instructional strategies being utilized with students in classrooms.

A practice to bring families into partnership with school leaders on instructional needs and strategies.

A chance to reflect on implications of what you observe and identify next steps for collective action.

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Sample Agenda:

Accountability Walk

Time	Activity
15 mins.	Welcome: Framing for the Day
15 mins.	Prepare for Family Accountability Walk with School Leaders
40 mins.	Conduct Classroom observation(s)
40 mins.	Debrief Family Accountability Walk with School Leaders
20 mins.	Parent Leadership Debrief
	CLOSE

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Sample Classroom Observation

LINK TO AGENDA AND CLASSROOM OBSERVATION NOTE SHEET

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Plan: Engage School Leaders & Teachers

To create change, parent leaders need to be aligned with school leaders and teacher leaders.

“We need each other. Only by working together can we achieve our goal of 100% reading proficiency.”

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Our plan is to hold an Academic Town Hall in your school next year!

FAPST

LIGHTHOUSE

FAPST

Achieve

FAPST Lazear

FAPST

LWL

FAPST

Ascend

FAPST

LODESTAR

PLAN: Family Academic Power Surge Teams

organize Academic Town Halls

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What is an Academic Town hall?

A

An opportunity to “Level Up” our leadership!

An opportunity for parents to learn how their student is performing in relation to grade level benchmarks.

Gathering of all school parents to share how your school is performing in attendance, reading and numeracy.

A chance to reflect on what we learn, invite more parents into leadership and identify next steps for collective action.

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POWER: LCPS’s Literacy Call to Action

An Academic Town Hall

Story of Self +

Story of Us +

Story of Now +

An Invitation/Ask

= A Call to Action

Power is people equipped with knowledge who have a plan!

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Our Call to Action

Norma Garcia

FIA Parent leader, Lodestar

Hello, my name is Norma Garcia and I am a parent leader of 2 students at Lodestar. David is in 9th grade and Gabriel is in 6th grade. I have lived in Oakland for 15 years, and have been part of the Lodestar community since 2016. I started with FIA because I saw the importance of empowering parents to be involved and have the knowledge of how their students are doing and need to be successful.

As a mom and part of the Oakland community, I have seen how many children fall behind academically because there is no connection or unity between parents, students, and teachers. Why are we as parents not involved and become invisible when it comes to our children's education? We should not be ashamed to be there. We have to make that connection so that our children can move forward. It is not only the teachers' job but the parents' job as well.

It would be easy to remove our children from a school, but all schools have imperfections. We need to work on our schools in the community and invest our support and our resources. I've been pleased that this year we have had the opportunity to have the Lit 4 Literacy Institute exclusively for Lodestar and Lighthouse parents.

Next year, Lodestar is going through its Charter renewal. How are you, as parents who are at this institution, going to invest your time for the community school? We as parents need to let other parents know where their children are academically and show the board what impact Lodestar has on the community. I want to invite all of you students to join us in raising our students' reading to 100%. Who's with me?!

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BREAKOUT GROUP AGENDA

01 Any questions about our literacy power plan?

review Family Accountability Walks
review an Academic Town Hall (and FAPT’s)

02 A Schoowide Invitation: Our Literacy Call to Action

review the elements of a powerful call to action
reflect on your own literacy call to action.

03 Practice sharing your call to action with each other.

04 Delegate a representative to share how many people your group will reach out to with a call to action.

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BREAKOUT GROUPS

01 English 1 Lighthouse - Lila + Shaina

02 English 2 Lighthouse - Naimah + Dr. Dickey

03 English 3 Lighthouse/Lodestar - Chrisciel + Tania

04 Spanish 1 Lighthouse - Susan

05 Spanish 1 Lodestar - Norma + Paulina

06 Spanish 2 Lodestar - Erlinda + Naborina

07 Spanish 3 Lodestar - Marisol + Cody

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Charter schools are leading the way in Oakland.

SCHOOLS TO CELEBRATE

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Oakland schools with 10%+ improvement

for Reading are Charter Schools

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Oakland schools with 10%+ improvement for Math are

Charter Schools

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Oakland schools with 80%+ A-G completion for Black and Brown students are

Charter Schools!

MATH & READING PROFICIENCY

10:05-10:25am DICKEY

Many charter schools are leading the way in OUSD and Oakland…. I want you all to have a clear picture of how charter schools are performing: we evaluate how charter schools are doing on 3 main things: math proficiency, Reading proficiency, and A-G completion.

Let’s start with A-G: 15 of 16 schools with 80% A- G completion are charter schools…… does anyone know what A-G is? (wait for response)

(answer: A-G are the classes high schoolers have to take and pass with a C or better in order to be able to apply to CSU or University of California school)

Ok now let’s talk about the schools that are making strides with math proficiency: 6 of 9 schools with 10 point plus improvement in math were charter schools. we do not see these numbers in OUSD schools.

Finally let’s look at the schools making strides in ELA proficiency: 12 of 14 with 10 point plus improvement in reading were charter schools!

Who believes it is important for us to protect our right to choose charter schools if we want to for our kids? (wait for response) YES exactly. Who believes that we can be one of the school on this list next year if we keep working hard on literacy? (wait for response) YES WE CAN!!!

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LCPS Literacy Call to Action

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POWER: LCPS’s Literacy Call to Action

An Academic Town Hall

Story of Self +

Story of Us +

Story of Now +

An Invitation/Ask

= A Call to Action

Power is people equipped with knowledge who have a plan!

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BREAKOUT GROUPS

REPORT BACK

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Next Steps

Evaluation Online Here

Attend Session 5:

Accountability Walk at your school site

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LCPS

Lit 4 Literacy

Cohort 1

24-25

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See you at Session 5

Literacy Workshop!

Lighthouse & Lodestar :TBD!!

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1. CAMERAS ON + NAME/SCHOOL

We are here to build community with each other.

Let’s see each other’s beautiful faces

2. PARTICIPATE ACTIVELY

Use Zoom reactions. Use your chat box.

3. ASK QUESTIONS

We are here to learn. Your question will help others!

4. AFFIRMATIONS & SUPPORT

Lift each other up as we learn! Make connections with one another. Give shout out’s and appreciations.

RENAME YOURSELF

BE ON CAMERA

MUTE/ UNMUTE

RAISE HAND

CHAT BOX

REACTIONS

Agreements

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What are LCPS’s Lit for Literacy Values?

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👏🏾👏

❤️

🎉

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What are our Goals for Lit for Literacy?

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Lit4Literacy has 6 Steps!

✔

Tonight is Session #4

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LCPS’s Literacy Call to Action

A Call to Action

Literacy Night Jan 2024 - Co-led with YOU! Parent Leaders