September 19, 2025
Professional Development Day

Scaffolding for Rigor

• Time: 9am-12:30pm

• Location: Fremont High School

• Audience: 6-12th grade teachers

• Facilitators: Claire Fisher

• Registration: Register here

The purpose of the PD series is to support teachers’ practices around our collective instructional focus on scaffolding for rigor in service of improving students’ grade level mastery. We utilize culturally responsive teaching practices to cultivate positive classrooms, support instructional planning for academic language criteria and content knowledge, support facilitating effective student discourse, and how to effectively assess student learning. These strategies are closely tied to the overall vision, goals, and aligned tier 1 strategies outlined in the Scaffolding for Rigor playbook for the middle and high school networks.

6-12 - CTE Arts/Design & VAPA Designing a Signature Project in the Arts (Morning) - IN-PERSON

• Time: 8:30am-11:30am

• Location: Fremont High School (Ms. Miranda's Classroom

• Audience: 6-12 CTE FAME; 6-12 VAPA

• Facilitators: Jamie Treacy, Crystal Barr

• Registration: Register here

In this half-day professional development, teachers will begin to design a signature project for their course or pathway. A signature project is standards-aligned, memorable, rigorous, and has an equivalent in the creative workplace. It could be a grade-level culminating project (like Senior Capstone) or centered around an important grade-level learning outcome. by creating a teacher exemplar artwork and identifying focus artists to support the project instruction. Teachers will come away from this interactive day of creation and reflection with the tools to teach their project using high-quality PBL elements.

There will also be an identical workshop in the afternoon If there's enough demand.

6-12 CTE Arts/Design & VAPA -Designing a Signature Project in the Arts - IN-PERSON

• Time: 12:30pm-3:30pm

• Location: Fremont High School Room 1214 (Ms. Miranda's Classroom)

• Audience: 6-12 CTE Arts and VAPA teachers

• Facilitators: Jamie Treacy and Crystal Barr

• Registration: Register here

In this half-day professional development, teachers will begin to design a signature project for their course or pathway. A signature project is standards-aligned, memorable, rigorous, and has an equivalent in the creative workplace. It could be a grade-level culminating project (like Senior Capstone) or centered around an important grade-level learning outcome. by creating a teacher exemplar artwork and identifying focus artists to support the project instruction. Teachers will come away from this interactive day of creation and reflection with the tools to teach their project using high-quality PBL elements.

This is the afternoon session (2 of 2 offerings)

Using Math Assessments to Drive Belonging, Rigor, and Coherence

• Time: 8:30am-12pm

• Location: TBD

• Audience: K-5

• Facilitators: Edgar Ramirez; Rodolfo Ornelas; Shawn Stibbins

• Registration: Register here

This professional learning session is designed to guide teachers in preparing, administering, and analyzing Eureka Math² Module assessments as part of our district’s coherent system of standards-based instruction. The session emphasizes how assessments are not just checkpoints but powerful tools for supporting student reasoning, discourse, and growth. Session Outcomes By the end of this session, teachers will be able to: 

1. Administer assessments with intentionality—establishing an environment that supports access, belonging, and student ownership of learning. 

2. Analyze assessment data through an equity lens—identifying trends, assets, and gaps to surface student thinking and guide next steps. 

3. Backward plan from evidence—using data to anticipate misconceptions, adjust scaffolds, and design differentiated, standards-aligned instruction that fosters rigor and coherence across lessons.

6-12 M/MSN & RS SpEd Teachers - Lexia PowerUp! Initial Implementation Training - VIRTUAL

• Time: 1pm-2:30pm

• Location: Zoom link to be shared later

• Audience: 6-12 Mild/Mod and Resource Specialist SpEd teachers

• Facilitators: Matt O'Connell

• Registration: Register here

This training is for 6-12 grade resource specialists, as well as secondary Mild/Mod and Counseling Enriched teachers who teach literacy intervention or ELA. This is an initial 90 minute training to get teachers up and running with Lexia PowerUp!

6-12 M/MSN & RS SpEd Teachers - Lexia PowerUp! Nex Steps After Auto-Placement and Student Level Reports - VIRTUAL

• Time: 1pm-2:30pm

• Location: Zoom link to be provided later

• Audience: 6-12 SpEd teachers Mild/Mod & Resource

• Facilitators: Nicole Hess

• Registration: Register here

This for 6-12 Mild/Mod Teachers as well as Resource Specialists who have already received initial Lexia Training. This is to guide teachers on the next step after initial training and initiation of placement test.

PK-12 Support Staff - Inclusive Practices - IN PERSON

• Time: 9am-11:30am

• Location: Santa Fe Portable 1

• Audience: Pk-12 Support Staff

• Facilitators: Aruna Subramanian

• Registration: Register here

AM: On-the spot modifications & inclusive practices - Explore strategies & tools to help students be better integrated into general education settings and access instruction

Lunch will be served at the end of the PD

Pk -12 Support Staff - Inclusive Play - IN PERSON

• Time: 12:30pm-3pm

• Location: Santa Fe Portable 1

• Audience: Pk - 12 Support Staff

• Facilitators: Aruna Subramanian

• Registration: Register here

PM: Supporting Inclusive Play, Sports & PE - Learn strategies for supporting inclusive play at recess & other sports activities

lunch will be available starting at 11:30

Teachtown 101-104

• Time: 8:30am-11:30am

• Location: Santa Fe 915 54th Street

• Audience: K-5 Moderate/ESN Eachers

• Facilitators: Liana Smith

• Registration: Register here

We’ll highlight the latest changes in the Encore platform with a deep dive for veteran teachers, and offer Teachtown 101 for new teachers. Don’t miss this chance to get hands-on support and updates!

There is one for secondary teachers in the afternoon

Teachtown 101-104

• Time: 12pm-3pm

• Location: 915 54th Street

• Audience: Secondary ESN teachers

• Facilitators: Liana Smith

• Registration: Register here

We’ll highlight the latest changes in the Encore platform with a deep dive for veteran teachers, and offer Teachtown 101 for new teachers. Don’t miss this chance to get hands-on support and updates!

SANDI Training

• Time: 8:30am-11:30am

• Location: Santa FE 915 54th street

• Audience: Secondary ESN Teachers

• Facilitators: Rain Johnson

• Registration: Register here

Join us for a hands-on training focused on the Student Annual Needs Determination Inventory (SANDI). This session will guide teachers and support staff in using SANDI effectively to assess student strengths, track progress, and align goals with instruction. Whether you’re new to the tool or looking for a refresher, you’ll walk away with practical strategies to make data collection meaningful and manageable.

SANDI Training

• Time: 12pm-3pm

• Location: 915 54th street

• Audience: Elementary Moderate/ESN teachers

• Facilitators: Rain Johnson

• Registration: Register here

Join us for a hands-on training focused on the Student Annual Needs Determination Inventory (SANDI). This session will guide teachers and support staff in using SANDI effectively to assess student strengths, track progress, and align goals with instruction. Whether you’re new to the tool or looking for a refresher, you’ll walk away with practical strategies to make data collection meaningful and manageable.

Early Childhood Staff - SEEDS of Learning: Language Comprehension - IN PERSON

• Time: 8am-3pm

• Location: Bloc15, 252 2nd St, Oakland, CA 94607

• Audience: PK Teachers, TK Teachers, ECSE SPED Teachers and Itinerant Staff, IAs, Coaches, Family Navigators, Principals, Partners, Directors (optional for ECSE Paras, TK Tutors, and TK Paras)

• Facilitators: Collaborative Classroom Facilitators

• Registration: Register here

This is the second of a three-part series this year for our focus on emergent literacy, SEEDS of Learning. This full-day session will focus on language comprehension as it pertains to emergent literacy: oral language, vocabulary, and book and print awareness.

Attendance Team members (CSMs, Case Managers, Attendance Specialists) - 4th Annual Attendance Summit - IN PERSON

• Time: 8am-11:30am

• Location: Oakland High School

• Audience: Community Schools Managers, Attendance Specialists, Case Managers, Family Engagement, Latin Achievement Staff, African American Achievement Staff, and CBO personnel tied to attendance

• Facilitators: Dwayne Bartholomew, Shelia White, Anita Reeding, Kenya Latimore, Kevin Goines, Soo Jin Kim, Kathleen Arnold, Kathy Hatzke

• Registration: Register here

We will be meeting once again to discuss all things attendance with CSMs, Case Managers, and Attendance Specialists. This Summit will bring together the various departments in order to clarify questions for teams. In addition, we will address misconceptions in the realm of attendance. Lastly, we will provide a space and time for attendance teams to commune and align around plans/practices to GET KIDS BACK TO SCHOOL!

Foundational Skills Instruction: The What and the Why of UFLI Foundations Program

• Time: 8:30am-11:30am

• Location: Brookfield

• Audience: K-2 SEI Teachers and SPC Mild Mod teachers

• Facilitators: Connie Lam and Courtney Walker

• Registration: Register here

Understand the structure of the UFLI Foundations program and make connections between research, current practice, and new learning Reflect on elements of effective instruction and how they show up across the different components of a UFLI lesson Understand how UFLI Foundations fits into the OUSD MTSS framework Consider how we can leverage and adjust our current structures to support strong implementation

All Teachers - Parent Teacher Home Visit (PTHV) Training - A Family Engagement Tier 1 Practice - IN PERSON

• Time: 9am-12pm

• Location: TBD

• Audience: All Teachers

• Facilitators: Sara Nuno; Arcelia Gonzalez

• Registration: Register here

The PTHV model is a voluntary PK-12 & young adult program home visit practice that helps teachers and parents build relationships and work together for student success. Join us and get officially trained on OUSD’s PTHV model that focuses on: Relational connection, Building capacity of families, and staff for partnership, Collaboration, and is Linked to student learning. Session Outcomes: Teachers will 1) explore core values and equity mindset necessary to conduct home visits, 2) understand the conditions for successful home visits (and fidelity with the PTHV model), 3) understand the three components to a successful home visit, 4) practice making the initial call to schedule a home visit, and 5) share hopes and anxieties with conducting home visits

Please send direct link to the session registration for our outreach

All Staff - Addressing Hate Speech, An Important Part of School Culture - VIRTUAL

• Time: 12:30pm-1:30pm

• Location: https://ousd.zoom.us/j/83202210225?pwd=OQqJJVeyqL9osTjXwqIUCGpjbgWWvm.1&jst=2

• Audience: All Staff

• Facilitators: Raquel Jimenez, Evan Fortin

• Registration: Register here

Staff will become familiar with the protocol and practice of addressing hate speech with K-12 students, utilizing our Healthy Oakland Kids and Teens curriculum, grade appropriate intervention lessons for on-going use of hate speech language, and reviewing the district's discipline matrix and protocol for reporting hate speech

Leadership Teachers/Advisors - Building Youth-Adult Partnership - VIRTUAL

• Time: 12:30pm-1:15pm

• Location: https://ousd.zoom.us/j/86413837755?pwd=uIqvY7h1BOt2EJZkxzLm5wEW0TuAji.1&jst=2

• Audience: 6-12 teachers

• Facilitators: Adriana Villegas, with All City Council Youth Leaders

• Registration: Register here

Participants will 1) Reflect on how they are developing infrastructure and ongoing opportunities for youth partnership 2) Understand how to support the development of youth leadership and partnership at their school 3) Identify tools and opportunities that will be leveraged to advance youth-adult partnership for academic empowerment, school improvement, and shared decision making

3-5 Teachers - ALL Block 2025 Edition - IN PERSON

• Time: 8:30am-11:30am

• Location: Brookfield Elementary School

• Audience: 3-5 Teachers

• Facilitators: Jessica Ayala, Rebecca Anderson

• Registration: Register here

Teachers will come away from this training with a plan for leading ALL Block in their classrooms! We will begin with a review of the ALL Block vision and pedagogy, then dig into the nuts and bolts of the 2025 Edition's version of ALL Block. This training will also include guided planning time, so that teachers leave prepared to roll out Module 1 Unit 1 of ALL Block.

K-2 Teachers - Unlock ELD - IN PERSON

• Time: 12:30pm-3pm

• Location: Brookfield Elementary School

• Audience: K-2 Teachers

• Facilitators: Michael Ray, Katia Dunkel, Abel Guzman

• Registration: Register here

Teachers of ELLs will engage with the new Unlock ELD curriculum and make connections to what they already know about teaching d-ELD from years past. Together, we will: - Dive into a lesson to really understand the structure of a lesson, - Make meaning about these lessons, - Notice and discover some of the components that are new and others that are similar to last year's language dives, - Practice the language students are required to use in the lesson, and - Reflect on our own learning process

3-5 Teachers - Unlock ELD - IN PERSON

• Time: 12:30pm-3pm

• Location: Brookfield Elementary School

• Audience: 3-5 Teachers

• Facilitators: Michael Ray, Katia Dunkel, Abel Guzman

• Registration: Register here

Teachers of ELLs will engage with the new Unlock ELD curriculum and make connections to what they already know about teaching d-ELD from years past. Together, we will: - Dive into a lesson to really understand the structure of a lesson, - Make meaning about these lessons, - Notice and discover some of the components that are new and others that are similar to last year's language dives, - Practice the language students are required to use in the lesson, and - Reflect on our own learning process