Listen to the podcast episode from Grow With Us: An Oakland Unified Podcast here.
“The state of California recently dropped billions of dollars into the Community Schools initiative. But Oakland has been engaged in this work for some time, whether you track that back to the Freedom Schools of the Black Panthers, the grass roots reforms that helped drive the original small work, or some of the most recent deliberate, focused community schools work of the last decade plus. In this episode, we’re in conversation with two veteran Community School Managers, discussing what it really means to do school this way, and why it matters for Oakland.”