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Building student agency through research, advocacy and the A.N.D. framework. Home of the Agentic Fellowship #BeAnEnergyConvertor #DoWork Founder: @ccoleiii

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Disengaged. Overstretched. Chronically Absent.

That’s the state of far too many Oakland students. It’s time we told the truth about why.

Our research shows above all else, you have to make school feel worth showing up to. #Oakland #Absenteeism

READ: https://t.co/AFWiCKaAbT

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"You can be the most informed, strategic, financially literate student in the world and still hit a ceiling your wealthier peers don't have."

That's not a personal failure.

That's a system working exactly as designed.

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This research is part of a national model. The A.N.D. Framework is now active across six states with 150 student researchers and nearly 3,000 youth voices. The Lodestar report is the most rigorous documentation we have produced to date. Read it: https://t.co/6DStnQklR6

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In Fall 2025, 20 high school students in Oakland sat down with state assessment data to answer a question that had been troubling them for years: why do report card grades and test scores tell completely different stories about student learning? Here is what they found.

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They are also calling for something larger. Every Oakland public school, district and charter, should add CAASPP proficiency bands to report cards by Fall 2026. Students and families deserve this information. It belongs to them.

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🔹 Awareness — understanding how the system actually works
🔹 Navigation — learning how to improve it
🔹 Duty — acting on what you know

Through the Agentic Institute, students don't just share opinions. They research. They analyze. They lead.

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Our young people are capable of so much. Our founder @ccoleiii is determined to spread that message and to help them reach their full potential. #EnergyConvertors

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We teach our young people about the process for taking AGENCY over their studies and lives. Research, analysis and prescribing solutions to problems the system perpetuates. We need them all to CREATE.

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.@HowardLFuller — civil rights organizer, former superintendent of Milwaukee Public Schools, and special advisor to The Agentic Institute reminds us about balance, and the cost of revolutionary work.

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Some of us do this work because of a deep love for our people. The kind of love that can be faked. We're always inspired to hear the words of @HowardLFuller.

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During our fireside chat with @HowardLFuller , education activist @citizenstewart reminded us of perhaps the biggest lesson from Dr Fuller. Be clear about the work we are doing for our young people and why we are doing it.

WATCH: https://t.co/DxAsGXqnBK

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We should always be looking to community for the education of our young people. Our elders and community members have a wealth of knowledge to share. @selmekki

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.@HowardLFuller, civil rights icon and special advisor to The Agentic Institute breaks down the importance of class analysis as we interrogate the system and fight for our students to get what they deserve.

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The one and only @HowardLFuller reminds us why we must be all in on the fight for our people.

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No one is coming to save Black males, especially in education - as the system continues to discard them. That's why the work we do is so important. We will continue to help them build up their own agency as systems work to protect the status quo.

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We’ve know about grade inflation, where students are getting grades that don’t match what they actually learn. But who is to blame? Sometimes we have to look to the top of these systems.