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[KB KEEPING IT 100 @KbKeepingit100]

Yu Ming community opens new school campus in West Oakland https://t.co/Nhzzh0qH2g

[KB KEEPING IT 100 @KbKeepingit100]

Apply to become a Literacy Liberator — gain leadership & literacy skills, receive support to become a paid tutor with Oakland Unified School District, & help teach our kids how to read at grade level. Fellowship graduates will earn a stipend of $1,650. https://t.co/5CMbB653AM

[Lakisha Young @LakishaYoungCEO]

I cannot — I will not — stop fighting to get our kids learning. Too much of this city has lost sight of the fact that our students should be our only north star.

[Lakisha Young @LakishaYoungCEO]

Sign our petition today to support Oakland’s kids and say no strike: https://t.co/FUh6cuSdjA

[Lakisha Young @LakishaYoungCEO]

Here are 5 reasons why the common goods proposal shouldn’t stand between our kids and their education (thread):

[East Bay Times @EastBayTimes]

Opinion: This time, striking Oakland teachers have gone too far https://t.co/Dx3BTDfj9n

[KB KEEPING IT 100 @KbKeepingit100]

@MichaelDeSousa5 I wholeheartedly support teachers being fairly compensated. We love our teachers, and I believe we all support the work they do, but not at the expense of children's education. Come on, it's the end of the school year, and these kids need all the instruction they can get!!!

[Lakisha Young @LakishaYoungCEO]

After the @OaklandNAACP has called out this strike for what it is – a threat to racial justice and educational equity — we’re going on day 4 of disrupted learning because of a common goods proposal that shouldn’t even be a part of negotiations.

[Lakisha Young @LakishaYoungCEO]

The @OaklandNAACP is right. Learning disruption has devastating effects and, as an organization that has been fighting racial injustice for over a century, they are well aware of how this strike will impact Black families disproportionately in Oakland.

[Lakisha Young @LakishaYoungCEO]

We may all be thinking of compensation – and we agree teachers deserve to be paid well. But, as you can see in this graphic, the District’s proposal includes significant raises: Every Oakland teacher would receive a salary increase of at least 13%, and as much as 22%.

[Lakisha Young @LakishaYoungCEO]

In Oakland, only 3 out of 10 kids can read or do math on grade level. Improving their academic outcomes should be the center of contract negotiations. It’s time to put our kids first. Add your name to support Oakland’s kids! https://t.co/gLBl8hsMEI

[Lakisha Young @LakishaYoungCEO]

Kids learning in school should be central to any negotiation between OEA and OUSD. Instead, we’re all stuck in the normalized pattern of our kids being used as bargaining chips. This status quo has to stop.

https://t.co/iPSAMQpgNR

[Lakisha Young @LakishaYoungCEO]

Our kids have lost so much over the last few years, the last thing they should lose is more learning time. @TheOaklandREACH has joined @CAParentPower to start this petition highlighting a public sentiment that does NOT support strikes that disrupt learning.

[KB KEEPING IT 100 @KbKeepingit100]

"You have to show up before inspiration will."

– @JamesClear

[Lakisha Young @LakishaYoungCEO]

🧵1/ And speaking of solutions — I’ve got exciting news to share:

The nonprofit Accelerate has chosen to help fund one of our newest and most unique solutions: our unique and powerful Literacy Liberator model.

https://t.co/Agj90jvTVU

[Yu Ming School @YuMingSchool]

Yu Ming’s learning community was featured in the New Yorker today! We are delighted to share our families' stories with a national audience and to highlight Yu Ming’s incredible teaching, learning, and diverse community.

[Kareem J. Weaver @KJWinEducation]

Prof: There's no 1 way to teach reading.

Me: If you had 20 students and lost a finger or toe for every one who didn't learn to read, how would you teach it?

Prof: Thats a bit dramatic.

Me: Disconnecting from the cost of illiteracy produces a dramatically nearsighted thesis.

[KB KEEPING IT 100 @KbKeepingit100]

Take this work as an example. Wherever you are you can always #REACHformore

[Lakisha Young @LakishaYoungCEO]

The good news this Friday is that @TheOaklandREACH is out here empowering team players and lifelong learners to be part of the solution to get our babies reading.

Take this work as an example. Wherever you are, together we can #REACHforMore.

[Lakisha Young @LakishaYoungCEO]

We're out in Oakland recruiting literacy liberators who will be trained to teach reading to 5,500 K-2 students in OUSD.

When it comes to our kids reading, we don’t ask for seats at tables that don’t work — we create our own, and bring our own chairs.

We ain’t playing!

[KB KEEPING IT 100 @KbKeepingit100]

Want to get PAID while making sure our babies can READ!

[Lakisha Young @LakishaYoungCEO]

The good news this Friday is that @TheOaklandREACH is out here empowering team players and lifelong learners to be part of the solution to get our babies reading.

Take this work as an example. Wherever you are, together we can #REACHforMore.