A strength of the project has been the quality and quantity of linkages the staff has developed with educational partners in the community. These partners provide in-kind resources and their efforts are leading to the long-term sustainability of the project’s efforts. These partners provide valuable assistance related to professional development, technology and curriculum support.
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The Oakland Technology
Exchange (OTX):
The Oakland Technology
Exchange (OTX) recycles computer technology for the Oakland Public Schools. Even
more importantly, it provides high school students with incentives to stay in
school and learn skills necessary to succeed in the 21st century. OTX recycles
computers for use by Tech students at home and on their way to college. Students
and staff learn about and recycle computers that are 'obsolete' by current
business standards and earn credits (“Tech Bucks”) that are redeemable for
take-home computers. Computers that are recycled in the program are used in
school labs and classrooms.
The Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project (MLK Project), Stanford University: The King Papers Project is a major research effort to assemble and disseminate historical information concerning Martin Luther King, Jr. and the social movements in which he participated. Urban Dream teachers collaborated with the King Papers Project to develop curriculum for secondary teachers.
The curriculum “There Was a Certain Type of Fire That No
Water Could Put Out” was created and refined through these efforts.
Collaborations between OUSD teachers and Stanford students resulted in
units developed in web page format. Examples
are the “Music of the Civil Rights Movement” and Urban Economics.”
Students at Stanford got real time exposure to urban classrooms and
teachers got rich resource sets to use with their students.
The Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS):
California Heritage and the Center for Latin American Studies
assisted individual teachers with the development of curriculum related to Latin
America. Cal Heritage staff visited
classrooms to display their resources that are available to teachers and
students. Both Cal Heritage and
CLAS, in collaboration with project and district staff, developed web-based
curriculum resources.
California Heritage, (Cal Heritage):
The California Heritage Collection is an online archive of over
28,000 digital images and manuscripts documenting California's history and
culture. This project is a
collaborative effort between the Berkeley Library, University of California,
Berkeley and the San Francisco and Oakland Unified School Districts. The goals of the California Heritage Collection are to: a)
promote the integration of the Internet and primary sources into K-12
curriculum; and b) create web-based lesson plans. The web-based lesson plans that resulted from the individual
school projects can be found at http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/calheritage/k12,
and include units on farm workers and the United Farm Workers movement.
Teachers worked with librarians to learn to use the restricted
collections and correct procedures surrounding copyright issues.
U.C. Berkeley “Connecting Students to the World” (CSTW):
Connecting Students to the World is an educational program developed and
produced by the Institute of International Studies at the University of
California, Berkeley. The program
uses the Internet and the World Wide Web to further collaboration between the
university and K-12 educators. At
the heart of the program is “Conversations with History”, which features
interviews with distinguished men and women from all over the world who talk
about their lives and their work. This
project has an updated website and has added new interviews, model lessons, and
planning guides for both teachers and students.
The Core Literature Study Group (Core Lit): The Core Literature Study Group is an organization of teachers that meet to develop curriculum and materials for the teaching of a specific title from the core literature list. The goal of the meetings is to publish curriculum projects on the Urban Dreams web site. Two Fremont High School teachers, Emily Filloy and Deborah Juarez, coordinated the group.
Bay Area Writing Project (BAWP):
The Bay Area Writing Project is a
collaborative program of the University of California at Berkeley and Bay Area
schools, dedicated to improving writing and the teaching of writing at all grade
levels and in all disciplines. The project includes an expanding network of
exemplary classroom teachers, kindergarten through university, who, throughout
the summer and school year, conducted professional development programs for
teachers and administrators. The
project component featured during the 2000-2001 academic year was “Expository
Writing in the History and English Classrooms.”
World Affairs Council (WAC) Human Rights Series:
The World Affairs Council Education Program provides teachers with
international studies resources and information. Innovative methods for
implementing related classroom curriculum are discussed at the workshops and
programs which include seminar series, school district projects, scholarships
for both teachers and students, institutes, a Resource Center, and the Colloquy
newsletter. Work with this project
began during the 2000 Summer Institute and continued in 2001.
“Negotiating
Unresolved World History Problems”
- A joint project of The Contemporary World History Project & The
World Affairs Council. The
Contemporary World History Project (CWHP) operates at two levels – a multiyear
knowledge and skill development program for participating teachers plus a
computer assisted, intergenerational negotiation simulation for students.
The project’s overall purpose is the development of high school
teachers’ knowledge and instructional skills relating to world history.
Participating teachers are supported with curriculum resource materials,
an e-mail communication network, and regular coaching in the application of the
project content and instructional practice in their own classrooms.
Work with this project began during the 2000 Summer Institute.
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