Oakland Family Literacy Program

Program Overview

The Family Literacy program supports the Oakland Unified School District strategic plan for Full Service Community Schools by empowering parents and guardians to:

• Support their children's academic progress.
• Develop family engagement and leadership skills in full service community schools.

• Develop, increase and build on the literacy skills of parents.
• Develop the skills of the parents to support their child's academic success.
• Develop family engagement and leadership skills toward meaningful family engagement.

• Parents learn the English they need to talk with their children's teachers.
• Parents can use the same technology reading intervention programs or the same English Language Development framework as the children. In this way, parents better understand how their children learn.
• Parents become school leaders, e.g., the president of the school English Language Advisory Committee (ELAC).
• As part of the Family Literacy program, parents regularly visit their child's class during Parent and Child Together (PACT) time.
• The Family Literacy program offers an inter-generational approach to education, towards breaking cycles of poverty in Oakland.

• Parents learn email, internet safety and academic improvement /tutoring websites.
• Parents learn to use the internet to access the parent portal, where they monitor their children's assignments, grades and attendance.

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