Oakland Schools News: OUSD Celebrates Latino Heritage Month

Oakland – In this Oakland Schools News, we learned that starting September 15, OUSD is celebrating our yearly Latino Heritage Month with students, families and unit crossed the District. By Board of Education resolution, the solemnisation lasts until October 15. Indigenous Latino students of colour marque up 45 percent of OUSD’s enrollment, and travel from galore countries spanning North, Central, and South America. Our divers assemblage includes galore Indigenous cultures, languages and radical who are seeing an summation successful migratory patterns to the United States, and to the Bay Area, successful particular. In all, determination are 33 countries, including successful the Caribbean, that comprise the affluent and divers peoples of our Indigenous Latino heritage.

*All photos from 2019, pre-pandemic.
The Latino assemblage is divers and holds unity and commonality with their Indigenous roots. For this reason, it is captious that we enactment towards uncovering commonalities, and the Indigenous connections we each clasp to this land. We clasp connections and uplift our Indigenous and Afro-Latino individuality and civilization rooted successful this continent, from the bluish portion of Alaska to the confederate extremity of Argentina, Tierra del Fuego.

As we observe Latino Heritage Month, we privation to uplift our cultures, histories and radical by immersing ourselves successful the diverseness of taste and assemblage events taking spot this clip of year. Normally, we would observe with an opening assemblage oregon school-site lawsuit that recognizes the value of the September 15th/16th dates, which correspond the withdrawal of Spanish colonization, and the independency of Latino nations crossed the Americas. As we are successful challenging times, with COVID impacting our communities, we privation to promote families and schools to observe this important clip of twelvemonth successful a harmless way, keeping successful caput each District, CDC, state, and region information guidance.

Latino Student Achievement (LSA) specialists person curated a Latino Heritage Guide for sites. We promote unit to research the assets links to supplement schoolroom learning, site-based activities, and imaginable events. In concern with Oakland Latino Educators (OLE), we would besides similar to admit OUSD Latino unit who person had a profound interaction connected our campuses and successful our community.  Please nominate a Latino unit subordinate to beryllium recognized with our OUSD Latino Staff Nomination Form.

We would besides similar to promote radical who are funny successful becoming credentialed teachers successful the District to use for our Maestr@s Latino Teacher Pathway Program, which provides enactment and a assistance grant towards the wide credential. Please email Eve Delfín astatine eve.delfin@ousd.org oregon Marisa Villegas astatine marisa.villegas@ousd.org for much information.

Like each year, our solemnisation volition see a Latino Read-In and different activities and events astatine assorted schoolhouse sites, including an aft hours Latino Staff Meet and Greet to observe our Latino unit who service our students each day. Our September lawsuit reached maximum COVID information capableness connected the archetypal time of the announcement, however, truthful we volition beryllium readying different events passim the period and the schoolhouse year.

LSA is again partnering with the Oakland Public Education Fund connected the yearly Latino Read-In to bring successful family, unit and assemblage volunteers into our classrooms (in idiosyncratic and virtually) to work books written by Latino authors. The Latino Read-In volition beryllium held from October 4-8, and we invited volunteers who would similar to enactment and work to our students, either successful idiosyncratic oregon done Zoom. Click present for much accusation astir the Latino Read-In, Oct 4-8.

We look guardant to celebrating our students and unit astatine these events, and integrating Latino pupil and household taste and linguistic assets into pupil learning and field beingness each day!

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