Fwd: Creating an Oakland public education history digital archive/timeline

[Marina Kukso]

hey folks, got this over the localwiki contact email!

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Isaac Kos-Read <is...@kosreadgroup.com>
Date: Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 6:49 PM
Subject: Creating an Oakland public education history digital archive/timeline
To: con...@localwiki.org

Dear Oakland Wiki:

 

I’ve lived in Oakland since 2004, founded Salsa by the Lake in 2007, and am now a parent of a child in kinder at our local OUSD school, a home-owner (and recently a landlord), and business owner in our awesome community.

 

My main work is consulting with public education reform organizations, principally Educate78, which funds school redesign and development, teacher voice initiatives, and parent-supporting policy advocacy all oriented toward closing equity gaps across our city. I used to work in OUSD.

 

There is no good public education digital archive that tells the rich, long, and sadly tumultuous history of not just OUSD but all of Oakland K-12 public education. We’ve been cobbling together what is, but we’d really like to create a site that could serve as a part curated/part crowd-sourced and very parent, student, and educator friendly and visually engaging online chronology.

 

Any ideas or experts to connect me with in this regard? We’d like to explore pulling together a little “business plan” for something like this and then get it funded.

 

Thanks!

 

Isaac

 

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Isaac Kos-Read

President/Founder

Kos Read Group, Inc.

Communications & Public Affairs

510.292.5715