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14-0691 Ratification by the Board of Education of a Professional Services Contract between the District and Mevident, Inc., South San Francisco, CA, for the latter to provide instructors for onsite employee wellness programs as follows: five stress management seminars and ten Zumba classes, for one hour classes at Sojourner Truth ISP, Joaquin Miller, Grass Valley, Manzanita SEED, International Community Schools and a Zumba instructor who will run one hour classes for 10 weeks at Grass Valley Elementary School, through the Family, School, Community Partnership Department, for the period of January 29, 2014 through May 30, 2014, in an amount not to exceed $1,100.00.

Legislation Text 14-0691 Professional Services Contract - Mevident, Inc. - Health and Wellness - Family, School, and Community Partnerships Department

14-0731 Ratification by the Board of Education of a Professional Services Contract between the District and Bay Area Education Consulting, Martinez, CA, for the latter to provide 64 hours of on-going School Improvement process by: preparing training materials for the School Quality Review; creating a time-line for afore-mentioned process so that the school community is prepared for the visit; facilitate the preparation of the documents and SQR report to deliver to the SQR review team; facilitate the alignment of the WASC Action Plan and Site Plan to student achievement and socio-emotional skills; conduct data-based inquiry into student achievement and realign instructional and assessment practices to close achievement gap; establish a professional staff development plan to support continued school improvement; establish effective instructional strategies that help to reduce the achievement gap; and align implementation of Common Core Standards with core academic instruction through Professional Staff Development, assist staff and school community to create an action plan to follow through on the Site Quality Review/WASC Self-Study at Ralph J. Bunche Continuation School, for the period of April 15, 2014 through June 30, 2014, in an amount not to exceed $4,000.00.

Legislation Text 14-0731 Professional Services Contract - Bay Area Education Consulting - Ralph J. Bunche Continuation School

14-0736 Approval by the Board of Education of a Professional Services Contract between the District and Higher Ground Neighborhood Development Corp, Oakland, CA, for the latter to: provide on-going translation services for non-bilingual teachers, outreach to families to increase participation of ELL families at school events, i.e. Data Night, Family Literacy Night, ELAC, SSC Meeting and Parent-Teacher Conferences; focus on increasing parents and caregivers access to resources to support their children's education as well as organizing parent volunteers; meet biweekly with non-bilingual teachers at designated times to provide face-to-face, phone and/or written translations of their communication with Spanish-speaking parents/caregivers of their students; organize and train parent volunteers to work with identified Far Below Basic (FBB) and Below Basic (BB) students and/or prep materials and do other clerical tasks to support teachers at New Highland Academy, for the period September 9, 2013 through June 11, 2014, in an amount not to exceed $1,000.00.

Legislation Text 14-0736 Professional Services Contract - Higher Grounds Neighborhood Development Corporation - New Highland Academy

14-0738 Approval by the Board of Education of a Professional Services Contract between the District and Oakland Schools Foundation, Oakland, CA, for the latter to provide parent engagement events; launch and coordinate ongoing participation in SSC/ELAC; coordinate events like Honors Night, learning showcase, Family Fun Fitness Day, Heritage Nights, Academic Night, Community Meetings; coordinate/provide translation support for school wide events; provide translation; coordinate and participate in leadership teams, at EnCompass Academy, for the period of February 10, 2014 through June 13, 2014, in an amount not to exceed $8,922.23.

Legislation Text 14-0738 Professional Services Contract - Oakland Schools Foundation - EnCompass Academy

14-0740 Ratification by the Board of Education of a Professional Services Contract between the District and Philip Williams, Oakland, CA, for the latter to provide support in the initial set-up, maintenance and scheduled upgrades of instructional computers and software, which will communicate with on-site printers and computers and be able to access the internet from any teaching location; provide advice on the configuration of "teacher" computers, laptops, projection and printing capability, and backup strategies for student work; provide assistance in troubleshooting implementation issues with all software packages and applications, for the period of January 13, 2013 through June 30, 2014, at Edna Brewer Middle School, in an amount not to exceed $25,000.00.

Legislation Text 14-0740 Professional Services Contract - Phillip Williams - Edna Brewer Middle School

14-0751 Ratification by the Board of Education of a Professional Services Contract between the District and Saba Ghebreyesus, Emeryville, CA, for the latter to provide 560 hours of service as the Restorative Justice (RJ) Coordinator at McClymonds High School under the direction of the Program Manager, in coordination with the site administrators, the Behavioral Health Unit of the Family, School, and Community Partnerships Department, support the implementation and expansion of a multi-tiered framework of restorative practices in at least 25 Volunteer Resolution Program (VRP) schools, for the period of March 1, 2014 through June 30, 2014, in an amount not to exceed $16,240.00.

Legislation Text 14-0751 Professional Services Contract - Saba Ghebreyesus - Behavioral Health Initiatives - Family, School, and Community Partnerships Department

14-0760 Adoption by the Board of Education of Resolution No. 1314-1103- Closing of An Existing Oakland Unified School District Union Bank Account / Transferring Funds To the Alameda County Office of Education.

Legislation Text 14-0760 Closing Existing Union Bank Bank Account / Transferring Funds to the Alameda County Office of Education - Financial Accounting Division

14-0761 Ratification by the Board of Education of a Professional Services Contract between the District and Community Alliance With Family Farmers, Davis, CA, for the latter to: I. provide technical assistance, do outreach to appropriate growers and producers, and facilitate product through the supply chain in order to meet the District's objectives on local sourcing for the CA Thursdays program, product categories include chicken, beef, fresh produce and cut produce blends; II. create farmer trading cards for the local producers featured in the CA Thursdays menu entrees; and III. work with the District to design and lead monthly 'Food Rules' trainings for District food service staff; organize and lead monthly taste tests of local produce and lessons on local agricultural production for District food service staff, through the Nutrition Services Department, for the period March 1, 2014 through June 30, 2014, in an amount not to exceed $1,500.00.

Legislation Text 14-0761 Professional Services Contract - Community Alliance With Family Farmers - Nutritional Services Department

14-0763 Ratification by the Board of Education of Amendment No. 1, Professional Services Contract between the District and the Museum of Children's Art (MOCHA), for the latter to provide collaboration and preparation for the Summer Arts Institute including the provision of six workshops for District K-12 teachers, in the additional amount of $25,000.00, increasing the Contract not to exceed amount from $2,500.00 to $27,500.00, for the Leadership, Curriculum and Instruction Department, for the period December 20, 2013 through June 30, 2014. All other terms and conditions of the Contract remain in full force and effect.

Legislation Text 14-0763 Amendment No. 1 Professional Services Contract - Museum of Children's Art (MOCHA) - Leadership, Curriculum & Instruction

14-0764 Ratification by the Board of Education of Professional Services Contract between the District and Connect Ed, Berkeley, CA, for the latter to provide professional development for pathway teacher teams, as described in the Scope of Work, incorporate herein by reference as though fully set forth, for the Linked Learning Department, for the period of March 3, 2014 through June 30, 2014, in an amount not to exceed $13,400.00.

Legislation Text 14-0764 Professional Services Contract - Connect Ed - Linked Learning

14-0771 Approval by the Board of Education of Resolution No. 1314-1105- Creation of Program Manager, Health Services, Department of Family, Schools & Community Partnerships. Family, Schools & Community Partnerships Department Create Funding Position Title/FTE Tier 3-TIIG-Health Services, Program Manager, Health Services Resource, 0522-922 FSCP Department (1.0 FTE) Salary Schedule/Range Salary Schedule: ADCL Range 15: $72,401.87 - $92,414.07 12 months, 261 days, 7.5 hours

Legislation Text 14-0771 Creation - Program Manager, Health Services - Family, School and Community Partnerships Department

14-0772 Approval by the Board of Education of Resolution No. 1314-1106- Creation of Specialist, Behavior - Programs for Exceptional Children. Programs for Exceptional Children Department Create Funding Position Title/FTE SE-IDEA Basic Grant, Specialist, Behavior Resource, 3310-975 PEC Department (1.0 FTE) Salary Schedule/Range Salary Schedule: ADCL Range 14: $68,947.61 - $87,996.12 12 months, 261 days, 7.5 hours

Legislation Text 14-0772 Creation - Specialist, Behavior - Programs for Exceptional Children

14-0782 Ratification by the Board of Education of a Professional Services Contract between the District and Carter-Kelly Consulting/Lifepoint, Oakland, CA, for the latter to provide 142 hours of service of support to parents, guardians and family members of students with an 80% attendance record as well as a grade point average less than a 2.0, providing approximately four hours of information and services to support their family structure by coordinating and delivering information on parent workshops, teleseminars and courses; disseminating information to families that build parent capacity by providing tools and sharing skills to help improve the quality of life through fierce communications strategies and tactics, at Oakland High School, for the period of February 28, 2014 through June 30, 2014, in an amount not to exceed $9,940.00.

Legislation Text 14-0782 Professional Services Contract - Carter-Kelly Consulting/Lifepoint - Oakland High School

14-0788 Approval by the Board of Education of Memorandum of Understanding between the District and Mandela Marketplace, Inc., for the parties to engage in a collaborative effort to serve the Oakland School Community through the District's school produce markets by (i) marketing and selling affordable, healthy, sustainably grown regional food, and (ii) providing nutrition opportunities, each, as delineated in the Agreement, incorporated herein as though fully set forth, for the Nutrition Services Department, for the period of February 1, 2014 through August 31, 2015, at no cost to the District.

Legislation Text 14-0788 Memorandum of Understanding - Mandela Marketplace, Inc. - Nutrition Services Department

14-0491 Approval by the Board of Education of Acceptance of Abundance Foundation Grant Award for support of Project Zero liaison position, supplies and the Maker Projects, in an amount not to exceed $20,500.00, at Oakland International High School, for the period July 1, 2013 through July 1, 2014, pursuant to terms and conditions thereof, if any.

Legislation Text 14-0491 Grant Award Acceptance - Abundance Foundation - Oakland International High School