20-2017 Submission Public Hearing by the Board of Education of Education for Change Public Schools - Achieve Academy - Petition and Proposed Charter - Grades TK-5 - July 1, 2021 - June 30, 2026 (5 Year Renewal).
Achieve Academy School helps the community a lot, the teachers work hard with our children so that they learn more every day so we ask them to renew another five years.
Friendly staff and teacher safe environment for student to learn in. "Achieve should be renewed for many reasons:
The staff and teachers is really supportive and always there to listen to student when theres a problem. Before the pandemic they give student 100 percent commitment, since the pandemic staff and teachers has not stop being supportive for students and family weather it's a tech problem or art /school supplies they will be here to fix it right away.
Achieve have the most supportive system for students.
Teacher will call and check in on students to see how their doing even if it's on a weekend."
To give my children a different experience from previous school they attended and it's the best decision I made for them.
Lo que me en canta de Achive.es que todo el personal es muy amable la escuela esta muy limpia y la forma en que los maestros en señan y que también ayudan mucho ala comunidad.Por que es una buena escuela trabajan de una forma diferente y a mi y a mi hijo nos gusta mucho. Primero por que era solo de Inglés y me hijo estaba un poco atrasado en su ingles pero a mejorado muchísimo. Y después fui mirando más cosas que me gustaron de la escuela incluso pensé en sacarlo pero decide dejarlo .
I love achieve because it has the best teachers and staff. Achieve is a special school because they give more than 100% in teaching and helping all students and parents.
Achieve is truly a community school that is welcoming at all. Since DL has began, Achieve has provided assistance with technology, food, paying bills, finding housing, and immigration help. I am a teacher at Achieve and have been for 15 years. My child is too young to attend, but when they are I will enroll them here. Our students and families are our first priority, and I have the opportunity to be part of countless families lives in those years. I had the pleasure to attend a past student's graduation at UC Berkeley and I know that our work at Achieve has impacted thousands of lives.
Achieve is dedicated to providing a high quality education for its students and students are making incredible gains under the leadership of its administration, teachers, and staff. I'm a teacher and parent at Achieve, and my child has been at the school since kindergarten. She has had an incredible experience here that I don't think she would have gotten elsewhere -- she's had excellent teachers who are dedicated to providing her with an enriching educational experience and making sure she feels safe and cared about. Simply put, I send my child to Achieve because she loves the school and the people who are part of it.
Todo su trabajo. Porque la comunidad la necesita necesitamos una escuela de educación cómo está. Por su aprendizaje y esfuerzo para que mis hijos aprendan más
What I love about Achieve is that it feels like a community school. I am a K-5th grade science teacher at the school, and I love working with all the siblings, cousins, friends and neighbors that I get to work with over the course of a week. Students love the joy, celebration, and sense of belonging that creates the school's identity.
What I love about Achieve is how much devotion and effort the staff has to see the students of our community succeed. Staff supports and strive to see students develop academically as well as having the space for students to develop socio-emocional skills as well. The school has developed a community with families and students, culturally, academically, personally that makes families feel supported and part of the school and Achieve goes above and beyond to support their students as well as their families academically and personally. The growth of community has grown so much during these tough times and shows how they care about the wellbeing of those they they are here to serve.
I’m a new teacher at Achieve this year and I had an incredibly challenging experience at my last school where I taught. Due to my past experiences, I was wary about power dynamics with admin, relationships with family and culture with staff. Achieve has gone above and beyond my expectations. Teachers stepping up as leaders and are spending voluntary time to run anti-racist learning groups for personal development for other teachers. The leadership team is constantly reflecting on their own power and privilege and putting teacher and Student needs at the forefront. I am so grateful for the intentionality, the sense of community and the deep rooted desire to grow and achieve the maximum. As a new teacher, I also feel supported and challenged every day. There is no where else I would rather be right now.
My name is Teilyn and I teach 2nd grade ELA at Achieve. I have been apart of this wonderful school community for 6 years. What I love the most about Achieve is the vibrant community we serve. We have always been driven by our community and put our students and families first in every decision we make. As a teacher, my practice has grown exponentially from all of my coaching over the years. Every year I work on new goals with my instructional coach, and every year I am immensely supported. As a school community, we are very connected and take pride in watching our students grow academically and socially. Our instruction is data driven, culturally responsive, and trauma informed. As teachers, admin, tutors, parents, and support staff, we are all committed to creating an educational experience that is not only rigorous, but engaging and joyful, in an effort to build student's agency and love of learning.
As a kindergarten teacher at Achieve, I LOVE our tutor program. Achieve hires and trains community members, often parents, to work in our classrooms as tutors. Tutors teach reading intervention. The tutor in my classroom is trilingual (English, Spanish and Mam). We are a very tight team and work closely to serve our students to the very best of our abilities. With two of us in the classroom, we can provide a full day of small group learning. Students are always instructed at their level and always given a voice. We never have to resort to whole class lessons. My students are thriving and their families are excited and proud of their progress. I love the Achieve community and am honored to serve our students.
I have worked at more than 10 Oakland Unified elementary schools and Achieve is the most organized and positive schools I have been a part of. The staff is wonderful to work with and everyone is focused on what's best for students. We love educating our students so much, taking that away from students and families would not be in service of students and the community.
Me gusta que los maestros estén más dedicados a sus estudiantes que los maestros que trabajan para el distrito Achieve Academy es la mejor escuela para que mis hijos reciban la mejor educación que es un derecho porque no hay mejor escuela para que mis hijos sean educados
I love that Achieve focuses on community, not just on campus, but in the surrounding neighborhood. I've never seen a school so dedicated to serving the whole student and their family, going above and beyond what other schools are doing. I've seen incredible growth academically and emotionally in students I've worked with as a result of the teamwork around supporting students. Achieve's charter should most certainly be renewed as it has continuously evolved to become a support for students and their families. Achieve does not see its students or families as one size fits all, but rather as individuals that are capable of achieving success in all areas, with different strengths and needs along the way.
I was a teacher at the school when we were Hawthorne Elementary School. I've taught on campus for 21 years. The progress we have made as a charter has been incredible. In the old school zone system, I had a fellow teacher who lived in the attendance zone. She lied about her address to send her child to another school. Now, we have teachers who send their children to our school, when they could send them anywhere. I would trust my child to learn at Achieve in a heartbeat! Our project based learning, intense reading intervention, rigorous, joyful culture makes Achieve a special place to teach and learn.
Achieve Academy works so hard to provide the best support for the community of Fruitvale. Through creative and supportive instruction and the wrap around community supports especially during a time of COVID with our foodbank, school supplies, technology and access to internet. Achieve is truly living out the vision of what it means to be a community school that does whatever it takes for students and families. As a staff member at Achieve our teams work tirelessly to do anything students need to fulfill their life long dreams. If my children were old enough to attend school they would come to Achieve! The teachers are fantastic and the school values the whole child. Our students need a school in Fruitvale that values who they are and what they bring to the community. Achieve Academy is that school!
Achieve Academy School helps the community a lot, the teachers work hard with our children so that they learn more every day so we ask them to renew another five years.
Friendly staff and teacher safe environment for student to learn in. "Achieve should be renewed for many reasons:
The staff and teachers is really supportive and always there to listen to student when theres a problem. Before the pandemic they give student 100 percent commitment, since the pandemic staff and teachers has not stop being supportive for students and family weather it's a tech problem or art /school supplies they will be here to fix it right away.
Achieve have the most supportive system for students.
Teacher will call and check in on students to see how their doing even if it's on a weekend."
To give my children a different experience from previous school they attended and it's the best decision I made for them.
Lo que me en canta de Achive.es que todo el personal es muy amable la escuela esta muy limpia y la forma en que los maestros en señan y que también ayudan mucho ala comunidad.Por que es una buena escuela trabajan de una forma diferente y a mi y a mi hijo nos gusta mucho. Primero por que era solo de Inglés y me hijo estaba un poco atrasado en su ingles pero a mejorado muchísimo. Y después fui mirando más cosas que me gustaron de la escuela incluso pensé en sacarlo pero decide dejarlo .
I love achieve because it has the best teachers and staff. Achieve is a special school because they give more than 100% in teaching and helping all students and parents.
Achieve is truly a community school that is welcoming at all. Since DL has began, Achieve has provided assistance with technology, food, paying bills, finding housing, and immigration help. I am a teacher at Achieve and have been for 15 years. My child is too young to attend, but when they are I will enroll them here. Our students and families are our first priority, and I have the opportunity to be part of countless families lives in those years. I had the pleasure to attend a past student's graduation at UC Berkeley and I know that our work at Achieve has impacted thousands of lives.
Que tiene buenos maestros. Porque es una excelente escuela. Porque mi hijo aprendido mucho.
Achieve is dedicated to providing a high quality education for its students and students are making incredible gains under the leadership of its administration, teachers, and staff. I'm a teacher and parent at Achieve, and my child has been at the school since kindergarten. She has had an incredible experience here that I don't think she would have gotten elsewhere -- she's had excellent teachers who are dedicated to providing her with an enriching educational experience and making sure she feels safe and cared about. Simply put, I send my child to Achieve because she loves the school and the people who are part of it.
Todo su trabajo. Porque la comunidad la necesita necesitamos una escuela de educación cómo está. Por su aprendizaje y esfuerzo para que mis hijos aprendan más
What I love about Achieve is that it feels like a community school. I am a K-5th grade science teacher at the school, and I love working with all the siblings, cousins, friends and neighbors that I get to work with over the course of a week. Students love the joy, celebration, and sense of belonging that creates the school's identity.
What I love about Achieve is how much devotion and effort the staff has to see the students of our community succeed. Staff supports and strive to see students develop academically as well as having the space for students to develop socio-emocional skills as well. The school has developed a community with families and students, culturally, academically, personally that makes families feel supported and part of the school and Achieve goes above and beyond to support their students as well as their families academically and personally. The growth of community has grown so much during these tough times and shows how they care about the wellbeing of those they they are here to serve.
I’m a new teacher at Achieve this year and I had an incredibly challenging experience at my last school where I taught. Due to my past experiences, I was wary about power dynamics with admin, relationships with family and culture with staff. Achieve has gone above and beyond my expectations. Teachers stepping up as leaders and are spending voluntary time to run anti-racist learning groups for personal development for other teachers. The leadership team is constantly reflecting on their own power and privilege and putting teacher and Student needs at the forefront. I am so grateful for the intentionality, the sense of community and the deep rooted desire to grow and achieve the maximum. As a new teacher, I also feel supported and challenged every day. There is no where else I would rather be right now.
My name is Teilyn and I teach 2nd grade ELA at Achieve. I have been apart of this wonderful school community for 6 years. What I love the most about Achieve is the vibrant community we serve. We have always been driven by our community and put our students and families first in every decision we make. As a teacher, my practice has grown exponentially from all of my coaching over the years. Every year I work on new goals with my instructional coach, and every year I am immensely supported. As a school community, we are very connected and take pride in watching our students grow academically and socially. Our instruction is data driven, culturally responsive, and trauma informed. As teachers, admin, tutors, parents, and support staff, we are all committed to creating an educational experience that is not only rigorous, but engaging and joyful, in an effort to build student's agency and love of learning.
As a kindergarten teacher at Achieve, I LOVE our tutor program. Achieve hires and trains community members, often parents, to work in our classrooms as tutors. Tutors teach reading intervention. The tutor in my classroom is trilingual (English, Spanish and Mam). We are a very tight team and work closely to serve our students to the very best of our abilities. With two of us in the classroom, we can provide a full day of small group learning. Students are always instructed at their level and always given a voice. We never have to resort to whole class lessons. My students are thriving and their families are excited and proud of their progress. I love the Achieve community and am honored to serve our students.
Me encanta porque los profesores y directores siempre están apoyando a los alumnos y a los padres de familia.
I have worked at more than 10 Oakland Unified elementary schools and Achieve is the most organized and positive schools I have been a part of. The staff is wonderful to work with and everyone is focused on what's best for students. We love educating our students so much, taking that away from students and families would not be in service of students and the community.
Me gusta que los maestros estén más dedicados a sus estudiantes que los maestros que trabajan para el distrito Achieve Academy es la mejor escuela para que mis hijos reciban la mejor educación que es un derecho porque no hay mejor escuela para que mis hijos sean educados
I love that Achieve focuses on community, not just on campus, but in the surrounding neighborhood. I've never seen a school so dedicated to serving the whole student and their family, going above and beyond what other schools are doing. I've seen incredible growth academically and emotionally in students I've worked with as a result of the teamwork around supporting students. Achieve's charter should most certainly be renewed as it has continuously evolved to become a support for students and their families. Achieve does not see its students or families as one size fits all, but rather as individuals that are capable of achieving success in all areas, with different strengths and needs along the way.
I was a teacher at the school when we were Hawthorne Elementary School. I've taught on campus for 21 years. The progress we have made as a charter has been incredible. In the old school zone system, I had a fellow teacher who lived in the attendance zone. She lied about her address to send her child to another school. Now, we have teachers who send their children to our school, when they could send them anywhere. I would trust my child to learn at Achieve in a heartbeat! Our project based learning, intense reading intervention, rigorous, joyful culture makes Achieve a special place to teach and learn.
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Achieve Academy works so hard to provide the best support for the community of Fruitvale. Through creative and supportive instruction and the wrap around community supports especially during a time of COVID with our foodbank, school supplies, technology and access to internet. Achieve is truly living out the vision of what it means to be a community school that does whatever it takes for students and families. As a staff member at Achieve our teams work tirelessly to do anything students need to fulfill their life long dreams. If my children were old enough to attend school they would come to Achieve! The teachers are fantastic and the school values the whole child. Our students need a school in Fruitvale that values who they are and what they bring to the community. Achieve Academy is that school!