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12-3063 Approval by the Board of Education of a Memorandum of Understanding between District and TutorWorks Inc., Redwood City, CA, subject to form and content approval by General Counsel for the latter to provide tutoring in Mathematics and/or Language Arts to eligible students, as determined by No Child Left Behind Guidelines, aligned by specifications of each eligible student's Individual Learning Plan, submit students progress reports to parents and teachers for all eligible students receiving Supplemental Educational Services (SES) and provide other services as specified in the Scope of Work, incorporated herein by reference as though fully set forth, for the period of December 19, 2012 through June 13, 2013 in an amount not to exceed $699,154.78.

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12-3102 Ratification by the Board of Education of a Professional Services Contract between District and Claire Ungar, Oakland, CA, for the latter to provide 210 hours of supplemental instructional services for eligible and identified private school students, including providing effective and organize extended support services in reading, language arts, and mathematics to identified students; provide standards-based instructional support to students; work with other school staff to present compliant annual Title I Program meeting for parents; confer with parents as needed, as described in the Scope of Work, incorporated herein by reference as though fully set forth, at St.Martin de Porres School, for the period October 15, 2012 through June 30, 2013, in an amount not to exceed $10,500.00.

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12-3113 Ratification by the Board of Education of a Professional Services Contract between District and Laura Abel, Pleasant Hill, CA, for the latter to provide 106.50 supplemental instructional services for eligible and identified private school students, including providing effective and organize extended support services in reading, language arts, and mathematics to identified students; provide standards-based instructional support to students; work with other school staff to present compliant annual Title I Program meeting for parents; confer with parents as needed, as described in the Scope of Work, incorporated herein by reference as though fully set forth, at St. Lawrence O'Toole School, for the period October 15, 2012 through June 30, 2013, in an amount not to exceed $5,321.00.

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12-3115 Ratification by the Board of Education of a Professional Services Contract between District and Madeline Hewitt-Reiter, Berkeley, CA, for the latter to provide 350 hours of supplemental instructional services for eligible and identified private school students, including providing effective and organize extended support services in reading, language arts, and mathematics to identified students; provide standards-based instructional support to students; work with other school staff to present compliant annual Title I Program meeting for parents; confer with parents as needed, as described in the Scope of Work, incorporated herein by reference as though fully set forth, at St. Martin de Porres School, for the period October 15, 2012 through June 30, 2013, in an amount not to exceed $17,500.00.

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12-3116 Ratification by the Board of Education of a Professional Services Contract between District and Shannon Jordan, Oakland, CA, for the latter to provide 300 hours of supplemental instructional services for eligible and identified private school students, including providing effective and organize extended support services in reading, language arts, and mathematics to identified students; provide standards-based instructional support to students; work with other school staff to present compliant annual Title I Program meeting for parents; confer with parents as needed, as described in the Scope of Work, incorporated herein by reference as though fully set forth, at St. Jarlath School, for the period October 15, 2012 through June 30, 2013, in an amount not to exceed $15,000.00.

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12-3129 Approval by the Board of Education of Amendment No. 1 of the Memorandum of Understanding between the District and First Five of Alameda County, San Leandro, CA, reducing the amount of the grant available, previously accepted by the Board on January 12, 2011 (Legislative File No. 10-2911, Enactment No. 11-0091), from the latter for implementation of the School Readiness Initiative for children ages 0-5 through the Early Childhood Education Department, from $306,000.00 to $257,067.00, for the period July 1, 2011 through June 30, 2013. All other terms and conditions of the Contract remain in full force and effect.

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12-3133 Ratification by the Board of Education of a Professional Services Contract between District and Action Learning Systems, Inc, West Sacramento, CA, for the latter to provide English Language Arts Benchmark assessments for grades 2-5, to be administered at all District elementary schools three times during the 2012-13 school year, for the period of October 12, 2012 through June 30, 2013, in an amount not to exceed $25,669.80.

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12-3148 Ratification by the Board of Education of a Professional Services Contract between District and Partners in Schools Innovations, San Francisco, CA, for the latter to provide 1000 hours of service to the African-American Male Achievement Program as follows:1) Manhood Development Program: Classes that foster student engagement in school and student health; 2) African American Family Summits : outreach to families and organizing workshops and other activities; 3) Voluntary School Study Teams: support to schools to improve school climate and better support student achievement and well-being; 4) Professional development and informal question for school in central office staff to tackle systematic inequities that produce racial, gender and ethnic disparities in achievement and well-being of students and families, as outlined in the Scope of Work, for the period of July 1, 2012 through June 30, 2013, in an amount not to exceed $80,900.00.

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12-3169 Adoption by the Board of Education on behalf of District and SELPA of Assurance of Compliance with the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act of 2004 Regarding Implementation of Coordinated Early Intervention Services, submitted by Programs for Exceptional Children, and authorizing submittal of same to the California Department of Education, for the period September 2012 through June 2013.

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Finance and Human Resources Matter(s)

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12-2502 Ratification by the Board of Education of a Professional Services Contract between District and Educators for Social Responsibility, Cambridge, MA, for the latter to provide 800 hours of services as follows: (a) Needs Assessment and Preliminary Planning: ESR program consultant will conduct preliminary planning with the High School Executive Officer, SLC & i3 Director, and Principal & Leadership team of one SLC high school to refine goals, scope of work, and roles and responsibilities for the following services; (b) Principal Leadership Development: Provide a professional learning strand to deepen Principal understanding of the RTII framework and the ways to systemize a cohesive set of school-wide academic interventions that will reduce failure rates and increase achievement and graduation rates; (c) SLC Leadership PD: Provide PD for members of 9th grade leadership teams to support their developing highly effective professional learning communities working strategically, and mutually accountable for, high student achievement; (d) Oakland Tech: Provide year-long professional development for staff, comprised of an Institute and embedded coaching, to support teachers in creating high-achieving classrooms through use of a range of research-based instructional strategies for engaging all students and building a community of learners who can engage productively in whole group, small group, and independent work, for the period August 1, 2012 through June 30, 2013, in an amount not to exceed $80,000.00.

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12-2795 Ratification by the Board of Education for a Professional Services Contract between District and Anika Hardy, Oakland, CA, for the latter, to serve as School Readiness Enrollment & Outreach Coordinator Consultant, responsible for coordinating, initiating, participating in community-wide collaborative planning meetings, events, and data analysis in support of boosting internal & external awareness & interest in enrolling children in District preschools, District Summer "PreK to K" bridge programs, and District Transitional & Traditional Kindergartens across the District, with particular emphasis on Region 3, and Region 1 heartland schools, with all meetinga and events of the Initiative centered around the following four research-based pillars for families in the early years and early grades: Multiple Literacies in a 21st Century world, Attendance, Nutrition, & Health & Wellness, for the period of October 15, 2012 through December 15, 2012, in an amount not to exceed $14,000.00.

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12-2801 Approval by the Board of Education of a Professional Services Contract between District and Hatchuel Tabernik & Associates, Berkeley, CA, for the latter to 1) provide 12 gang prevention workshops for OUSD school staff and partner agencies as follows: (a) a total of 40 hours of training services shall be provided; (b) pre-post surveys shall be administered; (c) workshops will be scheduled and coordinated under the supervision of OUSD's Office of Alternative Education; 2) participate in quarterly Interagency Gang Prevention Collaborative with work groups; and 3) provide data as required for evaluation, for the period October 1, 2012 through June 30, 2013, in an amount not to exceed $4,000.00.

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12-2826 Approval by the Board of Education of a Memorandum of Understanding between District and Alameda County Public Health Department, San Leandro, CA, for the latter to provide services to implement a Teen Pregnancy Program to prevent and/or reduce teen pregnancy by working collaboratively with youth, teachers, school based health centers, school day and after school staff, and community service providers to coordinate and deliver evidence-based curriculum at Ascend, United for Success, Urban Promise Academy, Coliseum College Preparatory Academy, Melrose Leadership Academy, Roots International Academy, Bret Harte, Alliance Academy, Elmhurst Community Preparatory, Madison, Frick, Roosevelt, West Oakland, Edna Brewer, Montera, Westlake, Hillcrest, Sankofa, Greenleaf, Life Academy and Claremont Middle School, for the period of September 1, 2012 through August 31, 2013, at no cost to the District.

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12-2830 Approval by the Board of Education of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Oakland Unified School District (District) and Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD), Berkeley, CA, for the former to provide a Behavioral Health staff member from District to conduct two all day Restorative Justice Program trainings to BUSD staff on Tier 1 restorative justice: community building and restorative conversations; each training is scheduled from approximately 8:30am to 3:30pm, with former invoicing latter $1,000.00 per training, not to exceed $2,000.00, for the period of October 8, 2012 through November 9, 2012.

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