OAKLAND — With the school year set to begin Monday, the Oakland Unified School District and its teachers union were still locked in negotiations Friday over distance learning issues — so, in the meantime, the union is going ahead with its own plan.
“Our team worked into the night but still no MOU,” the Oakland Education Association posted Thursday on its Facebook page. “That means, according to the OEA Strong Start Plan, today is five hours of TEACHER-LED PD, PLC, and Planning.” PD refers to teacher professional development, and PLC to a professional learning community, or a group of educators getting together to work collaboratively to improve teaching skills.
The union is going ahead with its Strong Start Plan with teacher preparation from Aug. 5 to 7. And from Aug. 8 to 21, classroom teachers will hold an hour of daily live interaction with students; handle wellness checks, communicate with families about the distribution of technical materials; and take daily attendance.
The district says it cannot release clear detailed plans to reopen schools without reaching an agreement with its labor unions, including the Oakland Education Association.
The two sides have been negotiating for four weeks, district spokesman John Sasaki said.
When contacted Friday, Sasaki said there was nothing to report with the labor negotiations.
The union is advocating a plan of two full weeks of teacher prep time for a total of 10 days, a five-hour flexible workday and six hours of professional development led by administrators. The workday would include 90 minutes of “wellness time” for teachers as well as some physical activity.
The district is proposing one full week or prep time and four consecutive Wednesdays for a total of nine days, a seven-hour workday, and 17 hours of professional development.
The state requires districts to provide 180 days of instruction through distance learning — 230 minutes, or 3.8 hours a day, to students in first through third grade, and 240 minutes, or four hours, to students in fourth to 12th grade, as well as “daily live interaction” between students and teachers.
The district, on the other hand, wants elementary school teachers to put in 6.25 hours of daily instruction and secondary teachers and other certificated staff to work 6.5 hours.
The district is also proposing 100 additional minutes of live interaction between special education teachers and “students with the highest needs,” including students with disabilities, African-American and Latino students, foster youth, newcomers and students behind grade level.
In April, Oakland teachers struck an agreement with the district to be paid for full-time work the rest of last school year even though they were required to work just four hours a day because of the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on shutting schools.
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