{"id":64,"date":"2014-12-16T23:35:29","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T04:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2014-etalbot\/?page_id=64"},"modified":"2014-12-23T02:10:17","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T07:10:17","slug":"oakland-emiliano-zapata-street-academy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2014-etalbot\/oakland-emiliano-zapata-street-academy\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland: Emiliano Zapata Street Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oaklandstreetacademy.org\/\">http:\/\/oaklandstreetacademy.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Employing \u201cculturally relevant pedagogy\u201d as Gloria Ladson-Billings would identify it, the Street Academy offers a college-preparatory alternative environment for mostly black and Latino students, at time in the 1970s when \u201ccharter schools\u201d hadn&#8217;t yet been conceptualized. Founded with a coalition among California\u2019s first black superintendent Marcus Foster, the National Urban League, the still-current executive director Pat Williams Myrick, teacher Betsy Schulz, member of San Francisco State University\u2019s black and Chicano movements, and many more. Creating a smaller high school with rigorous and interesting electives\u2014including biking and tutoring to get a glimpse into teaching. With an \u201cegalitarian and humanitarian outlook\u201d according to Kitty Epstein<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a>, seemingly simple innovations become radical saviors for students that were deemed failures; the Street Academy was the first Oakland school to be named California Distinguished School, with 50% of all graduates (compared to 14% African American and 28% Latino in Oakland) meet ingrequirements to enroll in the statue universities. Each student is assigned one consulting teacher\u2014and there is a large percentage of black and Latino teachers extremely committed to teaching about structural racism\u2014who support the students in and out of school.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-120\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2014-etalbot\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/87\/2014\/12\/OEZSA.png\" alt=\"OEZSA\" width=\"223\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2014-etalbot\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/87\/2014\/12\/OEZSA.png 166w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2014-etalbot\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/87\/2014\/12\/OEZSA-150x121.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> Epstein, Kitty Kelly. \u201cMiracle School: A Child of the Civil Rights Movement.\u201d <em>The Phi Delta Kappan<\/em>. Vol. 85, No. 10, pp. 773-776. Jun., 2004.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/oaklandstreetacademy.org\/ Employing \u201cculturally relevant pedagogy\u201d as Gloria Ladson-Billings would identify it, the Street Academy offers a college-preparatory alternative environment for mostly black and Latino students, at time in the 1970s when \u201ccharter schools\u201d hadn&#8217;t yet been conceptualized. Founded with a coalition among California\u2019s first black superintendent Marcus Foster, the National Urban League, the still-current executive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-64","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2014-etalbot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2014-etalbot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2014-etalbot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2014-etalbot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2014-etalbot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2014-etalbot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2014-etalbot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}