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December 14, 2011 • ERIC GANT, McClymonds High
They took a survey on how fights and bullying affect learning. They wore stickers that read “Watch my back.” And they painted “48%” on their faces to remind themselves that only 48 percent of African Americans and Latinos graduate high school in Oakland. These were some of the “actions”...
July 14, 2011
Steven Phan, a design and layout editor for the Aegis, the student newspaper of Oakland High School, produced the ad that appears below as an example of how students can work with local advertisers to create ads. OHigh students hope to get more ads from local “green” businesses to support...
July 14, 2011
Journalism students at Oakland High School compiled a list of potential advertisers and donors who they plan to approach next year to support their school garden. The spreadsheet below is a work in progress, and reflects the work of several students on the staff of the Aegis, Oakland High’s student...
July 14, 2011
A slideshow produced by students on the Aegis, Oakland High School’s newspaper, shows the many ways in which the school’s modest garden — about the size of a small classroom — goes beyond its boundaries, teaching students about everything from how to understand the process of photosynthesis,...
June 3, 2011 • Kevin Davis, Oakland High School
I became friends with Phillip Wright in my freshman year. We were both members of the class of 2011. Phillip was shot and killed in November of 2009. I miss my friend. Phillip was a friend you would want to have because he had a great personality and a smile that would brighten your day. We had Daniel...
June 3, 2011 • Reese Brown, Media Academy
A group of students at Media Academy in Oakland has been earning some green for working — and learning — in the school garden. The six students meet after school on Wednesdays from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. to plant, water and maintain the garden. The program is taught by Matthew Green, a former journalism...
June 3, 2011 • Jeff Derenthal, Skyline High School
After years of dumping recyclable materials into the trash, Skyline’s Eco Club has at long last established a program to separate the school’s waste. For years, Skyline’s custodians refused to separate recycling from normal, landfill-bound trash because the extra work was not part of their contract....
June 3, 2011 • Pamela Tapia, Reporter
Creating billboards, painting a nature mural and launching a school garden are among the ideas that McClymonds students are considering after tackling toxic dumping in West Oakland. Students from West Oakland Middle School and McClymonds High School students hosted a three-hour community cleanup on March...
June 3, 2011 • The editors
Got veggies? If so, we’d like to know … and we’d like to invite you to our “Heart of the Harvest” school garden summit, to be held next fall. The summit will be an opportunity for Oakland public school teachers, students and community members to come together and showcase...
June 3, 2011 • Esmeralda Argueta, Alihzey Black, Esther Gamez, Monique Hatcher, Maria V. Muniz, Lee Simmons, Lilybeth Villasenor and Erick Zamudi, Reporters, East Oakland School of the Arts
What if you redesigned a school and nobody liked it? Students at the East Oakland School of the Arts (EOSA) are talking about the type of school they’d like to see, following news earlier this year that the Oakland Unified School District will consolidate the three schools at the Castlemont...
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