2015-16 OUSD Options Guide | Page 57

Oakland Unified School District Elementary (TK-5) Enrollment Options Guide 2015-16 Piedmont Avenue Elementary 4314 Piedmont Avenue, 94611 654-7377 www.ousd.k12.ca.us/ piedmontavenue Site Code 146 | Options Code 103 Elementary TK-5 Believe you can! Work hard! Get Smart! At Piedmont Avenue Elementary School, we inspire children to love learning. We emphasize student engagement in every classroom with a culture of high academic expectations and a rigorous curriculum based on the Common Core Standards. Our academic programs include hands-on math and science instruction, leveled reading groups based on data driven intervention and challenge lessons. We offer several enrichment activities such as computers, sport/ game time, gardening, instrumental music, choir, art, library and African dance. We promote collaboration, equity and cultural competence. We see our school’s cultural diversity as an asset and we celebrate our love and respect for each other with ongoing multicultural activities. We have community partnerships with Experience Corps, Reading Partners, Excel Reading, Education Through Music, Faith Network, Evergreen Church, the YMCA East Bay, Oakland Technical High School and Oakland High School. As a FullService Community School, we have the Piedmont Avenue Branch of the Oakland Public Library on our site. We offer student and family counseling services from the Ann Martin Wellness Center on our site. Our faculty, support staff, and volunteers act as a team committed to keeping student achievement at our core. We believe every child will succeed. We promote a college going culture, naming each classroom after a college with the belief that our students will graduate from high school prepared to attend college. Our family partnerships involve parents in the classrooms and parents are also active in our PTA and School Site Council. We