Social Justice Aurum Prep Case Study

Designing for Social Justice Aurum Prep is deeply committed to providing a rigorous and trajectory changing education to the most disenfranchised students in Oakland. One well known but unaddressed issue facing the Oakland education landscape is the significant underrepresentation of African American children in high quality schools. Aurum Prep not only seeks to provide equity for this subgroup, but for all students it serves.

I have been fortunate enough to be part of two school leadership fellowship programs, both of which share the same mission but have different ideas on how to achieve that mission. One is much more focused on structured school models that deliver strong math and reading test results. The other is much more focused