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Meet our Liberators:
Aunties. Caregivers. Parents. Grandparents. Uncles.
The Liberator Model upskills parents and caregivers to be paid tutors, providing high-dosage tutoring in some of the lowest-performing schools.
Changing the future for Black and Brown families
The Liberator Model
Liberators are primarily Black and Latino parents, caregivers, grandparents, aunties, and uncles, many with their children in Oakland Unified School District (OUSD). Literacy and Math Liberators participate in a multi-week, paid fellowship where they receive research-based literacy training, leadership development, and culture building. We also provide application and onboarding support to help place our Liberators in OUSD schools.
135
Tutors supported
The Oakland REACH is supporting the training and retention of around 135 tutors across 38 schools.
The Oakland REACH is supporting the training anretention of around 13tutors across 38 schools.
3,800
Students tutored
Through the Liberator Model, REACH’s work has directly benefited nearly 4,000+ students in Oakland.
Our model addresses five academic and social-economic needs of both students and families
Liberating Black and Brown communities
Our results are promising
We partnered with the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) to study our model and they found that our tutors are just as effective as classroom teachers in helping students make literacy gains.
We're building on success
We’ve partnered with Oakland Unified School District to expand our Liberator Model to include math.
We’ve codified our model for impact and scale.
We’re sharing our model nationally.
