Read-In

Asian Pacific American Virtual Read-In Week 

May 3-7, 2021

Every year, we celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month with books! This year, we are celebrating online to support distance learning. Please join us to make a video reading aloud your favorite children’s book by and about the Asian Pacific American community.

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Our Asian students, families and staff are beloved members of our District community, and I know many of them are devastated and scared because of all the anti-Asian violence they are seeing in the news and in our community. I am proud of our students who are beginning to organize multiracial dialogues to enhance solidarity across racial groups. Our recent racial affinity groups continue to offer spaces for our staff to have these critical dialogues, as well, with upcoming cross-cultural sessions planned this year.” 

– Superintendent Kyla Johnson Trammel

INSTRUCTIONS

To decrease bullying and prevent incidents of anti-Asian discrimination, educators, families, and community volunteers can play a critical role in helping young people understand the history and context for anti-Asian racism in the U.S. 
Please scroll to the “TRAINING & WEBINARS” section at this link.

  1. REGISTER:
    • Claim which book you will read aloud for your video at the button below. Once you register, we will email you additional instructions. 
    • Please select a book that you already have in your home library, are able to order online, or rent an ebook from the library.
  2. PRACTICE AND FILM YOUR VIDEO:
    • Practice your story ahead of time so that you can make your story animated and engaging.
      Please review these Read-Aloud Tips.
    • Be sure to highlight the author, tricky vocabulary words, and show all of the pictures. 
    • We encourage you to review lesson plans that support students’ to understand and condemn anti-Asian discrimination. You can experience learning from the students’ perspective to inform your approach. Elementary | Secondary.
  3. PREPARE YOUR VIDEO:
    • Please make videos no longer than 15-minutes.
    • Optionally edit your video to shorten and include reference images. 
    • Required resolution options: 3840×2160 | 2569×1440 | 1920×1080 | 1280×720
  4. SUBMIT:
    • Please upload your video to your own Dropbox or GoogleDrive account.
    • Select public setting so that external parties can edit and download your video. 
    • We will email you a link where you can upload your video. 
Volunteer Sign Up

Want to go above and beyond?

If you’d like to empower future, in-person read-ins, please consider: 

  1. Selecting a book from our recommended reading list and mail it to the office:
    • Oakland School Volunteers c/o The Oakland Public Education Fund
    • P.O. Box 71005 | Oakland, CA 94612
  2. Donate to Oakland School Volunteers 

Questions about the Read-In? 

Please email Oakland School Volunteers Senior Program Manager Lilly Smith, lilly@oaklandedfund.org.

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