Power Breakfast Featuring OUSD Superintendent Antwan Wilson

Join the Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and the Oakland Unified School District Superintendent Antwan Wilson on Tuesday, November 18th as he discusses his strategic vision for Oakland Public Schools.

Come learn the critical role students, families, teachers, staff, government agencies, non-profits and the business and faith communities will play in creating full-service community schools that improve outcomes for students and strengthen our city.

Do you want to know how our schools have been progressing? What’s in store for the future? Wilson, who left the Denver Public Schools system as assistant schools superintendent, turned around one of the toughest schools in the 90,000-student system. The Nebraska native used his diplomatic skills in his dealings with angry Denver parents who opposed a 2010 district plan to break up Denver’s Montbello High School, where he served as principal for three years, into three smaller schools. In three years at the troubled school, he turned around the culture and attitudes of staff and students. When he left in 2008 he had raised the acceptance rate at two- and four-year colleges from 35 percent to 95 percent. “The course we are charting is an ambitious one,” he says, “but nothing less will produce the results we need for our young people. In Oakland, as elsewhere, the absence of consistency and lack of equitable opportunities exist in disheartening proportion. As a community we must work from the fundamental belief that our students deserve the best.”