EnCompass Academy

1025 81st Ave.
Oakland, CA 94621 (Map & Directions)
510-639-3350
Minh-Tram Nguyen, Principal
tram.nguyen@ousd.k12.ca.us
http://encompass.ousd.k12.ca.us

Read our Summer 2011 newsletter here.

EnCompass in the News
Our new library is open! The first public library to open in Oakland since 2004, the 81st Avenue East Oakland Community Library boasts more than 30,000 books, CDs, and DVDs, plus nearly 60 Internet-ready computers. While it is a public library, our kids can use it at any time and have special off-hours access.

Check out the Mercury News article on the opening here, and visit the Oakland Public Library's website for information on the collection, hours, and more.

Check out our newsletters!

• EnCompass Rising - Summer 2011
• EnCompass Rising - Winter 2010
• EnCompass Rising - Fall 2009
• EnCompass Rising - Spring 2009
• EnCompass Rising - Spring 2008

EnCompass Academy honors the mind, body, emotions, and spirit of the whole child. Our vision of an educated child is one with an active, reflective, and disciplined mind; a healthy and physically-fit body; a centered spirit; and just, caring, and courageous self-conduct. The program is developed around the EnCompass Life Spiral elements of: the cultivation of Self, the guidance and support of Family, the engagement with Communities, and the rootedness in Ancestors and ancestral heritage. We believe that all children are good and deserve guidance to make appropriate choices.

Designed by East Oakland parents and public school educators, EnCompass Academy opened in fall 2004, and we moved to our brand-new campus in 2005. With rolling lawns, beautiful play structures, garden beds, an outdoor amphitheatre, a state-of-the-art multipurpose room, and the largest Oakland Public Library branch, our campus is an oasis for children to learn and develop..

OUR COMMUNITY

• The majority of our students are Latino and African American.

• We have a culturally diverse staff.

• 89% of our students receive free /reduced lunch.

• 60% are English Language Learners.

• 89% of family members rated us “good” or “great.”

OUR CULTURE

We have high and consistent expectations for students to be their best, in and out of the classrooms. Our small learning community allow for students to be “known” by peers and adults. Our office, afterschool, and support staff work with teachers to provide a supportive and caring network for children and families. This integrated approach and school-wide commitment to all children as our own support homeroom teachers “teach to the whole child”. We are able to provide frequent feedback about positive changes a child is making and can quickly recognize and redirect children’s emerging patterns of negative behavior before they become habits. This subtle strategy creates consistency and a level of predictability that is crucial in supporting our high-needs students to transform and thrive as scholars and community members.

ENCOMPASS OFFERS

A balanced literacy framework integrates thematic Science and Social Studies content into culturally relevant, standards-based, and engaging studies. We actively monitor student progress and adapt instruction to meet individual learning needs, and we provide a school culture of care and rigor to set the foundation for learning.
Often students who make transgressions are able speak truthfully about their choices and take action to make amends weekly. Teachers encourage students to practice forgiveness and model compassion for each other. We also offer:

• Rigorous standards-based, differentiated instruction through an extended math block, balanced literacy, integrated social studies, and hands-on Science
• Data-driven monitoring of student progress, coupled with a Response to Intervention structure
• Experienced, diverse teachers and staff who support an intentional, student-centered culture
• Teaching of character traits to build trustworthy, respectful, responsible, reflective, fair, caring courageous, and community-minded students
• Unique day and after school access to a computer lab and 30,000 books, periodicals, multimedia resources in the Oakland Public Library which opened on our campus in 2011
• Home-School, and integrated Partnerships:
  Staff, families, and community partners work closely together to ensure students’ academic
  and social success
• “Looping” that aims to keep students with the same teacher and classmates for two years
• Inclusive school practices that honor our diverse ancestors, languages, histories, experiences,
  and traditions
• Salad Bar, Playworks, and Yoga exercises –all part of our unique focus on nutrition, wellness, and fitness
• After School Scholars Program: Academic Enrichment, Drill Team, Service Learning and Leadership, Media Literacy, Music, Nutrition,
  and Gardening
• Music and “Spanish through Visual Arts” classes enrich the core curriculum

SUPPORT ENCOMPASS
Make a one-time or recurring donation to fund EnCompass Academy programs here.
(Select “EnCompass Academy” in the school designation pull-down.)

You can also donate
by mail to: “OSF/EnCompass,”
P.O. Box 20238, Oakland, CA 94620.


COLLABORATIVES
EnCompass Academy is a member of OSF's OSF Family Engagement and Leadership Initiative and a member of its After-School Collaborative Program.


IN THE NEWS
Siblings help East Bay schools thrive (ABC7, November 2009)