Approves a five-year no-cost agreement for Wright Institute graduate students to do fieldwork in OUSD

Sets up a partnership with the Wright Institute, a private psychology school in Berkeley, so its graduate students, including counseling psychology students working toward pupil personnel services credentials, can complete supervised fieldwork in district placements. It costs the district nothing, except that some non-employee interns may receive stipends paid from nonprofit grants to the district, such as from the Ed Fund. The term is July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2030.

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Vendor / partner: Wright Institute · Berkeley, CA
Action: MOU or data sharing
Category: Staff & hiring
Term: Jul 1, 2025 – Jun 30, 2030
Presented by: Deputy Chief, Talent
File: 25-2308 · agenda O.-7
Outcome: Adopted on the General Consent Report, Oct 8, 2025

Official text

Approval by the Board of Education of a Memorandum of Understanding and Interagency Agreement (MOU or Agreement) for a Fieldwork Learning Experience Program-applying to District placements of Institute students, regarding course work for Advanced Degrees and Certifications, including the fields of Counseling Psychology, and including Master of Arts or Science and other Graduate-Level Degrees or Certifications with Emphasis in Pupil Personnel Services (PPS) credentials and certifications, as may be specified-is entered into by and between Oakland Unified School District (District or OUSD), a public school district in the State of California, County of Alameda, and Wright Institute (Institute or WI), a private psychology education institution in Berkeley, California-for the term July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2030 at no cost to the District other than for certain Non-Teaching Interns in PPS categories (Article 4/#2), who are not employees of the District but may be allocated stipends (Article 4/#3) drawn from non-profit organizational grants to the District (e.g. Ed Fund), administered by the relevant departments of the District. [See Fiscal Impact].

History

Oct 8, 2025 Adopted on the General Consent Report

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