Pays Harvest Consulting up to $36,500 for anti-Black racism training and healing sessions
Harvest Consulting designs and leads professional development on anti-Black racism, site-based organizational development sessions, and healing spaces, in partnership with the Office of Equity. The agreement is for up to $36,500 and runs from December 8, 2025 through May 29, 2026. The work started before this Board vote.
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- Vendor / partner
- Harvest Consulting · Oakland, CA
- Action
- New agreement
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- Classroom & academic programs
- Term
- Dec 8, 2025 – May 29, 2026
- This vote
- $36,500
- Funding
- Arts, Music, IM Block Grant, Educator Effectiveness, and S&C Carryover Fund
- Resource / site
0006-929, 6266-929, 6762-929- Vendor no.
006743- Presented by
- Chief Academic Officer
- File
25-3015· agendaO.-42- Outcome
- Adopted on the General Consent Report, Jan 14, 2026
Official text
Ratification by the Board of Education of a Services Agreement 2025-2026 by and between the District and Harvest Consulting, Oakland, CA, for the latter to create, design, implement, and facilitate a series of Anti-Black Racism Professional Development focused on interrupting systems and structures that threaten learning cultures at OUSD; design and facilitate, in partnership with Office of Equity, site based anti-Black organizational development sessions towards racial healing and creating safe learning environments; and design and facilitate, in partnership with the Office of Equity, transformational spaces leading to healing from racialized harm, via the Office of Equity, for the period of December 8, 2025 through May 29, 2026, in an amount not to exceed $36,500.00.
History
- Adopted on the General Consent Report