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Rooted in Oakland Screening at National Community Schools and Family Engagement Conference
We are excited to present Rooted in Oakland at the 2025 National Community Schools & Family Engagement Conference hosted by Institute for Educational Leadership and Coalition for Community Schools, May 28-30th in Minneapolis. The Rooted in Oakland Film Screening & Workshop will be held on Thursday May 29th from 10:30-11:45 AM.
Rooted in Oakland Screening at Fremont High School
Rooted in Oakland showing at Fremont High School on October 23rd, 2024.
We were so excited to be able to screen the film Rooted in Oakland at Fremont High School in October 2024. It was an inspiring way to bring the Fremont High School community together to celebrate the school’s journey.
Rooted in Oakland at the 2024 CA Community Schools Empower Summit
Rooted in Oakland screening at the 2024 California Community Schools Empower Summit, June 2024.
Rooted in Oakland screening at the 2024 CA Community Schools Empower Summit in Hollywood!
June 13th-14th, 2024
Participants at the 2024 Community Schools Empower Summit in Hollywood
"Congratulations on completing another dope project that elevates the lived experiences of folks connected to public schools... I did some reading and clicking yesterday and was blown away by how comprehensive and interactive it is. I look forward to having the opportunity to support this work as the larger community becomes aware of of its greatness.”
Matin Abdel-Qawi, Chief Program Officer, Kingmakers of Oakland
The Long View at Colorado Education Association
Union Representative: :That’s us, that’s us - this is really energizing for us all.”
High school student: “It was very inspiring for me to see students believe they can make a positive change, but how did you get to the point where you believed you could make a difference?”
Robert: “Getting into organizing, seeing actual change, that things happen. It made it clear that I don’t have to accept this, and I think that is the inspiration.”
Classroom Conversations about The Long View at U-C Boulder
Robert to students: “Oakland comes with a long history of organizing, and this documentary picks up at a time when Oakland is really in a transformative state, where things are being done to turn the tide in education. But it is not a documentary that says, ‘hey, this was amazing, this is what everyone else needs to do.’ The film shows the reality of the situation in some of the things we face in Oakland, and that we are still struggling with.”
The Long View at the University of Colorado, Boulder
National Education Policy Center and the School of Education, U-C Boulder present The Long View at the Norlin Library, 6:15, October 10th, Free and Open to the Public
Dr. Michelle Valladares and Robert Paige discuss The Long View documentary
Dr. Michelle Valladares, Susan Zeig and Robert Paige discuss The Long View documentary,
Robert: “ Telling my story was a combination of scary and hopeful. It is a side of things that folks don’t often get to see in a film about education and a film that shows organizing behind the scenes in education. My story is one of the things we all know exists, but gets pushed to the back burner - it happens to youth all the time and their stories aren’t portrayed.”
Emma Paulino at University of San Francisco, Class and Discussion
November 12, McCarthy Center For Public Service and the Common Good
2018 Nevada Family Engagement Summit: Connections, Relationships, Partnerships.
Saturday, September 22nd from 8am to 4:30
Scenes from The Long View will be shown during the lunch session
The Long View at the Student and Family Engagement Office, Oakland Unified School District
Sara Nuno-Villa, Regional Family Engagement Liaison
August 17, 2018
Raquel Jimenez, Director of the Student and Family Engagement Office, OUSD organized a screening of the film.
“You see the change, and you see other people who cried, who are struggling - you are not alone.”
The Long View at the National Family and Community Engagement Conference
Thursday, July, 12, 2018, at the Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland
Clips from The Long View screening at the Equity Plenary Lunch
Full Film Screened: 5:30 PM, Room 26C - Refreshments will be served
Event Sponsored by The Institute for Educational Leadership
The Long View at AERA NYC
April 14th, 2018
Screening and Conversation with filmmaker Susan Zeig
Presented by The Grassroots Community & Youth Organizing For Education Reform Special Interest Group
The Long View at Wellesley College
April 19th, 2018
6pm, Pendleton East, Wellesley College
Screening and conversation with filmmaker Susan Zeig
The Long View at UCLA
April 25, 2018
UCLA – Graduate School of Education
Co Sponsored by The Center for the Transformation of Schools and Center X
A Screening and Conversation with Emma Paulino and Pedro Noguera
The Long View at CUNY Graduate Center, NYC
March 6, 2018
Martin Segal Theater, CUNY Graduate Center
365 5th Ave, New York, NY 10016
Co-sponsored by the Ph.D. Programs in Urban Education, Critical Psychology, the Public Science Project, the URBAN Research Network, the Center for Advanced Study in Education and the Gittell Collective
Remarks following the film by Zakiyah Ansari, Advocacy Director, New York State Alliance for Quality Education (AQE) and conversation with director Susan Zeig
Foundation support from:
The Stuart Foundation, The C.S. Mott Foundation, The Panta Rhea Foundation, The Nellie Mae Education Foundation, The California Endowment, The Hewlett Foundation, The Ruth Mott Foundation
“My connection with this is Emma. She speaks to me. Her story is my story. .
I will fight for my children and my three grandchildren, but that is not enough to fill me. The inequities, and the constant fight to just get the basics for children, that is the struggle of parent organizing. It is what keeps us, sustains us, knowing that every time we bring more folks into this conversation, that we build the movement for education justice, and that we build it strongly.
We don’t have the opportunity to not be hopeful…It is my obligation to always be hopeful. I say all this to say, the one thing historically that we have yet to do, is really center the hard conversation around racism and classism in this country. Until we are ready to do that, we will continue to go in circles.”
–Zakiyah Ansari, Advocacy Director, Alliance for Quality Education
The Long View at Villanova University, Pennsylvania
February 27, 2018
7:00-9:30
Villanova Connelly Cinema
Barbara Ferman, Temple University Professor and author of the new book The Fight for America’s Schools: Grassroots Organizing in Education
Cheryl Masterman, Parent Education Activist in Lower Merion
Charisma Pressley, Parent Education Activist in Philadelphia & Director of CASA
Sponsored by the Villanova Department of Education & Counseling
“Thank you so much for your magnificent and moving film, The Long View. Emma Paulino is indeed a hero, and the story line of the youth activist was very powerful–heartbreaking and yet hopeful. Even though organizing is local, the lessons of your film certainly apply to Philadelphia and other centers where schools are constantly subject to the whims of new superintendents.”
–Dr. Jerusha Conner, Villanova University
“Even as someone who has followed the Oakland work throughout that whole period, I found it not just sobering and inspiring, but also informative. It helped me put the pieces together. It’s a great work. “
–Lauren Jacobs, Senior Consultant, Partnership for the Future of Learning
The Long View at Californians for Justice
February 15, 2018
A community screening and conversation with filmmaker Susan Zeig
“It was really powerful to see our students watch the film and reflect on their own realities in their education organizing. We appreciate the work you’re doing, and are always willing to collaborate.”
–Geordee Mae Corpuz, Organizing Director, Californians for Justice
“The movie kind of made me think about myself. I sometimes argue with my teachers, I may not really do well on a project, and I gave up, but then when you see how hard people actually fight to keep the schools open, and create all these opportunities for us, it makes you want to try harder because it is like people are really fighting for us to be in school, and a lot of kids are taking that for granted” Californian for Justice student, not sure if we should use the student’s name or just say Sophomore at Oakland High etc. We asked their permission at the screening, but this is sort of personal and I am not sure
– Sophomore at Oakland High
The Long View at Center for Popular Democracy, Washington DC
Feb 1, 2018
A Screening and Conversation with filmmaker Susan Zeig
“Thank you for this amazing film! It not only gives voice to education stakeholders who have been unheard in the dialogue around school reform, but also spotlights the inequities that continues to plague our schools. I look forward to hosting focus groups and screenings with DCPS educators and parents.”
–Liz Davis, President, Washington DC Teachers’ Union
Screening of the Long View at Mills College, Oakland
August 14, 2017
Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond told the audience of parents, educators, community members, and organizers: “I feel so privileged and pleased to be here because this film and all the work that you have been doing for many decades is really a testament to what we should be doing in every community in the country.”
She said that watching the film she was, “rejoicing in the victories, feeling devastated all over again by the setbacks, but by the end of the day, knowing that as Frederick Douglas said, ‘there can be no progress without struggle.’ And it is in that continual struggle that we make advances.”
Robert Paige: “You all saw a lot about what happened to me, but that is an example of what goes on in a lot of students’ lives throughout school. I am actually proud to say that I own my story because it is me, and it is true for a lot of other students. What is interesting in my story is that I actually had support which is why I am able to be here today. You hear the story about people getting out of prison and going right back. The reason I am not in that cycle is because of all those folks who supported me and made sure that when I fall I am able to bounce back and be back in a stronger place.”
Emma Paulino: “What I was reflecting on was that what moved me to do this work twenty something years ago is still moving me today. Young people like Robert should not go through what he went through. And that is really an example of how much, we, the people who care about the children, We have to continue believing in these young people – that they can have a better future than what this society is offering them right now. And it is really up to us to change the way the society perceives young people of color.”
2017 National Conference – Network For Public Education
https://networkforpubliceducation.org/2016-national-conference
Panel Presentation: Films and Community Organizing