Work-Based Learning
Community Partner Project
The students developed and adopted project roles, including project manager, scribes, spirit keepers, historians, brainstormers, slideshow makers, slideshow presenters, and materials manager. Students generated a project declaration and a group contract, mirroring real-world work experience.
Students presented their findings to Higher Ground and Sequoia Foundation staff. They presented the main sources of air pollutants in East Oakland, and shared information about associated health impacts, and who is at highest risk for exposure and effects.
They highlighted how air pollution levels aggregate across the two major freeways in the area, I-880 and I-580, and the outsized to Black and Hispanic communities.
Students also presented their proposed solutions to the problem, which focused primarily on educating local community members.
Students designed and administered a community survey to collect information about residents’ experiences of East Oakland’s air quality. Students also hosted a community workshop over zoom that spread awareness of the East Bay Greenways Project, which is a plan for a new path that will allow people to walk and bike on a protected greenway from Oakland’s Lake Merritt to the South Hayward BART station is expected to be finalized at the end of 2023.
