At the Oaks Center for Educational Advancement, we believe teaching is skilled human work, shaped by personal identity, and practiced through relationships. Who educators and students understand themselves to be matters deeply in how learning is experienced.
Under the Oaks is a curated space for examining that work with care, in conversation and collaboration with others engaged in it, through stories, reflections, and collaboration.
Teaching and learning require judgment, practice, growth, and mastery over time and across roles and contexts: mentors working with teachers, teachers working with students, and students learning to direct and support their own learning, and each other. We can develop understanding and capacity through self-awareness, reflection, listening, and lived experience, drawing on these to build mastery and to explore the tools and methods used to understand how identity, context, and relationships shape the human pursuits of teaching and learning.
Our work rests on sustained attention to how people learn, how they improve over time, and how educators can intentionally and professionally support that growth in themselves and others.
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Donna Hyatt Ed.D.
Founder and CEO
The Oaks Center for Educational Advancement
In each edition, you’ll find:
Thoughts for This Moment
Our Point of Focus
From Reflection to Practice
Field Notes
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Andrew Bacon2026-01-03 20:20:382026-01-03 20:50:28The Book That Found Its Way BackAs professional educators and communicators, we believe profoundly that the advancement of education and critical thinking is our best solution to the problems of misinformation, ignorance, and bigotry.
The Oaks Center for Educational Advancement is therefore dedicated to promoting education and equity, worldwide, for the betterment of humanity.
We can only solve these problems if we all work together.
The Oaks Center for Educational Advancement is looking for passionate and versatile education professionals with expertise in professional development, program, curriculum, and course design, mentoring and coaching.
To learn of opportunities as they arise, register your interest by submitting our short employment pre-application.
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