Melrose Leadership Academy is a dual Spanish immersion public school in the Oakland Unified School District. The school opened in August of 2009.

Melrose Leadership Academy is a dual Spanish immersion public school in the Oakland Unified School District that opened in August in 2009. This is the first Kindergarten class.

Melrose Leadership Academy is a dual Spanish immersion public school in the Oakland Unified School District. MLA opened in 2009 with two kindergarten classes.

Melrose Leadership Academy is a dual Spanish immersion public school in the Oakland Unified School District. MLA opened in 2009 with two kindergarten classes.

MLA students performed at the Winter Performance Expo. Melrose Leadership Academy is a dual Spanish immersion public school in the Oakland Unified School District.

My daughter's first day of Kindergarten, in Oakland, California Spanish Immersion public school. This gallery is an embedded slideshow at www.morethankids.com.

Planning meeting before Melrose Leadership Academy began instruction. Melrose Leadership Academy is a dual Spanish immersion public school in the Oakland Unified School District.

Melrose Leadership Academy is a dual Spanish immersion public school in the Oakland Unified School District. MLA opened in 2009 with two kindergarten classes. Families visited a pumpkin patch for a field trip.

Melrose Leadership Academy is a dual Spanish immersion public school in the Oakland Unified School District. MLA opened in 2009 with two kindergarten classes. These photos are from one of the first grade classes during the school's second year.

Melrose Leadership Academy hosts a music performance twice a year for the community. MLA is an Oakland Unified School District K-8 school with a Spanish bilingual dual immersion program.

The first kindergarten graduation ceremony for the Spanish Immersion bi-lingual program at Melrose Leadership Acadey. Melrose Leadership Academy is an Oakland Unified School District public school.

The first day of the 2010-2011 school year at Melrose Leadership Academy in Oakland, California.

Melrose Leadership Academy held its 2nd Annual Baila-ton dance fundraiser. MLA is a Spanish immersion Oakland Unified School District public school.

Melrose Leadership Academy, an Oakland Unified Public School, celebrated the classroom expo (expo en classe) on January 19, 2012. MLA has a K-2 Spanish Immersion program and a 6-8 middle school curriculum.

Melrose Leadership Academy organized a New Family Orientation for students and family members entering the MLA for the 2011-2012 school year at Dimond Park. Melrose Leadership Academy, an OUSD public school, offers Spanish Immersion instruction for all lower grade students.

Melrose Leadership Academy expeditionary learning field trip to Mills College in Oakland.

Melrose Leadership Academy began admitting kindergarten students to its Spanish bilingual dual immersion program in 2009. This group is part of the third year of kindergarten students who will eventually fill a K-8 Spanish bilingual OUSD school.

Melrose Leadership Academy, an Oakland Unified Public School, celebrated Noche de regreso a la escuela, on September 22, 2011. MLA has a K-2 Spanish Immersion and a 6-8 middle school curriculum.

Melrose Leadership Academy kindergarten students perform Danza de los Viejitos (Dance of the old men). Melrose Leadership Academy is a Spanish immersion Oakland Public School.

Melrose Leadership Academy, an Oakland Unified School District K-8 school, performed their Spring Expo on June 8, 2011. The school will eventually become a K-8 Spanish immersion program.

Melrose Leadership Academy is a dual Spanish immersion public school in the Oakland Unified School District. MLA opened in 2009 with two kindergarten classes. Each January, Melrose students perform an an Expo.

Melrose Leadership Academy is a Spanish immersion public school in Oakland, now in its second year. In January, the school held their annual Expo.

Melrose Leadership Academy, an Oakland Unified School District public school, help a registration day on a weekend to increase family participation. MLA has a Spanish immersion program for k-2nd graders.

The first day of the 2011-2012 school year at Melrose Leadership Academy for Mason and Emily Farley. This is the first year that both children attended the same school.

Oakland's Melrose Leadership Academy traveled to Del Valle Regional Park in Alameda County for a field trip. MLA is an OUSD Spanish bilingual dual immersion public school.

Melrose Leadership Academy held a Welcome Day before the new school year at their new site in Oakland California on Saturday August 25, 2012. The OUSD public school begins instruction on Monday.

Second grade students from Melrose Leadership Academy, an OUSD Spanish bilingual public school, learn about the San Francisco Bay environment at the Middle Harbor Shoreline Park. The Port of Oakland owns and operates the park that was previously the Oakland Naval Supply Depot during World War II.

Kindergarten students at Melrose Leadership Academy, an Oakland Unified Public School, celebrate the one hundredth day of school. MLA is a Spanish immersion public school where students also learn other content standards, such as this number sense exercise.

Melrose Leadership Academy elementary students performed their 2012 Spring Music Expo on Wednesday June 6, 2012 in Oakland, California. Asprianet operates MLA's after school program.

Twice a year, Melrose Leadership Academy public school in Oakland, California hosts a music performance with traditional Mexican signing and dancing. MLA is a K-8 school with a Spanish bilingual dual immersion program.

Twice a year, Melrose Leadership Academy public school in Oakland, California hosts a music performance with traditional Mexican signing and dancing. MLA is a K-8 school with a Spanish bilingual dual immersion program.

The Melrose Leadership Academy New Parent Orientation was moved to May 1, 2012, the same day as the May Day rally for quality public education at San Antonio Park on International Workers Day.

The Melrose Leadership Academy Dance-A-Thon was held on Saturday, November 2, 2013 at MLA in Oakland, California. Students were encouraged to wear costumes for the fundraiser.

Oakland Unified students from Melrose Leadership Academy camp at the Rob Hill Campground in the Presidio. Rob Hill is the only overnight campsite in San Francisco.

During the first week of Summer Vacation, Oakland Unified School District teachers from the Dual Language Cohort met for a week long teacher in-service in Oakland, California. Teachers created lesson plans and unit overviews that they shared with other members.

Students from Oakland's Melrose Leadership Academy, a dual immersion Spanish speaking OUSD district elementary school, visited Sausal Creek for a field trip. Students studied the environment.

Excursiones de estudiantes, 826 Valencia, San Francisco, California

Kindergarten students at Melrose Leadership Academy celebrate the hundredth day of school, or "cien días de escuela", by counting one hundred steps outside the classroom. Students also studied other lessons related to numbers.

At the January 10, 2013 Melrose Leadership Academy PTSA General Membership Meeting, Coach Joe Cokes informed parents about the Playworks program that he supervises at Melrose Leadership. Playworks is a national non-profit that teaches cooperation and physical health by increasing activity.

Melrose Leadership Academy held The Transitional Kindergarten - 5th Grade Choral Concert on Thursday March 5, 2015 in Oakland, California. MLA is a dual immersion Spanish language district school in OUSD.

The Melrose Leadership Academy 2014 - 2015 kindergarten students take photographs of photographer Bryan Farley and each other during their portrait session. Farley has photographed each of the six Spanish bilingual kindergarten classes at MLA.

Pictures from the 2016 MLA Kindergarten collection that did not make the final gallery.

Melrose Leadership Academy Winter 2016 Performance Expo

The Melrose Leadership Academy afterschool Performance Expo was held on Wednesday, January 18, 2017 in Oakland, California.