Alumni-Led Initiatives are events or groups organized by alums that are inclusive affinity, interest, and/or issue based-spaces that proactively seek to create a safe space, build community and/or solve for a specific need in our landscape. Start your own Alumni-Led Initiative!

Come shake out the stress and connect with other corps members and alumni on Tuesday evenings! We’ll meet at a local San Jose or South Bay establishment, walk/jog/run 3+ miles, and meet back at the start for a snack and beverage. We’ll start and end in the same place, if you just want to stop by to socialize, feel free!

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Session 4 of a four part series

LEE members of white identity who complete this series will be equipped to:

• Speak to how their white identities play into their leadership and work in the complex Bay Area education landscape
• Better understand how their identities, socialization, and leadership are shaped by their white privilege
• Assess bias and internalized racial superiority in their lives and work
• Engage strategically in collective action work with other white LEE members aspiring toward anti-racist ways of being

Why is it important for white LEE members to explore whiteness and identity as we prepare them to lead in marginalized communities?

• Exploring identity helps leaders understand their place in oppressive and privileged spaces. It helps us to understand what we might be missing.
• Unpacking identities from a historical perspective, assists in understanding place. In understanding place and history, we are better equipped to strategize impact for social change.

Mark your calendars — March 2, 2019 is Bay Ed Summit!

Bay Ed Summit is an education conference uniting teachers, school leaders, nonprofit advocates, and education supporters for a day of learning, collaboration, and coalition building. TFA Bay Area is excited to offer this Summit at no cost to attendees.

Registration details coming soon!

This book club is a venue for TFA corps members, alumni, & friends to connect and discuss social issues.

We will meet to discuss Educated by Tara Westover on Thursday, March 7 at 6:30PM at the TFA office in San Francisco (685 Market Street, Suite 500).

PREVIOUS BOOK CLUB READS
Our Kids, Just Mercy, Autobiography of Malcolm X, Evicted, Show Me a Hero, The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, The New Jim Crow, Chasing the Scream, $2.00 a day, We Gon’ Be Alright, The Smartest Kids in the World, Hillbilly Elegy, Big Girls Don’t Cry, The Teacher Wars, Dreams of My Father, Americanah, The Hate U Give, Born a Crime, Homegoing, We Were Eight Years in Power, Underground Railroad, Beyond the Messy Truth, Sing, Unburied, Sing, Tattoos on the Heart, and Educated, Exit West, and Becoming.

Project Cicero Bay Area is an annual nonprofit book fair designed to create or supplement school and classroom libraries for children in under-resourced schools. Sign up for a session to participate (each session will have new books set out for teachers)!

Many of us hold narratives about ourselves and others, often putting those “unlike” us into boxes or categories. During this workshop, we will reflect on ways in which a single story can create narrow mis-perceptions about ourselves and individuals around us. We will learn to recognize the single stories we hold that may possibly hinder progress toward a more equitable society. This will be a powerful time together and as we navigate how to embrace multiple identities we may have for ourselves and others. Dinner will be provided. Hope you can join us!

With a concentrated membership base in California, focused in the Bay Area and Los Angeles, LEE aims to create connections that inspire leadership toward equity in our state and in their local communities.

LEE will host a state summit in April 2019 as a first step in connecting members to the state education landscape.

In this space, you’ll develop a strong foundation of skills needed to leverage policy, organizing, advocacy, elected leadership, and other forms of public leadership, and identify opportunities to apply these skills both in your home communities and statewide to make change on behalf of and alongside your students.

April 5–6, 2019 
For members already involved in policy, advocacy, organizing, or elected leadership

April 6–7, 2019
For members exploring policy, advocacy, organizing, or elected leadership

LEE has made the summit free to attend, and will pay for most travel and accommodation costs associated with your participation.

A night of community, inspiration, ideation, and action amongst Bay Area educators, administrators, tech employees, corporate leaders, philanthropists, innovators, activists, and others invested in improving STEM education, opportunity, and innovation.

2019 theme: How might we ensure our classrooms, colleges, and companies represent their communities?

This year Trellis welcomes Dr. Travis Bristol to kick off the evening!