News and Events

Join our Equity Series! These are virtual learning groups centered on providing equitable student support and led by our alumni. Each series will offer monthly sessions between 45-60 minutes, starting in January. You can also join sessions one-off. Groups include: Culturally Responsive Teaching, Social Emotional Learning and Supporting Newcomers.

Our thoughts are with our teachers, students, families and schools who are leading and navigating through the OUSD strike at this time.

Due to the strike, we will shift the date of our Service Saturday to April and will follow up with a separate email to our SF and Oakland corps members confirming the date. We look forward to this event to strengthen connections with each other and the communities we work with.

Please reach out if you have suggestions for volunteer opportunities in the Fruitvale area or ideas for the event.

Leadership Dinners are small group gatherings in April open to second year Corps Members designed to explore what role you want to play in pursuing educational equity. Each dinner with feature a leader from a different sector working to expand opportunities for students and families in the Bay. RSVPs will open in March!

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.

Join award-winning illustrator and animator Christian Robinson, Costanoan Ohlone and Chumash storyteller, activist, and educator Kanyon Sayers-Roods, Islander spoken word artist June Lynn Kealoha-Hall, and educators and activists Shayna and Dylan Cureton from Abundant Beginnings.

Parents and their children, educators, and caregivers are invited for an afternoon of storytelling, story learning, story creating, as well as story evaluating…especially when stories don’t align with our values. In this interactive event, we will explore how stories can lead us into critical conversations about race and justice and share practices for being more concrete about about what racism is, how it works, and how we can stop it. We will share stories, books, and other resources to support these important conversations with young people.

Children will be included in portions of the programming, and free childcare (with advanced registration) will be provided at all other times.
Free childcare and interpretation available with advanced registration. The theatre is an accessible space for people with wheelchairs.
For interpretation, register by April 1. Please register here for attendance, interpretation, and childcare: http://sfpl.org/TalkingwithKidsaboutRace

We will explore the ways in which we are continued to actively disrupt systems of oppression in our classroom. We’ll reflect on the state of equity across our community and consider ways we can individually and collectively support our communities in creating more equitable learning experiences for all of of our students and families,.

Note: It is expected that you will join either the Caucus Space on April 10 OR April 11. Since the material covered will be the same both days, it does not make sense to attend both dates.

We will explore the ways in which we are continued to actively disrupt systems of oppression in our classroom. We’ll reflect on the state of equity across our community and consider ways we can individually and collectively support our communities in creating more equitable learning experiences for all of of our students and families,.

Note: It is expected that you will join either the Caucus Space on April 10 OR April 11. Since the material covered will be the same both days, it does not make sense to attend both dates.

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!

Join a few of our coaches for a Saturday hike through Tennessee Valley (in Mill Valley, CA)! Further details on where to meet will be discussed during upcoming learning tracks, caucus spaces, and via facebook + email.

2nd Years, join us in celebrating the impact you have had as CMs and the future impact you will continue to have as alum! Timing still TBD.