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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.

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!

View fall-winter runners club overview

• Staying in the classroom?
• Moving to a new school?
• Exploring other ways to serve kids and communities?

We will host a panel of alumni from different sectors to help support you in making a great next step!

For our next TFA book club (#26), we will be reading Becoming by Michelle Obama.

The book club is a venue for TFA alumni, corps members, and friends across the Bay Area to connect and discuss social issues. Our last books were 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, Educated and Exit West.

We will have our 2nd Community Day of the year on Saturday, February 2nd. Location is currently TBD, but mark your calendars and be on the lookout for communication from Samantha and Thiago in the coming weeks!

9:30-11:30 AM: New Office Housewarming Potluck (& New Year’s Celebration)
11:30-2:00 PM: Serve Food to the Homeless @ Bay Area Rescue Mission

We will explore the ways in which we are actively contributing to or disrupting systems of oppression in our classroom. We’ll reflect on culturally responsive classroom practices and consider ways in which we can support our school sites as a whole to be increasingly responsive to the myriad identities and experiences of our students.

Note: It is expected that you will join either the Caucus Space on February 6 OR February 7. 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 actively contributing to or disrupting systems of oppression in our classroom. We’ll reflect on culturally responsive classroom practices and consider ways in which we can support our school sites as a whole to be increasingly responsive to the myriad identities and experiences of our students.

Note: It is expected that you will join either the Caucus Space on February 6 OR February 7. Since the material covered will be the same both days, it does not make sense to attend both dates.

Film Friday is a chance to come together to watch and discuss films that touch on contemporary issues one Friday per month. Snacks and beverages provided! With a raffle at the end of each screening!

6PM – Curtains Open
8:00PM – Discussion
8:30PM – Raffle

Film Series Overview

To create change, we as leaders must be willing to examine our own thoughts about ourselves and the communities we live in or may be adjacent to. During this workshop we will discuss the context, necessity, and arc of liberatory consciousness how to be aware of your own theory of liberation.

Dinner will be provided.

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!

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.

More info to come February 2019!