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The Association of Raza Educators  (A.R.E) are a group of public and charter school educators, university professors, students, and community allies committed to using education as a tool for the liberation of our community.  They do this by by organizing and mobilizing teachers, developing curriculum, and working with community organizations to ignite change. They believe that education is the first step in creating consciousness that leads to action.

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ARE was founded by members of Unión del Barrio in the spring of 1994, and its first core membership was made up of teachers from the San Diego area. What “sparked” ARE to life was the passage into law of Proposition 187, a ballot initiative designed to deny so-called “illegal immigrants” social services, health care, and public education.

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Based in Chicago
Mission: “We are working towards classrooms that are anti-racist, multicultural/multilingual, and grounded in the experiences of our students. All children should have an academically rigorous education that pose such critical questions about society and ‘talk back’ to the world.”

Meet regularly to share curriculum and ideas, develop colllective projects.

Form and support campaigns to support voices of educators into the public discussion of school policies

20th anniversary curriculum fair in Chicago Saturday, November 17.

Fundraising campaign for the elected school board lawsuit- school board is denying them voting rights and are taxing the organization without representation

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Originated in 1986.

Began as a local effot to address problems such as basal readers, standardized testing, and textbook-dominated curriculum.

Group of Milwaukee-area teachers had a vision. They not only wanted to improve education in their own classrooms and schools, but to help shapre reform throughout the public system in the US.

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Mission: "Our mission is to provide opportunities for self-transformation, leadership, and community building to educators in order to affect meaningful change in the classroom, school, community and society."

Grass-roots non-profit teacher organization

Community based programs and projects that develop empowered learning environments, access to equitable resources, and a just and caring culture.

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Teachers 4 Social Justice is a grassroots non-profit teacher support and development organization. Our mission is to provide opportunities for self-transformation, leadership, and community building to educators in order to affect meaningful change in the classroom, school, community and society.

T4SJ organizes teachers and community-based educators and implements programs and projects that develop empowering learning environments, more equitable access to resources and power, and realizing a just and caring culture.

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Teachers 4 Social Justice is a grassroots non-profit teacher support and development organization. Our mission is to provide opportunities for self-transformation, leadership, and community building to educators in order to affect meaningful change in the classroom, school, community and society. T4SJ organizes teachers and community-based educators and implements programs and projects that develop empowering learning...

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Reading & Reflection Study Group November 8, 2018 at 6:00 pm – 8:00 pmT4SJ General Meetings November 15, 2018 at 6:00 pm – 8:00 pmFacilitator: Andrew Location: East Bay Ice BreakerT4SJ General Meetings December 20, 2018 at 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm San FranciscoFacilitator: Location: SF

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Reading & Reflection Study Group November 8, 2018 at 6:00 pm – 8:00 pmT4SJ General Meetings November 15, 2018 at 6:00 pm – 8:00 pmFacilitator: Andrew Location: East Bay Ice BreakerT4SJ General Meetings December 20, 2018 at 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm San FranciscoFacilitator: Location: SF

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Thanks to all who attended our virtual conference this year. Recorded sessions of each of our webinars are now available on our YouTube channel or using the links below.

In Support of Black Lives...
Teachers 4 Social Justice condemns all forms of systemic violence caused by policing that continues to disproportionately impact Black lives and perpetuate the trauma of white supremacy.

In support of the movement to abolish police and prisons , Teachers 4 Social Justice calls on educators to learn from and work in solidarity with community organizations that are building toward the abolition of policing and the prison industrial complex. Abolitionist teaching recognizes that our work for justice must expand beyond classroom walls and school hallways. We must struggle for liberation in solidarity with our school communities.

We urge all educators to commit to not only learning more about abolition but to also find ways to support and take action in abolitionist movements.

Please consider the following organizations and networks as a starting point:
What about the role of teachers in the movement toward abolition?
Please read We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom by Bettina Love and visit the Abolitionist Teaching Network .

Additional resources:

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Thanks to all who attended our virtual conference this year. Recorded sessions of each of our webinars are now available on our YouTube channel or using the links below. October Centering Black Lives YouTube Recording October Bios October Slide Deck November Unsettling Settler Colonialism YouTube Recording November Bios November Slide Deck December Another World is...

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18th Annual Teaching for Social Justice ConferenceFocusing Rage & Forging Dissent  Special Keynote Speaker: Dr. Daniel SolorzanoAll conference participants must register!  Everyone is welcome!

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18th Annual Teaching for Social Justice ConferenceFocusing Rage & Forging Dissent  Special Keynote Speaker: Dr. Daniel SolorzanoAll conference participants must register!  Everyone is welcome!

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18th Annual Teaching for Social Justice Conference

Focusing Rage & Forging Dissent

ON-LINE REGISTRATION for our 18th annual conference in San Francisco is CLOSED! BUT GOOD NEWS!!!! You can still Register in person (for free) on Sat. morning. Starting at 8:45am! at the conference! First come, first serve!
All conference participants must register! Everyone is welcome!

Join us for...WORKSHOPS, RESOURCE FAIR, SPEAKER, & COMMUNITY BUILDING

Registration for the Conference is : FREE! ( Donations of $20-$500 are accepted)
Saturday, October 6th, 2018 - 9:00am - 5:00pm John O'connell High School
2355 Folsom St, San Francisco, CA 94110
Each year hundreds of educators both locally and nationally gather to network, explore empowering learning environments and develop a professional learning community. We are excited to celebrate 18 years of building grassroots, peer-led professional development opportunities!

If you have questions regarding the 2018 Conference, email us at t4sjsf@gmail.com.

*This conference is open and welcomes any and all of the following:

Classroom Teachers

Paraprofessionals, Administrators, Support Personnel

Parents and Youth

After-school Youth Workers and Youth Workers in general

Credential Candidates

Aspiring Educators

The Public!!

Commitment to Universal Access

Each year we work to better attend to issues of universal access. This year we will be at John O'Connell High School, built in 2003. We look forward to further dialogue with the larger community about additional steps to make our organization and its events more inclusive for all.

ASL interpreters will be on hand during the conference for keynote and general sessions. We are still working on expanding that option for workshops and other parts of the day. Please let us know how we can support you.

The event is wheelchair accessible. There are elevators inside the building.

Point people for accessibility will be at registration and available throughout the day. Extra chairs will also be reserved for participants with accessibility needs during workshops.

We welcome community support as we work to make the T4SJ conference work for all educators. Please join us at a general meeting, or contact us through email.

In solidarity,

T4SJ

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18th Annual Teaching for Social Justice Conference Focusing Rage & Forging Dissent with Special Keynote Speaker: Dr. Daniel Solorzano ON-LINE REGISTRATION for our 18th annual conference in San Francisco is CLOSED! BUT GOOD NEWS!!!! You can still Register in person (for free) on Sat. morning. Starting at 8:45am! at the conference!

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Educators seeking to create sustainable liberatory spaces inside and beyond the classroom, to promote growth, healing, and transformation.

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South Central L.A.

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A.R.E is organized under five basic objectives and principles:

1. To promote critical pedagogy as the principle means of addressing the question of how to teach our children;
2. Struggle for democratic education, where the parents and community have the same rights as teachers, counselors, and administrators in the education of their children;
3. Promote community activism among teachers;
4. Nurture student activism and develop student activists;
5. Struggle to reclaim spaces in the institution (i.e. schools) for progressive education and to develop politically active teachers.

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- Pressuring the Hispanic Scholarship Foundation to open their Foundation to open their funds to undocumented students
- Defending teachers from unjust discipline
-- Working with parents to eject racist administrators
- Raising over $100k in scholarships for undocumented students
- Winning Ethnic Studies requirements in multiple school districts

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Rethinking Schools is  "a small nonprofit organization directed by editors and editorial associates who volunteer their time, aided by a small staff".

It's an activist publication with articles written by and for teachers, parents and students. They try to balance practice and educational theory while also addressing key policy issues, funding equity, and school-to-work.

There are five to six magazines per year.  Magazines are $5.95 each or $4.95 for a pdf.

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Group composed of multi-ethnic educators dedicated to transformative justice, critical education and healing practices. They are determined to explore the experiences of marginalized people such as people of color, women, LGBTQI, and other communities.

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1. Led and developed for social justice educators by social justice educators who teach culturally relevant curriculum and are actively involved in organizing campaigns outside their classrooms and in their communities.
2. Provides a critical pedagogy lens to teacher training and combines it with strategic campaign organizing.
3. Challenges the for-profit PD industry by providing an affordable alternative for professional development that funds the movement in lieu of paying consultants.

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https://www.facebook.com/SanDiegoARE/
https://sites.google.com/site/sacramentoare/
https://www.facebook.com/ARELosAngeles/

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(Oakland) Nov 6-10: National Association for Multicultural Education(NAME) Annual Conference
(Seattle) Nov 16-18: National Council for the Social Studies National Conference
(Chicago) Nov 17: 12th Annual Chicago-Area Teaching for Social Justice Curriculum Fair
(St. Louis) Nov 22-24: National Council for the Social Studies

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Working groups function like affinity groups, this is where our organizing takes place

TEACHER INQUIRY: This teacher inquiry group is a grassroots form of teacher professional development created by the Education Working Group from The People’s Education Movement

WELLNESS: The Health and Wellness Working Group's responsibilities are to create opportunities for community building within the People's membership and to coordinate accountability circles whenever necessary within the organization.

COMMUNITY OUTREACH:
The community outreach working group seeks to build with community members in a genuine effort to build and sustain a transformative, decolonial educational movement.

EDUCATION: The Education Working Group is dedicated to supporting the collective political development of the People's.

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Maintain a network of progressive educators to develop an environment of support and professional development.
Sustain a membership that is engaged in a continuing process of critical self reflection and growth.
Evolve an education that is responsive to the needs of the community

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Come join one of our events!

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Join us for our first TIG of the year on Saturday, Sep. 8th, from 10am-12pm! We will engage in a reading discussion and then listen in on a curriculum presentation by Tyler Fister. We will explore how educators can use frameworks related to critical pedagogy, Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) and visual culture as a way to facilitate agency within students. Please contact us at peoplesedtig@gmail.com for location. Hope to see you at our first TIG and build together! 🎨: @detailed83

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3 Charters in:
San Diego
Los Angeles
Sacramento

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"Every year A.R.E. organizes a FREE statewide conference where we bring together educators, professors, students, credential program students, education activists, parents, and community organizations."
-held in San Diego