Teacher Activist Groups by https://padlet.com/cavaldez2/q4h9a6x70zit Models of teachers collaborating for justice en-us 2018-10-26 15:30:53 UTC 2025-11-02 00:38:57 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/cavaldez2/q4h9a6x70zit/wish/297484042 Where: 
Boston, MA
Mission/Vision: 
Education for human liberation to dismantle oppressive practices in schools and society. 
What They Do: 
1. Create and share curriculum and practices
2. Organize teachers
3.Collaborate with parents, youth, and community
4. Unpack, influence, and create policy
5. Create antiopressive environments and practices that support and nurture activists. 
Projects/Campaigns:
Film showings
Advertise and host conferences 
Black lives matter week of action

]]> 2018-10-26 16:46:28 UTC https://padlet.com/cavaldez2/q4h9a6x70zit/wish/297484042 jreesetims https://padlet.com/cavaldez2/q4h9a6x70zit/wish/297484068 Located in:
- Sacramento
- LA
- San Diego

Mission: The way of change is by educating people & using education as a way of liberation through the community.

Vision: To see all undocumented brothers and sisters seek higher education.

What they do:
- Undocumented student activists
        - Help to provide scholarships 
- Organize campaigns & state-wide conferences in the community to talk about ethnic studies
- Promote community activism among teachers and students
- Promote critical pedagogy as a means of how to teach our children
- Develop politically active teachers


]]> 2018-10-26 16:46:32 UTC https://padlet.com/cavaldez2/q4h9a6x70zit/wish/297484068 Los Angeles & San Francisco Bay Area cheyennesmith1 https://padlet.com/cavaldez2/q4h9a6x70zit/wish/297484080 2018-10-26 16:46:34 UTC https://padlet.com/cavaldez2/q4h9a6x70zit/wish/297484080 Mission: cheyennesmith1 https://padlet.com/cavaldez2/q4h9a6x70zit/wish/297484372 - educators seeking to create sustainable liberatory spaces inside and beyond the classroom, to promote growth, healing, and transformation
-create a critical educational approach thats culturally-responsive and linguistically validating
- engage in collective inquiry for knowledge of self]]> 2018-10-26 16:47:09 UTC https://padlet.com/cavaldez2/q4h9a6x70zit/wish/297484372 Mission Statement missmgarcia https://padlet.com/cavaldez2/q4h9a6x70zit/wish/297484929 - Teachers 4 Social Justice a non-profit teacher support and development organization. The 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.
]]> 2018-10-26 16:48:19 UTC https://padlet.com/cavaldez2/q4h9a6x70zit/wish/297484929 Where? https://padlet.com/cavaldez2/q4h9a6x70zit/wish/297485969 -Philadelphia
Mission:
TAG is committed to fostering positive school transformation, environments where students and teachers can thrive, and community ownership and influence within education.

Works to strengthen the influence of educators within schools and over policy decisions

TAG believes:
-education is essential to the preservation of civil and human rights and is a tool of human liberation.

Projects/campaigns:
-Story Circle Event: Focuses on educators sharing stories about classrooms, practices, and purposes. 
-Gatherings lead toward larger theater project to amplify stories and visions for changing Philly

]]> 2018-10-26 16:50:16 UTC https://padlet.com/cavaldez2/q4h9a6x70zit/wish/297485969 Events: cheyennesmith1 https://padlet.com/cavaldez2/q4h9a6x70zit/wish/297486120 - Cultivating Love: a pedagogical paradigm to intervene on trauma in the classroom @ CSDH
- Toward a radically loving, liberating, and (re)sportive pedagogy of black minds @ CSDH
- Healing and Resisting as a Community in LA]]> 2018-10-26 16:50:37 UTC https://padlet.com/cavaldez2/q4h9a6x70zit/wish/297486120 Mission https://padlet.com/cavaldez2/q4h9a6x70zit/wish/297486157 Committed to equity and the vision that public education is central to the creation of a humane, caring, multiracial democracy.]]> 2018-10-26 16:50:43 UTC https://padlet.com/cavaldez2/q4h9a6x70zit/wish/297486157 Chicago, IL! smythjohnson https://padlet.com/cavaldez2/q4h9a6x70zit/wish/297486233 2018-10-26 16:50:54 UTC https://padlet.com/cavaldez2/q4h9a6x70zit/wish/297486233 Where are we located? missmgarcia https://padlet.com/cavaldez2/q4h9a6x70zit/wish/297486260 San Francisco, CA]]> 2018-10-26 16:50:56 UTC https://padlet.com/cavaldez2/q4h9a6x70zit/wish/297486260 Mission nhopp513 https://padlet.com/cavaldez2/q4h9a6x70zit/wish/297486306  Teachers for Social Justice encourage schools to empower students to be decision-makers in their own lives and to become active participants in our society by employing principles of Equity and Social Justice. ]]> 2018-10-26 16:51:01 UTC https://padlet.com/cavaldez2/q4h9a6x70zit/wish/297486306 What They Do https://padlet.com/cavaldez2/q4h9a6x70zit/wish/297486618 Visionary: Inspire other people
Practical: Get to the point to keep teachers' attention - Focus on short, specific examples for the classroom
Publish articles written by and for teachers, parents and students
Addresses key issues such as vouchers and marketplace-oriented reforms, funding equity, and school-to-work]]> 2018-10-26 16:51:46 UTC https://padlet.com/cavaldez2/q4h9a6x70zit/wish/297486618 What they do c_perez2 https://padlet.com/cavaldez2/q4h9a6x70zit/wish/297486696 They meet regularly to share ideas and curriculum, develop collective projects, and support each other in their work. It is also an activist organization, that forms and supports campaigns to get the voices of educators into the public discussion of school policies.]]> 2018-10-26 16:51:56 UTC https://padlet.com/cavaldez2/q4h9a6x70zit/wish/297486696 Contact smythjohnson https://padlet.com/cavaldez2/q4h9a6x70zit/wish/297486950 Facebook: Chicago Teachers for Social Justice
Twitter: TeachForJustice
Email: teachersforjustice@hotmail.com]]> 2018-10-26 16:52:26 UTC https://padlet.com/cavaldez2/q4h9a6x70zit/wish/297486950 EVENT- 14th annual Teaching for Social Justice Curriculum fair tay_town15 https://padlet.com/cavaldez2/q4h9a6x70zit/wish/297487397 “Sustainable community Schools: Defend. Transform. Public Education.”
What is it? A place for teachers to meet to talk about social justice curriculum]]> 2018-10-26 16:53:23 UTC https://padlet.com/cavaldez2/q4h9a6x70zit/wish/297487397 maddiebuckley https://padlet.com/cavaldez2/q4h9a6x70zit/wish/297487695 2018-10-26 16:54:00 UTC https://padlet.com/cavaldez2/q4h9a6x70zit/wish/297487695 Who They Are https://padlet.com/cavaldez2/q4h9a6x70zit/wish/297487741 Non-profit organization that relies on volunteers
National activist publication that tries to balance classroom practice and educational theory]]> 2018-10-26 16:54:07 UTC https://padlet.com/cavaldez2/q4h9a6x70zit/wish/297487741 Groups cheyennesmith1 https://padlet.com/cavaldez2/q4h9a6x70zit/wish/297488597 - TIG: every 4th saturday 12-2pm
begin creating practical applications of a decolonizing pedagogy
- community outreach group
- wealth and wellness group
- education working group]]> 2018-10-26 16:55:42 UTC https://padlet.com/cavaldez2/q4h9a6x70zit/wish/297488597 maddiebuckley https://padlet.com/cavaldez2/q4h9a6x70zit/wish/297488958 2018-10-26 16:56:26 UTC https://padlet.com/cavaldez2/q4h9a6x70zit/wish/297488958 TSJ Curriculum Fair smythjohnson https://padlet.com/cavaldez2/q4h9a6x70zit/wish/297489271 Apply to:
1. Exhibit Curriculum
2. Have a Resource Table
3. Present a Workshop]]> 2018-10-26 16:56:59 UTC https://padlet.com/cavaldez2/q4h9a6x70zit/wish/297489271 Projects/Planning Committees nhopp513 https://padlet.com/cavaldez2/q4h9a6x70zit/wish/297489406 Art/Culture
Communications/Tech/PR
Popular Education
Activism
Teacher Support and Solidarity]]> 2018-10-26 16:57:13 UTC https://padlet.com/cavaldez2/q4h9a6x70zit/wish/297489406 Boston https://padlet.com/cavaldez2/q4h9a6x70zit/wish/297489797 2018-10-26 16:57:57 UTC https://padlet.com/cavaldez2/q4h9a6x70zit/wish/297489797 https://padlet.com/cavaldez2/q4h9a6x70zit/wish/297489860 2018-10-26 16:58:05 UTC https://padlet.com/cavaldez2/q4h9a6x70zit/wish/297489860