Seek Common Ground (SCG) serves state- and community-facing education advocacy efforts to promote coalition building that honors the power of local, authentic agenda setting to drive sustainable educational excellence and equity. Through honing focus on specific issues via Action Accelerators, Learning Community networking, and consultation and connection, we empower community-centered organizations to fulfill their agendas and meet the needs of their communities.
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Join our CEO Sandra Boyd tomorrow for the Schott Foundation and Seek Common Ground Funder Briefing webinar "Movement Maestros: Youth Leaders Reveal Strategies for Equitable Public School Funding" tomorrow, Wednesday June 12th at 2:00 PM ET! https://lnkd.in/eYq62z2g
Join us next week for an important and inspiring conversation with youth leaders from across the country — come with questions!
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📣 Seek Common Ground's 2023 Year in Review is here! Check it out by visiting our publications page: https://lnkd.in/efbTf-zV As the year comes to a close - and we celebrate our fifth anniversary - we’ve been reflecting on our work with all of you - our community - during this past year. And what a year it has been! In 2023, our team has connected with more leaders and communities than ever before. At SCG, we will continue to support the un-, or under-, supported, ensuring more community leaders and their organizations thrive by building power and developing new, diverse leaders to take their rightful seat at decision-making tables.
📣TODAY! Join Seek Common Ground (SCG) for Embracing Multilingualism: A Conversation on Policy and Practice this afternoon (12/6) at 2:00 pm ET. Register here: https://lnkd.in/e5DCJSAQ The webinar will focus on the importance and benefit of honoring the home language(s) of these students and their families, as well as policies and practices that support emerging multilingual learners in the United States. The panel will include Dr. Stephany Cuevas, Assistant Professor of Education in the Attallah College of Educational Studies at Chapman University; Leslie Villegas, MSc, Senior Policy Analyst, Education Policy at New America; and Susuga Leiataua Dr. Robert Jon Peterson, M.P.P., Senior Policy Fellow and Long-Term Consultant at Minnesota Education Equity Partnership (MnEEP). The TALK will be moderated by SCG Senior Director and Co-Founder Claudia Quintero, MPA.
📣 New TALK webinar! Join Seek Common Ground (SCG) for Embracing Multilingualism: A Conversation on Policy and Practice on Wednesday, December 6th at 2:00 pm ET. Register here: https://lnkd.in/e5DCJSAQ The panel will include Dr. Stephany Cuevas, Assistant Professor of Education in the Attallah College of Educational Studies at Chapman University; Leslie Villegas, MSc, Senior Policy Analyst, Education Policy at New America; and Susuga Leiataua Dr. Robert Jon Peterson, M.P.P., Senior Policy Fellow and Long-Term Consultant at Minnesota Education Equity Partnership (MnEEP). The TALK will be moderated by SCG Senior Director and Co-Founder Claudia Quintero, MPA. According to the U.S. Department of Education's Raise the Bar: Lead the World call to action, more than 5 million English learners have enrolled in public elementary and secondary schools, comprising 10 percent of the student population since 2019. This TALK will center on the importance and benefit of honoring the home language(s) of these students and their families, as well as policies and practices that support emerging multilingual learners in the United States.
Congrats to our friend and advisor Precious Waldron-Lopez, M.A. !!! 🎉 https://lnkd.in/ehuS8qew
Join us in welcoming Precious Waldron-Lopez, M.A. , our new Regional Program Officer for the Northeast! Waldron-López brings extensive experience in education justice and empowering students. Her role focuses on working closely with philanthropic partners, grantees and external stakeholders to cultivate and support effective campaigns focused on building systems to provide all students an opportunity to learn and thrive. https://lnkd.in/eTr2Gzw5
Thank you to everyone at Grantmakers for Education's #EdFunders23 who came to our session to hear from Lydia Burns, Chetan Soni, Alex Ames, and Mira Ugwuadu who shared all the amazing ways that students are making their schools, communities, and states better places. Thank you as well to the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies and Schott Foundation for Public Education for supporting our session, and special thanks to Michael Sio-Tatu Wotorson for kicking us off and reminding everyone that all great social movements started with young people! We are just getting started! 👉 Learn more about our Student Action Network for Equity: https://lnkd.in/dTMH8jqN #education #equity #justice #philanthropy
We are excited to be presenting at the Grantmakers for Education annual conference in Atlanta, October 10th - 12th, featuring some of the incredible leaders from our Student Action Network for Equity (SANE)! The panel will feature Lydia Burns (Seek Common Ground), Chetan Soni (Seattle Student Union), Alex Ames (Georgia Youth Justice Coalition), and Mira Ugwuadu (Wheeler Name Change). We’re excited to join grantmakers and experts from across the country to dive deeply into important issues in #education and #philanthropy and explore pressing issues and diverse perspectives, weaving in #equity and #justice for learners of all ages. Come join us there: https://bit.ly/EdFunders23 #EdFunders23
Join us TODAY, this Thursday, September 28th at 1:30 pm ET for Practicing Democracy Together: The Open System Institute and SCG Leadership Collaboration Network. The TALK will be moderated by Landon Mascareñaz, Co-Founder of The Open System Institute with Doannie Tran and co-author with Doannie of The Open System: Redesigning Education and Reigniting Democracy from Harvard Education Press, with an introduction from Sandra Boyd, CEO and Co-Founder at Seek Common Ground (SCG). Dr. Mascareñaz will host a panel of SCG Leadership Collaboration Network members who will discuss how they put open leadership principles into practice during their time in the Network, and what it means for the future of their work in engaging communities and systems. ➡ Register here: https://lnkd.in/e75g25KS 📍 Learn more about The Open System Institute: https://lnkd.in/eYad2PqT 📍 Learn more about the SCG Leadership Collaboration Network: https://lnkd.in/eT5PxsKu
Join us next week for a conversation with some of the great leaders I get to work with about opening systems and practicing democratic leadership!
📣 New SCG TALK!: Join us on Thursday, September 28th at 1:30 pm ET for Practicing Democracy Together: The Open System Institute and SCG Leadership Collaboration Network. The TALK will be moderated by Landon Mascareñaz Co-Founder of The Open System Institute and co-author of The Open System: Redesigning Education and Reigniting Democracy from Harvard Education Press, with an introduction from Sandra Boyd, CEO and Co-Founder at Seek Common Ground (SCG). Dr. Mascareñaz will host a panel made up of SCG Leadership Collaboration Network members Kit Anderson (CivicLex), Morgan Craven (Intercultural Development Research Association), and Sanford Johnson (Teach Plus - Mississippi). The leaders will discuss how they put open leadership principles into practice during their time in the Network, and what it means for the future of their work in engaging communities and systems. ➡ Register here: https://lnkd.in/gKQQte6s
📣 New SCG TALK!: Join us on Thursday, September 28th at 1:30 pm ET for Practicing Democracy Together: The Open System Institute and SCG Leadership Collaboration Network. The TALK will be moderated by Landon Mascareñaz Co-Founder of The Open System Institute and co-author of The Open System: Redesigning Education and Reigniting Democracy from Harvard Education Press, with an introduction from Sandra Boyd, CEO and Co-Founder at Seek Common Ground (SCG). Dr. Mascareñaz will host a panel made up of SCG Leadership Collaboration Network members Kit Anderson (CivicLex), Morgan Craven (Intercultural Development Research Association), and Sanford Johnson (Teach Plus - Mississippi). The leaders will discuss how they put open leadership principles into practice during their time in the Network, and what it means for the future of their work in engaging communities and systems. ➡ Register here: https://lnkd.in/gKQQte6s