San Francisco Coalition of Essential Small Schools (SF-CESS)

SF-CESS' is highlighting a few of the services we have available to bid on for November's Silent Auction.

SF-CESS has you covered from top tier photo shoots, personal training sessions, mental health spaces to your next tattoo appointment to a dj for your next private event.

Bidding Opens at the beginning of November. https://bit.ly/4227qs9

Today's featured SF-CESS card topic is "Angst" from our Probing Questions to Transform Your Practice Card Set.

The 3 ♣️ / Assessment card contains two questions

1) What about your work disturbs you the most?
2) What keeps you up at night about your own leadership?

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Apply today to attend the 2026 SF-CESS Equity-Based iGroup Facilitator Training!

Equity-Based iGroups are “i”ndividual, “i”nquiry groups or small, peer-led, learning communities that support members to explicitly examine and transform their own practice towards improved and equitable student results and experiences. This intensive, experiential course prepares individuals to facilitate (or to be a better participant in) equity-centered professional learning such as iGroups.

Participants increase their…
• knowledge (research and curriculum)
• tools (protocols and structures to facilitate meetings and collaborative processes)
• practice (authentic opportunities to facilitate or “hold space” to engage in equity-centered collaboration)

Join SF-CESS this Summer 2026 for an immersive, equity-centered learning experience designed for educators, school leaders, and community members committed to transformational work.

August 3–7, 2026 - participants must attend all 5 days
San Francisco Bay Area
Monday–Friday | 8:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.

$2,000 Individual
$1,750/person for teams of 3+
Breakfast, lunch, and all materials included

Applications are actively being reviewed.
Space is limited.
👉 Apply now: https://bit.ly/2026iGroupApplic

Join educators, students, and community partners for the 2026 SF-CESS Fall Forum dedicated to equity, innovation, and collective transformation.

November 7–8, 2026

Your registration includes:
✔️ Full access to both days of the Fall Forum
✔️ Evening Reception & Silent Auction
✔️ Opportunities to learn, connect, and collaborate with educators and partners

We hope you'll join us.
Register now: https://bit.ly/FFRegistration26
Questions? [email protected] | 415-483-0933

Join us Saturday November 7th for a night of food, drink, and great company.

As always, SF-CESS agenda will support you to build community as you bid.

Awards Reception and Auction Tickets can be purchased here: http://bit.ly/4dgfoEf

Do you work with youth, their teachers, schools or communities?

Do you want to address the inequities facing our youth and impacting their experiences and results?

Are you willing to engage in radical and uncomfortable discourse and collaboration with others to transform your own biases and practices in order to interrupt these inequities?

If you answered, “yes” to any of these questions, you may be ready for SF-CESS’ Equity-Based iGroup Facilitator Training.
Equity-Based iGroups are “i”ndividual, “i”nquiry groups or small, peer-led, learning communities that support members to explicitly examine and transform their own practice towards improved and equitable student results and experiences.

This intensive, experiential course prepares individuals to facilitate (or to be a better participant in) equity-centered professional learning such as iGroups. Participants increase their…
• knowledge (research and curriculum)
• tools (protocols and structures to facilitate meetings and collaborative processes)
• practice (authentic opportunities to facilitate or “hold space” to engage in equity-centered collaboration)

Join SF-CESS this Summer 2026 for an immersive, equity-centered learning experience designed for educators, school leaders, and community members committed to transformational work.

August 3–7, 2026
San Francisco Bay Area
Monday–Friday | 8:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.

$2,000 Individual
$1,750/person for teams of 3+
Breakfast, lunch, and all materials included

Applications are actively being reviewed.
Space is limited.
Apply now: https://bit.ly/2026iGroupApplic

Join educators, students, and community partners for the 2026 SF-CESS Fall Forum dedicated to equity, innovation, and collective transformation.

Theme: Transforming Together
learning from yesterday
transforming today
building tomorrow

What's in it for you?

Sample workshops include:

• Youth Organizing as a Pedagogy: The Role of Ethnic Studies and Building Youth Organizers

• STRIVE Lessons: Engaging Tier 3 Middle Schoolers Toward High School Success

• From Exclusion to Belonging: How Do We Reimagine School Culture Together?

These sessions represent just a sample of the learning, dialogue, and collaboration that make the SF-CESS Fall Forum such a transformative experience.

November 7–8, 2026

Your registration includes:

✔️ Full access to both days of the Fall Forum
✔️ Evening Reception & Silent Auction
✔️ Opportunities to learn, connect, and collaborate with educators and partners

We hope you'll join us.

👉 Register now: https://bit.ly/FFRegistration26

Questions? [email protected] | 415-483-0933

As the school year comes to a close, take a moment to think about something you've learned this year—big or small—that you want to carry into next school year.

Write a note to your future self and save it to open at the end of summer.

What is one lesson, realization, or perspective you want your future self to remember?

This week we're highlighting the sports related autographed Memorabilia and local Bay Area sports experiences that are up for bid for the online auction.

* Autographed Colin Kaepernick Books and Graphic Novels
* Autographed Baseball signed by San Francisco Giant, Rafael Devers
* Tickets to CAL vs. Pittsburgh Football game on November 28th, 2026
* 2027 San Jose Giant Ticket Plan - Choose up up to 8 games to attend to see the future stars of the San Francisco Giants.

Click here to view all of this year's Silent Auction Items: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/2026-sf-cess-silent-auction-bidding-hub

Follow SF-CESS to find out when the online auction goes live.