Anakarita Allen
Emery Unified School District
Deputy Superintendent
anakarita.allen@emeryusd.k12.ca.us
Peter Aloo
Northgate High School, Vice Principal
Mount Diablo Unified School District
paloo@sbcglobal.net
Social Justice in Schools means to promote full and equal participation of all groups in our society that is mutually shaped to meet their needs. Social Justice includes a vision of schools that is equitable and all students are physically and psychologically safe. I believe in our inherent worth and interdependency of all members of our school community. Education as the great equalizer in our society, therefore all children must be afforded first class education to fully participate in a democratic society in their adult life.
Personal Information: I started my teaching career at Ravenswoods City School District in East PaloAlto, CA, I worked at Menlo Oaks School as a Math and Science Teacher 1992-1997.
Moved to Fremont Unified School District, Fremont, CA, GM Walters Junior High School where I taught Math and Science from 1997 to 2007.
I Currently work at Mount Diablo Unified School District, at Northgate High School as Vice-Principal.
In 2004 I earned Master of Science in Educational Technology Leadership from CSU East Bay and in 2007 earned my Administrative Credential from CSU East Bay.
Erica Donahue
Student Placement, Administrator
Hayward Unified School District
edonahue@husd.k12.ca.us
David Franklin
Joseph George Middle School, Principal
Alum Rock Union Elementary Unified School District
david.franklin@arusd.org
The opportunity for all children to have equal access to a quality and comprehensive education. While we can all easily see the differences between poor, urban schools and their upper-class, sub-urban counterparts, we must begin to change the educational system to ensure that we have a level playing field.
Personal Information: Attended LAUSD junior and senior high schools.
BA in Music from University of California, San Diego. MA in Educational Technology from National University.
Band Director at Meadowbrook Middle School, Poway. Band Director at Aviara Oaks Middle School, Carlsbad. Principal at Joseph George Middle School, San Jose
Sylvia Greenwood
Crepsi Middle School, Vice Principal
West Contra Costa Unified School District
Mgwood510@aol.com
Social Justice in schools means there is a focus on the inequities, having more equitable outcomes, and liberating others consciousness; and to be the change agent who is able to understand and work effectively with social justice issues in a diverse range of settings.
Rosanna Mucetti
Tyrrell Elementary, Principal
Hayward Unified School District
rmucetti@husd.k12.ca.us
Social justice in our schools means that ALL students are provided with the opportunity of experiencing a high quality, culturally and linguistically relevant educational program that aggressively promotes scholarship and proudly values the diversity in our classrooms. Social justice in the schools promotes a vision of transformation. This transformation requires educators and our communities to redesign and rethink the structure of our schools from an organizational and instructional perspective so that access and opportunity to achievement and excellence are ensured to every child in our school systems.
Personal Information: As I complete my eleventh year as a bilingual educator in the public schools, I continue to pursue a vision of equity and community that I perceive are necessary in order for every student to reach their maximum potential. I taught in the primary grades as a bilingual teacher for eight years in both the Oakland and Hayward Unified School districts. After attaining classroom teaching experience, I had the opportunity of working as an Elementary English Language Learner Program Specialist where I supported schools in redesigning their educational programs to meet the academic and linguistic needs of their English Language Learner students. As a second year elementary school site administrator, I am passionately committed to ensuring Tyrrell Elementary become a high performing, high poverty school that implements culturally and linguistically relevant pedagogy to meet the academic needs of all our students while building strong relationships with the commun ity. Through shared leadership with staff, parents, and community members; we continue to pursue academic excellence through an established professional learning community that is based on a school culture of belief, optimism, and equity.
Gregory Peters
Leadership High School, Co-Principal
San Francisco Coalition of Small Schools, Director
gpeter@sfcess.org
Mia Settles
Cleveland Elementary, Principal
Oakland Unified School District
mia.settles@ousd.k12.ca.us
Social Justice in schools means that the systems set up in schools are equitable, culturally responsive, and geared towards successful for all students, staff, and the community. It also understands the inequitable history of schooling in the U.S. and continues to create organizational structures and evaluative processes that addresses and interrupts the history of intellectual genocide for particular groups. Social Justice is a movement, philosophy, and practice that must be employed in our school system if we are to transform the inequitable outcomes of students and school systems.
Personal Information: Mia Settles is a native California, born and raised in the East Bay. She is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley, B.A., Graduate of Cal State East Bay, M.A. and is currently pursuing her doctorate. She is highly invested in making schooling a place for equitable change and opportunity for all.
Zarina Zanipatin
Schafer Park Elementary, Principal
Hayward Unified School District
zzanipatin@husd.k12.ca.us
