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Social Justice

Golden Bridges School Norms

For the Individual
  • Stay Engaged
  • Speak Your Truth
  • Experience Discomfort
  • Accept and Expect Non-Closure​
​For the Collective
  • Pay Attention to Patterns of Participation
  • Contextual Confidentiality
  • Go to the Source (or let it go)
  • Recognize that we are all on our own path of inner and outer work
  • Hold everyone in their highest light
  • I am because we are

Social Justice Committee

Launched in 2014, the Social Justice Committee is an advisory and inquiry body made up of parents, teachers and administrators committed to supporting Golden Bridges School in its social justice mission.

The essential question that guides our work is:
What are we uprooting in ourselves and in our classrooms
in order to create and transform our school
​for the children who are here and for those not yet here?

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Meetings

​For the 2024-25 school year, the Social Justice Committee is comprised of nine core members who meet monthly on Mondays from 4:00pm-5:30pm.

Social Justice Committee Core Members:

Miel Alegre (teacher, admin, parent, College of Teachers)
Stephanie Blair (teacher, parent)
Niku Bolourchi (teacher, parent)
Christy Bovis (teacher, parent, College of Teachers)
Roberta Chávez (parent)
Abbie Coburn (teacher, Golden Bridges School founder)
Kelly Holt (parent)
Keith Stanley (parent)
Kaori Yamashita (teacher, College of Teachers)

GBS Social Justice Priorities

In November 2024, we created new priorities.  These priorities inform and guide our work as a committee for this school year.
Read our Priorities.

Contact

Please contact Roberta Chávez for questions related to the Social Justice Committee.
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Faculty Work

Led by teachers trained as ABAR facilitators, the faculty of Golden Bridges School have used text-based conversations to guide our process of inquiry.

Books faculty and staff have read and discussed include:
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Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants


Ibram X. Kendi, How To Be An Antiracist

bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom


Liz Kleinrock, Start Here, Start Now: A Guide to Antibias and Antiracist Work in Your School Community
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adrienne maree 
brown, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals


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(Aaron Johnson of Holistic Resistance leading a healing song circle at Hawk Creek Farm in October 2024)

Partnerships

Golden Bridges School has partnered with SF-CESS since 2015 in order to train and facilitate adult conversations and guide us in creating a culturally competent, equitable, inclusive and antiracist school.
14 of our current teachers, administrators and parents are SF-CESS trained facilitators.

In summer 2024, Golden Bridges School entered a one-year partnership with Radicle Root Collective.

In October 2024, we hosted Aaron Johnson of Holistic Resistance for a series of restorative singing circles offered to the school community (students, families and faculty & staff).

We are grateful for generous funding from the Small Change Foundation and Golden Bridges School community members.
"It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept and celebrate those differences." 
-Audre Lorde
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  • About Us
    • Mission & Values
    • Our Educational Philosophy
    • At A Glance
    • Faculty and Staff
    • History
    • Governance
    • Careers
  • Admissions
    • Admissions Process
    • Visiting Golden Bridges
    • Tuition & The Equitable Tuition Program
    • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Programs
    • Early Childhood
    • Lower Grades | 1-4
    • Upper Grades | 5-8
    • After School Program
    • Language
  • Social Justice
  • The Farm
    • Learn in the Dirt
    • Farm Camp
    • Neighborhood Engagement
    • Hawk Creek Farm
  • Give
    • Ways to Give
    • Support Golden Bridges
    • Donate Online
    • Gratitude Report 20/21
  • School Life
    • Location
    • Calendar & Events
    • Festivals
    • Technology
    • Volunteering
    • Grandparents and Honored Guests Day
    • Annual Auction
    • Winter Market >
      • 2024 Winter Market Vendors
    • Merchandise
    • Professional Directory
    • Photo Order Form
  • Inquire
  • Blog