The Asian American-Pacific Islander (AAPI) Leaders Network is open to site and systems leaders in districts served by the 21CSLA Bay Area Regional Academy, including Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara and Solano counties.
The AAPI Leaders Network is a space where education leaders who identify as AAPI come together to build community. We aim to build trusting relationships among AAPI school leaders in the Bay Area as a way to support, retain and mentor each other. To accomplish the goals of this affinity group members co-create a confidential, non-supervisory space where the use of reflective storytelling, the processing of complex challenges we experience in the field; and the sharing and mentoring of each other serves to uplift, empower and amplify our community as AAPI leaders.
The community we create serves to strengthen our resolve to address the systemic inequities that exist in our leadership contexts.
Community Members will:
- Create a network of AAPI leaders across the Bay Area who will support, uplift, empower, and amplify each other through the sharing of experiences, practices, and expertise
- Engage in meaningful conversations, to build community, and promote the sharing of ideas, advice and wisdom
- Improve resilience and sustainability in the profession, through the maintenance of mental health
- Focus on the importance of balancing family, life and work
- Explore strategies that support improving professional practice and career advancement for AAPI leaders