ESLI Youth Blog

We are uploading all of our pictures this week, and will post them soon!

MANY THANKS to all of our participants, to ESLI Staff and Youth Advisory Board and to Mission High School for hosting! Participants went through 2 incredible workshops, we heard from Keynote Speaker Zakiya Harris about her amazing work, the ESLI Youth Advisory Board led an inspiring youth voice panel, and everyone enjoyed tons of delicious food and snacks and company all day. Not to mention, Lincoln High’s Green Academy students led one of the workshops! – a hands-on empowerment workshop where our participants were able to create self-watering containers and worm bins! All of us at ESLI (staff and youth alike) were proud to host the event, and thank you all for coming and sharing with us!

Here are some quotes from our participating educators (as written on their evaluation forms):

“The day was very inspirational and motivating. It reminded me of why I do the work I do.”
“Thanks for the information, inspiration and opportunity to connect with people in this movement.”
“I think this program can organize the service work of the students to affect positive change on society.”
“The conference was excellent. You balanced the inspiring with the practical. Great job ESLI!”

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ESLI Teachers Conference RESOURCE CD – for DOWNLOAD!
Our participants left with a lot of great tools, knowledge and resources, including our Teachers Conference Resource CD – which has materials from each workshop, as well as a comprehensive community partners’ resource links page!  For any particpants who may have left without one some how, or for anyone who would like to download the contents of the CD – here are links to each document, courtesy of ESLI!

Right click and choose “SAVE AS” to download each file.

• Bay Area Community Resource List & Links! [.doc]
• Hands-On Workshop Materials
  • Self-Watering Container Instructions [.doc]
  • Self-Watering Container Diagram [.jpg]
  • “A Guide to Teaching Sustainability, Permaculture and Systems: Thinking Using Two Buckets” by Sara Laimon [.pdf]
• Environmental Justice: Reinheriting the Earth Workshop Materials
  • Environmental Justice Definitions [.doc]
  • Environmental Justice Principles [.doc]
  • WORKSHOP-’Comparing Lifestyles with an EJ Lens’ [.doc]
  • WORKSHOP-’Intro to EJ’ [.doc]
  • WORKSHOP-’Understanding EJ Principles’ [.doc]
  • SONG-Crown City Rockers-’Last Night’ [.mp3]

The Galileo Academy High School ESLI team (Baby Rai included) at ESLI’s 2010 Teachers Conference, with ESLI staff Ei Ei Khin and Kristia Castrillo.
More pictures to come!