Become an accomplice! Join our community of educators and receive monthly resources for your students!
By Joining Our Educators’ Alliance you will get access to:
- Monthly emails with resources for Undocumented Youth
- Access to workshops and our educators support team
- Access to our Discord where you will find:
- Dedicated Channels for various subjects and questions regarding Undocumented youth.
- Resource Sharing to exchange experiences, resources, and events regarding Undocumented youth.
- Professional Development opportunities through discussions and workshops shared by the Educator Support Team and other educators.
- Networking with like-minded educators from Arizona who are interested in supporting Undocumented Youth.
- Support and Collaboration on challenges and innovative ideas on how to support undocumented youth individually and in your institution.
We are thrilled to have you as a part of this community and look forward to the valuable insights and experiences you will bring. Let’s work together to inspire and empower our students! Feel free to share this resource with other educators who might be interested in joining our community.
Our Mission [what we do]:
Scholarships A-Z’s Educator Alliance is a community of immigrant and accomplice educators that create a space to share knowledge, challenge and support one another, and advocate for, and alongside, Undocumented youth.
Our Vision [what we want to accomplish]:
As members of the Scholarships A-Z’s Educators Alliance, we strive for all schools to be inclusive places for all youth, including Undocumented youth who hold many intersecting identities. We prioritize the voice of Undocumented youth, while also recognizing that Undocumented youth must often teach their own educators how to better support them as students. While we follow the direction of Undocumented youth and educators, we also ask accomplices to grow the confidence to support all students through community and self-education. We believe schools are made stronger when educators and students are empowered to speak up about inequities together. It is fundamental to our work, that we challenge the traditional student/teacher power dynamic.
Our Story
In 2014 Scholarships A-Z held our first full-day conference for educators committed to learning more from Undocumented youth and accomplices on how to create school campuses that are liberating for all students, regardless of immigration status. Shortly after the first Educators Conference, Scholarships A-Z’s Educators Committee was born out of a desire of educators to remain in conversation with each other throughout the year. Since its inception, the committee has been a space for Tucson educators from k-12 schools, community colleges, universities, and community organizations to meet regularly throughout the school year. In June, 2024 Scholarships A-Z’s Educators Committee rebranded into the Educators’ Alliance and we now welcome educators from across the state of Arizona
We encourage educators to help, empower, and guide Undocumented students to navigate pathways after high school. The Alliance also serves as a support space for Undocumented educators and accomplice educators who are actively working to create institutional change within their schools. Sometimes our educators are supported within their schools and districts, and sometimes they are not; regardless of institutional support, the Scholarships A-Z Educators Alliance is always a space that puts students, families, and educators first over outdated and inequitable school systems.
We are thrilled to have you as a part of this community and look forward to the valuable insights and experiences you will bring. Let’s work together to inspire and empower our students! Feel free to share this resource with other educators who might be interested in joining our community.
For more information please contact Jose Perez, Education Justice Coordinator ([email protected])