[Teachersunite] /// Friday: Happy Hour FUNdraiser! /// + RJ Meetup Updates

If you heard This American Life's "Is This Working?” episode last week, check out TU Director Sally Lee’s piece in Huffington Post: “Learning Our Place” < http://huff.to/1EdA7zU > 

and then Come kick off our Fall FUNdraiser!

Help schools practice transformative justice* and end the suspensions that increase students’ chances of dropping out or being incarcerated

Fall HAPPY HOUR FUNdraiser

Friday, November 7th

5 to 8pm

at Dive Bar

732 Amsterdam Ave @ 96th Street

1/2/3/B/C to 96th

$15 for a sweet Teachers Unite wristband = happy hour prices all evening!

All are welcome (21+) 

Let us know you’re coming!

RSVP: anna@teachersunite.net

Or on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1ylFnhD

Can’t make it? 

Donate to our Full Court Press Against #SchoolPushout here:

< teachersunite.causevox.com >

* Transformative justice is a philosophy that looks at what harm was done, and focuses on how to best repair that harm by giving the victim of the conflict and the community in which the conflict happened a voice and a role in the process of achieving justice.

Flyer attached

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And join us at

 Restorative Justice Meetups & Workshops

 in Queens, Manhattan, and Brooklyn next month! 

Info & Flyers below...

Queens Restorative Justice Meetup

Wednesday, November 12th
4:30 to 6pm 

Hosted by Voyages Preparatory High School

45-10 94th Street in Elmhurst

7 to 90th Street / M/R to Elmhurst Ave

 Please RSVP: anna@teachersunite.net
All are welcome—school staff, students, parents, community members—& food will be provided!
Flyer attached.
 

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Manhattan Restorative Justice Meetup

*****POSTPONED! NEW DATE COMING SOON*****

Hosted by Lower Manhattan Community Middle School

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Brooklyn Restorative Justice Meetup 

Thursday, November 20th
4:30 to 6pm 
Hosted by Brooklyn Frontiers High School
112 Schermerhorn Street

2/3/4/5 to Borough Hall |A/C/F/N/R to Jay St. MetroTech | G to Hoyt Schermerhorn
 

 Please RSVP: anna@teachersunite.net
All are welcome—school staff, students, parents, community members—& food will be provided!
Flyer attached.

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and don’t forget: 

Media & Storytelling Meetup!

Come build a community of educators committed to principled storytelling, 

share media tools and skills, and contribute to story-based campaigns for social justice.

Thursday, November 13th

5-7pm

@ Teachers Unite 

90 John Street, Suite 308

in Lower Manhattan

2/3/4/5/J/Z/A/C to Fulton

Please rspv: anna@teachersunite.net

Flyer attached

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Anna Bean

Campaign Coordinator

Teachers Unite

90 John St., Suite 308

New York, NY 10038

646-707-4006

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