WA is not only losing Black teachers, it’s pushing them out

Juneteenth is a time for celebrating Black liberation. However, 160 years later, and 71 years after the desegregation of public schools, today’s education system continues to fail Black and brown [...]

Martinez Fellows gather at The University of Washington – Tacoma campus, ready to attend the first seminar of the year. Introduction: It Starts with Community It’s an early Saturday morning [...]

T-Mobile hosts TAF@Saghalie students at the T-Mobile 5G Tech Hub. Students toured tech labs, learned about the research T-Mobile conducts daily, and learned from a panel of experts in different [...]

Jaclyn Smith, TransformED Coach and Sarah Wilkes, Grant Writer at TAF participate in the longest paper chain STEM challenge at the Roosevelt Elementary School presentation of learning. The school [...]

Last month, TAF’s TransformED school, Beverly Park, hosted its Literacy Night which also included student exhibitions. A wide range of community partners showed up in support of the [...]

With dozens of applications from early-career and future educators coming in from Martinez Fellowship hopefuls, let’s take a minute to focus on what the fellowship offers. A good example of [...]

For TAF’s 2024 Varsity Luncheon: Courage to Act back in February, we highlighted TAF@Saghalie Humanities teacher and Martinez Fellow Jennifer Giuffre. What we didn’t get to highlight, [...]

During last month’s innovative STEM Expo, volunteers engaged with student presentations and prototypes both as an audience and as judges.  Then, earlier this month, the students who scored [...]

On February 23rd and 24th 2024, over 200 BIPOC educators and educational leaders came together for the Convening: two days to recommit to the work of educational equity and liberation. During the [...]

On March 7th, Google once again sponsored TAF@Saghalie’s STEM Expo. Every grade, divided into small groups, presented a project or prototype they created to solve a real-world problem. It [...]