Dear Acknowledge Alliance Family,
On behalf of the students and educators we serve, thank you for your unwavering support during these challenging times. Even before COVID-19, we were hard at work, throughout the year, helping students and educators build resilience. These last few months have shown us how resilient they really are. Teachers moved their classrooms online overnight and found creative ways to stay engaged with each student. Students persevered and adapted to remote learning despite missing in-person relationships and major events like graduation. School communities, as well as our community, came together and lifted one another with supportive messages of hope, care and love. These emotional connections pushed us forward, and together we finished this school year strong.
Let’s take a moment to celebrate! Although this year’s Forget-Me-Not event could not take place due to shelter-in-place orders, we have not forgotten its essence: to recognize our community’s educators and partners for their significant impact on the lives of young people. Please join us in honoring the following individuals who inspire us with their commitment to student well-being:
Our honorees are extraordinary examples of educators and mental health professionals who pour their hearts into nurturing students’ strengths, resilience and growth. The caring relationships that they build contribute to inclusive school cultures that promote equity, social emotional learning, and improved student outcomes. This gives us hope.
Once school resumes, Acknowledge Alliance will continue to be there to help students and educators process the trauma and loss they may have experienced during the pandemic. (Read more about how we have been supporting youth in the midst of shelter-in-place.) We know that the transition back to school, along with the range of emotions that come with it, will take time to unpack and heal.
Will you please help us fund the hope?
Please join us and our board members in enriching the lives of students and teachers by making a gift that is personally meaningful to you. Your contribution will go towards our programs to support educators and ultimately shape our youth. In the future, our youth will go on to become leaders. Many of the students we serve are passionate about giving back to our community. They are the hope and positive changemakers of tomorrow. They have the ability to learn, the willingness to achieve their goals, the resilience to overcome any hurdle, the potential to change the world for the better...but it all starts with someone believing in them.
Thank you for believing in our mission, for believing in our teachers, and for believing in our youth.
With hope,
Sharon Navarro
Executive Director
