Engage Your Local Legislators on Campus!

Learn how easy and fun it is to engage legislators on campus for the purpose of building relationships that can impact local and statewide efforts. A seasoned charter school leader and CCSA's Senior Director, Legislative Advocacy will provide you with examples, toolkits, and instructions on engaging legislators on your school campus and ways to stay connected throughout the year. The benefit of this relationship can impact your charter school during times of struggle and celebration and also when we need a vote in Sacramento to support us all.

When/Where:
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102A, Long Beach Convention Center

Topic:
Advocate - Policy and advocacy

Format:
Breakout Session

Presented by

Carson Eades
Senior Director, Legislative Advocacy
California Charter Schools Association

Carson directs CCSA's legislative advocacy strategy, managing it's lobbying team, runs CCSA Advocates Charter Schools PAC, coordinates grassroots advocacy and conducts policy research.

Gayle Nadler
Executive Director
Multicultural Learning Center

Gayle Nadler is Executive Director of the Multicultural Learning Center (MLC), a dual-immersion K-8 public charter school providing a global education program to a diverse community of learners in English and Spanish since 2001 and the 2022 California Charter School of the Year. MLC received the 2018 Education for a Global Economy Award from the California Department of Education – a distinction that aligns with Gayle’s core beliefs in the role public education plays in preparing scholars to significantly impact their communities and the world with their diverse perspectives, multi-lingual abilities, and commitment to social justice.