SF Bay

The Bay Area Learning Circle of the LLC formed in November 2000. We have found that by coming together locally we are able to deepen our learning and share tools, resources, curriculum approaches, successful practices and challenges. We meet 4 to 6 times per year and occasionally come together between full meetings to explore a specific topic more deeply. Participants often offer to host and/or facilitate learning sessions on topics of specific interest or to share a model of work. All who share our interest in leadership development efforts are welcome to join the Bay Area LLC circle.

Recent Events

In 2007, the SF Bay Area learning circle began using a wiki to plan for and document our gatherings. Visit the wiki now to learn about our March and June gatherings.

Prior to our wiki pilot, on October 4, 2006 the Leadership Learning Community's Bay Area circle convened at The California Endowment to participate in an exciting dialogue on Leadership Development and Multi-Cultural Evaluation. With support from The California Endowment, Social Policy Research Associates has been a leader in developing tools and resources to improve multi-cultural evaluation capacity. Learn more about this project by downloading the report from our knowledge resources accessible below.

Some of the questions explored at this session facilitated by Hanh Cao Yu include:

1. How can our evaluation approaches better take into consideration the cultural context of the communities being studied and give voice to those diverse communities?
2. How do we conceptualize and implement multi-cultural evaluations of leadership development efforts?
3. To what extent, as a field, are we currently conducting multi-cultural evaluations?
4. What can we do to support and implement more multi-cultural leadership development efforts?

The full powerpoint presentation from this gathering is also available below.

We want to extend our deep appreciation to Hanh Cao Yu, Vice-President of Social Policy Research Associates in Oakland for facilitating this session and for providing us with an enriching learning opportunity.