CircleUp Education

06/22/2023

Hey there, CircleUp family! 👋 It's been a while since we last updated you. Tyrone here, and along with Tiffany, we've been hard at work behind the scenes, fully immersed in the impactful work we do.

Now, we have some exciting news to share! 🎉 CircleUp Education is getting ready for a new phase. We're growing and expanding, not just our team, but also our areas of impact.

Just like our logo has transformed into a fresh, modern design (which now proudly adorns our walls), we too are embracing new beginnings. Out with the old, in with the new!

We know you're curious about our work in DEI, restorative practices, and cultural competency. We promise, more updates are coming your way.

Want to join us in this journey? Interested in learning more? Feel free to DM me, Tyrone. We can't wait to share more with you. Stay tuned and stay awesome! 🚀

01/17/2023

Hello everyone! Check out our new CircleUp DEI Tool! After hundreds of facilitations of Conscious Conversations, we have finally made the tool available online for people to purchase and use in their workplaces!

Calling people out when they say or do questionable things is sometimes necessary but can often result in damaged relationships, violence, and an absence of personal growth. The Conscious Conversations Card is a conversation tool that uses a framework to respond to "questionable" behaviors that show...

08/01/2022

Hello Everyone! Today, August 1st marks our CircleUp Anniversary and for our 8-year Anniversary this weekend, Co-founders, Tiffany Hoang and Tyrone Botelho personally co-designed CircleUp's new modern logo to mark 8 years of success, prosperity, and change-making in our communities. Thank you everyone for your support over the years and your love and dedication as we embark on a new adventure! What do you think about our new look?!

11/19/2021

Sandhya Jha You really have been there since Day 1! Thank you for this generous feature, shout out, support and most importantly all you do for the community! So much love to you ❤️

I get a lot of requests from people and organizations looking for support doing restorative justice work. I pretty much always point them in the direction of https://www.circleuped.org/. I met the amazing Tiffany and Tyrone when they were first getting Circle Up Ed off the ground, but they were already SO good at creating spaces where we can build communities of true healing and justice even then. And now they've helped over 100,000 people develop those same skills! You should get to know CircleUp Education's work if you don't already.

09/29/2021

It's that time again! CircleUp Education HIRING Training and Administrative Synergist! Apply on Facebook or on our website at https://www.circleuped.org/jobs

We offer competitive wages and benefits and have an awesome team! Get your cover letter and resume ready and apply today!

09/29/2021

09/29/2021

GREAT NEWS!!! CircleUp Education is HIRING!!!!

The CircleUp team has been working hard to expand it's administrative team who support our training synergist and supervisors. We are looking for highly skilled, motivated, passionate, and talented people who are great at learning new systems, multi-tasking, and who have excellent customer services skills.

The Administrative Synergists positions position is full time and comes with health, dental, and self-care benefits!

Check out the job descriptions and apply at

https://www.circleuped.org/jobs

We look forward to hearing from you!

Warmly,
Tiffany & Tyrone
Co-founders @ CircleUp Education

05/21/2021

What a great way to end the school year! We are so excited to have our co-founder, Tiffany Hoang moderate this panel with middle and high school students in Alameda County about their pandemic experience, and what they need in this pandemic recovery time. Thank you Alameda County Office of Education for hosting this important event! Community, see you Monday at 6pm!

ACOE’s SEL Team is hosting a Virtual Youth Mental Health Panel on Monday, May 24 from 6-7:30pm with students from the Alameda County ACOE Student Wellness & School Climate Programs TUPE and Reach Ashland Youth Center .

They'll share how adults can support their social and emotional needs as we enter the pandemic recovery phase, with moderators from CircleUp Education.

Livestream or join the webinar: acoe.org/sel.

03/13/2021

Hey CircleUp Friends! We are hiring!!!! Please check out the two jobs that we are offering and spread the word =) https://www.circleuped.org/jobs

Are you looking for a great job with great benefits making a difference in your community? Apply Today!

11/02/2020

GREAT NEWS!!! CircleUp Education is HIRING!!!! The CircleUp team has been working hard to expand the anti-racism, conflict resolution, and restorative practices training, coaching, and consulting work that we are delivering to cities, schools, tech companies, and nonprofits throughout California and the US. We are looking for highly skilled, motivated, passionate, and talented people to join our team as we rapidly grow and expand.

We have TWO positions open. One is for an Administrative Synergist and the other is for a Training Synergist. Both positions are full time and come with health, dental, and self-care benefits! Check out the job descriptions and apply at https://www.circleuped.org/jobs

We look forward to hearing from you!

Warmly,
Tiffany & Tyrone

Are you looking for a great job with great benefits making a difference in your community? Apply Today!

10/29/2020

08/09/2020

An important and powerful Town Hall on Racism and Discrimination moderated by our very own co-founder, Tiffany Hoang for the City of Lafayette City Council Task Force to Effect Change and Action. Take a moment and press play to hear the vulnerable stories of these Council members, and the Lafayette community.

Many cities and workplaces have been reaching out to us in light of Black Lives Matter. Some seeking training, others seeking support to hold space for meaningful and difficult conversations like these. Some are taking on policing, while others tackle mental health & homelessness, and others, systemic racism specifically.

This town hall reminds us that no matter what the issue is that we're trying to change, that change MUST begin with listening so that we can truly understand the landscape, depth, and impact of the exact problems and systems we are trying to dismantle.

To all the change agents out there (which is ALL of us) we salute you and we're with you!

01/23/2020

We had such and awesome time with you, SFUSD Visual and Performing Arts Department department!! Thank you for allowing us to share our implicit bias tools and relationship building practices with you! We left feeling so inspired by how excited you were to bring these new tools back to your students! ☺️

11/26/2019

😍 💰 YES, CircleUp Education is Hiring YET AGAIN!!!! Tiffany and Tyrone @ CircleUp Education need your help once again to hire an awesome team member! - https://mailchi.mp/21e68e515592/tiffany-and-tyrone-circleup-education-need-your-help-hiring-an-awesome-employee-2998061

We need your help finding a superstar Administrative and Training Synergist! Oh and if you recommend someone and we hire them, you get a $50 Amazon or Target Gift Card!

10/24/2019

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06/30/2019

It was our pleasure, Rainbow Community Center Of Contra Costa County! We loved every moment of our time with you. Thank you for the rich discussion, the opportunity to work together, and for sitting in the complexity of intersectionality with us!

Happy Pride, friends!

Rainbow staff & board came together today for an interactive diversity training facilitated by CircleUp Education! Thank you Tyrone and Tiffany for a meaningful and insightful training.

06/26/2019

Thank you for the feature Oakland Peace Center! Looking forward to our workshop in the fall

: CircleUp Education is a social enterprise, meaning we are a business that is driven by producing equitable social and cultural change in our community, not by generating profit. We cultivate community partnerships and offer community service with the goal of creating opportunities for our clients and diverse communities to prosper and thrive. We at the Oakland Peace Center are so proud to call them partners.

Their mission is to cultivate happy, thriving, and stress-free cities, organizations and schools by designing and facilitating custom training and consulting solutions on conflict resolution, diversity and equity, restorative practices and professional development.

You can learn more about their amazing trainings and other work here: https://www.circleuped.org

10/27/2018

This Saturday, we hope you take a moment to take a step back, and take it all in! It's so easy to get caught in the day to day grind, and forget the bigger picture and remember the difference you are making everyday (...and to post on facebook!).

Please forgive us - we've been deep in the work growing our business and supporting our communities! But today, we're taking a moment to reflect on how far we've come :)

Our journey starting CircleUp Education continues to be an exciting, fulfilling, and limit pushing journey. Everyday we're asking ourselves how our communities are doing, how we are doing, and how we can improve what we do to enhance the well-being of our team, the communities we serve, and the people they impact on a daily basis.

Thank you, skysthelimit.org for your guidance and support along this journey, and thank you Accenture for funding organizations like Sky's the Limit/ YBUSA, and for this wonderful video feature!!

Tiffany Hoang & Tyrone Botelho

https://youtu.be/9UZmJtdhBDs

Business partners Tiffany Hoang and Tyrone Botelho got the skills and mentoring they needed to build their business through Accenture's Skills to Succeed par...

08/13/2018

🕓 Administrators, Add this SIMPLE PBIS & Restorative Practices School Climate tool into your routine... Oh, and It's FREE just for YOU! 😎 - https://mailchi.mp/d07925816dee/free-pbis-restorative-practices-school-climate-tool-easy-fun-takes-only-3-minutes-to-use-2811925

08/10/2018

😱 Don't Miss Out! FREE PBIS & Restorative Practices School Climate Tool! Easy, Fun, & takes only 3-minutes to use! 👍 - https://mailchi.mp/87d30fd4287c/free-pbis-restorative-practices-school-climate-tool-easy-fun-takes-only-3-minutes-to-use-2811433

05/23/2018

😍 💰 YES, CircleUp Education is Hiring YET AGAIN!!!! Tiffany and Tyrone @ CircleUp Education need your help once again to hire an awesome team member! -

We need your help finding a superstar Administrative and Training Synergist! Oh and if you recommend someone and we hire them, you get a $50 Amazon or Target Gift Card!

05/12/2018

💸 Tiffany and Tyrone @ CircleUp Education need your help again to hire an awesome employee! -

We need your help finding a superstar Administrative and Training Synergist! Oh and if you recommend someone and we hire them, you get a $50 Amazon or Target Gift Card!

09/26/2017

We are so proud to call Pyatok Architects our firsts! First Architecture Firm to be trained in Unconscious Bias, that is! As one of them said earlier on in the evening, "we are CircleUp's first [architecture firm], but probably won't be their last" :)

Thank you for being such a fun group to work with. Your insights, experiences, and questions made this training experience like no other. We hope that you take the tools and self-awareness you gained from the training into not only your workplace, but also into the diverse communities you serve so passionately across the Bay Area.

See you all soon!

Tiffany Hoang Tyrone Botelho

09/14/2017

What a pleasure it was to spend our Tuesday evening training the City of Hayward - Government Mayor Halliday, City Council Members and Executive Team on Diversity & Discrimination, uncovering the challenges of hidden bias in local government! Your dedication to this work was both seen, felt, and experienced through your active engagement, authentic sharing, and deep reflection of how challenges related to Diversity not only impact your departments, but also City of Hayward residents.

We look forward to deepening our partnership with the City to extend this conversation throughout the departments and communities in !

09/09/2017

Last month, our co-founder Tiffany Hoang gave a keynote speech on to the 300 staff members at Pacifica School District. Tiffany shared her story as a young girl and her challenges growing up navigating the social, emotional landscape of being a first-generation Vietnamese American despite her "academic success" and achievements in school.

Although these challenges have ultimately shaped who she is today as a Young Female Entrepreneur, we can't help but imagine what other students like her, and unlike her, are going through in school. How different would learning be if all students (and adults) felt valued, seen, acknowledged and validated everyday? What if we each had the skills to manage our emotions, feelings and relationships in a healthy and authentic manner? We wonder...

Thank you to Superintendent, Wendy Tukloff and Associate Superintendent, Ray Avila for organizing such a powerful morning. We're excited to follow-up with Pacifica School District to see how their district-wide focus on SEL transforms the culture, climate, and relationships at its school sites this year!

08/19/2017

Celebrating our 3 year anniversary with our amazing team! They are the foundation, the lifeblood of CircleUp Education and are deeply loved. It was so wonderful to bring everyone together to celebrate and thank our team for our success and growth.

07/22/2017

Thank you Richmond Community Foundation for inviting our co-founder Tiffany Hoang to present at your Capacity Building Workshop Series yesterday! It was so much fun working with your grantees to reflect on the impact of Diversity and Equity in the workplace, and the communities you serve across Contra Costa County. There was so much wisdom coming out in the room, we didn't want it to end! Thank you, non-profits and RCF for the humbling and impactful work you do! We hope yesterday's message about "starting points" continues to percolate as you return to your communities today.

07/05/2017

Tyrone Botelho, Co-Founder of CircleUp Education and Richard Branson, Founder of Virgin are featured in a new video from skysthelimit.org! Take a look =)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE2y8CF4RnA&feature=youtu.be

06/17/2017

What an amazing preconference and 1st day of the National Conference on Community and Restorative Practices. Both Tiffany Hoang and Tyrone Botelho have spent the last 2 years planning the conference with the local committee. There are over 1300 passionate and inspiring people here from all over the planet, including 80+ youth and over 100 formerly incarcerated people.

The theme of the conference that the local committee came up with speaks volumes; Moving Restorative Justice From Margins To Center; We are the ones we've been waiting for.

Oh and the warriors decided to drop by the Marriott hotel to pay is a visit!

06/09/2017

Tiffany and Tyrone have been active local committee members for the National Conference on Restorative Justice that is taking place next Friday in Oakland! The Local committee who was tasked with supporting the national committee in organizing the core logistics for the training have their last meeting today at RJOY in Oakland. It has been an honor working with our team and we are super excited about the conference! See you all there!!

06/09/2017

Yesterday afternoon, 5th grade teacher, Carrie Blake, and Co-founder of CircleUp Education, Tiffany Hoang, co-guided an amazing end-of-year Restorative Practices Team Building Circle that they designed to help students process the school year and transition into summer break. The students reflected on their high and low moments of the school year and created classroom agreements for the circle experience. It was such a pleasure working with Ms. Blake and her wonderful students.

06/09/2017

It was such an honor to accept the "FACES of Entrepreneurship Award" from Senator Nancy Skinner and the California Association for Micro Enterprise Opportunity (CAMEO) yesterday! The FACES of Entrepreneurship award is given to businesses who have demonstrated growth, job creation and contributions to their community.

This award came as a huge surprise to us, and it was so so exciting to receive it! Thank you to Youth Business USA for nominating us and for all the work you do in supporting entrepreneurs and young adults in the Bay Area and beyond! We couldn't do it without your support and the support of our growing TEAM! We hope to continue serving our community, and creating an impact in areas that affect us most - Relationships, Diversity, Equity, and Conflict Resolution.

With so much gratitude,
Tiffany and Tyrone

06/02/2017

We are super excited for our trip to Sacramento next week to accept the FACES award from the California Association for Micro Enterprise Opportunity (CAMEO)!

How do you turn a deep-seated passion for peace, justice and community engagement into a living? This is the question Tyrone Botelho, 31, and Tiffany Hoang, 26, were asking themselves in 2014, hudd…

05/31/2017

A few weeks ago, we had the honor of facilitating the City of Fremont's first ever Police and Community Dialogue. Months of planning and preparation culminated into two deeply transformative dialogues between a 4 Fremont Police Officers and 8 Emerging Racial Equity Leaders. Together, these 12 community leaders put themselves out there in order to gain new insights and perspective with the hopes of addressing some of the biggest challenges impacting community policing and the diverse communities in Fremont.

Not every moment of this process was comfortable or easy. However, to see each person walk away with new appreciation, connections and relationship with one another, was beyond moving.

We want to commend each and every person for their courage and commitment to this process. Thank you for speaking your truth and opening your hearts and minds to hear and see new perspectives. It is only through bridging our worlds can we truly begin to make a change in our community.

-Tiffany Hoang& Tyrone Botelho

04/22/2017

Have you met Vickie Sargent?! Vickie is the Restorative Climate Coordinator for Hayward Unified School District who we have been partnering with since 2015 to implement Restorative Practices at all the secondary schools in Hayward. Today, Vickie and our co-founder Tiffany Hoang put their hearts and minds together to facilitate a dynamic workshop at the conference for Elevating & Celebrating Effective Teachers & Teaching (ECET2) Bay Area. This year's conference focused on Equity and Leadership, and together, Tiffany and Vickie led teacher leaders through an insightful and thought provoking conversation on Equity and Restorative Practices in schools. The session received wonderful feedback from participants and we hope that the conversation about student starting points continues as teacher leaders return to their school community.

Thank you to all the dedicated teachers out there - we honor you!!

04/17/2017

Hi everybody! We just found out we've been nominated for the Innovative Newcomer Award for the 11th Annual !

What an honor! The Innovative Newcomer Award Category is "a business or artist that started in the last three years that excites and inspires with a creative new idea, perspective, model or solution."

This comes as a huge and delightful surprise. But like we tell all our clients, colleagues, friends and families - running a business truly takes a VILLAGE! Thank you to our community for all of your love and support these past few years!

We'll let you know how it goes May 18th!