Finding aid for the Bay Area Radical Teachers' Organizing Collective Records 1969-1974 SFH 459

Finding aid prepared by Katherine Ets-Hokin.

San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library

2017

100 Larkin Street

San Francisco, CA 94102

sfhistory@sfpl.org

URL: http://www.sfpl.org/sfhistory

Title: Bay Area Radical Teachers' Organizing Collective Records

Date (inclusive): 1969-1974

Identifier/Call Number: SFH 459

Creator: Bay Area Radical Teachers Organizing Collective

Physical Description: 7 cartons (7 Cubic Feet)

Contributing Institution: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library

100 Larkin Street

San Francisco, CA 94102

(415) 557-4567

info@sfpl.org

Abstract: The Bay Area Radical Teachers’ Organizing Collective (BARTOC) was a small collective of Bay Area teachers, active from October 1969-1974, committed to providing alternatives to the conventional curriculum of the time. The collection contains correspondence, a written history of BARTOC, meeting minutes, materials used to produce their brochure (No More Teachers Dirty Looks), a log book, workshop outlines, writings, lesson plans and flyers. The collection also includes periodicals, ephemera and photos. Many of the periodicals and newsletters are examples of rare leftist publications from the time period, including national and international sources.

Physical Location: The collection is stored offsite.

Language of Materials: Collection materials are in English.

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is available for use during San Francisco History Center hours, with photographs available during Photo Desk hours. Collections that are stored offsite should be requested 48 hours in advance.

Publication Righs

All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the City Archivist. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the San Francisco Public Library as the owner of the physical items.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Bay Area Radical Teachers' Organizing Collective (SFH 459), San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library.

Provenance

Donated by Tim Lennon on September 29, 2009.

Related Materials

Researchers are encouraged to see also No More Teachers Dirty Looks listed in the library catalog.

Processing Information

During processing both the original order and folders were retained as much as possible. Loose materials were placed in acid free folders and interfiled with the rest of the collection.

Administrative History

The Bay Area Radical Teachers’ Organizing Collective (BARTOC) was a small collective of elementary and secondary Bay Area teachers active from October 1969-1974. BARTOC was committed to providing alternatives to the conventional curriculum which they viewed as imperialist and racist. They viewed school culture as subversively programing kids to be automatons and saw themselves as teaching more than skills and subject matter. They believed teachers should cooperate with other teachers and students as comrades and partners and viewed the administration as the enemy. The group’s founders received a Vanguard grant for $1000 which allowed them to provide three key services to local teachers. They published a small magazine titled No More Teachers Dirty Looks (NMTDL) which received a positive reception, they operated a resource center on Sanchez Street with a substantial library, and they presented teacher workshops. In 1974 the collective disbanded when their grant funding ended and irreconcilable differences divided the members.

Scope and Content

The Bay Area Radical Teachers’ Organizing Collective (BARTOC) was a small collective of Bay Area teachers, active from October 1969-1974, committed to providing alternatives to the conventional curriculum of the time. The collection contains administrative papers including correspondence, a written history of BARTOC, meeting minutes, materials used to produce their brochure (NMTDL), a log book for the resource center, a sexism workshop outline, and writings about their funding. It also includes a writing sample, lesson plan and flyers. BARTOC’s Resource Center provided support to teachers in their community and operated as a lending library. The files contained in the Resource Center series include lesson plans, background reading, writing samples, flyers, pamphlets, and other ephemera. For the most part, periodicals, newsletters and monographs were collected into a series of their own but some still remain in the Resource Center files. Many of the periodicals and newsletters are examples of rare leftist publications from the time period, including national and international sources. The collection also contains a small number of photos that were likely used to produce NMTDL.

Arrangement

The collection is arranged in 4 series: Series 1: Administrative Papers, Series 2: Periodicals, Newsletters and Monographs, Series 3: Resource Center Files, Series 4: Photographs.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Teachers.

Teaching.

Education -- Experimental methods.

Education -- Curricula.

Alternative schools.

Bay Area Radical Teachers Organizing Collective

Series 1 Administrative Papers

box 1, folder 1

Committees. BARTOC Steering Committee

box 1, folder 2-4

Committees. Newspaper / Magazine Committee Graphics

box 1, folder 5-6

Correspondence 1973-1977

box 1, folder 7

Correspondence and NMTDL original drafts

box 1, folder 8

Correspondence: "for possible publication" 1974

box 1, folder 9

Flyers

box 1, folder 10

"History of BARTOC"

box 1, folder 11-12

Meeting Minutes: BARTOC 1973-1974

box 1, folder 13

Meeting Minutes: BARTOC Union Committee

box 1, folder 14

Meeting Minutes: Curriculum Committee

box 1, folder 15

Meeting Minutes: Magazine Committee 1973-1974

box 1, folder 16

Meeting Minutes: Various Meetings Minutes and Agendas 1972-1975

box 1, folder 17

NMTDL: Advertising for the Teacher Papers

box 1, folder 18

NMTDL: "Cover Letter for Distribution"

box 1, folder 19

NMTDL: [For Possible Publication] 1974

box 1, folder 20

NMTDL: Graphics

box 1, folder 21

"NMTDL: Magazine Business"

box 1, folder 22-23

NMTDL "Pre-printing"

box 1, folder 24

"Poster Distribution"

box 1, folder 25-26

La Raza Writing Example. Drafts

box 1, folder 27

Resource Center Log Book

box 1, folder 28

Resource Center: Materials List

box 1, folder 29

Substitute Teacher Lesson Plan

box 1, folder 30

Vangaurd Grant 1974-1975

box 1, folder 31

Workshops. Sexism 1974

Series 2 Periodicals, Newsletters and Monographs

box 1, folder 32

AAAS in Mexico 1972

box 1, folder 33

Accelerator 1973

box 1, folder 34

Adventures of Primo Dinero 1971

box 1, folder 35

AFL-CIO News 1977

box 1, folder 36

AFSC Women's Newsletter 1974

box 1, folder 37

AGSE Veiwpoint 1987

box 1, folder 38

Anvil circa 1973

box 1, folder 39

Applesauce 1974

box 1, folder 40

Arab Student Bulletin 1975

box 1, folder 41

Berkeley/Oakland Women's Union Newsletter 1974

box 1, folder 42

Bill of Rights Newsletter 1973

box 1, folder 43

Breaktime: a Newsletter for Office Workers 1975

box 1, folder 44

Broadside: Houston Chapter NOW 1974

box 1, folder 45

CAL/OSHA News 1978

box 1, folder 46

Center for Science in the Public Interest Newsletter 1973

box 1, folder 47

Centerpeace: a Free School Magazine 1973

box 1, folder 48

Changing Men 1975

box 1, folder 49

Children of Africa Coloring Book 1970

box 1, folder 50

Chile Newsletter 1973-1975

box 1, folder 51

Coment on Research / Action About Women 1976

box 1, folder 52

Communiversity 1974

box 1, folder 53

Connections 2 1974

box 1, folder 54

The Conspiracy 1973-1974, 1981

box 1, folder 55

Cuba for Begginers circa 1973

box 1, folder 56

Dialog 1974

box 1, folder 57

Dispatcher: International Longshoremen's Union 1984

box 1, folder 58

Don't Mourn, Organize! 1978

box 1, folder 59

East Bay Voice 1977

box 1, folder 60

East is Red 1972

box 1, folder 61

Educational Vouchers 1979

box 1, folder 62

Federationist 1974

box 1, folder 63

First Words 1983

box 1, folder 64

Food Conspiracy 1974

box 1, folder 65

Food Price Blackmail 1973

box 1, folder 66

Free Lemonade 1974

box 1, folder 67

Getting Together: Political Organ of 1 Wor Kuen 1974-1977

box 1, folder 68

Guide to Working Class History circa 1975

box 1, folder 69

Hard Times circa 1972

box 1, folder 70

Here and Now 1970

box 1, folder 71

High School Sexuality: a Teaching Guide circa 1974

box 1, folder 72

High School Women's Newsletter 1972

box 1, folder 73

Innovative Education Newsletter 1973-1974

box 1, folder 74

International Congress of Historical Sciences 1975

box 2, folder 1

Interracial Books for Children 1973

box 2, folder 2

Issues in Radical Therapy 1973

box 2, folder 3

Journal of World Education 1973

box 2, folder 4

Just Economics 1973

box 2, folder 5

Kalayaan 1972-1973

box 2, folder 6

Kim Il Sung 1978

box 2, folder 7

Know Your Bay Area 1974

box 2, folder 8

Labor Newsletter 1976

box 2, folder 9

Law and Consumer 1974

box 2, folder 10

Listen 1974

box 2, folder 11

Korea Bulletin 1975

box 2, folder 12

Labor Newsletter 1975

box 2, folder 13

Lesbians Speak Out 1970

box 2, folder 14

Liberating Young Women From Sex Roles 1972

box 2, folder 15

Lines of Demarcation circa 1976

box 2, folder 16

El Malcriado 1973

box 2, folder 17

NACLA's Latin America and Empire Report 1974-1975

box 2, folder 18

The Natural High Express 1973

box 2, folder 19

Network News 1980

box 2, folder 20

New Chile 1973

box 2, folder 21

New School News 1974

box 2, folder 22

New School Switchboard 1972

box 2, folder 23

New School Exchange 1973

box 2, folder 24

New Schools Exchange Newsletter 1975

box 2, folder 25

New School Exchange Newsletter Directory of Alternative Schools 1973

box 2, folder 26

The Newsletter [For and by Teachers] 1975

box 2, folder 27

The New Voice 1977

box 2, folder 28

New Ways 1973

box 2, folder 29

Off Our Backs 1972, 1978

box 2, folder 30

Our Lives at Stake: Shell Strike 1973

box 2, folder 31

Outlaw: Journal of the Prisoners Union 1972

box 2, folder 32

Para Mite 1972

box 2, folder 32

Para News 1974

box 2, folder 33

People's Energy: An Eastbay Community Resource Handbook 1974

box 2, folder 34

People's Law School 1973

box 2, folder 35

Pictorial History Chinese Working People in America 1974

box 2, folder 36

Plexus 1976-1978

box 2, folder 37

Pit Stop 1973

box 2, folder 38

Popular Economics Press 1976

box 2, folder 39

Prisma 1974

box 2, folder 40

Publications of the Bureau of Labor Statistics 1976

box 2, folder 41

Radical Education Dossier 1976-1977

box 2, folder 42

Radical Teacher 1976

box 2, folder 43

La Raza 1974

box 2, folder 44

La Razon Mestiza 1976

box 2, folder 45

Regeneracion 1971

box 2, folder 46

Repression, Reaganomics, War, and Revolution 1971

box 2, folder 47

Resolutions and Speeches Puerto Rican Revolutionary Workers Organization 1972

box 2, folder 48

Resource One 1974

box 2, folder 49

Romsey Town News circa 1975

box 2, folder 50

Sampler for Change: Newsletter of the Education for Peace Project 1976

box 2, folder 51

San Francisco Women's Newsletter 1972

box 2, folder 52

Scattered Seeds 1975

box 2, folder 53

Science for the People 1972-1973

box 2, folder 80

Second Class, Working Class 1979

box 2, folder 54

Sing a Battle Song 1975

box 2, folder 55

Sister: West Coast Feminist Newspaper 1975

box 2, folder 56

State Department of Industrial Relations: at Work for Californians at Work 1976

box 2, folder 57

State W.Y.D.E. Newsletter 1973

box 2, folder 58

The Struggle 1977

box 2, folder 59

Los Supermachos 1974

box 2, folder 60

Survival Kit: Health and Safety Newsletter 1974

box 2, folder 61

Tac 1973

box 2, folder 62

Tam News 1977

box 2, folder 63

Teacher Progress Report 1975

box 2, folder 64

Teaching About California Indians 1973

box 2, folder 65

The Teacher Paper 1974

box 2, folder 66

Teachers and Writers Collaborative Newsletter 1974

box 2, folder 67

Tenants Newsletter 1976

box 2, folder 68

Union W.A.G.E. 1973

box 2, folder 69

United Tribes Council Sunbeam 1974

box 2, folder 70

United States China Friendship Newsletter 1974

box 2, folder 71

Update: a Newsletter for Employees of the State Department of Industrial relations 1976

box 2, folder 72

Update on Law Related Education 1977

box 2, folder 73

Up From Under 1971

box 2, folder 74

Uprising 1976-1977

box 2, folder 75

Urban School Decentralization circa 1974

box 2, folder 76

The Voice of Unity 1974

box 2, folder 77

Wassaja 1973

box 2, folder 78

We are Teachers Too! San Francisco Federation of Teachers 1974

box 2, folder 79

Wei Min Asian American News 1975

box 2, folder 81

W.E.S. Bulletin 1974

box 2, folder 82

What Have Women Done? 1975

box 2, folder 83

Who's Moving? A Look at the Neighborhoods 1975

box 2, folder 84

Women: a Journal of Liberation 1972

box 2, folder 85

The Woman Question 1977

box 2, folder 86

Women Studies Newsletter 1972-1978

box 2, folder 87

Women's Liberation Newsletter 1972

box 2, folder 88

The Women's Street Theater 1972

box 2, folder 89

Workforce 1973

box 2, folder 90

Working Classics 1982

box 2, folder 91

The World in Your Coffee Cup 1976

box 2, folder 92

Young People and the Law 1974

box 2, folder 93

Young Socialist 1968

box 2, folder 94

Youth Alternatives 1975

box 2, folder 95

Youth Law Handbook 1976

box 2, folder 96

The Youth Liberation News Service 1974

Series 3 Resource Center Files

box 3, folder 1-5

Africa

box 3, folder 6-11

Alternative Education

box 3, folder 12-19

Art

box 3, folder 20-24

Asian Studies

box 3, folder 25-26

Bi-Lingual Studies

box 3, folder 27-48

Black Studies

box 3, folder 49-51

Bussing / Integration

box 3, folder 52-83

Catalogues / Research

box 3, folder 84-90

Child Care

box 3, folder 91-106

Children's Literature

box 3, folder 107-115

Chile

box 3, folder 116-127

China

box 4, folder 1-22

Community Schools

box 4, folder 23-28

Cuba

box 4, folder 29-37

Drugs

box 4, folder 38

Ecology

box 4, folder 39-49

Economics

box 4, folder 50-53

Health Care

box 4, folder 54-59

Imperialism

box 4, folder 60-72

Labor History

box 4, folder 73-98

Labor Studies

box 4, folder 99-112

Language Arts

box 4, folder 113-120, box 5, folder 1-23

La Raza

box 5, folder 24-31

Latin American

box 5, folder 32-54

Law

box 5, folder 55-68

Math

box 5, folder 69-73

Men's Liberation

box 5, folder 74

Methods

box 5, folder 75-77

Military

box 5, folder 78-80

Minorities

box 5, folder 81-82

Music

box 5, folder 83-85

Native Americans

box 5, folder 86-93

Prisons

box 5, folder 94

Puerto Rico

box 5, folder 95-123

Racism

box 5, folder 124-143

Reading

box 5, folder 144

Revolutionary Theory

box 5, folder 145-166

Schools in United States Society

box 5, folder 167-176

Science

box 6, folder 1

Spanish

box 6, folder 2-13

Student Movements

box 6, folder 14-19

Substitute Teachers

box 6, folder 20-26

Teacher, Being a

box 6, folder 27-40

Teacher Unionism

box 6, folder 41-51

Teacher / Unions

box 6, folder 52-62

Teaching, Practice of

box 6, folder 63-66

Tracking

box 6, folder 67-70

Urban Studies

box 6, folder 71-85

US History

box 6, folder 86-100

Vietnam

box 6, folder 101

Welfare

box 6, folder 102-105, box 7, folder 1-109

Women's Studies

box 7, folder 110-137

Writing

Series 4 Photographs

folder BARTOC Photos

BARTOC Photographs

Scope and Contents

Images include people on strike, children playing, a classroom scene, and a group meeting. The word La Raza is often visible in the background.