​AREA AND STATE EVENTS

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Your 2026–2027 DKG CA Readers and Leaders Book Club Line Up is Here!!!
Fresh Picks, New Pages: 
Which one are you most excited to dive into?
The Book Club for Troublesome Women, Marie Bostwick (Sept. 22).
The Correspondent, Virginia Evans (Nov. 18).
The Things We Never Say, Elizabeth Strout (Jan. 21).
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Leadership Development Committee

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AREA XVII FALL CONFERENCE

This event will include two breakout sessions, Keynote Speaker Gillian Wegener, and lunch. It is open to anyone interested. Sessions will focus on mental and physical renewal.

You are invited to read the article below that shows the impact on attending a DKG conference for the first time.

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Eta Mu Members at the 2023 DKG California Convention

CONVENTION 2023 "SHAPING TOMORROW TOGETHER"

REFLECTIONS FROM A FIRST TIME ATTENDEE AT THE 2023 CONVENTION IN BURLINGAME
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"Embracing the Sisterhood: A First-Timer's Journey at the DKG Convention"
By Heather Nonaca
 
Attending the DKG Convention is something that has been suggested to me since I joined DKG in 2016. Unfortunately, Convention always happens to fall around standardized state testing and one of the busiest weeks in my school year. However, this year, I marked my calendar, called in a favor from a colleague to sub my classes, and made my way to Burlingame, looking forward to “Shaping Tomorrow Together.” Here’s what Convention taught me: 
  1. Dawn Pitcock’s (Eta Mu) loves Starbucks as much as I do and takes a copious amount of notes while brightening everyone’s day with her joyous aura. 
  2. Wendy Bruce (Eta Mu) is a supportive soul that generously offered to show me around her school’s campus (that my Autistic son, Emmet will be attending next year) once we returned from Convention. The offer lifted a giant weight off of my shoulders and I’m so thankful to have one of my sisters at Emmet’s school next year. 
  3. Area XVII produces leaders–as exemplified by the election of Kathleen Heinzinger and Patricia Elston to the Nominations Committee. Congratulations!
  4. Suzanne Roy (DKG CA Corresponding Secretary) is a hoot to have a drink with, especially when you’re being serenaded by a barbershop quartet.
  5. Saying goodbye to fallen sisters is tough, but honoring them at the Convention is a beautiful way of acknowledging all the ways that they brightened their communities during their lives.
  6. Being surrounded by educators that have decades of stories to tell, advice to offer, and friendship to gain, is exactly the type of energy boost that tired educators need in May.
The Convention also gave me an opportunity to lead a break-out session on “6 Ways Google Forms Can Support your Chapter,” which many members of my own chapter were able to attend to offer their support. If you’d like a copy of my presentation please click here. Overall, Convention allowed me the opportunity to grow closer to members of my own chapter, while making connections with other members all across California. DKG may seem small at the chapter level, but it is wide reaching at both the state and international levels. In that way, Convention reminds us that we are part of something bigger. Uniting key women educators, honoring them, advancing and stimulating their careers, informing them of legislation in education, initiating support for legislation, and endowing scholarships to aid their journeys not only supports individual women educators, it also supports our students, classrooms, and local and global communities as well. Furthermore, hearing from Dr. Marine Avagyan (Epsilon Epsilon) has encouraged me to be brave in taking on other leadership opportunities in DKG, while leaning on those that have come before me. All-in-all, I learned that “Shaping Tomorrow Together,” doesn’t seem as daunting when you know you have a strong team of women educators in your corner. 

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