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​​​​The Common Ground Speaker Series presents distinguished speakers in education, parenting, and health at venues across the San Francisco Peninsula. Our 2025-2026 Series will be a hybrid season with some events online and some in person. Parents, faculty, and staff at our member schools attend the Common Ground online events free of charge. Faculty and educators from non-member schools are also invited to participate free of charge. Guests from non-member schools and the general community can register and attend. Registration closes twelve hours before the start of this event or when maximum registration is reached.

​​​​Guests from non-member schools and the general community can register and attend this in-person event for FREE. (From the dropdown, please select: "a member of the GENERAL PUBLIC [FREE].)

​We also welcome educators from member and nonmember schools to attend our events free of charge.  However, we'd like to get a better understanding of our audience and interests and request that you register with your work school institution email address.  Educators must be employees of accredited educational institutions.

​Event Logistics

• ​This event will take place IN-PERSON. We encourage all attendees to arrive early to ensure ample time for parking.

• ​Parking spaces are limited and may fill up quickly, so arriving in advance will help avoid any delays.

• ​To help us streamline your entry, please have your QR code ready to scan upon arrival.

​Ticket Policy Notice

• ​Each ticket grants entry to one person only.

• ​Tickets are non-transferable and cannot be shared with spouses, friends, or others.

• ​Additional tickets must be purchased for any accompanying guests.

​​​​To complete your registration, please enter your email, full name, affiliation (role and school), and connection to the Common Ground Speaker Series. Then, click "Register!"

​​​​Registration closes 12 hours before the event or when maximum registration is reached.

​​​​ARE YOU RECORDING THIS EVENT? Yes, this event will be recorded and made available to Common Ground Speaker Series Member Schools. Please reach out to your school's representative for access.

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​COUNTED OUT:

​Math is Power – Film Screening and Q+A​

​with Director Vicki Abeles (Race to Nowhere) 

​Thur, Sept 25, National Math Story-Telling Day; 6pm

​Free and Open to the Public

​In-person at Mid-Peninsula High School, Menlo Park

​Celebrate National Math Story-Telling Day with a special community-wide screening of Counted Out: Math is Power. This provocative film is brought to you by a director of the award-winning documentary, Race to Nowhere, and examines how perceptions of math shape power, equity, and opportunity in today's data-driven world. With education under attack and misinformation on the rise, math is more than just numbers – it’s a language for reason, a foundation for truth, and a tool for democracy. Math literacy shapes everything from opportunity to civic life and a growing movement calls to reimagine math as a shared language for building a healthier, more informed future.

​Join in the post-screening conversation with director Vicki Abeles. 

​About our speaker

​Vicki Abeles is a filmmaker, attorney and change agent. She directed the award-winning documentaries Race to Nowhere and Beyond Measure and reached millions of viewers by focusing on social impact. She is the author of the NYT best-selling book Beyond Measure. Additional film credits include Associate Producer on the Sundance favorite Miss Representation (2011) and Associate Producer on Plastic Man: The Artful Life of Jerry Ross Barrish (2014). Continuing to bring communities together around the power of stories, Vicki’s work as an Impact Producer for Chasing Childhood and High School 9-1-1, along with producing the national live-stream event, “State of the Kids: Uniting for Youth Mental Health,” has built alliances across the world to empower kids to thrive.