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AN OPEN CALL FOR SCHOOLS AND DISTRICTS TO REDESIGN FOR LOVE, JUSTICE, AND COLLECTIVE LIBERATION

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  • We Believe
  • Our Work
  • Our Team
  • New School
  • School Redesign
  • Everybody v. Injustice​
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We Believe

We co-design schools for love, justice and collective liberation. Every child has inherent dignity, worth and genius. Racism and injustice, like a stained glass, obscure and distort students’ brilliance. We are the heirs in a line of noble working class people, across race and time, who fought for loving community and justice.

Our Work

We see school as a place where young folks feel seen, heard, activated and connected to their community. We use justice-driven, love-centered design to fiercely challenge inequity and co-create radically loving visions of the student experience—prioritizing cultural, economic and environmental justice. We design for the collective liberation of everybody.

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Group photo of the Center for Love and Justice team

Our Team

Portrait of Michelle Pledger

Michelle Pledger

Portrait of Shani Leader

Shani Leader

Portrait of Melissa Daniels

Melissa Daniels

Portrait of Tony Simmons

Tony Simmons

Portrait of Kaleb Rashad

Kaleb Rashad

Portrait of Marla Carver

Marla Carver

Portrait of Nikki Hinostro

Nikki Hinostro

Portrait of Tina Schuster

Tina Schuster

Portrait of Stacey Lopaz

Stacey Lopaz

We co-design schools for love, justice and collective liberation.

New School Creation

for Equity and Deeper Learning

The Graduate School of Education (GSE) New School Creation Fellowship is designed for educators who are passionate and committed to designing and founding new schools focused on justice, equity and deeper learning. High Tech High schools provide an innovative and disruptive context for fellows to reimagine what is possible for K-12 education, and are intended to serve as sources for inspiration, not replication.

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School Redesign

for Love and Justice

School Redesign partners the HTH GSE with existing schools and districts to advance equity for K-12 students through Liberatory Project Based Learning. We center our work around students and community by designing Liberatory Project Based Learning, centering student voice through democratic community practices, and making learning public with exhibitions of student work.

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Everybody v. Injustice

We accelerate grassroot movements that interrupt interlocking injustices. We do design work with folks hell bent on disrupting unjust systems, expanding democratic power, and taking collective action to realize the dreams of our ancestors, our children and our communities. We are a design school for social justice. 

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Democratization

An invitation to explore and learn component systems of liberation, self-determination, healing and collective cooperation

Dialogue

Engagement in discourse about critical social and economic theories and invitation to explore diverse  ways of knowing and being in relationship

Humanization

An invitation to explore and unlearn and resist component systems of exclusion/ oppressions/ exploitation and reclaim individual and collective liberation

Belonging

Sourcing and developing ones gifts, talents and abilities to meet the needs of the community while depending relational agency with self and others

Identity

Critical development of one’s identity, ancestral and indigenous history, and standing in the community

Place

An invitation to explore, learn and reconnect to the land, to place through contextualized extended experiences.

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