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

Kristin Komatsubara

7th grade Math/Science Teacher, High Tech Middle

Kristin Komatsubara is a teacher and life-long learner, earning her B.S. in Education from USC, M.A. in Curriculum Design from UCSD, and currently pursuing her doctoral degree in educational leadership. Kristin began teaching with High Tech High in 2007. She was a founding staff member, mentor, and director for High Tech Middle North County and director of High Tech Elementary North County. She is a core team leader for the Next Generation Science Standards Early Implementers and facilitator and lesson study team member of the Mathematical Agency Improvement Community. Kristin is currently an instructional coach and 7th grade/math-science teacher at High Tech Middle. She is excited to support new teachers in the High Tech High Graduate School of Education’s Teacher Apprentice Program.

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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.