About Us
Our team of independent consultants is made up of educators who have spent decades teaching, learning and working for transformative change. We are excited to be a part of helping others to create liberatory and affirming learning spaces for and with youth.
Our support includes leading and assisting with:
Providing professional development, multi-constituency group learning experiences and educational resources, technical assistance and coaching;
Examining policies, practices, procedures, beliefs and biases;
Strategically planning the consistent integration of equity-based approaches;
Developing, implementing and monitoring culturally responsive and sustaining policies, practices and procedures;
Incorporating restorative practices for individual and collective healing, growth and well-being.
We utilize our unique REACH Consulting Approach: Realizing Equity to Achieve Collective Heights.
Reach In
Examine current and historical policies, practices, procedures, and beliefs that are impacting the extent to which you are able to garner equitable outcomes and foster liberatory learning.
Reach Back
Learn from examples of Black, Indigenous, people of color (BIPOC) excellence in particular to understand how to best support the brilliance of all youth.
Reach Out
Connect with students, families and community members to co-create responsive ways of nurturing the growth of the young people you serve.
Reach Forward
Strategically plan for how you will integrate, monitor and revise (as needed) equity-based approaches throughout your systems.
We believe that:
All students deserve a liberatory education that fosters freedom and joy. This is particularly salient for Black, Latinx, and Indigenous youth, as well as those from other historically oppressed and marginalized groups who are often denied such education.
All students have a right to learn through and from their own cultures and histories. Research has shown that grounding learning experiences within young people’s cultural frameworks and accessing their prior knowledge leads to improved outcomes in areas such as engagement and academic achievement.
All students benefit from recognizing, honoring, and learning from others’ cultural backgrounds. Particularly important is the practice of centering voices and experiences that are often marginalized and providing counter-narratives to stereotypical depictions and deficit-based descriptions.
All students should receive an anti-racist, anti-oppression, justice-oriented education. Such education develops young people’s skills of criticality and their commitment to being agents of change. This includes, and is arguably most salient for, those in predominantly White and/or affluent schools.
Education is not limited to taking place within school walls. Whether considering how to approach distance learning or centering the cultures and contributions of young people’s families and communities, having an expansive, student-centered, and dynamic understanding of education allows us to best support the youth in our lives.