Vision & Core Principles
Family Leadership Design Collaborative
Revised Core Principles
Our vision of community wellbeing and educational justice seeks to cultivate, enact, and sustain:
- whole, healthy children in culturally thriving families & communities
- relational, communal, and collective approaches to change-making
- just institutions, policy, and practices
Our Core Principles
Beginning with Family & Community Ecologies to:
- center the knowledge, priorities, and agendas of nondominant families & communities
- recognize histories of resistance and transformation
- see communities as dynamic and multidimensional
Refusing and Disrupting Normative Power Dynamics to:
- recognize inequities as shaped by histories and power
- name colonization, imperialism, nationalism, racism, sexism, classism, heteronormativity as root causes and intersectional forms of oppression
- “desettle” forms of normativity that seek to assimilate and erase our cultural ways of knowing and being
Enacting Solidarities in Collective Change-Making to:
- develop “how can” questions to envision beyond our existing systems and structures
- sustain “here and now” relationships that realize the change we wish to see in the world
- build solidarities across and with difference to enact transformative and consequential forms of learning and activity
Creating On-Going Transformative Possibilities to:
- envision intergenerational change-making
- transform power between communities and schools
- draw across disciplines and theories to evolve language towards educational justice
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Former core principles can be found here: http://familydesigncollab.org/core-principles/