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/