FLDC Resource Library
Browse our library to find publications, tools, and other resources from FLDC projects and members.
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Research-Practice Partnerships for Racially Just School Communities by Camille Wilson
FLDC member Camille Wilson published a post, “Research-Practice Partnerships for Racially Just School Communities”, which explains that “research-practice partnerships (RPPs) enable some of the most meaningful and influential...
Racial Justice Research
“Teach my white son about racism: Utah schools should not try to spare my son’s feelings by avoiding the truth of our history” by Paul Kuttner
Paul Kuttner, FLDC member, wrote, “Teach my white son about racism: Utah schools should not try to spare my son’s feelings by avoiding the truth of our history.” in the Salt Lake Tribune. He writes, “The Utah State Board of Education’s...
FLDC Member Updates Racial Justice
FLDC July 2021 Newsletter
Greetings from the Family Leadership Design Collaborative. This month, in addition to sharing updates and learnings, we want to acknowledge the ongoing, devastating news regarding the remains of Indigenous children being found at...
FLDC Newsletters
FLDC 2021 Codesigning Educational Justice Institute
On June 30th and July 1st, we held the inaugural FLDC Codesigning Educational Justice Institute! We were joined by eight teams of parents, educators, and community leaders committed to racial justice and community well-being. Read more...
Co-Design Cases
Curricular Reorganization in the Third Space: A Case of Consequential Reasoning around Data
FLDC member Kris Gutiérrez is one of the authors of “Curricular Reorganization in the Third Space: A Case of Consequential Reasoning around Data”. The authors discuss “a social design-based research project to co-design and study data...
Research
FLDC Codesigning Educational Justice Institute
We are ecstatic about the inaugural FLDC Codesigning Educational Justice Institute at the end of the month! We received a high level of interest and 8 teams were selected to join using criteria based on FLDC principles....
Educators Families & Change-Making
FLDC June Newsletter
Greetings from the Family Leadership Design Collaborative. The FLDC is excited to host the Codesigning Educational Justice Institute this month where we will be taking up solidarity-driven codesign with...
FLDC Newsletters
Creating Anti-Racist Childhood Spaces
Iheoma Iruka and other scholars co-authored, Creating Anti-Racist Childhood Spaces. They discuss the racial history of early childhood programs and the racism currently present and provide strategies for creating anti-racist early...
Educators Racial Justice Research
Confronting Structural Inequities in AI for Education
Ezekiel Dixon-Román and other scholars co-authored, Confronting Structural Inequities in AI for Education. The article discusses how educational AI technologies are situated in and reproduce inequities and offer alternative visions for...
Racial Justice Research
Inquiry and Learning in Literature
Carol D. Lee authored a chapter, Inquiry and Learning in Literature, in the International Handbook of Inquiry and Learning. This chapter discusses what comprehending and interpreting literature requires and the role that inquiry takes...
Educators Research
Pedagogical “Hands and Eyes”: Embodied Learning and the Genesis of Ethical Perception
Shirin Vossoughi, Meg Escude, Walter Kitundu and Manuel Luis Espinoza recently co-authored Pedagogical “Hands and Eyes”: Embodied Learning and the Genesis of Ethical Perception. They examine ethnographic data collected within a...
Racial Justice Research
Moscas, metiches, and methodologies: exploring power, subjectivity, and voice when researching the undocumented
Gerardo López and Alonso R. Reyna Rivarola co-authored, Moscas, metiches, and methodologies: exploring power, subjectivity, and voice when researching the undocumented. Rivarola and López examine the challenges when researching the...
Racial Justice Research
On the Abolition of Belonging as Property: Toward Justice for Immigrant Children of Color
Mariana Souto-Manning recently authored, On the Abolition of Belonging as Property: Toward Justice for Immigrant Children of Color. This article examines the racialized notions of belonging and calls for the abolishment of belonging as...
Racial Justice Research
Agency and Resilience in the Face of Challenge as Civic Action: Lessons Learned from Across Ethnic Communities
Carol Lee and other scholars co-edited Educating for Civic Reason and Discourse, a report published by the National Academy of Education. Megan Bang, Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy, Kris D. Gutiérrez, Carol D. Lee and other scholars...
Research2021 FLDC Codesigning Justice Institute
Check out and apply for FLDC’s Codesigning Educational Justice Institute on June 30th and July 1st, 2021. The institute is a 2-day hands-on learning experience intended to support families of color and educators as leaders in...
Educators Families & Change-Making Racial Justice
20 Years of Youth Power: the 2020 National Youth Organizing Field Scan
The Funders’ Collaborative on Youth Organizing released 20 Years of Youth Power: the 2020 National Youth Organizing Field Scan. This report was co-authored by Michelle Renée Valladares, Siomara Valladares, Matt Garcia, Kata Baca,...
Racial Justice Research
In it Together: Community-Based Research Guidelines for Communities and Higher Education
FLDC member Paul Kuttner and other scholars recently co-authored: In it Together: Community-Based Research Guidelines for Communities and Higher Education. The report was published by the Community Research Collaborative — a...
Co-Design Cases Research
Interrogating Languaging Through Power, Race, and Space in the Schooling of Translingual Student Populations
Kris D. Gutiérrez and colleagues co-authored a chapter titled, Interrogating Languaging Through Power, Race, and Space in the Schooling of Translingual Student Populations, in the Handbook of Urban Education. The chapter...
Educators Racial Justice Research
The Interview as Pedagogical Encounter: Nurturing Knowledge and Relationships with Youth
The Interview as Pedagogical Encounter: Nurturing Knowledge and Relationships with Youth, a chapter co-authored by Shirin Vossoughi in the book, Critical Youth Research in Education, examines typical approaches to the interview...
Educators Racial Justice Research
Restorative Justice in Education: Transforming Teaching and Learning Through the Disciplines
Mariana Souto-Manning recently co-authored Race Matters in Early Childhood Education, a chapter in Restorative Justice in Education: Transforming Teaching and Learning Through the Disciplines. The book discusses how restorative...
Educators Racial Justice ResearchEducating for Civic Reasoning & Discourse
Carol Lee recently co-edited, Educating for Civic Reasoning and Discourse, a report published by the National Academy of Education that aims “to better prepare students to examine and discuss complex civic, political, and social issues...
Educators Research
Handbook of Cultural Foundations of Learning
Na’ilah Suad Nasir, Carol Lee, Maxine McKinney de Royston and Roy Pea were co-editors of Handbook of Cultural Foundations of Learning. This book highlights research that explores learning as an inherently cultural process. Ezekiel J....
Educators Racial Justice Research
Summer Learning and Beyond: Opportunities for Creating Equity
Megan Bang, Kris D. Gutiérrez, Ann Ishimaru, Carol D. Lee, Na’ilah Suad Nasir, Shirin Vossoughi and colleagues co-authored Summer Learning and Beyond: Opportunities for Creating Equity. This report was published by Learning Policy...
Educators Racial Justice
FLDC May Newsletter
Greetings from the Family Leadership Design Collaborative. The ongoing impacts of the pandemic and escalating violence across the globe have been heartbreaking and painful. As you continue to press forward and engage in powerful...
FLDC Newsletters
Intersectional Organizing and Educational Justice Movements: Strategies for Cross-Movement Solidarities
Mark Warren recently co-authored, Intersectional Organizing and Educational Justice Movements: Strategies for Cross-Movement Solidarities. This article discusses intersectional organizing as a means towards building solidarity across...
Families & Change-Making Research
K-12 Equity Directors: Configuring the Role for Impact
Terrance Green, Ann Ishimaru, Decoteau Irby and other scholars recently co-authored, K-12 Equity Directors: Configuring the Role for Impact. The report discusses the growth of equity directors in school systems across the country and...
Educators Racial Justice
FLDC April Newsletter
Greetings from the Family Leadership Design Collaborative. The ongoing racial reckonings across the nation continue to weigh on us, and we hope that you are finding care and healing within your families and communities of support. In...
FLDC Newsletters
FLDC March Newsletter
Greetings from the Family Leadership Design Collaborative. Spring flowers are beginning to bloom, and we sense a renewed energy to continue building towards more equitable futures. In this issue, we share: Congratulations to...
FLDC Newsletters
Centering Black Families and Justice-Focused Educators during Pandemic Remote Schooling
FLDC members Ann Ishimaru and Filiberto Barajas-López co-authored a report centering the experiences of Black families during pandemic remote learning. Learn more about how their partnership is working to illuminate the experiences and...
Educators Families & Change-Making Racial Justice
Understanding Root Causes of Inequities: Praxis During Pandemics
Learn about how the Center for Youth and Community Leadership in Education (CYCLE), led by FLDC member, Keith Catone, are supporting school districts through cross-site learning in creating deeper understanding of systemic and...
Educators
Adult vs. Child-Centered Learning: Why We Need Another Path
Adult vs. Child-Centered Learning: Why We Need Another Path highlights an article by Shirin Vossoughi and colleagues. They examine intergenerational learning that attends to and is reflective of “embodied collaboration” as a path...
Educators Research
Dreams, Healing and Listening to Learn: Educational Movements in the Everyday
Timothy San Pedro recently co-authored, Dreams, Healing and Listening to Learn: Educational Movements in the Everyday. In this article they aim to answer: what does education look like when it is supported and directed by the dreams,...
Indigenous Education Research
Protecting the Promise: Indigenous Education Between Mothers and Their Children, will be released on April 2nd.
Timothy San Pedro will be releasing his new book, Protecting the Promise: Indigenous Education Between Mothers and Their Children (Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies Series) on April 2nd! This new book features short stories from “five...
Educators Families & Change-Making Indigenous Education
Elevating the Objectives of Higher Education to Effectively Serve Students from Diverse Socioeconomic Backgrounds
Shirin Vossoughi recently co-authored, Elevating the Objectives of Higher Education to Effectively Serve Students from Diverse Socioeconomic Backgrounds. The authors provide evidence-based recommendations to colleges and universities...
Racial Justice Research
Gentrifying Neighborhoods, Gentrifying Schools? An Emerging Typology of School Changes in a Gentrifying Urban School
Terrance Green and others recently published, Gentrifying Neighborhoods, Gentrifying Schools? An Emerging Typology of School Changes in a Gentrifying Urban School District, providing a framework to explain the effects of gentrification...
ResearchEnacting Relationships of Kinship and Care in Educational and Research Settings
Ananda Marin, Megan Bang and others co-authored a book chapter, Enacting Relationship of Kinship and Care in Educational and Research Settings. The authors share from their life experiences and stories from engaging in research with...
Research
Tinkering Afterschool Program Demonstrates Moving Beyond Binary of Adult-Versus Centered Education
Shirin Vossoughi co-authored an op-ed, Tinkering Afterschool Program Demonstrates Moving Beyond Binary of Adult-Versus Child-centered education, in Youth Today. The authors discuss the limitations of the adult- versus child-centered...
Educators
A call for a moratorium on damage-centered early childhood teacher education: envisioning just futures for our profession
Mariana Souto-Manning recently published “A call for a moratorium on damage-centered early childhood teacher education: envisioning just futures for our profession”, where she calls for a shift to desire-centered early childhood...
Educators Racial Justice Research
Beyond the Binary of Adult Versus Child Centered Learning: Pedagogies of Joint Activity in the Context of Making
Shirin Vossoughi co-authored Beyond the Binary of Adult Versus Child Centered Learning: Pedagogies of Joint Activity in the Context of Making, where the authors make the argument that educator supports for their students are limited by...
Educators Families & Change-Making Racial Justice
Fixating on Pandemic “Learning Loss” Undermines the Need to Transform
Maxine McKinney de Royston and Shirin Vossoughi co-authored an op-ed with Truthout, “Fixating on Pandemic ‘Learning Loss’ Undermines the Need to Transform Education”. The authors call for the need to redefine the purposes and the...
Educators Indigenous Education Racial Justice
What is TribalCrit?
Tribal Critical Race Theory (TribalCrit) was developed decades ago by Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy. However, in a recent publication with the National Education Policy Center, TribalCrit is reentered as it is resonant today given the...
Indigenous Education
New Book: Don’t Look Away
Iheoma Iruka and her colleagues recently published Don’t Look Away: Embracing Anti-Bias Classrooms. This book “leads early childhood professionals to explore and address issues of bias, equity, low expectations, and family...
Families & Change-Making
New Terrains for Familiar Places: Re-Conceptualizing Families Engaged in Educational Changemaking
Former FLDC research assistant Charlene Montaño Nolan recently completed her dissertation New Terrains for Familiar Places: Re-Conceptualizing Families Engaged in Educational Changemaking. Read Charlene’s dissertation here....
Families & Change-Making FLDC Member Updates
Redefining High-Quality Early Learning – and Identifying Core Principles for Putting It into Practice
Mariana Souto-Manning has co-authored Redefining High-Quality Early Learning — and Identifying Core Principles for Putting It into Practice where they illustrate 7 principles of practice that encourage “high-quality early learning”,...
Educators Families & Change-Making
The Changing Terrains of Research in a Time of Pandemic
Ezekiel Dixon-Román co-authored The Changing Terrains of Research in a Time of Pandemic. The authors ask: “If the regularities in the social, cultural, and political spheres are what we characterize as certainties, then what do we make...
Research
Silencing Bicultural Parental Voices through Educational Satisfaction: What Do We Need to Know?
One of our FLDC members, Edward Olivos, recently published an article called Silencing Bicultural Parental Voices through Educational Satisfaction: What Do We Need to Know? Dr. Olivos questions face-value notions of minoritized...
Families & Change-Making
Humanizing practices in online learning communities during pandemics in the USA
Muhammad Khalifa, along with other co-authors, recently published an article Humanizing practices in online learning communities during pandemics in the USA. They reflect on the importance of community-oriented practice of women of...
Educators
Moving from “This is How It’s Always Been” to “This Is How It Must Be”: Lessons from Participatory Design Research
Vianna Alcantara and Joanna Geller co-authored this reflective piece on participatory design research and the lessons learned as FLDC members. Their hope is to “provide fellow researchers with an idea of how they may reimagine...
Featured FLDC Publications
Learning-in-Relation: Implementing and Analyzing Assets Based Pedagogies in a Higher Education Classroom
Timothy San Pedro is an author for Learning-in-Relation: Implementing and Analyzing Assets Based Pedagogies in a Higher Education Classroom. Here the authors examine the ways in which assets-based pedagogical theories in higher...
Educators
Embodied Pathways and Ethical Trails: Studying Learning in and through Relational Histories
Shirin Vossoughi is an author in Embodied Pathways and Ethical Trails: Studying Learning in and through Relational Histories. Here the authors address how children’s physical interactions when they are learning together reflect...
Educators Families & Change-Making
Rethinking schools, rethinking learning
Carol Lee and Na’ilah Suad co-authored Rethinking schools, rethinking learning where they explore and rethink what we want from our schools and what we want them to offer and do for young people, especially now as inequitable schooling...
Educators
Family-School Relationships Are the Missing Link in COVID-19 Era Education
A variety of FLDC members authored a thoughtful article, Family-School Relationships Are the Missing Link in COVID-19 Era Education. The article touches upon the important value that is the collaboration between families, communities,...
Families & Change-Making
Restoring Indigenous Systems of Relationality
Megan Bang, along with several other Indigenous scholars, author Restoring Indigenous Systems Of Relationality, where they “imagine a world that fosters stronger human relationships with each other and with the land—the world that we...
Families & Change-Making Indigenous Education
Teach-In on Critical Race Theory
FLDC member Gerardo López was one of the speakers at a powerful virtual teach-in on Critical Race Theory hosted by NOLAed: Education for Liberation. Watch a recording here. Watch Here...
Racial Justice
Just Schools virtual book launch with Ann Ishimaru, Muhammad Khalifa, and Megan Bang
FLDC members Ann Ishimaru, Megan Bang, and Muhammad Khalifa discussed Ann’s book Just Schools and the challenges and possibilities for building more equitable forms of collaboration among nondominant families, communities, and schools...
FLDC Member Updates Research
How to Engage with Families During COVID-19 Stay-at-Home Schooling
Check out this blog post, How to Engage with Families During COVID-19 Stay-at-Home Schooling, about FLDC member, Southeast Seattle Education Coalition (SESEC). In the post by Riddhi Divanji and Ella Shahn, SESEC Executive Director Erin...
Families & Change-Making FLDC Member Updates
Codesigning With Indigenous Families and Educators: Creating Robotics Education That Contributes to Indigenous Resurgence
FLDC member Megan Bang, along with Carrie Tzou, Elizabeth Starks, Meixi, Amanda Rambayon, Sara Marie Ortiz, Shawn Peterson, Paradise Gladstone, Ellie Tail, Arianna Chang, Elise Andrew, Xochitl Nevarez, Ashley Braun, wrote Codesigning...
Co-Design Cases Indigenous Education
Ambulatory Sequences: Ecologies of Learning by Attending and Observing on the Move
Ananda Marin, FLDC member, is the author of “Ambulatory Sequences: Ecologies of Learning by Attending and Observing on the Move” which was published in the Cognition and Instruction journal. Abstract: There is a growing corpus of...
Research
Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline, Remove Officers from Schools
Mark Warren, FLDC member, was interviewed by Stephen Abbott with Organizing Engagement about the school-to-prison pipeline and why it must be dismantled. “Mark Warren is a professor of public policy and public affairs at the...
FLDC Member Updates Racial Justice
“Our Stories Are Powerful”: The Use of Youth Storytelling in Policy Advocacy to Combat the School-to-Prison Pipeline
FLDC member Mark Warren, along with Jeffrey S. Moyer and Andrew R. King, are the authors of, “‘Our Stories Are Powerful’: The Use of Youth Storytelling in Policy Advocacy to Combat the School-to-Prison Pipeline” in the Summer 2020...
Families & Change-Making Research
Matters of participation: notes on the study of dignity and learning
FLDC member Shirin Vossoughi, along with Manuel Luis Espinoza, Mike Rose, and Luis E. Poza, are the authors of “Matters of participation: notes on the study of dignity and learning” in the Mind, Culture, and Activity journal. Abstract:...
Research
The Wall of Moms Got Your Attention, but Mothers Have Always Been Fighting for Change
Camille Wilson, FLDC member, was quoted in a recent Harper’s Bazaar article on the importance of Black mothers’ activism. Chelsey Sanchez writes, “Camille Wilson, a professor at the University of...
Racial JusticeWhen Learning as Movement meets Learning on the Move
Kris Gutiérrez, FLDC member, is the author of “When Learning as Movement meets Learning on the Move” in the Cognition and Instruction journal. Abstract: Considering the special issue on learning-on-the move in light of earlier work on...
Research
In an Era of Pandemic and Protest, STEM Education Can’t Pretend to Be Apolitical
FLDC members Shirin Vossoughi and Megan Bang, along with Daniel Morales-Doyle and Sepehr Vakil, are the authors of an op-ed in Truthout, “In an Era of Pandemic and Protest, STEM Education Can’t Pretend to Be...
Educators Racial Justice
Organizing Engagement Interview with Keith Catone
Keith Catone, FLDC member, was interviewed by Organizing Engagement. “As the founding executive director of the Center for Youth and Community Leadership in Education (@CYCLE_RWU) at Roger Williams University, Keith...
Educators FLDC Member Updates
Hearts and Minds First: Institutional Logics in Pursuit of Educational Equity
FLDC member Ann Ishimaru, along with Mollie Galloway, published an article, “Hearts and Minds First: Institutional Logics in Pursuit of Educational Equity” in the August 2020 Educational Administration Quarterly. Abstract:...
ResearchLearning on the Move Toward Just, Sustainable, and Culturally Thriving Futures
FLDC member Megan Bang is the author of “Learning on the Move Toward Just, Sustainable, and Culturally Thriving Futures”, which was published in the July-September 2020 edition of Cognition and Instruction. Abstract: This issue is...
Indigenous Education Research
Learning-in-Relation: Implementing and Analyzing Assets Based Pedagogies in a Higher Education Classroom
FLDC member Timothy San Pedro is one of the authors, along with Kaitlyn Murray, Shannon C. Gonzales-Miller, Wendy Reed, Binta Bah, Crystal Gerrard, and Andrew Whalen, of an article, “Learning-in-Relation: Implementing and...
Research
FLDC By The Numbers
Get a birds-eye view of the Family Leadership Design Collaborative in this accessible report. Learn about the breadth and depth of this work across the country. Download...
FLDC Publications
As Tensions With Iran Escalate, It Is Time to Challenge Empire in the Classroom
In a January 2020 editorial in TruthOut.org, FLDC member Shirin Vossoughi, along with Roozbeh Shirazi and Sepehr Vakil, challenge narratives that dehumanize Middle Eastern peoples while promoting empire and war. “It is crucial...
Families & Change-Making
New Book: Just Schools by Dr. Ishimaru
Just Schools, by Dr. Ann Ishimaru, examines the challenges and possibilities for building more equitable forms of collaboration among nondominant families, communities, and schools. The text explores how equitable collaboration entails...
Families & Change-Making Featured Research
Tips for Collaborating with Other Families for Racial Justice
In this article from Embrace Race, Dr. Ann Ishimaru hares some of what she’s learned from her work as an educational researcher and organizer. These 5 guidelines offer starting points for families working to lead change in...
Families & Change-Making Racial Justice
Re-Imagining and Humanizing Parent-Teacher Conversations and Interactions through Role-Play
Hundreds of parents in Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) shared their stories of experiencing negative interactions with teachers and administrators in schools, often times feeling disregarded and marginalized due to racial...
Families & Change-Making FLDC Publications
Transforming the Field of Family Engagement
This booklet, originally created for the annual meeting of the Institute for Educational Leadership, lays out the background of FLDC, shares our co-design approach, and highlights four of our local site partners. Each case study...
Featured FLDC Publications Research
Video: Cultivating Community Wellbeing and Educational Justice
In this video, put out by the University of Washington College of Education, FLDC members share how they are looking to radically change the old model of education by redesigning family engagement....
Featured FLDC Publications
Strong Families, Strong Nations
“Families are the heart of Indigenous nations and communities.” We are excited to share a new publication on Indigenous family engagement from FLDC’s Dr. Megan Bang, Charlene Montaño Nolan, and Nikki McDaid-Morgan! This chapter,...
Indigenous Education
Racialized Formations of Learning In and Across Contexts
This research brief, written by Ezekiel Dixón-Roman, provides a way of understanding what racializations are, discusses some of the important research literature on the impact of racializations in education, and highlights the...
FLDC Publications Racial Justice
Circling To Move Ahead: Building Asian American Community Power For Educational Justice
FLDC Phase 2 Partner Southeast Seattle Education Coalition (SESEC) has written a series of blog posts that attend to the resiliency and agency of the Asian American community in Southeast Seattle. Together with the Chinese Information...
Racial Justice
Re-imagining Turnaround: Families and Communities Leading Educational Justice
We are thrilled to share this publication from FLDC’s Ann Ishimaru on families and communities leading towards educational justice, published in the Journal of Educational Administration (JEA) in a special issue edited...
Families & Change-Making Featured
FLDC Phase 2 Convening Synthesis
On February 7-9, 2019, FLDC held our third convening where we invited a group of people that are deeply invested in learning and humanizing our way towards community-defined educational justice and wellbeing. Across these multiple...
FLDC Publications
Fostering Family-Educator Collaboration for Parent Power in Salt Lake City
The goal of the Family-School Collaboration Design Research Project, the local FLDC site in Utah, is to design spaces where families have real, collective impact on school-site decision making. The central focus has been on redesigning...
Co-Design Cases Families & Change-MakingBuilding Community & Organizational Capacity for Racial Equity in Southeast Seattle
In the local FLDC site in Seattle, co-design was led by the Southeast Seattle Education Coalition (SESEC), in partnership with the University of Washington. SESEC is a coalition of Community Based Organizations (CBOs), schools,...
Co-Design Cases Racial Justice
Leveraging Family and Community Expertise to Strengthen Native Early Childhood Education
This research-practice brief, written by Tarajean Yazzie-Mintz, offers insights into family and community engagement in early childhood education practice and research, rooted in the knowledge and capacity of native communities....
FLDC Publications Indigenous EducationRecasting Families and Communities as Codesigners of Education in Tumultuous Times
In a national moment of political tumult and violence directed at people of color, immigrants and other marginalized groups, our education systems need new strategies for meaningfully engaging families and communities in ensuring...
FLDC Publications Research
Bending the River: Cultivating Indigenous Wellbeing in Chicago
The Chicago Global Indigeneity Project is working to cultivate intergenerational learning opportunities to support Indigenous knowledge, identities, and practices. This project utilizes co-design to identify community-desired learning...
Co-Design Cases Indigenous Education
Re-imagining Black and Brown Solidarities in Los Angeles
The goal of co-design in South LA is to interrupt and shift power dynamics between school staff and low-income parents of color. It is centered on the work of CADRE, a parent-led community organization, in partnership with UCLA...
Co-Design Cases Families & Change-Making
Promoting Culturally Responsive Leadership Practices
Don’t miss this engaging new article from FLDC member Muhammad Khalifa: Promoting Culturally Responsive Leadership Practices: Shining a light on marginalized children with humanistic practices and data scrutiny. Excerpt: As...
Educators
Equity and Equality in Education: SESEC Summary Report
This summary report, submitted by emily warren & Jondou Chen, documents Phase 2 of the Equity and Equality in Education (EEE) Project led by the Southeast Seattle Education Coalition (SESEC). Over a two year period from Fall 2017...
Co-Design Cases FLDC Member Updates Racial Justice
Centering Ancestral Knowledges
In this research brief, FLDC member Muhammad Khalifa highlights some of the research related to the importance of Ancestral knowledge in all schools, and particularly those that serve Indigenous and other Minoritized youth. Khalifa...
FLDC Publications Indigenous Education
Federal Education Policy: A Promise Neighborhood Case Study
This dissertation by FLDC member Derrick Lopez offers a case study that explicates the construct of “policy implementation process tools” as integral to the work of implementing the Promise Neighborhood Initiative. Policy...
Educators Research
Accepting the Challenge: Supporting Early Childhood Education in Greenville, MS
This research brief by Mara Tieken, Joyce Parker, and the Greenville Early Childhood Collaborative describes an early childhood education collaborative in Greenville, Mississippi. Formed to raise early childhood education (ECE)...
Families & Change-Making FLDC Publications
Solidarity-Driven Decision-Making: Enacting Equity in Partnering & Decision Making (Phase 2 Report)
This document elaborates FLDC’s transition from Phase 1 to Phase 2 of our work building solidarities across youth, families, communities, educators, and scholars in pursuit of educational justice and community wellbeing. In phase...
FLDC Publications
What Does Partnership Taste Like? Reimagining Family-School Partnerships through Participatory Design Research
Read up on what partnership can look like in this FLDC published article, authored by Gerardo López, Almaida Yanagui, and Paul Kuttner (University of Utah). Here the authors detail their experience working in a collaborative where...
FLDC Publications
Toward a Transformative Research and Practice Agenda for Racial Equity in Family Engagement (Phase 1 Report)
We are excited to present the first FLDC report, “Toward a Transformative Research and Practice Agenda for Racial Equity in Family Engagement.” This report is the result of a co-design process including organizers, practitioners,...
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