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Work in Community with Us

Let us be your wayfinding guides.

We provide differentiated workshops, instruction, and/or coaching for applying and extending Joyful Disruption frameworks and tools across classroom instruction, policy, communication, household relations, community relations, and more.

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Beginning your Work

Start where you are, but don't stay there.

Joyful Disruption Foundations: Seeing The Landscape Differently

Minimum 6 hours of workshops


  • Joyful Disruption Framework


  • Subtractive Deep Structures of Schooling


  • Student & Educator Positionality


  • Problematizing​ Subtractive Deep Structures of Schooling & Hidden Curriculum of Language, Policies, and Practices

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Leveling Up

Differentiated, humanizing support for educators

For districts and school communities ready to level up, we also offer more advanced workshops for advancing ands sustaining Joyful Disruption.  

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  • Teaching About Race & Racism+


  • Problematizing Curriculum & Instruction across all disciplines & Grade levels


  • Disrupting & maximizing physical classroom ecologies


  • Humanizing data collection & Analysis (2-5 sessions)


  • ABAR Policies, Communication, and Planning


  • Linguistic Solidarity & Justice for Emerging Bi/multi-linguals and Standard English Learners


  • Love-soaked, ABAR Socio-Emotional Wellness & Crisis Response


  • Queering your Ecology to support LGBTQ+ Students, Teachers, & Households


  • And more...just ask!

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Freedom Dreaming

Designing & implementing new possibilities

If you've already made progress in your journey, we can help you develop targeted and responsive (next) steps and plans ranging from specific support for instructional teams/departments/grade levels to policy audits and leadership coaching (depending on highest needs). 


We also offer site visits, survey-tools, data gathering and analysis,  and/or hyper-personalized consultation.

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If you tell us what humanizing and empowering experiences and opportunities you're imagining for your district, school, or classroom ecologies we can help make them happen.

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We've worked with partners to:

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  • Gather and analyze broad, person-centered, and actionable data 


  • Create model Classroom Ecology Labs


  • Decolonize policies and language for pro- and reactive communications


  • Generate new love-soaked & engaging rituals and routines


  • Develop humanizing responses to traumatic incidents


  • Joyfully Disrupt curriculum so that all students have empowering windows and mirrors.

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What are your freedom dreams and how can we bring them to life?

Work in Community with Us: Services

Our Clients

Our Community

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CCEIS: Coordinated Early Intervening Services

LAUSD

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BSAP: Black Student Achievement Plan

LAUSD

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Local District Central

LAUSD

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Glassell Park & Los Feliz Community of Schools

LAUSD TK-12 Community of
Schools in Northeast LA

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Grape Street Elementary School

LAUSD Elementary School

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Dr. Julian Nava Learning Academy

LAUSD Middle School
in South LA

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Los Angeles Academy

LAUSD Middle School
in South LA

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Charles Drew Middle School

LAUSD

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William Jefferson Clinton Middle School

LAUSD Middle School
in South LA

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John Adams Middle School

LAUSD Middle School
in South LA

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Natural History Museum

Los Angeles

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Pasadena Rosebud Academy

K-8 Charter School in
Pasadena

Work in Community with Us: Clients

Testimonios

We learn and grow from being in community.

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I have grown tremendously and I am grateful for the time to chew on these ideas. Disrupting my own biases is a long journey, but I see now that I don't need to be an expert to engage in this work with others.

Principal

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I find these workshops POWERFUL! They allow me to center my practice around issues that are actually essential for the proper functioning of society, therefore giving me a higher sense of purpose.

Student Support Provider

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I have been with LAUSD for 12 years, and I was seriously considering walking away from this profession for a lot of reasons, but the main reason was that I honestly felt like the district had no interest in doing the work to build just and equitable conditions for teachers and students. My whole career I have felt like the "trouble maker" (several administrators have called me this in the past) for problematizing structures, policies and so forth. Being in community with you both and other educators has helped revitalize my passion. I am truly grateful for this platform.

Classroom Teacher

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I'm so appreciative of you and your groundbreaking work. There is no way I could have approached any of this in a meaningful way without you. And to have the district supporting it is beyond fantastic. Reading books, however great, just isn't enough for me to feel confident enough to do this work.

Classroom Teacher

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I see so much of the deep structures at my school. I want it to stop and to change for the benefit of our students and our society. I just have to be intentional every minute and every time, especially when I talk with teachers and attempt to joyfully disrupt the deep structures at my school.

Principal

Work in Community with Us: Testimonials
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