DECOLONIZING R.E.P. PRACTICES

RACE EDUCATION PARENTING

This Just In!

Deschooling is Decolonization Work
By Maleka Diggs for Mosaic

The understandings, experiences, and perceptions we carry from childhood through adulthood inevitably become the blueprint for navigating relationships in all their forms – creating seeds of bias that impact everything we do.
Disrupting those adopted harm-filled seeds requires an ongoing commitment to deeply question, sit with, and unpack the understandings and perceptions we carry around how our behaviors, language, and movements show up in our relationships. We investigate this impact while exploring ways to intentionally shift our practice — also known as Deschooling.
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Ongoing Offerings

DECOLONIZING R.E.P. PRACTICES TRAINING SERIES

Curated to meet individuals, groups, and organizations where they are and desire to be. From private coaching to professional development, we will explore how perpetuating colonizing tactics and behaviors impact our R.E.P. (race, education, parenting) practices and ways to shift barriers toward invitations centered on community, connection, and awareness through multisensory and self-directed learning approaches. 

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1:1 & Group Coaching (adults, parents, and teens ( 16+)

• ​Shifting Learning Pathways
• Deschooling - Shedding our Sh!t
• Partnership-based Parenting
• ​Starting your own liberation-centered community

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Learning Institutions

• ​Museums
• Parks
• Recreational Centers​​

SDE/Unschooling Centers & Communities

Schools K-12, Colleges, and Universities (public & private)

• ​​Professional Development Training Series
• Listening Campaigns & Workshops (adults & young people)
• Parenting Support​

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Developing A Disruptor's Ear Workbook - Self-work

A workbook for learning how to listen (despite schoolishness and pervasive whiteness) and what to do with what you're hearing.
Identifying the characteristics, patterns, and problematic outcomes of harmful, normalized practices, plus:

• Operating beyond the fear of being wrong or offensive
• Proactive ways to avoid anti-Blackness and other dominant behaviors
• Discovering language for conveying your needs as a BIPOC family in a predominantly white SDE space
• Knowing what to do or say when your attempts to heal, actually end up hurting
• Being in community with groups of people you didn’t grow up seeing or knowing much about

Akilah S. Richards, Raising Free People Network

Maleka Diggs, Eclectic Learning Network

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DESCHOOLING ISSA THING GLOBAL MEETUP

A global, monthly, virtual meetup for caregivers who are committed to exploring ways to shift their parenting practices. We will focus on liberatory approaches that center healing and learning as a lifestyle as well as explore the impact and intersection of parenting, education, and race. ​

When stepping into anything new or outside of our comfort zones, a transition period is always a good way to go. We see it in so many areas, taking on a new job position, getting to know someone, sending our young people to school or not school and much more. The idea that there is a predefined timeline to decondition and acclimate oneself to a new learning pathway is schoolish is itself. If you decide to join our group, we'll get into what schoolishness means and how it shows beyond the walls of colonized education.

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Speaking Engagements 

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