Raizada Learning Collective

This year, we were honored to have been selected to collaborate with the San Antonio African American Community Archive and Museum (SAAACAM) in creating a thematic, exhibit aligned, 15-lesson foundational curriculum.

This work was created with deep care for memory, place, and belonging. Designed through Sankofa, Ubuntu, experiential learning, and culturally sustaining pedagogy, the curriculum invites students to engage history as living and relational, where self and community are inseparable, and offers tools to interpret cultural identity and cultural history. As the curriculum designer, I approached this work as an act of care, honoring Black history in San Antonio and the U.S. Southwest while supporting students in seeing themselves as historians, knowledge keepers, and cultural creators.

Offered as a living foundation and opening chapter, these lessons are intended to grow and deepen alongside the communities they serve.

Tlazocamati to SAAACAM for the trust, collaboration, and shared commitment to liberatory learning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvPou8OjTp8

This week, we were invited to share a keynote address for the inaugural iConnect Zone School Year Kickoff in Colorado Springs, CO! The address intertwined personal narrative, professional innovation, and student-centered pedagogies.

My team and I just wrapped up our second FutureShock LA site! The program was a beautiful opportunity to reflect on the harm of traditional schooling practices while resurrecting rehumanizing dynamics where youth lead their own learning. It was a remarkable opportunity that offered a critical insight into challenging majoritarian systems in education. We didn't make decisions for youth, we made decisions WITH youth!

The Academy of Teacher Excellence has always held a special place in my heart. They were the first institution that welcomed and encouraged me to share my knowledge with the world & as I decided to establish my own consultancy, they were my first client! Thank you for this ( and all of the wonderful other) opportunities ATE ! I cannot wait to continue to collaborate with such an empowering academy!!!!

We have a mailing address!

Raizada Learning Collective is a Proud TODOS member! A great professional development organization for Math educators and Educational Advocates!!!

¡El Colectivo de Aprendizaje de Raizadas es un miembro orgulloso de la organización TODOS! ¡¡¡Esta es una gran organización de desarrollo profesional para educadores de matemáticas y defensores de la educación!!!

https://www.todos-math.org/

My team and I just wrapped up our first FutureShock LA site! The program was a beautiful opportunity to reflect on the harm of traditional teaching practices and frameworks, while establishing powerful dynamics where youth lead their own learning. It was a remarkable opportunity that offered a critical insight into challenging dominant systems in education. We didn't make decisions for youth, we made decisions WITH youth!

Thank you for such a beautiful experience that will influence my soul and pedagogy for generations to come. It was an honor to support LAUSD youth and develop a strong connection with students!

Gracias por una experiencia tan hermosa que influirá en mi alma y en mi pedagogía para las generaciones venideras. ¡Fue un honor apoyar a los jóvenes del LAUSD y desarrollar una fuerte conexión con lxs estudiantes!

“Sometimes we drug ourselves with dreams of new ideas. The head will save us. The brain alone will set us free. But there are no new ideas still waiting in the wings to save us as women, as human. There are only old and forgotten ones, new combinations, extrapolations and recognitions from within ourselves, along with the renewed courage to try them out. And we must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions our dreams imply and some of our old ideas disparage.” AUDRE LORDE ( Poetry is not a Luxury)

Resources for the Bilingual Algebra classroom. A reunion of Indigeneity and Mathematics.

"There are young people in kindergarten today who will live to see the 22nd century. As technology is able to conduct more rote tasks in our lives, it will become an ever-more important piece of educational practice. It will equally require us to unearth ancestral styles of education that connect us to that which makes us most human – to that which technology cannot replicate."

Check out this new resource reuniting indigeneity and modern mathematics.

🌱 Public School Algebra doesn't have to be disconnected to our traditional ways of knowing. Counterstorytelling Algebra reunites indigeneity and modern mathematics.

Resources for the Bilingual Algebra classroom. #2/12

Have you ever heard of a petate?! ❤️‍🔥

🌱 Public School Algebra doesn't have to be disconnected to our traditional ways of knowing. Counterstorytelling Algebra reunites the broken pieces of us disjointed by colonization.

Here is 1/12 of some worksheets for the Bilingual Algebra classroom. Comment below if you're open to seeing what I've been working on! ❤️‍🔥