Love as the Practice of Freedom
"The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against
oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to
act in ways that liberate ourselves and others. That action is the testimony of love
as the practice of freedom."
--bell hooks, Outlaw Culture (2006)
Dr. Kaleb Rashad
Educator | Designer | Abolitionist | Emerging Farmer | Undefined
Racism & injustice were designed from the beginning. America’s determination to sustain white superiority through its history of genocide, enslavement, police brutality and economic deprivation set the conditions for our nation’s schools to force black, brown and indigenous bodies to reject their respective cultures and conform to this American apartheid.
Creating anti-racist schools is necessary to begin to finally right this wrong and requires building anti-racist adult communities. We approach this work by developing 1) a clear awareness of race & how racism has shaped and continues to shape our schools, 2) a commitment to dismantle racism, and 3) applying justice-centered design methods to create schools in which students can: learn to read their world, resist all forms of oppression and reclaim their ancestral birthrights: to be here, to feel and act, to speak truth to power, to love and know thyself, and develop their inherent gifts to the benefit of the community.
We design for justice.
Dr. Kaleb Rashad, Creative Director | Co-Founder Center for Love & Justice at HTH Graduate School of Education | Former Director of the Gary and Jerri-Ann Jacobs @hightechhigh | Unlocked, Inc Co-Founder | Doctorate in Educational Leadership: Relational Trust & Organizational Change | He/His She/Hers | Spiritually Undefined
Creating anti-racist schools is necessary to begin to finally right this wrong and requires building anti-racist adult communities. We approach this work by developing 1) a clear awareness of race & how racism has shaped and continues to shape our schools, 2) a commitment to dismantle racism, and 3) applying justice-centered design methods to create schools in which students can: learn to read their world, resist all forms of oppression and reclaim their ancestral birthrights: to be here, to feel and act, to speak truth to power, to love and know thyself, and develop their inherent gifts to the benefit of the community.
We design for justice.
Dr. Kaleb Rashad, Creative Director | Co-Founder Center for Love & Justice at HTH Graduate School of Education | Former Director of the Gary and Jerri-Ann Jacobs @hightechhigh | Unlocked, Inc Co-Founder | Doctorate in Educational Leadership: Relational Trust & Organizational Change | He/His She/Hers | Spiritually Undefined
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Research
My dissertation research focused how Relational Trust is created among teachers and principals. My belief in human-centered design is deeply rooted in the research findings. Creative Strengths Visionary: Imaging the Impossible-->Full of big ideas, ability to see potential and possibilities everywhere StrengthsFinder 2.0 (latest go round, 2019) Maximizer | Empathy | Strategic | Connectedness | Developer StrengthsFinder 2.0 (used to be) Positivity | Relator | Empathy | Communication | Woo 16Personalities: ENFP-A "The Campaigner" Ancestral Connections Southeast US | Cameroon/Congo | Ivory Coast/Ghana | Mali |
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Recent Engagements & Contributions
- Virginia School Consortium for Learning (VaSCL) Student Leadership Conference Keynote with 230+ High School Students: Joy & Justice, March 2021
- PolyVocal Keynote, City Neighbor's 10th Annual Progressive Education Summit, with Dr. Jal Mehta & Dr. Crystal Laura, January 2021
- Equity in Education Keynote, Fielding International, with Karla Vigil, January 2021
- Keynote & Workshop, New Tech Network, Deeper Learning & Social Justice, October 2020
- Keynote, New School Venture Fund, Community of Practice: Model Design in the Midst of Dual Pandemics, October 2020
- Presenter, IDEO's Teacher's Guild: A Virtual Summer Experience: It's Starts with Schools," Summer 2020
- Keynote Panelist, A New Way Forward Summit, "Building a Learner-Centered Future," Spring 2020
- Guest Lecturer, Claremont Graduate University, "Futuristic Leadership" Spring 2020
- Virginia is For Learners Innovation Network (#VaLIN), Advisor 2020, in partnership with Virginia Department of Education, James Madison University, Virginia School Consortium for Learning, Edu21C Foundation and Jobs for the Future
- IDEO Design Council, San Francisco, 2019
- "Design Thinking for Education Leaders" Advisor, Hong Kong 2019-2020, in partnership with HK Centre for Design, HK University & Future Impact Lab
- LTE--Learning & Teaching Expo Panelist: From Teacher to Student Centered Learning, Hong Kong, 2019
- Interim Director, New School Creation Fellowship, 2019-2020
- #DesignCampMonterey, Monterey County Office of Education, Salinas, CA 2019
- #DesignCampStLouis, Lindbergh Schools, St. Louis, MO 2019
- Program Design with Monterey County Office of Education, Salinas, CA 2019 #TLCMonterey
- Hewlett: District-Community Partnerships for Learner-Centered Education, District Coach and Presenter, San Diego, CA 2019
- Creative Summer Institute Guest Speaker, Teacher's Guild + IDEO, San Francisco 2019
- Hopewell City Public Schools, Admin Leadership Retreat 2019 Facilitator: Leading for Equity, Innovation and Deeper Learning, Virginia 2019
- Steam Conference Barcelona, Keynote Speaker, CosmoCaixa, Barcelona 2019
- Unleashed! Empowered by Design, Distinguished Speaker, Hong Kong Design Centre, Hong Kong 2019
- Keynote Speaker with Andrew G. and YahYah, Chicago, IL 2018, hosted by Glenbard High School
- #DesignCampBC with the AWESOME Dr. Chagala, Vancouver, BC 2018, hosted by Thomas Haney Secondary School
- PBL World Keynote with two AH-MAZING students, Blake D. and Zelma D.: Love + Justice, Napa, CA 2018
- Design 4 San Diego (DS$D) at UCSD Design Lab, San Diego, CA 2018
- #DesignCamp Co-Creator (with the AWESOME Dr. Chagala!!), San Diego, CA 2016-2018: DesignCamp2018
- Mastery Transcript Consortium (MTC), Advisory Council, 2018
- VA ASCD Keynote Speaker: Love + Disruption, Williamsburg, VA 2017
- ShiftEDU Keynote and Facilitator: Love + Disruption II and School ReTool Hack-a-Thon, Miami, FL 2017
- Edleader21 Co-Facilitator: The Power of Human-Centered Design, with Eric Chagala, Atlanta, GA 2017
- School Retool Co-Presenter, Hactivation Nation: Hacking Toward Equity, with Susie Wise + Marthaa Torres, Stanford d. School, CA 2017
- School Retool Coach, Hactivation Nation: Student Exhibition of Learning, Stanford d.School, CA 2017
- Leadership + Design Facilitator, 4D Studio: Design. Disrupt. Dare. Dream. Richmond, VA 2017
- NAACP Legal Defense Fund Panelist, Deeper Learning Convening, Washington, DC, 2017
- Leadership + Design Member, Board of Directors, 2017
- #DesignCampBC Kickoff Co-Presenter, Vancouver, BC, Winter 2017 with Eric Chagala
- NSF Advisory Board for Classrooms as Enterprises: Improving STEM Education Through Authentic Entrepreneurship Experiences, 2017-present
- School Retool: San Diego Coach & Instigator, Winter 2017
- Innovation of Diffusion Cluster Grantee Meet Up (Hewlett + IDEO + Stanford d.School), 2016 to Present
- SXSWedu 2017 Presenter, Austin, TX: "Design + Leadership" with Ela Ben Ur and Eric Chagala
- MVIFI: A Night of Inquiry, Impact and Innovation Speaker, Atlanta, GA: "Love + Disruption"
- Real World Scholars Advisory Board, 2016-present
- The Buck Institute for Education (BIE): High Quality PBL Steering Committee, Present
- Deeper Learning Leadership Forum (Hewlett Foundation & National Equity Project), 2015-2017
- NeverSummer's edOS: A New Operating System for Education, Denver, CO: "Bringing PBL to School/Integrating Design Thinking" June 2016
- SxSwEdu 2016, Austin, TX: "Creating a Culture of Innovation"
- FutureNOW Conference, San Diego, CA: “PBL 102: Teaching Innovation via PBL" 2016
- DesignForward San Diego Presenter: "Scaling Design Thinking in Schools" 2016
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Centering LOVE + JUSTICE in our Schools
Badassery on the Bookshelf
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Pedagogy
An Ethic of Excellence The Book of Learning and Forgetting Child and Curriculum Creative Schools Cultivating Genius Decolonizing Education Educating for Eco-Justice and Community Education and Experience Everyday AntiRacism The Education of Black People The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935 The Education of the Negro Feel-Bad Education For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood and The Rest of Y'all Too Ghosts in the Schoolyard Highlander: No Ordinary School Hip Hop Genius Invent to Learn Learner-Centered Innovation Let's Do This: The Art of Getting School Right Make The MisEducation of the Negro Most Likely to Succeed The Myles Horton Reader: Education for Social Change Multiplication is for White People" Raising Expectations for Other People's Children Out of Our Minds On Critical Pedagogy Pedagogy of Critical Consciousness Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage Pedagogy of Heart Pedagogy of Hope Pedagogy of the Oppressed The Power of Place Punished by Rewards The Push for African-Centered Education Race, Culture, and the City Seed + Spark Schooling Beyond Measure Schooling for Critical Consciousness Teachers as Intellectuals Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom Teaching to Transgress We Make the Road by Walking We Want To Do More Than Survive Change Leadership Adaptive Leadership The Adaptive School The Surprising Power of Liberating Structures Change Leadership Immunity to Change Who Do We Choose to Be? Emergent Strategy Disrupting Class Little Bets How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything A More Beautiful Question The Storyteller’s Secret The Fourth Industrial Revolution Rise of the Robots Creating Innovators Good People: The Only Leadership Decision That Really Matters Let's Do This: The Art of Getting School Right Schools on Trial Tribal Leadership Dialogue Wired to Care The Rise of the Creative Class Rise of the DEO The Third Industrial Revolution The End of Average The Art of Gathering Five Minds for the Future A Whole New Mind Start with Why The Innovator's Dilemma The Leader's Guide to 21st Century Education Creativity: The Perfect Crime Brainstorm The Achievement Habit Ingenius #Edjourney Bringing Innovation to School Design Leadership Design Thinking for Strategic Innovation The Field Guide to Human Centered Design Needfinding: Design Research and Planning A Promised Land Historical Perspectives Adventures of An African Slaver American Apartheid American Slavery As It Is An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States Black Majority Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880 The Black Tax Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 The New Jim Crow Collective Courage The Colonizer & the Colonized Color of Law Critical Race Theory David Walker's Appeal No Struggle, No Progress Stolen Legacy: Greek Philosophy is Stolen Egyptian Philosophy Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves Saltwater Slavery Racism without Racism The Destruction of Black Civilization Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire Slave Narratives It Wasn't About Slavery The Chronicle of the Discovery of and Conquest of New Guinea History of White People Democracy in America White Rage White Fragility Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells Notes on the State of Virginia The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks The Souls of Black Folk The Jewish State Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 Segregation by Design Stamped From The Beginning The Struggle is Eternal: Gloria Richardson and Black Liberation Where White Men Fear to Tread: The Autobiography of Russell Means In the Matter of Color: Race and the American Legal Process |
Organizational Culture
Creativity, Inc. Orbiting the Giant Hairball Design Sprint Ten Faces of Innovation Change by Design How Google Works Open The Innovators Linchpin Let the Elephants Run The Innovator's Solution Zig Zag Launch Drive Strengths Finder 2.0 Creative Confidence The Innovators Mindset Work Rules! Firms of Endearment ThinkWrong Show Your Work Steal Like an Artist The Sketchbook Handbook Design Thinking for Strategic Innovation Superbetter Design Thinking for the Greater Good Designing for Growth: A Toolkit for Managers The Culture Code The Talent Code Chief Joy Officer Collective Genius Deviate Rituals for Work This is Marketing Building a Storybrand Blue Ocean Strategy The One Thing The Little Book of Innovation Solving Problems with Design Thinking Emotional Design Design Sprint 101 Design Methods Good People Time, Talent, and Energy Unleashed Philosophy (Love, Justice, Liberation) All About Love The Alchemist A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose Becoming Becoming Human Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living Begin Again Belonging: A Culture of Place Between the World and Me The Black Jacobins Black Movements in America Black Marxism Black Noise Black Prophetic Fire Black Power: The Politics of Liberation Black Skin, White Masks Blues People Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself Design Justice The Colored Conventions Movement The Healing Wisdom of Africa The Inner Work of Racial Justice Strength to Love The Third Reconstruction The Fire Next Time Salvation: Black People and Love The Spirit of Intimacy Design the Life You Love Memories, Dreams, & Reflections Farming While Black The Water Dancer Creative Quest The Power of Now Dignity of Difference Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom Freedom Farmers Leonardo Da Vinci More Than Just Race Reach for Greatness Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life How to Be An AntiRacist More Than Just Race The Market Gardner Our Word is Our Weapon Wages of Rebellion The Wretched of the Earth The Wisdom of Insecurity The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are The Courage to Be When God Winks Civil Disobedience Race Matters Democracy Matters Why We Can't Wait The Tao of Wu The Ordeal of Mansart Works of Love How to be an Anti-Racist Love Does Keats: Poems Published in 1820 Leaves of Grass Just Mercy Outlaw Culture The Way of Zen So You Want to Talk about Race The Power of No The Road to Unfreedom Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself Why We're Polarized Eloquent Rage Freedom is a Constant Struggle Ella Baker Surrender White People The Burning House So You Want to Talk About Race Plato's Five Dialogues Freedom Dreams Radical Dharma An Invitation to Freedom The Devil You Know Walking with the Wind We Are Each Other's Harvest |
