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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."
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Dr. Kaleb Rashad
Educator | Designer | Fugitive |  Emerging Farmer | Revolutionary Buddhist 

Injustice was designed from the beginning. America has been determined to sustain a culture of white supremacy through its legacy of colonialism, genocide, enslavement, racial caste, patriarchy, and economic & political deprivation. Situated in a culture of abject denialism, our nation's schools have remained largely the same, in form, function and outcomes, since 1895--in the contxt of Plessy v. Ferguson, the eugenics movement, mass lynchings, and Birth of Nation being previewed in the White House. We're drowning in the waters of white supremacy & the distorted moral narrative of color-blindess, and we miust move unapologetically, without reservation toward the shores of justice--and it starts with the reconstruction of our schools, centering love & justice. 

Creating liberatory schools, and liberatory adult communities, is necessary to begin to finally right this wrong. All students should 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 have standing in their community. 

We design for justice.
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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: focusing on Relational ​Trust & Organizational Change | He/His She/Hers | Spiritually Undefined | Learning alongside homies at National Equity Project, Stanford d. School K-12 Lab, and IDEO. 

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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"

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Ancestral Connections
Origins: Descendant of the Yoruba People, West Africa:Cameroon/Congo | Ivory Coast/Ghana | Mali then Southeast United States 

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​​Recent Engagements & Contributions

• Diàleg Educatiu: Innovació per a la transformació, Closing Dialogue Session with Eduard Vallory, hosted by Umanresa & Fòrum Futurs de Educació, November 2022
• Institute for Radical Permission, Participant | Summer 2022 hosted by Sonya Renee Taylor & adrienne maree brown 
• Toward Deeper Learning, Presenter | Speaker, 2021-2022, Fraser Valley | Metro Vancouver, BC hosted by ALPS
• CISC 2022: LIBERATE | Our Voice | Our Time, Keynote Speaker, February 2022, Monterey, CA hosted by Monterey County Office of Education  
• Presenter, Gates Foundation NSI: Community of Practice, October 2021, Virtual 
• Leadership Journeys MC with DJ Mickey Breeze & Carlos Moreno hosted by Big Picture Learning, August 2021, ASU GSV
• Deeper Learning Symposium, Keynote & Presenter, hosted by Jefferson County Public Schools, Louisville, KY, August 2021
• 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
• Keynote, Catholic Educator Conference 2021 Catholic Independent Schools of Vancouver Archdiocese, February 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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Badassery on the Bookshelf

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Pedagogy
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1. ​An Ethic of Excellence​​
2. The Book of Learning and Forgetting
3. ​Changing the Subject
4. Child and Curriculum 
5. Creative Schools
6. Cultivating Genius
7. Decolonizing Education: Nourishing the Learning Spirit
8. Decolonizing Methodologies, 2nd Ed.
9. Educating for Eco-Justice and Community​​
10. Education and Experience
11. Everyday AntiRacism 
12. ​The Education of Black People
13. The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935
14. ​The Education of the Negro
15. ​Feel-Bad Education
16. For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood and The Rest of Y'all Too
17. ​Fugitive Pedagogy 
18. Ghosts in the Schoolyard
19. Highlander: No Ordinary School
20. Hip Hop Genius
21. Invent to Learn
22. Learner-Centered Innovation
23. ​Let's Do This: The Art of Getting School Right
24. ​Make 
25. The MisEducation of the Negro
26. Most Likely to Succeed
27. Multiplication is for White People" Raising Expectations for Other People's Children
28. The Myles Horton Reader: Education for Social Change
29. Out of Our Minds
30. On Critical Pedagogy
31. Pedagogy of Critical Consciousness
32. ​Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage 
33. Pedagogy of Heart
34. Pedagogy of Hope​
35. Pedagogy of Indignation 
36. ​Pedagogy of the Oppressed
37. ​Plantation Pedagogy 
38. ​The Power of Place​
39. Punished by Rewards
40. The Push for African-Centered Education
41. Race, Culture, and the City
42. Ratchatdemic: Reimagining Academic Success 
43. Seed + Spark
44. ​Schooling Beyond Measure
45. Schooling for Critical Consciousness
46. Teachers as Intellectuals
47. Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope 
48. Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom
49. Teaching to Transgress 
50. We Make the Road by Walking
51. ​We Want To Do More Than Survive

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Change Leadership

1. 13 Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis 
2. The 4 Pivots
3. Adaptive Leadership
4. The Adaptive School
5. The Achievement Habit
6. A More Beautiful Question
7. The Art of Gathering
8. The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse
   
9. Brainstorm
10. ​Bringing Innovation to School
11. Change Leadership
12. Creating Innovators
13. Creativity: The Perfect Crime
14. ​​Design Leadership
15. Design Thinking for Strategic Innovation
16. Dialogue
17. Disrupting Class
18. ​​#Edjourney
19. ​Emergent Strategy
20. The End of Average
21. The Field Guide to Human Centered Design
22. ​Five Minds for the Future
23. Good People: The Only Leadership Decision That Really Matters
24. ​The Fourth Industrial Revolution
25. Holding Change
26. How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything
27. Immunity to Change
28. Inner Work of Racial Justice
29. Ingenius
30. The Innovator's Dilemma
31. The Leader's Guide to 21st Century Education
32. Let's Do This: The Art of Getting School Right
33. Little Bets
34. The Magic of Conflict
35. Needfinding: Design Research and Planning
36. The Rise of the Creative Class
37. Rise of the DEO
38. Rise of the Robots
39. Schools on Trial
40. Start with Why
41. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
42. The Storyteller’s Secret
43. The Surprising Power of Liberating Structures
44. The Third Industrial Revolution
45. Tribal Leadership
46. Who Do We Choose to Be?
47. A Whole New Mind
48. Wired to Care

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Historical Perspectives

1. S Book of the Beginnings 
2. Adventures of An African Slaver 
3. African Heroes and Heroines 
4. African Myths and Folk Tales 
5. American Apartheid
6. ​American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment, and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime
7. American Slavery As It Is
8. An American Genocide: The US and California Indian Catastrophe 
9. Ancient Egypt: The Light of the World 
10. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
11. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
12. Black Majority
13. Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880
14. ​The Black Tax
15. Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans and the Making of the Modern World 1471 to the Second World War 
16. Caste
17. The Chronicle of the Discovery of and Conquest of New Guinea
18. Collective Courage
19. The Colonizer and the Colonized
20. Color of Law
21. The Columbian Orator
22. Critical Race Theory
23. Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
24. David Walker's Appeal ​
25. ​The Destruction of Black Civilization
26. Deterrent or Defense 
27. Democracy in America
28. Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day
29. The End of White World Supremacy
30. Favorite African Folklore 
31. Frederick Douglass
32. From a Native Daughter: Colonialism & Sovereignty in Hawai'i 
33. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
34. History of White People
35. In the Matter of Color: Race and the American Legal Process​
36. It Wasn't About Slavery​
37. The Jewish State
38. John Brown: An American Abolitionist 
39. King Leopold's Ghost
40. Mansa Musa and Timbuktu: A Fascinating History from Beginning to End
41. Mansa Musa and Timbuktu: The History of the West African Emperor and Medieval Africa's Most Fabled City
42. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
43. The Negro in Our History 
44. ​Negro Orators & Their Orations
45. The New Jim Crow
46. ​​No Struggle, No Progress
47. Notes of a Native Son
48. Notes on the State of Virginia
49. ​The Peculiar Institution 
50. ​Precolonial Black Africa
51. ​Racism without Racists
52. The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks​
53. ​Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
54. Saltwater Slavery
55. SBA: The Reawakening of the African Mind
56. ​Segregation by Design
57. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States
58. The Souls of Black Folks
59. Southern Slavery & the Law, 1619-1860 (Studies in Legal History) 
    
60. The Spook Who Sat by the Door  
61. Stamped From The Beginning
62. States from Interviews with Former Slaves
63. Stolen Legacy: Greek Philosophy is Stolen Egyptian Philosophy 
    
64. Stroud's Slave Laws: A Sketch of the Laws Relating to Slavery in the Several States of the United States of America 
65. The Struggle is Eternal: Gloria Richardson and Black Liberation 
66. ​The Sum of Us
67. Team of Rivals 
68. Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History; A Play in Three Acts 
69. Where White Men Fear to Tread: The Autobiography of Russell Means
70. White Fragility
71. White Rage
72. The Willie Lynch Letter & the Making of a Slave
73. Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire​​

Organizational Culture
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1. 10 Faces of Innovation
2. 101 Design Methods
3. An Everyone Culture 
4. Blue Ocean Strategy
5. ​Building a Storybrand
6. Change by Design
7. ​Chief Joy Officer
8. Collective Genius
9. Creative Acts for Courageous People
10. ​​Creative Confidence
11. Creativity, Inc.
12. The Culture Cod
13. Emotional Design
14. Designing for Belonging 
15. ​​Designing for Growth: A Toolkit for Managers
16. Design Sprint
17. Design Thinking for Strategic Innovation
18. ​Design Thinking for the Greater Good
19. Deviate
20. Drive
21. ​Firms of Endearment
22. Good People
23. How Google Works
24. This is Marketing
25. ​​​The Innovators Mindset
26. The Innovator's Solution
27. The Innovators
28. Let the Elephants Run
29. ​Launch
30. Linchpin
31. The Little Book of Innovation
32. ​The One Thing
33. Open
34. Orbiting the Giant Hairball
35. The Purpose Economy 
36. Radical Candor
37. ​Rituals for Work
38. ​Show Your Work
39. The Sketchbook Handbook
40. Solving Problems with Design Thinking
41. Spirit Work and the Science of Collaboration 
42. Split Screen Strategy: Improvement + Innovation
43. Steal Like an Artist
44. Strengths Finder 2.0
45. ​​Superbetter
46. ​The Talent Code
47. ​​​ThinkWrong
48. Time, Talent, and Energy 
49. ​Unleashed
50. Work Rules! ​  
51. Zig Zag​

Philosophy (Love, Justice, Liberation) 
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1. 7 Years
2. Abraham Joshua Heschel: A Life of Radical Amazement 
3. The Afrocentric Praxis of Teaching for Freedom: Connecting Culture to Learning 
4. All About Love
5. ​The Alchemist
6. An Invitation to Freedom
7. ​A Promised Land
8. A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
9. Autobiography of Malcolm X
10. ​Becoming 
11. Becoming Human
12. Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
13. Begin Again
14. Belonging: A Culture of Place
15. ​Between the World and Me
16. The Black Jacobins
17. ​Black Lives Matter Story
18. Black Movements in America
19. ​Black Marxism
20. ​Black Noise
21. Black Prophetic Fire
22. Black Power: The Politics of Liberation
23. Black Skin, White Masks
24. The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
25. Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself
26. Blues People
27. Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself
28. ​The Burning House
29. Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust
30. Civil Disobedience
31. The Colored Conventions Movement
32. The Courage to Be
33. ​Culture & Resistance
34. Creative Quest
35. Decolonizing the Mind
36. Decolonizing Wealth 
37. Democracy Matters
38. ​Design Justice 
39. Design the Life You Love
40. ​Detours
41. The Devil You Know
42. ​Dignity of Difference
43. Ella Baker 
44. Eloquent Rage
45. ​​Farming While Black
46. ​Finding the Mother Tree
47. The Fire Next Time
48. Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
49. Freedom Dreams
50. Freedom Farmers
51. God in Search of Man
52. Guerrilla Warfare
53. Freedom is a Constant Struggle
54. The Healing Wisdom of Africa 
55. Homecoming: Overcome Fear & Trauma to Reclaim Your Whole Authentic Self
56. Homecoming: Overcome Fear and Trauma and Reclaim Your Whole Authentic Self 
57. ​How to Be An AntiRacist
58. ​Identity & Violence
59. ​Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life
60. Inner Engineering 
61. The Inner Work of Racial Justice
62. Inward
63. An Invitation to Freedom
64. ​Just Mercy
65. The Healing Wisdom of Africa
66. ​Leaves of Grass
67. ​Leonardo Da Vinci
68. ​​Love Does
69. ​The Market Gardner
70. Memories, Dreams, & Reflections
71. ​More Than Just Race
72. Opening the Door of Your Heart
73. ​The Ordeal of Mansart
74. Our Word is Our Weapon
75. ​Outlaw Culture
76. Out of Your Mind
77. Plato's Five Dialogues
78. Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Pleasure
79. Prophesy Deliverance! 
80. The Power of No
81. The Power of Now
82. Race Matters
83. Radical Dharma 
84. The Radical King
85. Reach for Greatness
86. ​The Road to Unfreedom
87. Salvation: Black People and Love
88. The Solace of Open Spaces
89. So You Want to Talk about Race
90. The Spirit of Intimacy
91. Strength to Love
92. Surrender White People
93. Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice
94. Tao Te Ching 
95. The Tao of Wu​
96. ​The Third Reconstruction
97. The Trumpet of Conscience 
98. Wages of Rebellion 
99. ​Walking with the Wind
100. The Way of Zen
101. We Are Each Other's Harvest
102. We Do This til it Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice 
103. When God Winks 
104. Where Do We Go From Here
105. Why I am a Buddhist 
106. Why We Can't Wait
107. Why We're Polarized 
108. The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
109. The Wisdom of Insecurity
110. Works of Love
111. ​The Wretched of the Earth
112. You're It

Fiction 

1. Beloved 
2. Crime and Punishment 
3. False Memory 
4. Keats: Poems Published in 1820
5. The Man Who Lived Underground
6. The Martian 
7. Notes of a Native Son
8. Phantoms
9. Velocity 
10. War & Peace
11. The Water Dancer

Key Research, Articles, etc. (follow the links) 

1. ABCs of Equity 
2. ​Adaptive Leadership 
3. ​Afrocentric Curriculum
4. ​Antiracist Pedagogy 
5. ​The Case for Reparations 
6. ​The Colonizer and the Colonized 
7. ​Continuum on Becoming an Antiracist, Multicultural Organization
8. Critical Consciousness: A Key to Student Achievement 
9. A Critical Pedagogy of Place
10. ​Critical Race Theory
11. ​Cultivating Aloha 'Aina Through Critical Indigenous Pedagogies of Place
12. ​The Groundwater Approach
13. Enhancing Critical Consciousness in Young African
    American Men: A Psychoeducational Approach
14. ​The Long Shadow of Eugenics in America 
15. ​Lynching in America 
16. Promotion and protection of the human rights and
    fundamental freedoms of Africans and of people of African
    descent against excessive use of force and other human rights
    violations by law enforcement officers​
17. Reconstruction in America
18. ​Seeing White
19. ​Segregation in America 
20. ​White Supremacy Culture--Still Here​

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