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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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                                                                                                                                                                   --bell hooks, Outlaw Culture (2006)

Dr. Kaleb Rashad
Educator | Designer | Indigenist Fugitive |  Emerging Farmer | Undefined

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. 
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 
​​Recent Engagements & Contributions
  • 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

Badassery on the Bookshelf

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 the Oppressed
  36. ​Plantation Pedagogy 
  37. ​The Power of Place​
  38. Punished by Rewards
  39. The Push for African-Centered Education
  40. Race, Culture, and the City
  41. Ratchatdemic: Reimagining Academic Success 
  42. Seed + Spark
  43. ​Schooling Beyond Measure
  44. Schooling for Critical Consciousness
  45. Teachers as Intellectuals
  46. Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom
  47. Teaching to Transgress 
  48. We Make the Road by Walking
  49. ​We Want To Do More Than Survive
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Change Leadership
  1. Adaptive Leadership
  2. The Adaptive School
  3. The Achievement Habit
  4. A More Beautiful Question
  5. The Art of Gathering
  6. Brainstorm
  7. ​Bringing Innovation to School
  8. Change Leadership
  9. Creating Innovators
  10. Creativity: The Perfect Crime
  11. ​​Design Leadership
  12. Design Thinking for Strategic Innovation
  13. Dialogue
  14. Disrupting Class
  15. ​​#Edjourney
  16. ​Emergent Strategy
  17. The End of Average
  18. The Field Guide to Human Centered Design
  19. ​Five Minds for the Future
  20. Good People: The Only Leadership Decision That Really Matters
  21. ​The Fourth Industrial Revolution
  22. How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything
  23. Immunity to Change
  24. Inner Work of Racial Justice
  25. Ingenius
  26. The Innovator's Dilemma
  27. The Leader's Guide to 21st Century Education
  28. Let's Do This: The Art of Getting School Right
  29. Little Bets
  30. Needfinding: Design Research and Planning
  31. The Rise of the Creative Class
  32. Rise of the DEO
  33. Rise of the Robots
  34. Schools on Trial
  35. Start with Why
  36. The Storyteller’s Secret
  37. The Surprising Power of Liberating Structures
  38. The Third Industrial Revolution
  39. Tribal Leadership
  40. Who Do We Choose to Be?
  41. A Whole New Mind
  42. Wired to Care
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Historical Perspectives
  1. Adventures of An African Slaver 
  2. American Apartheid
  3. American Slavery As It Is
  4. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
  5. Black Majority
  6. Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880
  7. ​The Black Tax
  8. Caste
  9. The Chronicle of the Discovery of and Conquest of New Guinea
  10. Collective Courage
  11. The Colonizer and the Colonized
  12. Color of Law
  13. Critical Race Theory
  14. Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
  15. David Walker's Appeal ​
  16. ​The Destruction of Black Civilization
  17. Democracy in America
  18. The End of White World Supremacy
  19. Frederick Douglass
  20. From a Native Daughter: Colonialism & Sovereignty in Hawai'i 
  21. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
  22. History of White People
  23. In the Matter of Color: Race and the American Legal Process​
  24. It Wasn't About Slavery​
  25. The Jewish State
  26. King Leopold's Ghost
  27. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
  28. ​Negro Orators & Their Orations
  29. The New Jim Crow
  30. ​​No Struggle, No Progress
  31. Notes of a Native Son
  32. Notes on the State of Virginia
  33. ​Precolonial Black Africa
  34. ​Racism without Racism
  35. The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks​
  36. ​Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
  37. Saltwater Slavery
  38. ​Segregation by Design
  39. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United 
  40. Stamped From The Beginning
  41. States from Interviews with Former Slaves
  42. The Struggle is Eternal: Gloria Richardson and Black Liberation 
  43. The Souls of Black Folk
  44. Stolen Legacy: Greek Philosophy is Stolen Egyptian Philosophy
  45. ​The Sum of Us
  46. Where White Men Fear to Tread: The Autobiography of Russell Means
  47. White Fragility
  48. White Rage
  49. 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 Growth: A Toolkit for Managers
  15. Design Sprint
  16. Design Thinking for Strategic Innovation
  17. ​Design Thinking for the Greater Good
  18. Deviate
  19. Drive
  20. ​Firms of Endearment
  21. Good People
  22. How Google Works
  23. This is Marketing
  24. ​​​The Innovators Mindset
  25. The Innovator's Solution
  26. The Innovators
  27. Let the Elephants Run
  28. ​Launch
  29. Linchpin
  30. The Little Book of Innovation
  31. ​The One Thing
  32. Open
  33. Orbiting the Giant Hairball
  34. The Purpose Economy 
  35. Radical Candor
  36. ​Rituals for Work
  37. ​Show Your Work
  38. The Sketchbook Handbook
  39. Solving Problems with Design Thinking
  40. Split Screen Strategy: Improvement + Innovation
  41. Steal Like an Artist
  42. Strengths Finder 2.0
  43. ​​Superbetter
  44. ​The Talent Code
  45. ​​​ThinkWrong
  46. Time, Talent, and Energy 
  47. ​Unleashed
  48. Work Rules! ​  
  49. Zig Za​

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

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