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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 | 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. 
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
  • 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

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 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. Brainstorm
  9. ​Bringing Innovation to School
  10. Change Leadership
  11. Creating Innovators
  12. Creativity: The Perfect Crime
  13. ​​Design Leadership
  14. Design Thinking for Strategic Innovation
  15. Dialogue
  16. Disrupting Class
  17. ​​#Edjourney
  18. ​Emergent Strategy
  19. The End of Average
  20. The Field Guide to Human Centered Design
  21. ​Five Minds for the Future
  22. Good People: The Only Leadership Decision That Really Matters
  23. ​The Fourth Industrial Revolution
  24. Holding Change
  25. How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything
  26. Immunity to Change
  27. Inner Work of Racial Justice
  28. Ingenius
  29. The Innovator's Dilemma
  30. The Leader's Guide to 21st Century Education
  31. Let's Do This: The Art of Getting School Right
  32. Little Bets
  33. Needfinding: Design Research and Planning
  34. The Rise of the Creative Class
  35. Rise of the DEO
  36. Rise of the Robots
  37. Schools on Trial
  38. Start with Why
  39. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
  40. The Storyteller’s Secret
  41. The Surprising Power of Liberating Structures
  42. The Third Industrial Revolution
  43. Tribal Leadership
  44. Who Do We Choose to Be?
  45. A Whole New Mind
  46. 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 Slavery As It Is
  7. An American Genocide: The US and California Indian Catastrophe 
  8. Ancient Egypt: The Light of the World 
  9. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
  10. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
  11. Black Majority
  12. Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880
  13. ​The Black Tax
  14. Caste
  15. The Chronicle of the Discovery of and Conquest of New Guinea
  16. Collective Courage
  17. The Colonizer and the Colonized
  18. Color of Law
  19. Critical Race Theory
  20. Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
  21. David Walker's Appeal ​
  22. ​The Destruction of Black Civilization
  23. Deterrent or Defense 
  24. Democracy in America
  25. Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day
  26. The End of White World Supremacy
  27. Favorite African Folklore 
  28. Frederick Douglass
  29. From a Native Daughter: Colonialism & Sovereignty in Hawai'i 
  30. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
  31. History of White People
  32. In the Matter of Color: Race and the American Legal Process​
  33. It Wasn't About Slavery​
  34. The Jewish State
  35. John Brown: An American Abolitionist 
  36. King Leopold's Ghost
  37. Mansa Musa and Timbuktu: A Fascinating History from Beginning to End
  38. Mansa Musa and Timbuktu: The History of the West African Emperor and Medieval Africa's Most Fabled City
  39. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
  40. The Negro in Our History 
  41. ​Negro Orators & Their Orations
  42. The New Jim Crow
  43. ​​No Struggle, No Progress
  44. Notes of a Native Son
  45. Notes on the State of Virginia
  46. ​The Peculiar Institution 
  47. ​Precolonial Black Africa
  48. ​Racism without Racism
  49. The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks​
  50. ​Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
  51. Saltwater Slavery
  52. ​Segregation by Design
  53. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States
  54. The Spook Who Sat by the Door  
  55. Stamped From The Beginning
  56. States from Interviews with Former Slaves
  57. The Struggle is Eternal: Gloria Richardson and Black Liberation 
  58. The Souls of Black Folk
  59. Stolen Legacy: Greek Philosophy is Stolen Egyptian Philosophy
  60. ​The Sum of Us
  61. Team of Rivals 
  62. Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History; A Play in Three Acts 
  63. Where White Men Fear to Tread: The Autobiography of Russell Means
  64. White Fragility
  65. White Rage
  66. The Willie Lynch Letter & the Making of a Slave
  67. 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 Za​

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