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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
  • 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 Indignation 
  34. Pedagogy of Heart
  35. Pedagogy of Hope
  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 Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom
  48. Teaching to Transgress 
  49. We Make the Road by Walking
  50. ​We Want To Do More Than Survive
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Change Leadership
  1. 13 Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis 
  2. Adaptive Leadership
  3. The Adaptive School
  4. The Achievement Habit
  5. A More Beautiful Question
  6. The Art of Gathering
  7. Brainstorm
  8. ​Bringing Innovation to School
  9. Change Leadership
  10. Creating Innovators
  11. Creativity: The Perfect Crime
  12. ​​Design Leadership
  13. Design Thinking for Strategic Innovation
  14. Dialogue
  15. Disrupting Class
  16. ​​#Edjourney
  17. ​Emergent Strategy
  18. The End of Average
  19. The Field Guide to Human Centered Design
  20. ​Five Minds for the Future
  21. Good People: The Only Leadership Decision That Really Matters
  22. ​The Fourth Industrial Revolution
  23. How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything
  24. Immunity to Change
  25. Inner Work of Racial Justice
  26. Ingenius
  27. The Innovator's Dilemma
  28. The Leader's Guide to 21st Century Education
  29. Let's Do This: The Art of Getting School Right
  30. Little Bets
  31. Needfinding: Design Research and Planning
  32. The Rise of the Creative Class
  33. Rise of the DEO
  34. Rise of the Robots
  35. Schools on Trial
  36. Start with Why
  37. The Storyteller’s Secret
  38. The Surprising Power of Liberating Structures
  39. The Third Industrial Revolution
  40. Tribal Leadership
  41. Who Do We Choose to Be?
  42. A Whole New Mind
  43. 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. John Brown: An American Abolitionist 
  27. King Leopold's Ghost
  28. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
  29. ​Negro Orators & Their Orations
  30. The New Jim Crow
  31. ​​No Struggle, No Progress
  32. Notes of a Native Son
  33. Notes on the State of Virginia
  34. ​Precolonial Black Africa
  35. ​Racism without Racism
  36. The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks​
  37. ​Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
  38. Saltwater Slavery
  39. ​Segregation by Design
  40. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United 
  41. Stamped From The Beginning
  42. States from Interviews with Former Slaves
  43. Team of Rivals 
  44. The Struggle is Eternal: Gloria Richardson and Black Liberation 
  45. The Souls of Black Folk
  46. Stolen Legacy: Greek Philosophy is Stolen Egyptian Philosophy
  47. ​The Sum of Us
  48. Where White Men Fear to Tread: The Autobiography of Russell Means
  49. White Fragility
  50. White Rage
  51. The Willie Lynch Letter & the Making of a Slave
  52. 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. Spirit Work and the Science of Collaboration 
  41. Split Screen Strategy: Improvement + Innovation
  42. Steal Like an Artist
  43. Strengths Finder 2.0
  44. ​​Superbetter
  45. ​The Talent Code
  46. ​​​ThinkWrong
  47. Time, Talent, and Energy 
  48. ​Unleashed
  49. Work Rules! ​  
  50. Zig Za​

Philosophy (Love, Justice, Liberation) 
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  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. ​How to Be An AntiRacist
  55. ​Identity & Violence
  56. ​Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life
  57. Inner Engineering 
  58. The Inner Work of Racial Justice
  59. Inward
  60. An Invitation to Freedom
  61. ​Just Mercy
  62. The Healing Wisdom of Africa
  63. ​Leaves of Grass
  64. ​Leonardo Da Vinci
  65. ​​Love Does
  66. ​The Market Gardner
  67. Memories, Dreams, & Reflections
  68. ​More Than Just Race
  69. Opening the Door of Your Heart
  70. ​The Ordeal of Mansart
  71. Our Word is Our Weapon
  72. ​Outlaw Culture
  73. Out of Your MInd
  74. Plato's Five Dialogues
  75. Prophesy Deliverance! 
  76. The Power of No
  77. The Power of Now
  78. Race Matters
  79. Radical Dharma 
  80. Reach for Greatness
  81. ​The Road to Unfreedom
  82. Salvation: Black People and Love
  83. The Solace of Open Spaces
  84. So You Want to Talk about Race
  85. The Spirit of Intimacy
  86. Strength to Love
  87. Surrender White People
  88. Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice
  89. The Tao of Wu​
  90. ​The Third Reconstruction
  91. Wages of Rebellion 
  92. ​Walking with the Wind
  93. The Way of Zen
  94. We Are Each Other's Harvest
  95. When God Winks 
  96. Why We Can't Wait
  97. Why We're Polarized 
  98. The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
  99. The Wisdom of Insecurity
  100. Works of Love
  101. ​The Wretched of the Earth
  102. 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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    Kaleb is available for a range of engagements from keynotes and panel discussion to round table dialogues to community activation events. Topics include: Transforming Schools, New School Creation, Liberation Pedagogy, Project Based Learning, School Culture and Change Leadership, Relational Trust, Design Thinking, and Activating Student Voice and Building Community. You got some other ideas, well let's chop it up! Complete the form below: