DR. KALEB RASHAD, CREATIVE DIRECTOR
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The End of Hoping and Waiting

White supremacy cannot be appeased. It can't be bargained with. It can't be convinced. White supremacy is ravenous and vicious. It is America's embryonic fluid. America was born in and genetically coded by it. No amount of hoping or waiting, coalition building or Kumbaya can redress that reality. 

Racism is a flaw in the oppressor, not the oppressed...Too many of the Black elite get drafted into a white-adjacent privilege, suckled by personal prosperity and personal comfort, blinded by the glamour of the high society. They become the neo house Negroes, placated, passive, a resurrection of an antebellum relic in which the best and brightest of Black society, those who would otherwise be the generals in resistance and rebellion, are lulled to sleep by luxuries. 


                                                                                                               --Charles Blow, The Devil You Know (2021)


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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.
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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: Relational ​Trust & Organizational Change | He/His She/Hers | Spiritually Undefined 

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
Southeast US | Cameroon/Congo | Ivory Coast/Ghana | Mali 

​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

Centering LOVE + JUSTICE in our Schools

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Badassery on the Bookshelf

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Pedagogy
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​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
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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

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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
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Needfinding: Design Research and Planning
​A Promised Land

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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
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​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 
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Where White Men Fear to Tread: The Autobiography of Russell Means
In the Matter of Color: Race and the American Legal Process

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Organizational Culture
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​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


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Philosophy (Love, Justice, Liberation) 
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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 

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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
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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
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


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