Two hands of older person (left) waiting for two hand of a child to move a gemstone to a line of gemstones

Our Principles.

  • We believe we are ALL multilingual and (trans)language in a variety of modes, modalities, signs, named and unnamed languages, Black Englishes, world Englishes, dialects, varieties, codes, hybridization, remixing and beyond.

  • We reject the exclusion, marginalization, pathologization, and racialization of students for their perceived (dis)abilities, home, and community language practices.

  • We counteract an overemphasis on standardized English as the only legitimate language practice for generating knowledge in school and academic places.

  • We commit to co-creating spaces and opportunities to practice liberatory languaging for all minoritized communicators.

Our Pedagogical Framework.

  • We adopt a critical transformative pedagogical framework using project and asset based learning education (Ladson-Billings, 2014; Paris & Alim, 2014). 

  • We engage in knowledge creation in and through community and collaboration.

  • We create spaces that use multi-modality and technology to validate, affirm and leverage ALL students’ linguistic-semiotic-communicative resources, abilities, creativity, joy and brilliance!