Innovative Ecosystem ACCELERATOR Lab Super stoked to spend time learning alongside 20 ecosystem leaders from across the country, representing 12 cities—from Memphis to Newport and from Columbus to Dallas, in BEAUTIFUL New York City (Brooklyn). The challenge: Using Liberatory design (modes and mindsets), prototype a critical infrastructure need that advances your work locally, in a way that’s equitable and inclusive, in process and outcome. Brilliant work, real conversations, serious questions, relentless pursuit. Mad props to @EdReimagined for leading the way. ❤️🔥

COMMUNITY VISIONING, Hosted by the Justice Coalition USA | Durham, NC Connecting elders with the newest generation of voters, the group needed a way to: deepen our relationships with each other, identify individual and shared needs, and imagine a version of democracy that reflects the very best of us. Co-facilitated with my dear sister Dr. @Shameka_Gerald with support from @TerranceRuth ❤️ Closing Keynote by @RevDrBarber suggested: 1. Young people don’t want to be told WHO to vote for but rather WHAT to vote for backed by data with ways to bring moral analysis to the conversation. (They do not want bumper stickers & slogans.) 2. Young folks, who are aware and deeply interested about many of these issues, want to spend time in dialogue with each other and with elders. They value thoughtful, constructive, and civil discourse. 3. Cult of Personality: It’s not enough to be a black or brown, male or female candidate but rather pay special attention to what policies and what impacts, over time with a particular focus on the nation’s 140 million poor and working poor. Dr. Barber’s guiding question: Whether we’re great or aspiring to be great, what is the responsibility of greatness? ❤️🔥 #centerforloveandjustice @hthgse

GHANA ASCD | INTERNATIONAL EDUCATORS SUMMIT 2024 | 🇬🇭 Zaretta Hammond, “a daughter of the Diaspora,” laying down a cogent, concise, and cognitively relevant framing for shifting from a pedagogy of compliance toward a PEDAGOGY OF POSSIBILITY on the Continent 🇬🇭❤️🔥 Let’s get it!!! #IES2024 #deeperlearning #deeperlearningGHANA #deeperlearningAFRICA

Accra, Ghana 🇬🇭 2024 RE-EDUCATING KALEB As a student, it was consistently reinforced that Africa & African people had no history worth studying, acknowledging, or knowing. Today, on the original lands of my ancestors, I (a descendant of Nigerians, Congolese, and Malians) seek to re-member who my people were before the American experiment, what has been lost to me, and how to re-member it. Some initial questions include: Who were we to each other, and why? What was our relationship to place? What did we build, make, and create, and why? Some Other Questions: How has my American social conditioning shaped my current sense of identity and belonging? And what may need to be reconciled? What values have I inherited from my current context and how has it influenced my decision making and life choices, to date? And, what indigenous principles may I need to re-inhabit? In what ways have my educational experiences (k-12, higher ed., graduate school, etc.) reflected the deepest truths and knowledge about my people? And, what might I need to re-member? What were the spiritual traditions of my people prior to Christianity? And, what might I need to re-ignite? Touched down at 14:40, local time. Seven days. Let’s see what I can pick up. #deeperlearning #lifetimelearning #deeperlearningAFRICA #Ghana