We believe every student, every teacher, and every teacher educator should have access to a critical, culturally relevant, humanizing education that affirms their multiple identities, stimulates their curiosity, develops their critical thinking, strengthens their racial and critical consciousness, calls them to their highest potential, and supports them as social justice activists to address social injustices.

We believe in the power of critical, racially conscious and community-based, activist-minded students, teachers and teacher educators to transform society, including public education.

We believe in and honor the brilliance of students, teachers, and teacher educators.

We believe knowledge is negotiated, contextually determined, and culturally derived.

We believe in collective agency and are committed to working alongside educational stakeholders–locally, nationally and internationally — including teacher candidates, novice and veteran teachers, school and district leaders, community members, policymakers, teacher educators, and researchers.