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

We believe in the power of critical, socially conscious and activist-minded students, teachers and teacher educators to transform society.

We believe in and honor the brilliance and funds of knowledge 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.