building liberatory, healing-centered classrooms
alongside
liberatory, healing-centered Educators
I partner with schools, districts, and education-based nonprofits serving historically and systemically marginalized communities to create the conditions where every child can fully realize their brilliance, power and potential, and where the educators and leaders entrusted with that work are nourished and sustained along the way.
building liberatory, healing-centered classrooms
alongside
liberatory, healing-centered Educators
I partner with schools, districts, and education-based nonprofits serving historically and systemically marginalized communities to create the conditions where every child can fully realize their brilliance, power and potential, and where the educators and leaders entrusted with that work are nourished and sustained along the way.
We partner with educators, leaders, school systems, and education-organizations serving in historically and systemically marginalized communities to reimagine education, reclaim our collective power, and realign our practices
with what our students truly need and deserve.
Liberatory, healing-centered classrooms where student identity is honored,
brilliance is ignited, and every child—regardless of background or ZIP code—
has the support and freedom to realize their full promise and potential.
We believe classrooms can be powerful sites of healing and liberation—
and that what we do pedagogically can change lives and transform the world.
What We Believe.
How We work.
The Future We’re Creating.
We partner with educators, coaches, and school leaders
serving in historically and systemically marginalized communities to reimagine pedagogy, reclaim our power, and realign our practices with what our students truly need and deserve.
Liberatory, healing-centered classrooms where student identity is honored, brilliance is ignited, and every child—regardless of background or ZIP code— has the support and freedom to realize their full promise and potential.
We believe classrooms can be powerful sites of healing and liberation—
and that what we do pedagogically can change lives and transform the world.
What We Believe.
How We work.
The Future We’re Creating.
Trusted By
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Liberatory, Healing-Centered Education: A Primer
Multi-Day Team Reset & Strategic Design Experience
TEAM TRANSFORMATION INTENSIVE
Private Coaching & Strategic Advising for Education Leaders
HELD IN THE WORK
This signature experience introduces the core principles of liberatory, healing-centered education and helps your team build shared language for creating learning environments that affirm identity, honor cultural and linguistic brilliance, strengthen belonging, and nurture the full potential of children and educators.
This facilitated transformation process helps your team step back, tell the truth with care, and move forward with greater clarity, connection, and alignment. Through reflection, dialogue, child-centered analysis, and strategic visioning, your team examines current realities and clarifies what needs to be reclaimed, released, realigned, or reimagined.
Leaders carrying transformation are often holding vision, urgency, resistance, complexity, people, systems, and the emotional weight of change—without enough space to be held themselves. This private coaching and thought partnership supports both the person and the practice of leading values-rooted work.
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With over 20 years of experience, our research-based, healing-centered approach supports both the pedagogy and the person—strengthening practice while nurturing the whole educator and leader.
Choose from three distinct experiences designed to build shared understanding, transform team practice, and support the educators and leaders carrying the work forward.
Ideal For: PD kickoffs, school-wide learning experiences, cultural reset moments, equity journey restarts.
Ideal For: Teams navigating transition, disconnection, growth, burnout, cultural tension, or renewed commitment to the work.
Ideal For: School, district, and nonprofit leaders guiding equity, culture, pedagogy, or liberatory, healing-centered transformation.
Includes core learning on:
Your team will gain:
Your partnership supports:
- A shared framework for liberatory, healing-centered education
- Clearer understanding of how pedagogy, culture, language, leadership, and adult sustainability connect
- Reflection on the conditions your team is creating for students and educators
- Shared language and momentum for the next stage of the work
- Deeper relational trust, connection, and shared purpose
- Clearer insight into current adult and student conditions
- Shared priorities and a values-rooted path forward
- Greater clarity, self-trust, and alignment
- Navigation of complexity, resistance, and key decisions
- A steadier, more sustainable way to carry the work forward
Half-Day Learning Experience to Catalyze the Work
Multi-Day Team Reset & Strategic Design Experience
TEAM TRANSFORMATION INTENSIVE
Private Coaching & Strategic Advising for Education Leaders
Held in the work
This signature experience introduces the core principles of liberatory, healing-centered education and helps your team build shared language for creating learning environments that affirm identity, honor cultural and linguistic brilliance, strengthen belonging, and nurture the full potential of children and educators.
This facilitated transformation process helps your team step back, tell the truth with care, and move forward with greater clarity, connection, and alignment. Through reflection, dialogue, child-centered analysis, and strategic visioning, your team examines current realities and clarifies what needs to be reclaimed, released, realigned, or reimagined.
Leaders carrying transformation are often holding vision, urgency, resistance, complexity, people, systems, and the emotional weight of change—without enough space to be held themselves. This private coaching and thought partnership supports both the person and the practice of leading values-rooted work.
Let's Partner
With over 20 years of experience, our research-based, healing-centered approach develops
both the pedagogy and the person—shifting practices while nurturing the whole educator.
Choose from three distinct experiences designed to build shared understanding, transform team practice, and support the educators and leaders carrying the work forward.
Ideal For: PD kickoffs. Cultural resets. Equity journey (re)starts.
Ideal For: Teams ready to repair, reconnect, or reimagine together.
Ideal For: School, district, and nonprofit leaders guiding equity, culture, pedagogy, or liberatory, healing-centered transformation.
Includes core learning on:
Your team will gain:
Our partnership supports:
- A shared framework for liberatory, healing-centered education
- Clearer understanding of how pedagogy, culture, language, leadership, and adult sustainability connect
- Reflection on the conditions your team is creating for students and educators
- Shared language and momentum for the next stage of the work
- Deeper relational trust, connection, and shared purpose
- Clearer insight into current adult and student conditions
- Shared priorities and a values-rooted path forward
- Greater clarity, self-trust, and alignment
- Navigation of complexity, resistance, and key decisions
- A steadier, more sustainable way to carry the work forward
Liberatory, Healing-Centered Education:
A Primer
Half-Day Learning Experience to Catalyze the Work
-Senior Leader, Education Nonprofit (NYC & Westchester)
“Bárbara’s deep content knowledge around CR-SE was evident on first meeting her, as was her experience in teaching, training, and designing related to this area. She demonstrated a clear commitment to and passion for the work from the outset, and was able to speak clearly and thoughtfully to how she might design and approach a complex, nuanced project.
Bárbara is a true expert in her field, but brings the humility and humanity of a lifelong learner to her work and collaboration, with listening and responsiveness at the center of her work. Her combination of skill sets is unique- she is adept at content design, PD facilitation, and sophisticated collaboration in a way that is hard to find. She models the responsiveness she teaches, and this was noted by our staff.”
What Clients are saying
"Bárbara is authentic, intentional, and experienced. She brings her whole self to the work and creates the conditions for others to do the same. She designs PD experiences that take into consideration where all participants may be entering. The session she designed and facilitated at our winter retreat last fiscal year continues to be one people talk about as a highlight of their year and PD. A teammate shared feeling seen in a session for the first time... maybe ever. Bárbara DID THAT.
She creates environments where all people thrive."
-National Director of Program Design & Inclusive Learning (Education Nonprofit)
"I want to thank Bárbara for her amazing training! Excellent planning and facilitation -- engaging, interactive, thoughtful, challenging, relevant. The sessions were focused and built on one another. The opportunities for pair and small group collaboration and the choice time gave me agency over my learning!"
-Leadership & Instructional Coach, NYC Public Schools
“Bárbara has such deep love for our students. Her passion AND expertise for supporting Linguistically Diverse students and Culturally Relevant Pedagogy is so compelling, and brings people into her mission/vision. Her experience as a 20+ year educator is just so present in everything she does. It's clear from her design to facilitation that she is working towards liberation for and with our students and it's an inspiration and guiding light for me as a peer.”
"Bárbara made me feel seen, heard and validated. She made me feel proud of myself and to believe in myself again.
Bárbara supported me to rethink and articulate my vision of what teaching should look like and of what liberation through education means to me. This was truly a revelation for me as an education-leader because it was a stepping stone in aligning who I am and the justice I want to achieve."
-Executive Director, National Organization for Immigrant-Inclusive Education
-Education-Leader, South Carolina Public Schools
“Anytime I see Bárbara facilitate I am in awe of her. Her authenticity, passion and knowledge are a gift to our team. She elevates the rest of us just through her leadership.
Thank you for all you give and bring to this work.”
-Senior Managing Director of Program & Teacher Development, National Education Nonprofit
-Senior Leader, Education Nonprofit (NYC & Westchester)
“Bárbara’s deep content knowledge around Culturally Relevant-Sustaining Education was evident on first meeting her, as was her experience in teaching, training, and designing related to this area. She demonstrated a clear commitment to and passion for the work from the outset. Bárbara is a true expert in her field, but brings the humility and humanity of a lifelong learner to her work and collaboration, with listening and responsiveness at the center of her work.”
What Clients are saying
"Bárbara is authentic, intentional, and experienced. She brings her whole self to the work and creates the conditions for others to do the same. She designs PD experiences that take into consideration where all participants may be entering. The session she designed and facilitated at our winter retreat last fiscal year continues to be one people talk about as a highlight of their year and PD. A teammate shared feeling seen in a session for the first time... maybe ever. Bárbara DID THAT.
She creates enviornments where all people thrive.
-National Director of Program Design & Inclusive Learning (Education Nonprofit)
“Bárbara has such deep love for our students. Her passion AND expertise for supporting Linguistically Diverse students and Culturally Relevant Pedagogy is so compelling, and brings people into her mission/vision. Her experience as a 20+ year educator is just so present in everything she does. It's clear from her design to facilitation that she is working towards liberation for and with our students and it's an inspiration and guiding light for me as a peer.”
"Bárbara made me feel seen, heard and validated. She made me feel proud of myself and helped me to believe in myself again.
Bárbara helped me rethink and articulate my vision of what teaching should look like and of what liberation through education means to me. This was truly a revelation for me as an educator leader because it was a stepping stone in aligning who I am and the justice I want to achieve."
-Executive Director, National Organization for Immigrant-Inclusive Education
-Education-Leader, South Carolina Public Schools
"I want to thank Bárbara for her amazing training! Excellent planning and facilitation -- engaging, interactive, thoughtful, challenging, relevant. The sessions were focused and built on one another. The opportunities for pair and small group collaboration and the choice time gave me agency over my learning!"
-Senior Managing Director of Program & Teacher Development, National Education Nonprofit
-Leadership & Instructional Coach, NYC Public Schools
“Anytime I see Bárbara facilitate I am in awe of her. Her authenticity, passion and knowledge are a gift to our team. She elevates the rest of us just through her leadership. Thank you for all you give and bring to this work.”
A proud daughter of immigrants and a product of the Bronx’s most under-resourced school districts, Bárbara experienced first-hand the beautiful resilience of her community alongside the profound challenges and deep inequities children and families from systemically and historically marginalized communities face.
Her lived experiences coupled with her 20+ year career in education have fueled her passion and commitment for creating meaningful change in the lives of children from communities just like hers.
Bárbara deeply believes that we can change the world through what we do pedagogically. Her mission is to help transform classrooms into conduits for liberation and healing for all.
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award-winning educator.
strategic systems advisor.
certified & Acrredited professional coach.
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We're creating a global movement of
liberatory practitioners who are changing the educational experience of our children growing up in systemically and historically marginalized communities to one that is transformative, empowering and liberatory.
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We're creating a global movement of liberatory practitioners who are changing the educational experience of our children growing up in systemically and historically marginalized communities to one that is transformative, empowering and liberatory.
Are you ready to join us?
explore partnership
we are the ones we've been waiting for.
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