Reimagine.
Reclaim.
Realign.
A liberatory, healing-centered approach to transforming how we teach, lead, and build together.
We partner with educators, leaders, school systems, and education-organizations 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.
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.
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Spark |
Team Healing & Strategic Visioning
Reset & Realign |
Embodied Systems Change
Transform |
Single-day experiences to build shared language, strengthen connection, and ignite momentum.
A guided reset to help your team pause, heal, and realign with shared purpose. Through truth-telling, trust-building, and visioning, we co-create a clear path forward.
Fully customizable partnerships to root healing-centered, liberatory practices at the core of your leadership, culture, and systems.
ways to work together
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With over 20 years of experience, our research-based approach develops both the pedagogy and the person—
shifting practices while nurturing the whole educator.
We offer three tiers of support to meet you where you are;
from sparking the work to sustaining deep transformation, turning intention into impact.
Ideal For: PD kickoffs. Cultural resets. Equity journey (re)starts.
Ideal For: Teams repairing, reconnecting, or reimagining.
Ideal For: Leaders & teams ready for deeper, sustained change.
Includes signature sessions on:
This includes:
Often includes:
- Culturally Relevant Sustaining Pedagogy
- Supporting Immigrant & Multilingual Learners
- Reclaiming & Restoring Self in the Work
- Full day facilitated group experience
- Team surveys & interviews to surface insights
- Leadership debrief with key findings & recommendations
- Strategic advising & leadership coaching
- Bespoke team retreats & learning experiences
- Policy, program, & curriculum audits
High Impact Workshops to Catalyze the Work
Team Healing &
Strategic Visioning
Reset & Realign |
Embodied Systems Change
Transform |
Single-day experiences to build shared language, strengthen connection, and ignite momentum.
A guided reset to help your team pause, heal, and realign with shared purpose. Through truth-telling, trust-building, and visioning, we co-create a clear path forward.
Fully customizable partnerships to root healing-centered, liberatory practices at the core of your leadership, culture, and systems.
Ways to Partner
With over 20 years of experience, our research-based approach develops both the pedagogy and the person—
shifting practices while nurturing the whole educator.
We offer three tiers of support to meet you where you are;
from sparking the work to sustaining deep transformation, turning intention into impact.
Ideal For: PD kickoffs. Cultural resets. Equity journey (re)starts.
Ideal For: Teams repairing, reconnecting, or reimagining.
Ideal For: Leaders & teams ready for deeper, sustained change..
Includes signature sessions on:
This includes:
Often includes:
- Culturally Relevant- Sustaining Pedagogy
- Supporting Immigrant & Multilingual Learners
- Reclaiming & Restoring Self in the Work
- Full day facilitated group experience
- Team surveys & interviews to surface insights
- Leadership debrief with key findings & recommendations
- Strategic advising & leadership coaching
- Bespoke team retreats & learning experiences
- Policy, program, & curriculum audits
Spark |
High Impact Workshops 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 revelation for me as an 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 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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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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