Empowering Education Leaders to
Build Liberatory, Healing Classrooms
We believe that transformation begins in the classroom, where pedagogy can serve as a conduit for liberation and healing.
We are dedicated to empowering educators and leaders to create liberatory, healing-centered classrooms that honor every student’s identity and potential. Through transformative coaching and professional development, we support schools and organizations in dismantling systemic inequities, fostering spaces where students and educators thrive, and ensuring that every child has the opportunity to realize their full promise—regardless of their background or circumstances.
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Culturally Relevant-Sustaining Education: A Primer
This expertly designed and facilitated one-day workshop is the starting point for educators, instructional coaches and leaders who are interested in centering their practice in Liberatory Pedagogy. This learning experience focuses on the foundational knowledge, skills and mindsets that are required to begin to orient your practice towards Culturally Relevant-Sustaining Education (CRSE).
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For educators, coaches and leaders
We provide transformative, holistic training and coaching that empowers educators to build liberatory, healing-centered classrooms. Our research-based approach, with over 20 years of experience, develops both the pedagogy and the person—shifting practices while nurturing the whole educator.
Supporting Multilingual Learners & Linguistically Responsive Teaching
This one-day workshop deepens your understanding of Culturally Relevant-Sustaining Education (CRSE) by focusing on strategies to support Multilingual and Emerging Bilingual students. Learn key principles and instructional practices for creating linguistically affirming, responsive classrooms that honor language diversity.
For a deeper dive, a 3-day learning series is also available.
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Love & Liberación: Liberatory, Healing-Centered Education
This transformative 3-day experience helps you deepen your practice in Liberatory, Healing-Centered Education. You’ll explore its core principles as a pedagogical framework, receive personalized support to apply these concepts to your unique context, and strengthen your practice in community with others—all while engaging in critical self-reflection and personal growth.
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Customized Support for Schools, Districts, and Education Non-Profits
We offer tailored support to meet your unique goals, including:
Instructional and Leadership Coaching: Personalized guidance for educators and leaders.
Bespoke Learning Experiences: Workshops, training programs, and retreats designed specifically for your needs.
Audits and Advisement: Focused on curriculum, culture, systems, and structures to drive systemic change.
Speaking Engagements: Inspiring talks that align with your organization's vision.
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This expertly designed and facilitated one-day workshop is the starting point for educators, instructional coaches and leaders who are interested in centering their practice in Liberatory Pedagogy. This learning experience focuses on the foundational knowledge, skills and mindsets that are required to begin to orient your practice towards Culturally Relevant-Sustaining Education (CRSE).
Culturally Relevant-Sustaining Education: A Primer
professional development trainings
Learn more
This one-day workshop deepens your understanding of Culturally Relevant-Sustaining Education (CRSE) by focusing on strategies to support Multilingual and Emerging Bilingual students. Learn key principles and instructional practices for creating linguistically affirming, responsive classrooms that honor language diversity.
For a deeper dive, a 3-day learning series is also available.
Love & Liberación:
Liberatory, Healing-Centered Education
This transformative 3-day experience helps you deepen your practice in Liberatory, Healing-Centered Education. You’ll explore its core principles as a pedagogical framework, receive personalized support to apply these concepts to your unique context, and strengthen your practice in community with others—all while engaging in critical self-reflection and personal growth.
learn more
Customized Support for Schools, Districts, and Education Non-Profits
Schedule a Call
For educators, coaches and leaders
Supporting Multilingual Learners & Linguistically Responsive Teaching
Contact US
We offer tailored support to meet your unique goals, including:
Instructional and Leadership Coaching: Personalized guidance for educators and leaders.
Bespoke Learning Experiences: Workshops, training programs, and retreats designed specifically for your needs.
Audits and Advisement: Focused on curriculum, culture, systems, and structures to drive systemic change.
Speaking Engagements: Inspiring talks that align with your organization's vision.
-Customized Support Client
“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."
— Workshop Participant
"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!"
-Workshop Participant
“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.”
-Customized Support Client
“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.”
-Workshop Participant
-Customized Support Client
“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.
— Workshop Participant
“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.”
- Customized Support Client
"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!"
--Workshop Participant
We specialize in providing transformative, holistic pedagogical training and coaching to educators, instructional coaches, and education-leaders serving in historically and systematically marginalized communities so that they can lead transformative, liberatory, healing classrooms.
Our unique approach, anchored in our research-based framework and over twenty years of experience in the field of education, focuses on supporting and developing both the pedagogy and the person—the doing and the being.
“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.”
-Workshop Participant
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 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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certified Professional coach,
award-winning educator, two-time ivy-league graduate & education consultant with over Twenty years' experience in the field of education.
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We’re uniting educators and leaders worldwide to radically transform the educational experience for children in marginalized communities. Together, we’ll create classrooms that are not only inclusive but truly liberatory—
fostering empowerment, joy, and limitless potential.
Are you ready to be a part of this movement and leave a legacy of transformation?
Let's Connect
we are the ones we've been waiting for.
We’re uniting educators and leaders worldwide to radically transform the educational experience for children in marginalized communities. Together, we’ll create classrooms that are not only inclusive but truly liberatory—
fostering empowerment, joy, and limitless potential.
Are you ready to be a part of this movement and leave a legacy of transformation?
Let's Connect
we are the ones we've been waiting for.
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