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Building liberatory, healing classrooms alongside
liberatory, healing education-leaders.
Our children deserve and are entitled to an education that unequivocally gives them this opportunity--
the type of education that the vast majority of our students from historically and systemically marginalized communities globally have historically and are presently being vastly denied.
Every child,
no matter their identity or zip code deserves the opportunity to develop the promise inside of them.
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 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.
Supporting Multilingual Learners & Linguistically Responsive Teaching
This one day workshop* builds on your understanding of the principles of CRSE, focusing specifically on how to support Multilingual/Emerging Bilingual students. Learn the key understandings and instructional practices for creating linguistically affirming and responsive classrooms.
*3-day learning series is also available for a deeper dive into this topic
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Love & Liberación: Liberatory, Healing-Centered Education
This 3-day learning-experience deepens and expands your ability to anchor your practice in Liberatory, Healing-Centered Education. Learn its core principles as a pedagogical framework, receive support to apply learning to your own context, and strengthen your practice in community with others while engaging in the critical personal self-work.
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Customized Support
Customized supports include, but are not limited to:
-instructional and leadership coaching
-customized learning-experience design and facilitation (workshops, learning series, training programs, retreats created specifically for your needs and goals)
-audits and advisement (focusing on curriculum, culture, systems, structures)
-speaking engagements
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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* builds on your understanding of the principles of CRSE, focusing specifically on how to support Multilingual/Emerging Bilingual students. Learn the key understandings and instructional practices for creating linguistically affirming and responsive classrooms. *3-day learning series is also available for a deeper dive into this topic
Love & Liberación:
Liberatory, Healing-Centered Education
This 3-day learning-experience deepens and expands your ability to anchor your practice in Liberatory, Healing-Centered Education. Learn its core principles as a pedagogical framework, receive support to apply learning to your own context, and strengthen your practice in community with others while engaging in the critical personal self-work.
learn more
Customized Support
Customized supports include, but are not limited to:
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For educators, coaches and leaders
Supporting Multilingual Learners & Linguistically Responsive Teaching
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-instructional and leadership coaching
-customized learning-experience design and facilitation (workshops, learning series, training programs, retreats created specifically for your needs and goals)
-audits and advisement (focusing on curriculum, culture, systems, structures)
-speaking engagements
-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
I am also a proud Brooklyn-born, Bronx-raised first-generation Latina who has worked with and trained hundreds of leaders globally committed to transforming themselves, transforming our schools, and transforming our world.
I believe we are inherently brilliant, whole and complete and that there's infinite power and potential within all of us. As educators and education-leaders we have the privilege, opportunity and responsibility to create classrooms that reflect this Truth... work that includes and begins with ourselves.
SoyBárbaraEscudero
certified Professional coach,
award-winning educator,
two-time ivy-league graduate and education consultant with over Twenty years' experience in the field of education.
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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.
I'm Ready!
Are you Ready to join us?
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