Values

1. Human Dignity

Every student and educator deserves respect, agency, and opportunities for meaningful intellectual work. Education must honor lived experience, not erase it through standardization.

2. Public Good Over Private Profit

Schools belong to communities—not corporations. We critically examine partnerships, technologies, and policies that shift power away from the public.

3. Teacher Agency

Teachers are thinkers, designers, and researchers. We reject models that reduce their work to compliance or algorithmic delivery.

4. Authentic Rigor

True rigor is rich, creative, and dialogic—not a spreadsheet score. We value inquiry, complexity, and craftsmanship over test-driven control.

5. Critical Hope

Critique alone is insufficient. We believe in imagining better futures and building them through collective action, solidarity, and reflective practice.

6. Justice & Equity

Educational transformation must confront systemic inequities, from racialized funding gaps to the digital divide. Humanizing schools requires structural change, not surface-level fixes.

7. Transparency & Truth-Telling

We name what is happening in schools—whether corporatization, policy harm, or pedagogical erasure—and provide space for educators to speak freely and honestly.