Our Vision & Approach

Personal Transformation

We bring diverse groups of parents and school staff together to engage in open, honest dialogue about their identities, histories, and the ways that race and racism impact the way they experience the world. As a result, participants grow their empathy, deepen their racial consciousness, and develop a shared commitment to advancing racial justice and educational equity so that their school community is a place where everyone can thrive.

Equity-Driven Action

After examining how racial inequity shows up in their school, parents and staff turn their dialogue into collective action to address it, forming equity teams and centering their efforts on the perspectives, experiences, and ideas of participants who themselves have most experienced the burdens of inequity.

Seeding & Socializing Change

In Kindred’s second year of partnership and beyond, more participants experience dialogue and join equity teams, growing to a tipping point the community of parents and staff committed to working together – in collaboration with school leaders – to advance racial justice and educational equity, thus catalyzing the impact of their ongoing community building and equity-driven actions into meaningful improvements in the school.

Advancing Collective Well-Being

Kindred is growing a movement. Through our online community and first-hand training and coaching, we are building parents’, staff members’ and school leaders’ capacity and motivation to co-design equitable, anti-racist schools that advance collective well-being. Across our partner communities, members of the Kindred network are working as advocates for shifts in the policies and practices of education systems by sharing with education influencers their powerful experiences and transformative successes in building equitable schools.