Culturally sustaining, community-centered solutions for teachers, itinerants, schools, districts, and charter organizations.
"Without community, there is no liberation." — Audre Lorde, 1979
CA Credentialed Professionals
Serving PK–12 Communities
Three areas of deep expertise, built on decades of classroom and leadership experience.
Resource Specialist Teachers and School Psychologists need specialized professional development where they can hone and improve their practice. Each session is two hours of focused, immediately applicable learning.
One two-hour session — evidence-based strategies for attention, executive function, and classroom success.
One two-hour session — culturally sustaining, strengths-based approaches for autistic learners.
One two-hour session — practical tools for de-escalation, prevention, and restorative response.
Comprehensive support from proposal through final defense for doctoral candidates.
Guidance on structure, argument, literature review, and APA formatting.
Focused support for course-level academic writing at the graduate level.
Grant narratives, professional statements, bios, and other custom projects.
Line-level editing, style consistency, and APA compliance review.
End-to-end support for master's thesis development and completion.
We are all CA credentialed, deeply committed professionals bringing over 40 years of collective experience as teachers, administrators, teacher coaches, and school psychologists.
Clinical assistant professor in the School of Educational Studies and Assistant Director of the Teacher Education Program at Claremont Graduate University. A first-generation Latina raised by working-class immigrant parents from Colombia and Guatemala, Claudia brings 20 years of LAUSD experience — from paraprofessional to elementary school principal — to every engagement.
Adjunct professor at Claremont Graduate University and IB Program Coordinator at San Diego Unified School District, where she oversees PD for teachers, supports students within the IB framework, and serves as liaison with the IB organization and school leadership. In her 29th year as a classroom teacher, Dianne envisions education as a joyful, human-centered experience that inspires growth, connection, and equity.
School Psychologist with over 25 years of experience serving students, families, and school communities in San Bernardino County. A former general education teacher, Lorena brings a classroom-centered, collaborative lens to psychoeducational assessment and systems-level support. Her experience as a mother of two deepens her empathy for families and her commitment to strong home–school collaboration.
We are all CA credentialed, deeply committed professionals who bring culturally sustaining and immediately applicable practices to every engagement.
We work alongside educators, not at them — co-creating solutions rooted in the real conditions of your school or district.
Every service is grounded in the cultures, languages, and lived experiences of students and their families.
We name and disrupt systems of harm — addressing disproportionality, opportunity gaps, and exclusionary practice.
Our work is practical and grounded. Participants leave with strategies they can use the next day in their classrooms and schools.
All services align to CA state frameworks — CRST, LCAP, Community Schools, MTSS, and special education law.
We support educators in questioning inherited assumptions and building new professional identities rooted in liberation.
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