Pathway to Our Vision
Our Underlying Beliefs
There is a growing movement of leaders across the diverse communities of our nation who seek to embrace our full history and ensure our social studies curriculum reflects it.
We believe in teaching the complete, inclusive history of the United States, ensuring representation of the broad range of identities and experiences of historically marginalized people and otherwise untold stories. Creating content reflective of America’s rich diversity – inclusive of multiple voices – is critical to engaging students of ALL backgrounds.
In doing so, we better prepare our young people to navigate the world in which they live, work well with others, and become strong contributors to their communities and our society.
Understanding our history strengthens our democracy and our empathy towards each other.
Our Vision
is that students, teachers, and families experience education that is reflective of America's diversity, affirms their identities, connects history to current events, creates space that includes multiple voices, facilitates understanding of others, and inspires action toward a more equitable future.
Our Mission
is to accelerate the adoption of culturally sustaining social studies curriculum and teacher supports by connecting and supporting the ecosystem of diverse content creators, educators, and school systems.
Our Theory of Change guides our work toward this vision and the ultimate impact we seek. We believe...
If:
Social studies is engaging, interdisciplinary, and constantly evolving.
A diverse content-development field is creating and distributing culturally responsive and sustaining social studies content that meets a wide range of educator demand.
Schools teaching this curriculum are experiencing less resistance and more support from communities and families.
School systems and school leaders are prioritizing this curriculum through instructional time, resourcing, and supportive conditions for teachers.
Educators are receiving consistent professional development and building the skills, capacity, and confidence needed to teach culturally responsive and sustaining social studies.
Then:
Every PK-12 educator in America is equipped to teach culturally responsive and sustaining social studies.
Every school in America is teaching social studies curriculum reflective of our diverse history and cultures.
Students experience social studies education that helps them see possibilities for their futures.
So that:
People experience education that is identify-affirming and reflective of America's diversity, connects history to current events, is inclusive of multiple voices, facilitates empathy, and inspires action towards a more equitable future.
Which will lead to:
People across America demonstrating more empathy, critical-thinking skills, and civic engagement to dismantle inequities.