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The International Baccalaureate® aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect.

To this end the organization works with schools, governments and international organizations to develop challenging programmes of international education and rigorous assessment.

These programmes encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right.

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Leading for Equity Framework — National Equity Project

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Everyone is a designer.

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Liberatory Design is a process and practice to:

Generate self-awareness to liberate designers from habits that perpetuate inequity.

Shift the relationship between the people who hold power to design and those impacted.

Foster learning and agency for those involved in and influenced by the design work.

Create conditions for collective liberation.

Liberatory Design — National Equity Project

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Design for Belonging is a framework to support you to build greater belonging and reduce othering in your community.

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Dr. Susie Wise is a design leader with experience in the education, tech, and the social sectors. She coaches leaders in equity design and innovation practices. She teaches at the d.school at Stanford and coaches with the Mira Fellowship . Previously she founded and directed the K12 Lab at the d.school and co-created Liberatory Design .

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Design for Belonging Design for Belonging

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Design for Belonging is work by Susie Wise. It offers a toolkit to use in communities and organizations to pursue diversity, equity and inclusion goals by focusing on belonging. It features experiential moments to design for and levers of design to utilize.

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Everybody is a designer. The question is what kind of designer are you? Liberatory design offers a how and the mindsets and heartsets.

You can teach liberatory design and include the core tenants in experiences for young people.

Design thinking, while effective, moves at a pace that privileges dominant cultures.

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On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast Rebecca Midles is joined by a superstar lineup of design thought leaders to discuss liberatory design.

Victor Cary, Senior Director at the National Equity Project (formerly known as the Bay Area Coalition for Equitable Schools) has worked in education for over 40 years, starting as a high school teacher in Richmond, CA.

David Clifford is the co-creator of Liberatory Design. He also founded DSX, an educational non-profit that invites creative courage in all of us to design for equity.

Tania Anaissie is also a co-creator of Liberatory Design. She is the founder of Beytna Design. She is also Faculty at The National Equity Project.

Oppression thrives on risk averse behavior. Schools and our school systems must embrace Creative Courage. The only way you can learn is by doing the only way to really start designing towards equity and liberation.
David Clifford

How can we understand our policies, our culture, our decisions - that's a design project in itself. You could apply liberatory design and say okay, let's redesign some internal stuff. There's some healing that needs to happen.
Tania Anaissie

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Tania Anaissie, David Clifford, and Victor Cary on Liberatory Design

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Everybody is a designer. The question is what kind of designer are you? Liberatory design offers a how and the mindsets and heartsets. You can teach liberatory design and include the core tenants in experiences for young people. Design thinking, while effective, moves at a pace that privileges dominant cultures.