Hi! I'm Lindsay. (she/her) |
I help teachers design engaging, project-based curricula. I help schools amplify student leadership and advance racial and gender justice. Why? Because helping people of all ages pursue their passion, exercise their agency, and promote a more equitable world brings me more joy than Marie Kondo-ing my closet!
In my work with thousands of educators, I know are overworked and often, are not provided the type of professional development that will allow them to design and facilitate engaging curriculum without sacrificing their personal well-being.
When it comes to teaching for justice, countless teachers have told me they are afraid to say the wrong thing, they feel alone in pushing back against the myth of a “neutral” curriculum, and they don’t have the resources or support to design new curricula. They want to talk with their students about justice and injustice, bring their full selves to school, and design meaningful lessons that meet the needs of the students in front of them, but it feels like too big of an undertaking. So they mistakenly think they need to wait...to read more books or attend another PD...or just stick to the way they’ve always taught. I help educators recognize that teaching for justice is necessary for healing, it amplifies engagement, and creating justice-based units is totally do-able with an efficient, repeatable system.
Working with hundreds of leaders across dozens of schools, I've found administrators want to provide quality PD for teachers. They are encouraging more student voice and ready to pursue more equitable curriculum and policy. But, they don't have access to their own high-quality Professional Development on how to do this.
I help teacher and leaders who…
- Absolutely love their students
- Are excited to try new things
- Have passion for their work
- Want to grow their professional practice
- And feel like there are not enough hours in the day to accomplish all of the amazing things they're working on.
When I’m not working, I'm usually running while listening to my favorite podcasts, reading a book with the hopes of hitting my Goodreads Challenge target, or on the couch, watching Netflix with my partner, and our snuggle buddies Lucky, Jinx, and Mojo.
Sample Portfolios
Student VoiceStudents are more engaged and academically successful when they co-create their learning experiences.
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Project-Based Curriculum DesignRooted in justice, fostering student leadership, projects are best when designed to solve real problems.
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Technology IntegrationStreamlining the tech pieces enable teachers to spend time on the important things like teaching for justice.
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Everyone's got their something.
That's why I collaborate with incredible
coaches and consultants...
Dr. Cherie Bridges Patrick (she/her/we)
Dr. Cherie Bridges Patrick is a leadership educator and coach, psychotherapist, consultant, scholar-practitioner, and aspiring thought leader. Dr. Patrick is the founder of Paradox Cross-Cultural Consulting, Training & Empowerment LLC. Paradox helps educational institutions repair their internal disconnects and develop capacity to normalize generative race-related conversations that unlock new levels of innovation and social change.
Dr. Patrick's coaching and consulting practice is grounded in her own research that examined how racial dominance was reproduced in day-to-day workplace discourses. She is adept at creating and facilitating courageous spaces for rich and generative racial dialogue where everyone enters and leaves with their dignity intact and humanity honored. Her current research and practices utilize discourse at the intersections of workplace racial denial, racial trauma and stress, dominance and oppression, and draws on somatic healing practice as an element of social justice.
Through Paradox, Cherie develops racial justice leadership education and coaching content, offers racial justice workshops, leadership coaching and consulting to social service and academic institutions/leaders. She is a faculty member at Antioch University and has a small private psychotherapy practice. Paradox uses our signature methodology to customize a step-by-step process of diagnosis first, then action for organizations and leaders. Paradox relies on an adaptive leadership framework supported by critical race, feminist and trauma theories and somatic and mindfulness practices. Dr. Patrick's Ph.D. research project Navigating the Silences: Social Worker Discourses Around Race has been downloaded nearly 500 times in 32 countries and can be found here.
When she is not working with leaders and organizations around racial justice, Cherie loves time with her grandkids and enjoys, hiking, photography, and researching and writing about racial dominance and somatic healing in leadership practices.
Dr. Patrick's coaching and consulting practice is grounded in her own research that examined how racial dominance was reproduced in day-to-day workplace discourses. She is adept at creating and facilitating courageous spaces for rich and generative racial dialogue where everyone enters and leaves with their dignity intact and humanity honored. Her current research and practices utilize discourse at the intersections of workplace racial denial, racial trauma and stress, dominance and oppression, and draws on somatic healing practice as an element of social justice.
Through Paradox, Cherie develops racial justice leadership education and coaching content, offers racial justice workshops, leadership coaching and consulting to social service and academic institutions/leaders. She is a faculty member at Antioch University and has a small private psychotherapy practice. Paradox uses our signature methodology to customize a step-by-step process of diagnosis first, then action for organizations and leaders. Paradox relies on an adaptive leadership framework supported by critical race, feminist and trauma theories and somatic and mindfulness practices. Dr. Patrick's Ph.D. research project Navigating the Silences: Social Worker Discourses Around Race has been downloaded nearly 500 times in 32 countries and can be found here.
When she is not working with leaders and organizations around racial justice, Cherie loves time with her grandkids and enjoys, hiking, photography, and researching and writing about racial dominance and somatic healing in leadership practices.
Kayren Gray, M. Ed. (she/her/hers)
Kayren is the author of The Road to Equity: The Five C’s to Construct an Equitable Classroom and creates spaces for classrooms, campuses, and communities to begin a conversation to close the gap and change the narrative. Kayren brings her experience as a Texas public school teacher, parent, assistant principal, entrepreneur, and DEI advocate. In her various positions, she has created equitable initiatives to create more inclusive, diverse programs and policies to get and keep students connected to campus in a positive way. Kayren has worked with various organizations to include school districts, universities, and businesses to facilitate workshops and training. She holds a Master’s degree in Educational Leadership, is founder of MK Results LLC, and hosts a podcast entitled “The Road to Equity” because she knows diversity begins with dialogue.
I also work with the educators and leaders at Transform·Ed Collaborative
Check out the website here.