Our Programming

Abolitionist Education

Freedom Side School:

Develop and implement abolitionist curriculum and methodology for K-5 elementary school students.

Freedom Side commons

Disseminate abolitionist curriculum and methodology developed at FSS by offering professional development workshops and site visits for educators, and developing written materials to be distributed widely.

Mutual Aid & Community Support

Freedom Side School:

  • Offer therapy and trauma-informed care for students and families.

  • Connect families to social services.

  • Create structures to support students’ connection with incarcerated care-givers.

Freedom Side commons:

  • Facilitate participatory support hub for community members who have been impacted by incarceration.

  • Host joyful events for the community to gather and connect.

  • Create space for mutual aid projects led by community members.

Movement Building

Freedom Side School:

  • Teach curricula across disciplines through a critical anti-oppressive lens.

  • Teach concrete organizing skills in the classroom.

  • Develop and implement curriculum that intersects with opportunities for students to organize meaningfully with grassroots campaigns.

Freedom Side commons:

  • Provide meeting space for grassroots organizations.

  • Disseminate methodologies and curricula for teaching young children how to organize via professional development workshops, site visits, and written materials.

Healing Justice

Freedom Side School:

  • Develop and implement school-wide healing justice practices for relationship-building and addressing harm and conflict.

  • Develop and implement learning opportunities for students to become skilled facilitators of healing justice practices.

Freedom Side commons:

  • Disseminate methodologies for teaching and practicing healing justice with young children at school and at home.

  • Disseminate tools for organizations who want to implement healing justice practices.

  • Offer workshops for community members to learn and practice healing justice tools. 

  • Offer meeting space for community members and organizations who are running community accountability processes.