Welcome to the Educators’ Freedom Dreaming Collective!
We believe in world-building as a collective endeavor nourished by hope and love. Inspired by abolition, our mission is to incite change in societal systems and structures, particularly in the realm of early childhood educational systems. Join us in embracing the fullness of humanity and identities, and rejecting static notions of gender. Together, we can dream into existence through learning experiences marked by justice and love.
ABOUT PAMELA JONES
Social Justice Educator and Educational Equity Coach
I am Pam Jones, the Founder and Director of the Educators’ Freedom Dreaming Collective. I identify as a decolonial Black feminist abolitionist educator. From this philosophical location, I embrace the fullness of my humanity and identities, rejecting static notions of gender and heeding the Black feminist call to negotiate the beautiful tension of the visionary and pragmatic.
“Without new visions we don’t know what to build, only what to knock down. We not only end up confused, rudderless, and cynical, but we forget that making a revolution is not a series of clever maneuvers and tactics but a process that can and must transform us.”
- Professor Robin D.G. Kelley.
Our Services
How do I Get Involved?
Here at the Freedom Dreaming Collective, we offer mini-courses for school groups, organizations, and individuals to develop the knowledge, skills, and dispositions needed to create and reimagine social justice curricula and support programs. Our offerings include:
Small Group Coaching:
At the Freedom Dreaming Collective, we believe that coaching within a collective of like-minded educators is akin to a cheat-code for transformation! To quote Mariame Kaba, “Everything worthwhile is done with other people” (p. 176). Coaching cycles run on a semester basis and topics emerge organically from the Collective of Freedom Dreamers present.
Freedom Dreamers’ Book Collective: Studying-and-Struggling Toward Educational Freedom:
You may be wondering, what does a study-and-struggle book collective look like? How does it work and how is it different from a standard book club? In brief, a study-and-struggle book collective meets for the purpose of wrestling with a text for the express purpose of taking eventual action for social justice and transformation.
