The Lead Liberated community — principals, coaches, and staff gathered together outdoors in Oakland.

Building
Antiracist
Cultures
for Student
Learning

We support principals of color to heal, to learn, and to lead schools where every student thrives.

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Impact Report — read now: When principals heal and learn, so do their students.

What Healing and Learning Produce

In 24–25, Principal Cody Marshall of Cohort 4 led Lodestar to gains in both content areas. In math:

+33 ptsBlack students — 5× the state average
+16 ptsLatinx students — nearly 3× the state average
+33 ptsStudents with IEPs — 8× the state average
+22 ptsStudents learning English — 3× the state average

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Our Programs

Cohort 5 · Bay Area

The Antiracist Collective

Bay Area principals of color heal from internalized racism while building the technical and adaptive skills their students’ learning depends on.

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Nationwide

Partnerships

We partner with education organizations across the country, helping them reach their goals through coaching and professional development.

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Through healing and learning, we equip leaders in education to interrupt racism within themselves and their organizations in order to co-design antiracist learning cultures.

Liberated leaders are leading their schools and organizations to collectively create antiracist learning cultures where everyone thrives!

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Hear It From the Leaders

Principals, coaches, and staff on what changes when leaders of color are given room to heal.

Voices From the Cohorts

“Being part of Lead Liberated has reminded me that I don’t have to lead alone. The space created has allowed me to be vulnerable and heal in ways I didn’t even realize I needed. This community has reminded me that healing and leadership can (and should) coexist.”

Principal LaShante ScottCohort 5

“The coaching I am receiving through a Lead Liberated Partnership has really helped me to be more clear, explicit, and specific with instructional feedback and teacher development. This allows teachers to reflect on their practice through the lens of student learning. As a result, there is more student learning – where students are really authentically involved in their learning and not sitting in the classroom waiting for the teacher to do the thinking for them.”

Principal Tammie AdamsCohort 2 and Partner

“The calibration and learning walks using the TNTP rubric, developing a coaching plan, and developing an ILT plan have directly helped me grow and make an impact as an instructional leader. I love all of it. Lead Liberated pushes me to sharpen my instructional lens, support others’ instructional lens, and focus on the work of leveling up our students’ learning experiences and learnings!”

Principal Nicki FoxCohort 4

In 24-25, Principal Cody Marshall of Cohort 4, led Lodestar to increases in both content areas – For math, Black students improved by 33 points – 5 times the state average, Latinx students improved by 16 points – nearly three times the state average, Students with IEPs improved by 33 points – 8 times the state average, and Students who are learning English improved by 22 points – three times the state average.

Principal Cody MarshallCohort 4

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