Our Goals
By embedding co-learning at the very heart of education across all levels—and enlivening it through storytelling, dialogue, humility, imagination, and collaboration—we seek to cultivate learning environments that honor every student’s identity, voice, and lived reality.
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About Global Diversity and Inclusion Lab
Our Philosophy
🌱 Education as a force for social justice through Community Asset Mapping
We believe education—across K–12, higher education, and community-based learning—is a powerful force for social justice when it intentionally centers community asset mapping. By recognizing and building on the cultural, linguistic, familial, and experiential knowledge that learners bring, education becomes a pathway for advancing equity, dignity, and opportunity for every student.
🤝 Shared responsibility, collective growth
As educators and collaborators, we are committed to creating learning environments that are inclusive, equitable, and grounded in mutual care and accountability.
🌍 Community assets at the center
In culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms, we draw on a community asset framework that values what students and families already know, do, and bring.
🧭 Co-learning with cultural humility
We approach teaching and learning as a shared journey—listening deeply, learning alongside one another, and remaining open to growth and reflection.
🎤 Honoring voices, identities, and talents
Our work seeks to uncover and celebrate the richness of diverse perspectives, languages, and lived experiences within student communities.
✨ Empowerment through identity and learning
We support learners in discovering and amplifying their identities and cultures while strengthening their academic, creative, and critical capacities.
🌈 Belonging that inspires possibility
By centering community knowledge and honoring every student’s story, we cultivate learning spaces that foster belonging, collaboration, and the confidence to reach one’s fullest potential.