Family Leadership Design Collaborative

The Family Leadership Design Collaborative (FLDC) is a national network of scholars, practitioners, and family and community leaders who work to center racial equity in family engagement by reimagining how families and communities can create more equitable schools and educational systems.

We do this by reimagining how families and communities can create more equitable schools and educational systems. We engage in research to develop “next” (beyond current “best”) practices, measures, and tools to foster equitable collaborations toward community wellbeing and educational justice.

The FLDC is a participatory design research project (PDR). PDR emerges from design-based research and is an iterative research process that attends to power, relationships, and histories of oppression/resilience through partnering with young people, families, and communities. PDR advances theories of human learning alongside new sets of relations, practices, and tools towards social justice and change-making.