unlearning community school classes

Introduction to Ethnic Studies (teacher training and college prep)

  • In California, Ethnic Studies is a graduation requirement in all California Community Colleges (Title 5c) and California State Universities (AB 1460). By the 2025-2026 school year, Ethnic Studies will be offered in California high schools as part of the graduation requirement to take effect in 2029-2030 school year (AB 101).  

  • We offer teacher training to support current educators, aspiring educators, community organizers and leaders who want to offer Ethnic Studies classes in their schools and organizations

  • We combine teacher training with college prep to support Transitional Age Youth or TAY (ages 13-24) in our community classes to encourage students to also be teachers, and teachers to also be students

  • We use the Critical Ethnic Studies model curriculum and other foundational pedagogy to form critical analysis of social and racial injustices. Foundational pedagogy includes:

    • Critical Positionality and Intersectionality

    • Critical Race Studies and Transformative Justice

    • Decolonial and Indigenous Pedagogies, Epistemologies, and Ontologies

    • Community Engagement Praxis: community organizing frameworks, models, processes

  • We focus on the legacy of Social and Racial power movements, such as:

    • Third World Liberation Front

    • Black Power Movement

    • Red Power Movement

    • Chicano/a/x Power Movement

    • Yellow (Asian and Asian American) Power Movement

    • Pacific Islander Power Movement

    • LGBTQIA+ Power Movement

  • Structure of classes and outputs: ‘Each One, Teach One’ group workshops and community-engaged projects

Food Majik Studies

What you’ll learn:

Conceptual Food Majik: Twice a month online class

Food and cooking throughout human history (how food and cooking shapes human cultures, and the role of food in contemporary social justice contexts)

Technical Food Majik: Once a month in person class

Budgeting, shopping, storage, health and safety, preparation, knife skills, using heat, flavor balance, etc. and growing your own food from seed (starting with herbs)

Practical Food Majik: Once a month in person class

Fieldwork in the Food World thru guided grocery tours and farmers markets, field trips to farms and community gardens, volunteering for community supported agriculture, food pop-ups, and other food justice organizations

Jobs in Food Majik: Online Zoom calls by appointment

Optional mentorship to obtain a food handlers certification (a requirement for employment in the food industry which are jobs most young people and immigrant populations have), or get an internship at a Food Majik community site (which we visited during the fieldwork)