EMPOWERING EDUCATORS & SHAPING FUTURES
Black teachers who enroll in CREATE are significantly more likely to remain in teaching after two years.
100 percent of current teacher-candidates recommend CREATE.
100% of CREATE Schools' leaders indicate excitement about helping to develop new teachers.
CREATE is a federally and philanthropic-funded project that aims to develop and nurture a community of thriving educators who embody justice-centered practices, challenge oppressive schooling structures and remain fiercely committed to working alongside students and the communities they serve to reimagine classroom spaces for deep joy, liberation and flourishing.
We Are Committed To...
Generating Research Projects
We create multi-modal, critically-oriented, accessible products in service of and for marginalized communities.
Developing New Teachers
We work with teachers to embody justice-centered practices with support and mentorship along the way.
Supporting Educators
We support educators who aim to collaboratively reimagine schooling for joy, flourishing and liberation.
Sustaining Innovative Models
We look toward models within teacher education that are effective, financially viable and humanizing.
Upcoming Events
CREATE 101: Critical Conversations
Time: 9am - 1pm
Location: TBD
This retreat introduces participants to The CREATE Project’s framework for supporting experienced educators and educational leaders as they:
- NAVIGATE the profound challenges and current education climate
- PAUSE and think deeply about who they are personally and professionally in their educational setting
- Explicitly CONNECT their work with the CREATE Project approach to supporting education in Atlanta
Through highly interactive learning experiences, guest speakers, a place-based learning experience, and more, participants in CREATE 101 will:
- Learn new ways to remember, explore and develop their disposition, skills, and embodiment practices related to their work
- Develop a deeper and more nuanced understanding of the historical and current Atlanta education ecosystem landscape
- Look at work in Critical Friendship, facilitate professional dilemma presentations, and engage in dialogue imperative to transforming education
This retreat will provide educators with a framework of dispositions, skills, and embodiment practices to nurture personal and professional growth within their educational settings.
Healing Centered Justice
Time: 9am - 1pm
Location: TBD
This highly interactive and research-based learning experience empowers teachers and leaders to develop a healing–centered framework that they can incorporate into their professional practice.
Despite a wide range of constraints and profound challenges that schools and educators are facing, this learning experience seeks to better understand the specific needs of educators in order to provide tailored support for them within the education ecosystem.
Through guest speakers, art and music creation, wellness-focused cooking, engagements with nature and more, participants will:
- ENGAGE in an offering of time and space to work deeply while fostering supportive community engagements within their classrooms and schools
- FOCUS on integrating well-being practices into the content curriculum and interactions with their students and colleagues
- LEARN how to incorporate healing practices into their teaching and daily engagements while dialoguing with relevant laws and guidelines
- CREATE their own healing–centered frameworks that they can incorporate into their own contexts
This retreat will provide educators with tools and resources to nurture healing environments and care within their educational settings, benefiting their personal well-being and professional practice.
Contact Us
CREATE Co-Directors
- Dana E. Salter, M.Ed. - Director of Community Engagement and Continuing Education
- Flavia Gordon-Gunter, Ed.S. - Director of Residency
- LaCretia Plane, MBA - Director of Sustainability and Operations
- Stephanie Behm Cross, Ph.D. - Principal Investigator
- Thomas Albright, Ph.D. - Interim Director of Research
30 Pryor St. SW
Atlanta, GA 30303