Our Vision

Progressive education and progressive educators will:

  • Engage students as active participants in their learning and in society.
  • Deepen the learning of students from a diverse range of identities and backgrounds.
  • Welcome families and communities as partners in children’s learning.
  • Support teachers’ voice as experienced practitioners, and growth as lifelong learners.
  • Build solidarity between progressive educators in the public and private sectors.
  • Promote diversity, equity, and justice in our schools and society.
  • Embrace contributions of educators and researchers of color to progressive history and pedagogy.
  • Respond to contemporary issues from a progressive educational perspective.
  • Advance critical dialogue on the roles of schools in a democratic society.

Connecting Educators.

Engaging Students.

Promoting Equity & Justice in Schools.

Educational Principles

The purpose of school expands beyond prevailing education policy and practice. Progressive educators support their students’ deep intellectual development and healthy identity formation—as developing individuals, as active learners within a school community, and as engaged citizens in the broader world.

Amplify students’ voice, choice, and participation as learners and citizens.

Promote inclusion, equity, and justice in our schools and society.

Nurture the cultural, cognitive, social, emotional, and physical development of the child.

Respond to students’ innate curiosity by fostering inquiry, internal motivation, and the discovery of passion and purpose.

Honor the identities, experiences, goals, and needs of diverse constituents.

Cultivate empathetic, collaborative, and critical relationships between all members of a learning community.