Family Leadership Design Collaborative (FLDC)
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. 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. We do this through a practice of PDR called solidarity-driven co-design. Co-design is a process of partnering and decision-making that engages diverse peoples to collectively identify problems of practice and innovate solutions. Co-design has the potential to foster change-making that is responsive, adaptive, and equity-oriented. The FLDC was launched in 2015 by Drs. Ann Ishimaru and Megan Bang, out of the University of Washington College of Education. (Dr. Bang has since moved to Northwestern University).
Family Leadership Design Collaborative – Cultivating Community Wellbeing and Educational Justice. (n.d.). Retrieved December 24, 2021, from https://familydesigncollab.org/
Recasting Families and Communities as Co-Designers of Education in Tumultuous Times
Moving from “This Is How It’s Always Been” to “This Is How It Must Be”: Lessons from Participatory Design Research
Racialized Formations of Learning In and Across Contexts
Co-Designing Family and Community Wellness and Educational Justice: Findings From the Family Leadership Design Collaborative [Session 42.039]
Advancing Educational Justice Given the Benefits, Challenges, and Potential of Participatory Action Research
Inclusion of Families Into School-Based Race and Equity Teams
Grow Your Own Community Power: Citizens for a Better Greenville
West Side School-Community Design Circle: A Community Leadership Partnership on the West Side of Salt Lake City, Utah
Designing for Culturally Responsive Family Engagement: The Seeds of a Participatory Action Research Project
From 'Best' to 'Next' Practices in Family Engagement for Educational Justice