Students build understanding of identity, diversity, justice, and action with their Changemaker curriculum. Through the lens of literacy and storytelling, students learn about human rights, gender, race, ethnicity, immigration, refugees, ability/ableism, Indigenous rights, workers’ rights, and socioeconomics.

Learning about people who enacted change because of the inequities and inequalities they faced, students begin to see that anyone can become a changemaker. Working to understand systemic oppression through the interdisciplinary study of cultural studies, history, reading, writing, science, and art, and using the frame of why people move, 4th and 5th grade students address the issues faced by those who have been/and are currently being forced to move, including slaves, refugees, and immigrants. Students build understanding about similarities and differences, and about inequality and inequities in the culture and the system.

The Humanities curriculum is centered around social justice through the study of tribalism and the development of modern society, building understanding that no civilization has been created with equal distribution of resources, and access has been given inequitably. All of this leads to changemaking: justice and action. Once we understand that not everyone has the same rights or access, what do we do about it? How do we work to change the systems of oppression? In science, students are partnered with Save the Bay and a wetland restoration project. They re-establish habitat and potentially prevent community displacement.