We are education innovators thinking creatively. We believe that the key to success in school and life lies in igniting cycles of self actualization in each student. Our innovative intervention model harnesses the power of creativity to spur this cycle - transforming students’ relationships to themselves, their learning, and the world they live in.
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"we are what we imagine" - n. scott momaday
〰️ "we are what we imagine" - n. scott momaday
The Identity Project’s school-based interventions harnesses the power of documentary storytelling to ignite the vitality of voice unique to each student, and reweave the relational connective tissue of our school communities. Our work lives and breathes at the intersection of racial and intersectional justice, culturally sustaining pedagogies, and decolonizing school systems.
Our unique pedagogy is grounded in an emergent theory of education, and incorporates the evidence-based practices of creative youth development, culturally responsive teaching, relational neuroscience, neuroaestheics, multiple modes of knowing, and applied empathy practices, and somatic practices for trauma resilience and recovery.
I am from the sound of curiosity warming - Johnny Ramos (8th grade)
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I am from the sound of curiosity warming - Johnny Ramos (8th grade) 〰️
Our Partners:
"I found that my students gained a sense of understanding aroudn what identity is and how it grows with you over time" - Lori Chavez (Kewa Pueblo)
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"I found that my students gained a sense of understanding aroudn what identity is and how it grows with you over time" - Lori Chavez (Kewa Pueblo) 〰️
For the past nine years The Identity Project has partnered exclusively with local education agencies and tribal education agencies throughout the Southwest US and on tribal lands. Thanks to our longstanding partnership with the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (Santa Fe, NM) we have developed a highly specialized iteration of our intervention model specifically geared towards serving Native American youth ages 12-18. These efforts have led to sustained relationships with district-level education leaders, state-level multicultural and Indigenous education divisions, and leading experts in intergenerational trauma and cross-cultural mental health. We are proud to have operated multi-year programming serving Native American and Latine youth across five of New Mexico’s highest need school districts, and we are currently piloting a new iteration of the project in partnership with a tribal association serving the Chugach Region of southcentral Alaska.