Transformative Teaching Collective

The Transformative Teaching Collective is a worker-owned cooperative founded to promote social justice education in the South Carolina Low country and beyond. Our facilitators are based in Charleston SC, Durham NC, and New Orleans. We design and facilitate interactive workshops that invite participants to co-create a deeper understanding of concepts related to human diversity, oppression, solidarity and liberation. We offer customized sessions to meet the needs of schools, community groups, non-profits, government organizations and businesses of all types and sizes who wish to deepen the unity, vision and collective development among co-workers or members. We are especially interested and equipped to work with teachers who desire to embrace more liberatory, holistic and inclusive forms of pedagogy. We are dedicated to practicing cooperative principles that allow us to educate, learn and grow from one another. As we transform ourselves we aim to dismantle and transform the interlocking systems of oppression that keep us divided. As a worker-owned cooperative we are horizontally organized and strive to uphold the cooperative principles and values articulated by the United States Federation of Worker Cooperatives. We prioritize practices of democratic decision-making, reciprocity, transparency and solidarity in our relationships. We are a Limited Liability Corporation (LLC) and we are registered with SAM.Gov, the official U.S. government system for contract opportunities and have worked with both federal agencies and state-level government organizations. We are in the process of completing our Women Owned Small Business certification as six out of our seven member-facilitators are women. Additionally, four of our members identify as LGBTQ+ and we are a predominantly people of color-owned cooperative as well. These social identities significantly inform our work and our ability to invite others into dynamic processes of perspective-taking to build solidarity and