The classroom has looked a certain way: metal chairs, wooden desks, whiteboards, heavy textbooks, and maybe a window or fan…for over a century. The rate of progress, holistically, has been exponential, whether that be technological, social, political, or economical. While everything from young people’s consumer habits, thinking, food, and clothes have shifted drastically, has the educational space responded? Do the aesthetics, curriculum, and pedagogy parallel the shifts in culture? How is it that we respond to job markets but not the mind and inner potential of young learners and educators?

The ROOTS Movement Education initiative enhances the learning experience of teachers, professionals, and students of all ages by concentrating on 3 pillars: sense of self, creativity, empathy.