About
RootedChange is dedicated to transforming education by empowering teachers and students to create real world, community driven learning experiences. We provide coaching, resources, and support to help schools, especially those in underserved Black and rural communities, implement hands on, student centered projects that connect learning to life beyond the classroom. By shifting education from passive instruction to active engagement, we ensure students develop the critical thinking, creativity, and problem solving skills needed to succeed.
We believe meaningful education happens when students take ownership of their learning and apply knowledge in ways that matter to them and their communities. Through collaboration with educators, schools, and local partners, RootedChange helps build sustainable models of learning that inspire curiosity, strengthen communities, and create lasting impact. Our approach combines hands on learning with technology, including AI powered tools that support teachers in designing engaging, individualized lessons while keeping students at the center of their education.
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. - Marian Wright Edelman
Our Mission
RootedChange partners with communities, educators, students, and families to reimagine schools as engines of local power and economic renewal.
Through real-world, student-driven projects, we help historically excluded communities transform their schools into hubs of healing, opportunity, and collaboration.
Our work starts with listening and builds toward shared ownership — creating systems that communities lead, grow, and pass on across generations. Because the solutions we need already live in the people we serve.
Our Vision
Our vision is a future where every school is a community catalyst — a place where students lead, families belong, and neighborhoods thrive.
We imagine a world where historically excluded communities reclaim education as a tool for healing, economic opportunity, and self-determined change.
RootedChange exists to help build that world — one project, one school, and one generation at a time.