Fostering human-centered outcomes.

Transformative Education Collective founders, Alec and Peter, met in 2017 while teaching as pioneer faculty in their fledgling prison education program, and quickly melded minds, at a pub no less, over the aspects of their lived experiences, education, and fields of study that have intertwined and transformational impacts on their personal wellbeing and teaching practices. The root of the issue, they found, was their students' extreme assets in life and the classroom, instead of the deficit model of a traditional approach to education. The asset model helped them understand their own value and agency in a leviathan system of incarceration, education, policy, and humans. 

It started at the pub, but the conversation led into the classroom, with the students challenging Alec and Peter to go deeper in their fields and understandings, and they formulated a framework and solidarity that carried into life, doctoral work, publications, and serving students. Since then, the fundamental building blocks of a refined approach to professional development, human development, relational learning, and doing better for humanity has bonded them.