FreedomSchool is active in conducting research on Black Liberatory Education.  In 2020, FreedomSchool’s co-director, LeRoi Newbold, completed a study on the tenets of Black Liberatory Education in Ontario.  These tenets, used to guide FreedomSchool’s practice, are as follows

• Centering Black histories of resistance
• Intersectionality
• Transformative Justice
• Arts Based Pedagogy
• Land Based Learning
• Spirituality
• Disabilities Justice.

Currently, FreedomSchool is working collaboratively with Dr. Janelle Joseph to explore Black Movement Based Art as a key tenet of Black Liberatory Education.  In particular, we are studying vogue, dancehall, capoeira and self-defense in relation to Black liberation and education.