WHAT WE DO
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The Alliance for Transforming Education or The TATE Movement is a dynamic group of visionaries, practitioners, and community members who work together to co-create and drive the evolving movement toward a new paradigm of learning based on *well-being by:
- Convening heart-minded educational leaders, practitioners, students, and community members to integrate stories of educational well-being into a shared paradigm we call the “Declaration of Learning.”
- Sharing this paradigm through a documentary, live conversations, conferences, a coaching community, an online learning platform, and a retreat center for educators.
- Fueling our movement by inspiring widespread outreach and resonant experiences in local cultures.
- Supporting the implementation of this paradigm through our relationship network, powerful conversations, information database, and fundraising power.
The TATE Movement helps evolve our society forward into pervasive well-being and interdependence generated by an already-emerging paradigm of learning that integrates our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual natures so that each person:
- Knows their true self, gifts, and purpose.
- Experiences authentic, expansive connection and belonging to all people, life forms, the earth, and communities (familial, local, national, global, cosmic).
- Co-creates their individual and communal reality.
Only such a society can adapt to the modern world’s existential challenges and generate a sustainable future where all people feel empowered to flourish within their communities.
We see a society where every human being is empowered to creatively adapt to life’s challenges as they continuously generate a sustainable future where all people Thrive.
Why We Do This
Although there are an increasing number of innovative and accomplished educators and programs, our culture and educational system have generally led to:
- A static, nonintegrated, mechanistic hierarchy administered by leaders who are not directly engaged with students or educators.
- Outcome-based, competitive, inequitable practices that label, pressure, limit, and disempower children, educators, administrators, and parents.
- A separation of mind, body, feelings, and spirit that leads to human beings being disconnected from themselves, each other, nature, and the cosmos.
- The unintentional infliction of high stress levels on educators, parents, and young people that has led to an epidemic of burnout, chronic disease, violence, and mental health issues (e.g., loneliness, depression, addiction, and suicide).
- We strongly hold the vision of a new thriving story of education, one that is already being unleashed in bits and pieces all over the world, one which needs to be synthesized, prioritized and implemented as one.
- We serve as a collaborative learning hub of this new thriving story of education by facilitating fostered by a movement of compassionate and talented Visionaries, Practitioners, Community Members, Youth, and Elders dedicated to being the voice and vision of the new-paradigm shift into healthy and empowering learning environments for a new authentic generation of students, teachers, school leaders, and parents!
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We are co-creating a movement with people who believe that learning in our society:
-Centers learning in community to transform our diverse social structure into a life-affirming, interdependent culture.
-Develops and integrates all the intelligences (physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual, et al.) that contribute to human “beingness.”
-Empowers all learners to co-create their own unique educational experience that inspires the discovery, embodiment, and contribution of their essence, talents, and passions.
-Actualizes trusting and compassionate relationships where all “students” (young people, educators, parents, community members) are seen, heard, and valued – and therefore truly known so that our society grows into expanded love and belonging.
-Evolves through curiosity – and the practices of “not having to know” and “knowing with humility” to continually refresh our intelligences, shift our educational paradigm, and evolve from rigid frameworks into an ever-emergent future.
IT’S TIME for the education system to TRANSFORM!
i.b.mee.’s mission is a powerful one and its strategic plan for THE SHIFT in education bloomed out of the vision of Meg Hanshaw PhD after she quit her college basketball team her junior year, depressed, sick, injured, and addicted.
The alliance for tranforming education
CORE TEAM
Having access to every resource needed to grow up thriving, she was driven to find out why she had shifted from passion and joy to passionless and shame. This challenge catapulted her into a life-long quest to discover what makes young people (herself included) have the best chance of reaching their full potential.
She spent the next thirty years researching, piloting and benchmarking positive youth developmental practices and programs. Fifteen of those years were spent coaching basketball where she learned how to create a system of change to turn-around losing teams and build mentally and physically intelligent athletes. Meg had also struggled being a health and physical education teacher and professor in the old paradigm of education. She knew that the peak performance and thriving research was not being applied in the education setting as she began to see disempowering and unhealthy patterns of student behaviors during their school years and beyond. In 2019, this research culminated in her developing a comprehensive system of healthy and empowering personal and environmental (systems) change for classrooms and schools. She named this system the Empowerment Education® System of W.E.L.L.-Being.
Meg founded the nonprofit, i.b.mee. (I Be Me) in 2011, to help support student and educator “thriving” research, with the vision that in the next 20 years a group would come together to co-create a movement to SHIFT education into what all humans really need to learn while experiencing total well-being.
Together with the i.b.mee. co-founders (Mark Stamper, Kim Griffith, Martin Richards, and dozens of college interns) they progressed the nonprofit to where it was ready for the next phase of expansion in 2025.
Today, i.b.mee. has a strategic organization to carry out the MOVEMENT. This structure consists of a Strategic Operations Team, a Core Team of 8 heart-mind Visionaries who are the energetic foundation of the Movement. Each Core Team Member has their own story that has elegantly merged with Dr. Hanshaw’s vision and made the vision and core foundation of the movement even stronger and more grounded. Now as the backbone of TATE, these special individuals, together, help make decisions on everything we do from a foundational “knowing” of the new-paradigm vision that has been engrained in them through time-tested experience. As other Visionaries, Practitioners, Youth, Elders, and Community Members join the TATE Movement, together we will ensure that the current philosophy of learning in our education systems is replaced with a NEW Declaration of Learning! The time has come.
