At Learning with Lado, we believe that education is a powerful tool for connection, critical thinking, and creativity. Rooted in the belief that education is a practice of freedom, our mission is to provide engaging, culturally responsive, and classroom-tested resources that help educators inspire a love of literature and art in their students.
Through our Artful Learning approach, we encourage young minds to see themselves in stories, understand different perspectives, and express their ideas creatively. Every resource is designed with both educators and students in mind, ensuring that learning remains meaningful, engaging, and dynamic.
Learn more about our Artful Learning approach here.
“The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape the students. What the educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves.”
- Paulo Freire, educator and philosopher
Vision & Values
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Learning should be artful, transformative, and rooted in freedom. By integrating visual art, literature, and poetry, we create student-centered experiences that ignite imagination, foster self-expression, and cultivate deeper understanding of the world and their place within it.
Our resources are designed to not only build artistic and literary skills but to also provide opportunities for creative reflection through drawing and writing. Through artful learning, education becomes an act of liberation—one that nurtures curiosity, creativity, and the ability to envision a more just world.
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Through culturally responsive resources—featuring literature by diverse authors and poets, along with original artwork of literary and historical figures—students engage deeply with texts in meaningful and transformative ways. These resources provide opportunities for students to analyze, reflect, and connect with stories that expand their perspectives. By fostering belonging, empathy, and intellectual engagement, Learning with Lado ensures that students not only see themselves in literature but also develop the skills to engage with it thoughtfully and creatively.
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Education should liberate, not limit. Grounded in the pedagogies of Gloria Ladson-Billings, Paulo Freire, and bell hooks, our resources empower students to analyze, question, and think critically about the world around them.
By engaging with literature, history, and art through a critical lens, students learn to interrogate dominant narratives, uncover silenced histories, and envision new possibilities. Education should not just prepare students to navigate the world as it is—it should equip them with the tools to transform it.
