Akosua Lesesne
Founder, Sisters in Education Circle (SIEC)
Educational Design Leader, Lesesne Legacy Learning Village
Board Member
ABEN: A Black Education Network
City
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
A Bit About Me
ABEN puts the most powerful liberatory educational theories into action. Whether it's the Afrocentric praxis of teaching for freedom, culturally responsive teaching, culturally relevant pedagogy, culturally affirming or sustaining pedagogy, cultivating genius, abolitionist teaching, or humanizing pedagogy, ABEN brings these ideas alive and unlocks the highest potential of Black children through such innovative programming. It's thrilling to be connected to this work.
I love learning anything I can about outer space or the oceans in my spare time.
Bio
Akosua Lesesne is an Educational Design Leader. She specializes in developing and
leading the implementation of education leader and instructional coaching, curriculum,
programs, and pedagogy that employ an African American education for liberation
approach to inspire Black learners. Her work leverages the transformative elements of
the Black Teaching Tradition (BTT), a teacher development framework for the Black
pedagogical genius she developed. Akosua is the founder of Sisters in Education Circle
(SIEC) and Lesesne Legacy Learning Village LLC. Before founding these
organizations, Akosua had fifteen years of experience teaching and district-level leadership in various predominantly Black and Latin school districts along the East Coast.