#630: Choosing “Togetherness” in a Teacher-Researcher Partnership

Partnerships can support teachers as they work toward rehumanizing classrooms. Togetherness among educators, which Baldinger et al. (2025) propose as involving solidarity, mutually, and human connection, can support humanizing, justice-focused learning for educators. This paper investigates ways in which two teachers and a research partner resisted limiting institutional pressures to choose togetherness in their ongoing work to design humanizing and liberatory learning experiences for young people.