The Indigo Institute involves the Praxis community in continued study and inquiry, creating learning experiences for schools, universities, and community organizations. Seminars and learning sessions engage participants in reflection and action on their work within the context of social justice. Held over two days in Brattleboro, Vermont. The first day is an event in the community and the second day is study, reflection and discussion.
Our Core Commitments
1. Understand the past to create a just today. Human relationships and community are fundamental to our pedagogy and curriculum.
2. Equity is central to everything we do. Analysis of current paradigms and accepted practices have to be scrutinized, understood and changed.
3. We are all part of the solution. People learn to confront their problems and build creative solutions. This process takes time, patience and courage. But we can do it!
4. Equity benefits everyone. Building equity is democratic and includes all members of the community.
Some Past Institutes
Celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Legacy
On Martin Luther King Day in 2018 Indigo Institute held two events simultaneously, one in Brattleboro and the other in Springfield, Vermont. The community came together to speak out and to “rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle for a new world” (MLK).
What Does Failure Mean? Who or What is Failing?
Indigo Institute combined with Spark Teacher Training Program at the Marlboro Graduate Center to bring together community members to talk about the meaning of failure and who or what is failing, especially in schools. The discussions were grounded in three readings:
Kicked Out!: Unfair and Unequal Student Discipline in Vermont Public Schools
Racial Disparities in the Criminal and Juvenile Justice System Advisory Panel Report
Indigenous People’s Day
On October 8, 2018, people gathered together to inquiry about the nature of colonialism and to stand in solidarity with indigenous people seeking to end occupation of their lands.
The growth of Capitalism and the rise of Resistance
On Martin Luther King Day in 2019 Indigo convened to inquire about the origins of capitalism and the rise of resistance throughout its history, and to stand with our communities as they declare “Black Lives Matt
Perpetual War
On March 9, 2019, Indigo gathered to understand the dynamics underlying perpetual war.
May day, 2019
Indigo inquires into the origins and nature of the global working class
