Rescuing Our Children | Reshaping Ourselves |
Molding A Powerful Future
Each One Teach Ten transforms everyday people into builders of mini-freedom schools, protectors of memory, and teachers of truth!
Each One Teach Ten!
For our elders, education was a doorway to freedom and power. Today, mis-education is fast becoming a prison - programming our youth to be alienated, apathetic and even anti-African. In too many states, a Black child isn't to be taught anything that would make a white child feel guilty or ashamed! That's not a metaphor, it's law! In the presense of a white person, our children must step into the academic gutter. This isn't simple suppression, this is psychic violence. and it's only one part of the larger anti-African movement in the US.
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We Must Educate Our Own: Each One Teach Ten!
To rescue our children, we must educate our own. This isn't only directed at the teachers; we all must become "teachers." To achieve this, to rescue our children we're leaning on the grassroots organizing and educational mantras from back in the day - "Each one teach one," and "Freedom Schools." Given the urgency and the available technology, we've expanded them to become Each One Teach Ten (EOTT), and Mini-Freedom Schools.
For 27 years, AYA Educational Institute (ayaed.com) has successfully nurtured scholarship and social responsibility through an African-centered curriculum and methodology that stimulates academic rigor and social responsibility to the African-American and African Diaspora communities, and the world - in that order.
Using our Warrior-Healer-Builder social technology, as a base, we have redefined education and educational praxis for our parents, and educators - formal and informal. Because of it, our middle and high school students have excelled academically and socially. We are proud. Still, there is no success without succession. It's not enough to brag about the past or to sit on our laurels.
Urgency of Now!
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States Affected
States have seen bills, executive orders or guidelines restricting Black education since 2021.
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States with Bans
States have enacted restrictions on Black children learning true history regarding race in America.
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Local Measures
Localities had taken up anti-CRT measures by late 2024 according to UCLA's tracking project.
The urgency of now demands that we expand and duplicate our success - massively. Instead of massive buildings, we need thousands of learning circles - mini-Freedom Schools.
We need more people - Black parents, grand parents, aunts, uncles, workers, business owners, community, teachers, retired teachers, etc. to take responsibility and actively engage in the process of re-educating ourselves, so we can protect and re-educate our children and youth. And we must do it better than ever! We need Each One To Teach Ten Circles! Small. Mobile. Accessible. Flexible. Coordinated.
Rescuing Our Youth:
  • Suppression (Amnesia)
  • Distortion (Implanting Fake Memories, Alien Personalities)
  • Psychic Programming for Servitude (Fear, Self Doubt, Deferrence to oppressors)
Already Enrolled in an Alternative School - Home Schooling or African-Centered?
AYA has supported and worked with families to provide African-Centered education, so we know this landscape as well. Some may ask why my child need to attend these EOTT Circles and Mini-Freedom Schools. Many Afrikan-Centered schools were moving in the right direction, still our efforts need to be adjusted because our students are graduating into an openly HOSTILE environment. These three positive things listed below are simply not enough. They need to be adjusted, intensified, or replaced.
Self
Esteem
Great, and in these times, not enough. Fear and Fighting are missing. "But that was before Trump," AYA Seniors said to me.
Rigor
Academics
Designed to get them to excel and to get into colleges to prepare them to become hired to work for white companies.
Prove
Their worth
Education for equity, inclusion or to prove their worth is no longer enough. Education for power to determine our destiny is needed.
This re-newed "End of Black Reconstruction" era also affects teachers and student families. This is where the AYA WHB Teacher Training is essential. How is Black Power amassed under increased racist duress? While discussing worst case senarios, one teacher said, "I'll just move to Africa." I asked her "What skills will you take to which your projected country needs? What people are you connected to - language, customs, relationships?" She hadn't thought that far. She's not alone, we haven't prepared ourselves to take power away from those who oppress us, let alone started to execute plans to make it happened. So how can we discuss this with our children?
We need Each One To Teach Ten Circles! Small. Mobile. Accessible. Flexible. Coordinated.
The Anti-Afrikan Crisis We Face
In January 2025, a new federal executive order characterized K-12 education framing white people as oppressors must be banned in favor of "patriotic education" or risk losing federal funding. Black students and teachers are afraid, with documented drops in instruction on Black history and civil rights.
We all are being affected by the anti-Afrikan movement in the US. Our youth are being effected the most, and in ways that we see the least. In the past, youth fears mixed with anger would spill out in protests proding adults to action. Today their fears morph into viral videos, billionaire dreams, bravado, apathy, or even suicide. We can't let this go unchecked.
While we adults protest - in our various ways - for policy changes, we must provide something transformative now! We must create a new or renewed education for freedom and sovereignty given the current form of oppression.
We don't need a new definition. Barbara Sizemore, Amos Wilson, Asa Hilliard, John Henry Clarke, Kwame Toure, Carter G, and countless others have provided that. We need an independent delivery process that transforms all it touches.
We need mini freedom schools and safe safe places to reshape ourselves and nurture future warriors, healers and builders for our people and the world - in that order.
Each One Teach Ten Circles
The Threat is Massive
We must create new models of education and educational delivery. Over the years we have been lulled into their illusions, definitions, values, and systems. We've deluded ourselves, and diluted our goals - from victory to inclusion, from power to proving our worth.
We've become dependent. Unknowingly we hid our surrender behind walls of stuff shouting that "We made it!"
AYA is channeling our wisdom and energy to rekindle the fire and mission of "freedom schools" of yesteryear. Creating these mini-freedom school will also reshape us - each of us.
High Tech for Hi Touch
These mini-freedom schools offer digital courses and human supporters. Our unique digital configuration and monthly "AYA Way" trainings helps us spread the costs and spread the work making it easer to create these mini freedom circles which transforms us, protects them and prepares both to make a powerful future. We call them Each One Teach Ten (EOTT) circles - Mini-Freedom Schools.
The EOTT circles are to stimulate academic success, social and psychic healing and protection, and preparation to serve our people as warriors, healers, and builders.
EOTT Concentric Circles
  • Circle One: The students, parents, and family
  • Circle Two: AYA Educational Institute and AYA's Educational Support Specialists (AESS)
  • Cirle Three: Supportive local African community
  • Circle Four: Supportive national and international African-Centered community
  • Circle Five: Our African ancestors

EOTT gives you the opportunity, the platform, the vehicle, the community and support for you to be a part of the solution.
How EOTT Works: Technology Meets Community
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Digital Platform Access (Hi-Tech)
Students and parents access proven courses via computer, tablet or phone with any internet connection. All course material is digitally presented, tracked, graded, etc. Over the year, 5-7 courses provide students the opportunity to heal African identity and academic wounds and to develop academic rigor that goes way beyond critical thinking to critical action.
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Weekly, Weekend or After School Live Meetings (Hi-Touch) and connection to EOTT Worldwide
Students and two to four AYA Educational Support Specialists (no educational degrees required) meet live once a week for two and a half hours to discuss course modules, lessons, questions, and build community. Sometimes guest speakers and field trips will complement the weekly meetings. Together, they connect the course material to their families and our current circumstances. Weekly Challenges, Monthly Contest, Local and International Support, National Field Trips
  • Connection. Identity. Meaning. Mission. Scholarship. Action.
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Automated Support & Feedback
Students receive automatic feedback on their answers and get online community support via private EOTT online discussion circles.
  • Parents and AYA Educational Support Specialists get real-time updates on student progress.
  • No grading needed
  • Course Certificates
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Attending Online " The AYA Way" Training Required
Monthly live training with weekly follow-ups, AYA Educational Support Specialists get live training in how to support the students using techniques we have honed over the last 27 years of teaching adults and middle and high school youth to go beyond abstract "high self-esteem" to become scholar warriors, healers and builders. This training is developed by Mama Afiya and Baba Wekesa Madzimoyo, and is inspired by Nana Asa Hilliard, Mama Marimba Ani, Nana John Henrick Clarke, Nana Amos N. Wilson and others.
The AYA Way Training (TAWT)
Another part of AYA's success is what Co-Director Mama Afiya calls "The AYA Way." It's a unique blend of educational psychology, African culture, and storytelling—from the inside out, combined with Co-Director Baba Wekesa's Warrior, Healer and Builder technology. This ongoing training is required for all AYA Educational Support Specialists (AESS) . A version is also targeted, recommended and provided for enrolled parents. Key Features:
The Dynamics of Domination & Path to Sovereignty
The training is designed to help AESS understand the "Four-D's" of domination in subtle and overt forms. Our youth must know how to navigate, challenge and replace this domination. If not, their academic prowess and success will be used to support our own domination. We must actively create "I am because we are and we are because I am" relationships.
Feelings as Messengers
This training replaces "emotional control " with a thinking-feeling-doing balance. It promotes becoming an emotional expert instead of suppressing our emotions as a protection from manipulation.
Oppression's scripts have been hidden in our learned emotional responses. This training roots them out - replacing them with authentic emotional responses that build trust among us.
River of Touches
We're a connecting people. We touch each other. We feel each other - even when no physical connection is present. Our science of touches is what allowed us to survive captivity, bondage, and continued oppression. Oppressive socialization, miseducation, and imitation has contaminated our mighty river. Hence we hurt ourselves and each other like they have hurt us and like they hurt themselves. This training helps us clean up our rivers so that our touches empower us.
Storytellin' from the Inside-Out
From simple labels to historical events, we've been taught to tell our stories from the oppressor's persective. These are "broken stories." This training helps AESS to help themselves, parents and students heal and convert our academic, family, and people stories into empowering ones. "I can't do math" is a broken academic story. That Araminta (H.Tubman) never pulled her gun on white people is a broken story. We are the ones we've been waiting for!
Seven Transformative Courses
In 2025-2026, we're rolling out digital versions of courses in sequence. By year's end, each EOTT Circle will be able to offer all seven courses to their student and family cohorts. Each is designed to ground the students in culture, African identity and academic rigor.
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1. Afrikan Gullah & Black Seminoles Wars from 1526 to 1865. Ever asked: Why didn't we fight back?" You'll never ask that again. To fight today, our children need fighting stories from yesterday.
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2. "Araminta" Harriet Tubman's Warrior Healer Builder Story
US History 1822-1913. Her white biographers lied - the gun was never of us!
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3. Melanin Healing Science: Using Melanin to heal the teaching of science, and using the science of melanin to heal our bodies! Why does melanin accompany wound healing and all birth? Why is it in your heart and what does it do there?
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4. The Economic Conundrum: Tulsa's Black Wall Street. Recreating Black economic nationalism and power. How do you tell a story about a loss that empowers - without lying about the loss?
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5. The Family-Lore Project: Binding family across the generations. You know the power of culture and "Folklore." Now, learn the power of family-lore to heal and empower.
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6. Sanfoka Math: Enhancing math skills by healing alienation from our people or from the subject. Reconnecting us to our math genius in practicle and esoteric terms.
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7. Story Healing Power!
Forget Fraud, Jung, and Ross - Using our ancient storytelling skills to heal, persuade, instruct, and extend. We have no broken families, only broken stories. The story preceds the revolution.
Grounding: The Foundation We Provide
"I got you," She said. "You can do this!"
He said, "They may not like you, but they will respect you!"
"If you see a 'good fight' for our people, get in it," she said.
For Baba John Henrik Clarke, one of his foundational teachers was Ms. Evelina Taylor. For Mama Afiya, it was Mr. Charles Cooper, Sr. and Mr. Jackson. For Baba Wekesa, it was Mr. Trim, Mrs. Fannie Jenkins, and Sonja Hayes Stone.
Who was your foundational "grounding" educator? Now, it's your time. You don't have to get school system approval. You don't have to be overworked, we work in teams. It's even ok if you don't already know the material. We'll learn together. Combine your new learning with your life experience to inspire the youth.
  • Bring your grounding teachers forward to help you support students getting through current educational and social obstacles to achieve their highest learning.
  • Remember, the courses, the curriculum, initial feedback and grading is already built in. But grounding is not automatic. It has to flow through you.
With AYA courses, community and AYA Educational Support Specialists (AESS), our students will learn the truth and develop their needed capacity for Black Power!
Choose Your Success Path
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Get Your EOTT Circle Platform
Sign monthly agreement and receive education, organization, and business online platform training with built-in landing pages, email templates, management templates, a learning management system with courses.
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Recruit Students &
AYA Educational Support Specialists
Use EOTT platform tools and orientation sessions to excite parents, students, and community about your vision.
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Students Begin Digital Courses
Onboard students. The courses guide them through each lesson and have them ready for the circle discussions
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Weekly Live Meetings
Whether online face-2-face or physically face-2-face, student cohorts, parents, community supporters, and AYA Educational Support Specialists meet together to deepen the learning and rally students to success.
Community Success Stories
1,250+ Worldwide Happy Family Members
"Loved everything so far"
I fell in love with AYA when they were teaching my grandson, and made him an author!
A. Tucker
"My life changed forever"
The AYA Way support training will include the WHB Toolset. Don't miss it.
"Highly recommend this"
These courses have been nothing short of AMAZING.
Ready to Join the Movement?
Not sure where to start? We're here to help! Book a 1-on-1 discovery call with us and get all your questions answered with personalized guidance.
Can courses be used for school credit?
Although these courses are not designed for "school" acceptance, many have accepted AYA courses for college admission transcipts, and for homeschooling records.
Quite frankly, school credit is too puny a standard for these courses. They don't have standards for academic warrior-healer-builder rigor!
How do I motivate students and track student progress?
Training: That's exactly why we provide courses where our culture is at the center, plus weekly training bites and monthly training sessions. The biggest support for motivating students is the concentric circles of support.
Tracking: Our online platform provides daily reports, weekly challenges, and monthly assessments.
What tuition can I charge?
It's flexible. Some create a static charge. Some offer the courses and support sessions for free; others choose a sliding fee scale. Let's talk about it!
Ask us anything you want on a 1-on-1 discovery call. We're here to support you in bringing these transformative educational experiences to our youth.