Rescuing our children | Reshaping ourselves |
Remolding education from inclusion to Power!

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 formally trained educators; we all must become "teachers." To achieve this, to rescue our children we're building 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 nearly 30 years, AYA Educational Institute 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 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 - Freedom Schools: Small. Mobile. Accessible. Flexible. Coordinated.

Rescuing our youth requires healing and countering the wounds from:

  • Suppression (Producing amnesia, apathy, alienation from our people, culture, mission and from the subject-matter)
  • Distortion (Implanting fake memories, alien personalities for delusion and manipulation)
  • Ethenicitized Healing & Therapy for Servitude (Instilling pathological fear, self doubt, deferrence to oppressors and delusion as healing and power)



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. Many Afrikan-Centered schools are moving in the right direction, still our efforts need to be adjusted because our students are graduating into openly HOSTILE environments. Our past efforts simply not enough. They need to be adjusted, intensified, or replaced.


This renewed "End of Black Reconstruction" era also affects teachers and student families. This is where the AYA WHB Teacher and Parent Training is essential.

  • In what ways has education for inclusion (EFI) warped how I teach science, poetry, or any other subject?
  • Have I sacraficed academic rigor for the community for rigor for the academy?
  • How do I feed the "Maroon Within Us?"
  • How do I teach to nurture the Afrikan spirit to subdue the inculcated Eurocentric one - in me and my students?

One parent asked:

  • "Baba Wekesa, How do I teach my child to survive without teaching them to submit?"

Another was reluctant to teach them about our history asking,

  • "How do I teach them about oppression without depressing them?"

While discussing worst case senarios, one teacher said,

  • "I'll just move to Africa."

I asked her "What skills or resources will you take to your projected country that they need so they will welcome your presence? What Afrikan people are you connected to there - 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 to circle up. We need Freedom Schools!
Small. Mobile. Accessible. Flexible. Coordinated.



The Anti-Afrikan Crisis We Face

In January 2025, Trump signed the executive order promoting patriotic education titled Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 SchoolingAny 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, youthful fears mixed with anger spilled out in protests prodding adults to action. Today their fears morph into viral videos, billionaire dreams, bravado, apathy, or even suicide. We have let this go unchecked long enough.

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 educatinal training and delivery process that transforms all it touches.

We need freedom circles and freedom schools that are 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 and Freedom Schools

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 from ourselves behind walls of stuff that shouted 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) - 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 Freedom School Concentric Circles

  • Circle One: The students, parents, and family
  • Circle Two: AYA Educational Institute and AYA's Educational Support Specialists (AESS)
  • Circle 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.

Our Work: The 3 R's | The 3 M's


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, nine key courses provide students the opportunity to heal African identity and academic wounds and to develop academic rigor which propels 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 (AYA training 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.
  • Lesson plans, goals, strategies already included
  • Course Certificates


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Attending Online " The AYA Way" Training Required

Monthly live training with weekly follow-ups, AYA Educational Support Specialists (AESS) get live training in how to support the students using techniques we have honed over the last 30 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:

Replacing The Dynamics of Domination (S/I Line)

Nana Asa Hilliard and Jack Guillebeaux were the first to codify the dynamics of domination for me. This training is a distillation of their models.

The training is designed to help AESS counter the "Four-D's" of domination in subtle and overt forms. Our youth must know how to navigate, challenge and replace these socialized and injected behaviors, emotions, values and ideas that support Eurocentric domination of us.

We must actively create "I am because we are and we are because I am" relationships.

Feelings as Messengers (FAM)

My Grandma, Hettie, and my mother, Tulenagwe Wright get the most credit for the creation of this module.

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.


Our River of Touches (ORT)

Josephone Bowens Lewis, and Amos N. Wilson , and Chisulu Cornell Geddie taught me to find and trust the African spirit in me gave rise to ORT.

We're a connecting people. We touch each other when we teach, talk, praise, play music, solve problems, and correct each other.

We feel each other. The River connects us. - even when no physical connection is present.

Our River of Touches allowed us to survive captivity, bondage, and continued oppression.

We didn't survive unscathed.

Oppression contaminated our mighty river. It warped how we relate and touch each other.

Hence we hurt ourselves and each other like they have hurt us. Since they hurt themselves in the same way, we have taken it as normal and even as ours.

It is not. It is alien.

This training helps us remove it to restore our healing and empowering River of Touches.

Storytellin' from the Inside-Out (SIO)

Sonja Hayes Stone, Sterling Stuckey, and the North Carolina Black Storytellers Association are the foundation of this tool.

From simple labels to historical events, we've been brutalized, socialized, taught, and even rewarded to tell our stories from the oppressor's persective for their interests - even when they are not around. These are "broken stories, alien stories."

"We're a broken family." Naw! We just have "broken stories."

Alien (out-side-in) stories come through educational cirricula, children's books, text books, songs, social media, healing therapies (the trauma trap), grant applications or even research requirements.

Think about this:

  • How do you tell the story of a loss without becoming a loser, liar, or glossing over the loss?
  • When our students make mistakes how do you interupt the "I am a mistake," or "I can't do it" stories that oppression induces them to tell themselves?

SIO training is vital. It helps us model and teach how to convert even painful academic, family, and Afrikan people stories into ones that empower us to act, do, move, and suceed.

You learn The AYA Way while teaching

transformative courses and series:

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 wasn't for us. Their story of Harriet is full of story poison. Her WHB story corrects MSO- morality in service of oppression, UBO - the universal black ophan, and even GWS - the Great White Savior, and others.

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3. Melanin Healing Science: Using Melanin to heal how we teach 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. Black Economic Nationalism: 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.

Enter Chinua Achebe, Ayi Kwei Armah, Ngugi wa Thiong'o and the Djali.

We have no broken families, only broken stories.

The story preceds the revolution.

Ground Our Students: 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," he 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, in circles. 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.

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 transcripts, 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.

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!

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"My life changed forever"

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"Highly recommend this"

These courses have been nothing short of AMAZING.