“I am deeply grateful for Coach RaVonya’s presence, wisdom, heart, and accountability.”
School Improvement Specialist
“I appreciate you! You are a coach, counselor, teacher, listener, and fierce leader! I have learned so much from you and hope you know you have made a difference! ”
Regional Education Network Coordinator/Specialist
“RaVonya has been a leader in helping us examine personal and systemic issues. She has the unique ability to engage and energize everyone to look inward, to seek understanding then move to action. She is truly a racial equity leader without peer, and someone I trust fully with my own racial consciousness.”
School Administrator
“The impact of the fellowship on me has been tremendous. It has helped me to be a much more effective educator in the classroom and a better person outside it.”
Educator
Coach RaVonya
Be Gr8rr
“Becoming an antiracist educator requires intentional work.”
What We Do
We organize and support communities of educators and administrators who are on the journey of creating safe, antiracist spaces where all students thrive. Be Gr8rr’s coaching support cultivates collective resistance against systems of racial oppression to form and promote liberated learning spaces. We are ultimately committed to dismantling oppressive practices and policies that are destroying our students’ genius.
Be Gr8rr’s teachings and coaching is unapologetically rooted in the pursuit of Black liberation and liberation of all peoples; therefore, we support clients who recognize that antiracism is not a professional commitment but rather a lifetime journey. We support our clients on their journeys by building their racial consciousness and literacy as well as helping them create new, antiracist culture within their personal lives so that it can be reflected in their practice.
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Coach RaVonya
Be Gr8rr’s founder, Coach RaVonya Knight supports educators, administrators, and education decision makers with a vision of all students experiencing schools as safe spaces where they are affirmed in their identities, their excellence is embraced, and they are equipped to transform oppressive culture. She comes to the work with over 20 years of leadership, mentoring, teaching and coaching experience and has been formally organizing school communities to dismantle oppressive systems for over five years. As a Black woman within the education system, Coach RaVonya recognized the deep commitment to upholding institutional racism. She responded with urgency, creating alternate pathways to liberation, using grassroot organizing tools to form educator alliances, as a result, Be Gr8rr was born. Coach RaVonya is committed to supporting educators in an effort to create a mighty collective force to actualize the vision of social transformation for our children, schools, and communities. She seeks to organize national forces where educators work in solidarity with communities to resist, agitate, dismantle, reimagine, and transform oppressive systems. Be Gr8rr intends to cultivate a culture that reimagines what education can be.
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What Our Clients Say
Thoughtful, Intentional, and Unapologetically Real
I feel empowered. I walk away with knowing and feeling there is a community that is activated and seeking liberation authentically. Most importantly, I can lean on them as they have leaned into me and my development. The support is real. The coaching is thoughtful, intentional, and unapologetically real.
Improvement Design Coach
Tools for Dismantling Oppressive Systems
DTW Equity and Be Gr8rr consulting services changed and challenged many of my assumptions. They created a safe space for me to explore my whiteness and my privilege. They also empowered and encouraged me to act bravely in line with my values and gave me practical tools for dismantling oppressive systems.
High School Teacher
