SOW JOYFUL

a bgd project

Sow Joyful is a progressive community learning cohort for Black kids aged 6 to 12. Our mission is to RAISE FREE PEOPLE by:

  1. Cultivating an intentional, multi-generational Black learning community.
  2. Prioritizing culturally-resonant social and emotional learning and wellness.
  3. Fostering early political literacy and critical thinking, especially around issues of anti-blackness and other forms of racism; sexism and misogynoir; fatphobia and lookism; transphobia and queerphobia; xenophobia; and ableism.
  4.  Allowing our children to experience well-being, belonging and empowerment through a relationship with nature.
  5. Teaching traditional subjects such as reading, math, art, science, etc. with an eye toward identifying which subjects our children are most excited about and helping them seek deeper understanding and fluency in those areas.

All this while being safely held within a community that affirms and reflects them as they learn to navigate the challenging world they are living in and find their truest selves within that world.

Sow Joyful runs on a regular school-year schedule, weekdays from 8:30 to 2:30. We are located near Amherst.

Sow Joyful is currently enrolling students for Fall 2025. For more information, including tuition rates, please reach out to sowjoyful at bgdproject dot org.