Hi, I’m DR ALLEGRA JOHNSON.
I founded Uniquely Supported in 2022 to help charter schools and districts shift their special education programs from pull out to inclusive services. I am a former middle school self-contained teacher, high school Resource Specialist, and charter school Director of Special Education. My passion is reimagining general education as a learning space where the rightful presence of all types of learners is affirmed and celebrated as undeniably necessary and valuable.
The Uniquely Supported Approach
Our work is guided by three core beliefs:
Adults working with persistently marginalized students need and deserve accessible, responsive, and personalized job embedded support in order to disrupt the status quo and oppressive racialized outcomes.
When we dismantle our deficit based and othering beliefs about students from persistently marginalized communities, we are uniquely positioned to design affirming and supportive learning environments for all kinds of learners that can propel them into the future reality they desire.
Professional development must be transformative, not transactional, in order to build the capacity of teachers and youth leaders to actualize equity in their work with students.
Uniquely Supported core Values
courage
We have the courage to speak truth to power and co-create realities that don’t yet exist
community
We intentionally cultivate community because transformative change is impossible in insolation. Collective transformation is forged in affirming community.
healing
We center healing because we understand that we can’t move toward liberation without first healing from the trauma that we have all suffered as a result of systematic oppression. We meet folks where they are at by leading with humanizing love, radical empathy, and kindness
creativity
We lean into our curiosity and creativity to imagine and implement alternatives that disrupt the status quo.