FLORES EDUCATIONAL SERVICES
Providing research supports, consultation services, professional development, and personal sustainability workshops for educators, staff, and students at every level of education.
Flores Educational Services is a research consulting firm. We specializes in supporting Indigenous communities and organizations, communities of color and other marginalized groups. We also offer consultation services, diversity training, professional development, and personal sustainability workshops rooted in humanizing practices and social justice. We work with educators and students beginning their educational trajectory (K-12) or seasoned pupils at the BA, MA and PhD level. We also provide workshops for faculty and administrators in higher education seeking to address matters of diversity, inclusion, and representation.
We tailor our presentations to the needs of individual organizations. As a whole, we have over 15 years of combined teaching experiences as well as graduate degrees from University of California, Los Angeles and University of California, Santa Barbara.
WORKSHOPS AND PRESENTATIONS
Flores Educational Services is comprised of brothers David Flores, M. Ed, a high school teacher currently serving Pasadena, California and Jerry Flores, PhD, an Associate professor at the University of Toronto. We exist to provide resources and insights into common issues students and educators face. Our unique experiences navigating underserved schools and academia as 1st generation students, academics, and educators of color have grounded us in a humanizing, liberatory approach which not only differentiates us, but also makes us successful. We provide a broad range of reasonably priced services to help students, educators, and organizations address the unique challenges found in all facets of education.
K-12 WORKSHOPS
We provide a series of workshops designed for students and educators in K-12 schools. These workshops are centered on personal growth as well as pedagogical development.
They include:
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dismantling machismo (toxic masculinity) in the classroom
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incorporating a decolonial curriculum
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teaching/mentoring through humanizing practices
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"la nueva persona:" transformation and self-growth
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fostering sustainable relationships
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navigating a Master's degree
We are also open to producing new workshops centered on:
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humanizing and restorative practices
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personal and community sustainability
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decolonial pedagogy
WORKSHOPS IN HIGHER EDUCATION
At Flores Educational Services, we provide a slew of research consulting supports. This includes all types of research and report writing as well as grant writing services. We also provide a series of presentations aimed toward University students, faculty and administrators. This includes workshops on turning your thesis into an article, how to turn your dissertation into a book and how to navigate the academic job market. We also provide "how to" write an op-ed, apply for post docs and various presentations that address the following:
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Doing research with marginalized group
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Addressing Implicit bias
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Responding to bigotry in the classroom and community
We are also open to producing new workshops that address the needs of individual organizations.
WHO WE ARE
Jerry Flores is an associate professor in the sociology department at the University of Toronto. He earned a Ph.D in Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2014. His areas of interest include: studies of gender and crime, prison studies, alternative schools, ethnographic research methods, Latina/o sociology and studies of race and ethnicity. Professor Flores recently published his first book titled Caught Up: Girls, Surveillance and Wraparound Incarceration (University of California Press). He has taught at the University level and in various detention centers across North America.
David Flores, M.Ed is an educator, mentor, public speaker, and consultant originally from Northwest Pasadena, California. David has taught ethnic and gender studies within English and social science classrooms for the past six years in underserved communities in both Los Ángeles and the Bay Area. During this time, he has continued to develop his public speaking and consultancy work which is rooted in decolonial thought and humanizing practices. David currently teaches ethnic and gender studies at Castlemont High School in East Oakland, CA where he has also served as boys' soccer coach and director of the Sustainable Urban Design Academy. He has a B.A in History from UC Santa Barbara and a Master's degree in social justice education from UCLA.
