Possibilities Unbound partners to imagine and build humanizing, joyful, and generative education experiences and systems.
POSSIBILITIES
UNBOUND
From BIG dreams to responsive systems
Who We Work With
Districts, county offices of education, education preparation programs, non-profits, policy and research institutes, foundations, and other goal-aligned or community-based organizations.
We take on projects where we can advance equity, enrich learning, improve conditions, and grow collective agency.
What We Do
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Intentionally situated at the intersection of PK-12 and Higher Ed, we work closely with partners to co-design durable, community-based workforce solutions and staffing models that recruit, grow, retain, and sustain your stable, diverse, high quality, and committed educator workforce.
We help our district, charter, county, and university partners leverage and braid state and federal resources, harness data for differentiated compelling storytelling and continuous improvement, and create innovative, equitable, and humanizing systems that honor and elevate the work of great educators.
General technical assistance
Residency creation
Apprenticeship planning
Funding strategy
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Some work doesn't fit neatly into a box, but leaders still need space to struggle productively, iterate, and create together.
Founder Rebecca Hatkoff, PhD* offers strategic thought partnership, research design, organizational visioning, and opportunity identification for leaders and teams navigating complex issues. She also facilitates cross-institutional and cross-sector communities of practice on field-wide challenges like revising policy, reimagining practice, and developing new ways of seeing data.
In all of this work, we hold the tensions that come with centering the students and communities most impacted by systemic harm. We name real constraints and imagine what more is possible in and for your community.
Because we can't build toward the possibilities we won't let ourselves imagine.
*Rebecca is available for speaking engagements and keynotes.
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We offer responsive professional development and coaching focused on enriching, joyful, anti-racist, and culturally responsive practices and policies for classroom educators, school teams, and district leadership.
Through ongoing, virtual and in-person series, we co-create spaces where educators can practice using new tools, naming hard truths, and imagining love-soaked classrooms and schools that honor both students and adults.
Workshops for teachers, administrators, district leadership, caregivers, and classified staff
Expert virtual and in-person facilitation
Coaching
How We Work
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We start by looking for strengths, opportunities, and radical ideas already seeded in your community. We want to understand you so we can best support you—what's working, what's hard, and what would you dare to go for if feasibility weren't a constraint?
Then we plan backwards together in concrete and measurable ways, grounded in where you actually are.
From small humanizing shifts, like taking time to greet each other as people first, to large system-level shifts like cross-institutional infrastructure and mutual aid, we're stoked to help you imagine and enact the future our communities deserve.
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Founder Rebecca Hatkoff, PhD stewards each project, but gathers colleagues and friends with niche and broad expertise to support and advise, including: teachers, administrators, HR directors, professors, researchers, educational consultants, leaders across private and public sectors, and of course caregivers and students. If we’re going to change systems, we have to work in community.
We will always encourage you to bring more people in.
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Founder Rebecca Hatkoff, PhD has
Demonstrated success co-designing and building sustainable teacher residency models as infrastructure for districts and teacher preparation programs across California.
13 years of university-based teacher education experience, supporting candidates across general and special education credentials in a critical social justice program.
Fluency in CA Commission on Teacher Credentialing teacher preparation accreditation and credentialing requirements
Awarded 8 CTC residency grants with district partners
Facilitated nationwide communities of practice
Provided professional development and coaching to more than 4,000 teachers and administrators across LAUSD
Co-led robust qualitative and quantitative research studies and analysis.
Visited more than 80 schools and observed over 150 classrooms
Taught HS English and sex education for 6 years.
Meet Our Founder
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Rebecca is a strategist, consultant, researcher, and most importantly a teacher, mother, California apologist, and freedom dreamer. Through Possibilities Unbound, she stewards and co-creates enriching learning opportunities, reciprocal partnerships, love-soaked practices, and humanizing systems that serve and honor students, educators, and communities.
To bridge the silos she saw across institutions, Rebecca situated Possibilities Unbound to span and make legible PK-12 and higher ed policy, practice, and funding. She takes a broad perspective on the landscape, discerning how housing, demographic, cultural, and other local trends might impact education. By treating data collection, storytelling, and communications plans as acts of love, Rebecca empowers others to build joyful and enduring systems.
Learn more about Rebecca here.
Meet Some of Our Partners, Clients, & Co-Conspirers
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Dr. Eddie Partida
(Advisor & Co-Conspirer)
Testimonial: “I have worked with Dr. Rebecca Hatkoff for more than a decade, and she is my go-to thought partner for any complex or equity-focused challenge. She sees possibilities that others miss and helps teams move toward solutions that are both practical and transformative.
Rebecca’s work consistently leads to real impact. She builds structures that disrupt the status quo, supports people with care, and brings a level of clarity that pushes everyone’s thinking forward. Collaborating with her always makes the work better.
Possibilities Unbound reflects the way Rebecca shows up in every space: thoughtful, visionary, and deeply committed to people. Working with her is always a gift.”
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Dr. Serena Arias, Human Resources Coordinator in Visalia USD
(Co-Conspirer & Client)
Testimonial: “Rebecca’s consultation, insight, and support have been instrumental in helping us revive a Visalia Teacher Residency Program in our district in ways that not only benefit residents but also have a significant impact on school-wide ecosystems.
Since our partnership with Rebecca, not only is our residency graduating high-quality residents, but it is also directly supporting other school-wide initiatives at the 12 schools throughout our district that host residents. As a result, our principals and district leaders are inspired by the outcomes they are seeing.
I've also just thoroughly enjoyed working with Rebecca as a consultant and thought partner. She's helped reignite a spark within me to explore new ideas and possibilities for this work. Her energy and passion are contagious and I'm so grateful for our collaborative partnership. ”
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Thompson Policy Institute on Disability
(Partner & Client)
Thompson Policy Institute (TPI) works towards a world in which all people in the disability community thrive.
Possibilities Unbound supports TPI with technical assistance for school districts looking to launch or design sustainable teacher residencies and implement or expand co-teaching initiatives and practices.
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Learning Policy Institute
(Partner & Client)
Founded in 2015, the Learning Policy Institute (LPI) conducts and communicates independent, high-quality research to improve education policy and practice.
Possibilities Unbound supports LPI by facilitating a community of learning (CoL) for teacher preparation leaders across the country, with an emphasis on student and family centered practices. The CoL both emphasizes and reflects culturally responsive and sustaining practices.
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California, SRTAC
(Partner & Client)
The Statewide Residency Technical Assistance Center (SRTAC) is dedicated to providing targeted, developmentally appropriate technical assistance to local education agencies and institutions of higher education partnerships, ensuring alignment with residency program outcomes.
Possibilities Unbound collaborates with SRTAC to develop resources and insights for building sustainable teacher residencies, and founder Rebecca Hatkoff was the spotlight speaker at their 2026 annual symposium.
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The Residency Lab
(Partner & Client)
The Residency Lab (The Lab) focuses on the advancement and acceleration of equity through systems change in educator preparation pathways.
Possibilities Unbound supports The Residency Lab by co-facilitating a community of practice (CoP) for diverse arts education constituents from across the state of California. The CoP is focused on developing shared understanding, harnessing collective expertise, and freedom dreaming better ways to recruit, prepare, retain and sustain arts educators.
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Cora Watkins
(Co-conspirer)
Testimonial: “As the former director of the Community Schools Initiative in Los Angeles, I worked with Dr. Hatkoff over a two year period to help educators build their capacity to create relationship-centered, anti-racist, anti-biased schools. Her work led to over 800 teachers and administrators being trained.
Testimonials from participants, as well as my own observational data, proved to me that Dr. Hatkoff's work not only "trained" educators but also opened minds and changed belief systems for both experienced and new teachers. Working with her vision and passion make the possibilities endless for our students.”
