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The intersection of the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health crises, and structural racism has deepened sources of distrust, presenting an urgent need and opportunity to reconfigure schools in ways that cultivate trust and belonging for all students, especially students of colour. Our research engages participatory design to develop practices that support students’ wellbeing and create structures for change within the school. Students use photography and testimonio–counter narrative storytelling–to articulate a vision of schools de confianza and the actions requisite to enact that vision. We investigate how multimodal testimonio can be a practice to identify and heal distrust and ignite imagination, cultivate authentic individual and institutional care, and support students’ wellbeing. The findings illustrate how multimodal testimonio supports schools to enact culturally sustaining pedagogies by centreing students …