Black Teacher Project

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OUR VISION

Black Teacher Project’s vision is that every student will benefit from the diversity, excellence, and leadership of an empowered Black teaching force.

PROGRAMMING PILLARS

Black Identity
Development

Black Identity Development

Deepen our knowledge and understanding of our own, our students’, and our colleagues’ Black identity, history, and experiences.

In order for Black teachers to transform schools and systems into liberated learning communities, it is critical to devote time and space to positive Black identity development. As part of combating the anti-Blackness that Black teachers have navigated as both students and adults, BTP supports them to deepen understanding of both the legacy of oppression that still plays out in our education system and the powerful Black history and culture that provides strength and wisdom to create something new.

Wellness

Wellness

Learn and apply healing centered practices that support personal wellness and collective thriving.

Healing our own minds, bodies, and spirits are indispensable priorities in educational liberation work. In order to reimagine schools into places where everyone thrives, educators must have spaces and tools to both address experienced harm and create conditions for individual and collective well-being.

Black Leadership
For Liberation

Black Leadership For Liberation

See the systems we are a part of, engage with key members of our communities, and take action rooted in freedom for ourselves and those we serve.

We know the current U.S. education system was designed to perpetuate inequity and we believe that the design of any system should include and center the most marginalized communities; Black teachers play an essential role in leading the reimagination of education. BTP programs foster a critical lens, supporting participants to understand the system they’re a part of and then engage students and community members to collectively cultivate solutions that promote belonging and thriving.

Quality Instruction
Rooted In Blackness

Quality Instruction
Rooted In Blackness

Learn, develop, and apply culturally relevant, responsive and sustaining instructional strategies that will expand the quality of our instructional practice.

We believe that there is abundant possibility for all students far beyond what we can see. BTP supports Black teachers in developing their instructional gifts and implementing student-centered learning approaches to support young people in fulfilling their potential and aspirations.

OUR TEAM

Dr. Micia Mosely

Founder & Director

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Asali Waters

Director of Programs

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Olivia Yarbough

Director of Marketing, Communications & Evaluation

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Joseph Edelin

Senior Equity Leadership Consultant

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Taylor Broome

Operations Coordinator

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Sheena Johnson-Lights

Director of Business Development, Operations & Finance

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Eghosa Asemota

Marketing & Communications Coordinator

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Kia Walton

Equity Leadership Consultant

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Advisory board

JEFFREY FLEMING

3rd Grade Literacy Creative Minds International

WASHINGTON, D.C.

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Latesa Brown

5th Grade Doyle Ryder Elementary

FLINT, MI

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Lisa Harton

1st Grade Spring Mill Elementary School

INDIANAPOLIS, IN

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Cassandra Black

Black History & AP U.S. History Decatur High School

DECATUR, GA

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Cecelia Gillam

9-12 Environmental Science Hahnville High School

BOUTTE, LA

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Ricca Dickens

6th & 7th Grade Enligsh The Awty International School

HOUSTON, TX

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Lena Hamilton

9-12 Reading & Literature Decatur High School

DECATUR, GA

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Kimberly Thomas

TK-Preschool Educare Silicon Valley

SAN JOSE, CA

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Shari Plummer

9-12 Living Environment/ Chemistry Urban Assembly Maker Academy

NEW YORK (MANHATTAN), NY

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Spencer Pritchard

1-12 African American History Berkeley High School

BERKELEY, CA

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Nakia Wiley

TK-12 Special Education Madison Metropolitan School District

MADISON, WI

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Denice Martin-Thompson

8-12 Reading & Art Passages Academy-Bronx Hope

BRONX, NY

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OUR IMPACT

Broadly BTP has served over 1700 individual Black teachers and educators in 35 different states since our first programs launched in 2016

Since the 2020-21 school year, we’ve engaged with an average of 368 Black educators per year.

Program evaluation from the last two school years showed that after engaging with BTP:

100%

of surveyed participants agreed they increased prioritization of wellness practices, which supported their leadership in their role as an educator (n = 161)

100%

of surveyed participants agreed that they felt more motivated to take action to transform their school into a more liberated learning environment (n = 123)

100%

of surveyed participants agreed that they increased their knowledge of healing-centered curriculum, practices, and/or approaches that they plan to use when engaging with students (n = 123)

98%

of surveyed participants agreed that they felt an increased sense of the power they have as a Black teacher (n = 220)

94%

of surveyed participants agreed that they felt revitalized to stay in the teaching profession longer (n = 199)

94%

of surveyed participants agreed that they felt more prepared to help design decisions in their school/school system. (n = 161)

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