Every Child Deserves A Black Teacher
WHO WE ARE
The Black Teacher Project’s (BTP) mission is to sustain and develop Black teachers to lead and reimagine schools as communities of liberated learning. Black Teacher Project is a program of the National Equity Project.
Black teachers navigate an ecosystem of push out factors, including: invisible racialized role expectations that are uncompensated; lack of leadership opportunities & culturally responsive professional development; difficulty navigating inequitable and anti-Black systems; racial micro and macro aggressions; isolation; and health & safety challenges.
BTP’s core services provide professional development in racial affinity that aim to equip participants with the knowledge, tools, conditions, and sources of rejuvenation needed to reimagine our schools and systems. We also offer workshops and consulting to support school, district, and systems leaders in recruiting, developing, and retaining Black teachers.
What We Believe
- The current U.S. education system was designed to perpetuate racism and inequity.
- Design of any system or space should center and be co-designed by the most marginalized communities involved.
- Black teachers play an essential role in leading the reimagination and transformation work of the education system given their own experiences navigating anti-Black racism as students and adults.
- The legacy of Black teachers has been at the forefront of racial justice work both inside and outside of schools, and we must pay tribute by continuing to honor that legacy through our work.
- Healing our own minds, bodies, and spirits are indispensable priorities in educational liberation work.
UPCOMING EVENTS
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