Events
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Liberated learning takes shape where Black teacher imagination meets student voice. Applications are open for the next Black Teacher Design Lab, a six-session virtual experience where Black teachers learn in affinity, strengthen their Liberatory Design practice, and work alongside students to co-design healing-centered classroom solutions rooted in voice, wellness, belonging, and learning power.
Participants apply in teams of two with another Black teacher from their school, district, or network. Each participant who completes the Lab will receive a $625 stipend for their time and labor. The next cohort begins October 15, with six virtual sessions and additional coaching to support the design process.
Black teachers, bring a teammate, bring what you’re noticing, and bring what your students are telling you. Apply by Monday, September 28 and design toward what’s possible together.
Black teachers have never simply been participants in education. They’ve been architects of its possibilities, even as their knowledge, labor, and professional authority have too often been devalued, displaced, or spoken for.
The Black Teacher Project is proud to announce a call for manuscripts for a special issue of the Journal of Teacher Education titled The Black Teacher Project: Value, Vindication, and Voice. Co-edited by BTP’s Dr. Micia Mosely and Dr. Terrance McNeil alongside JTE Co-Editors-in-Chief Dr. Valerie Hill-Jackson and Dr. Cheryl J. Craig, the issue invites scholarship examining Black teacher education across past and present while centering Black educators as intellectual authorities on their own practice. Researchers, TK–12 practitioners, district leaders, and HBCU partners across the U.S. and beyond are invited to contribute perspectives spanning policy, practice, and research. Learn more and submit your abstract by Wednesday, September 30.
The future of STEM is already in the classroom. Black STEM educators are helping young people imagine what’s possible while holding firsthand knowledge of the conditions that can make it harder to stay and thrive in the profession.
On Saturday, October 3 from 10–11:30 a.m. PT, STEM Teachers Shape the Workforce brings that knowledge into conversation with research at the Oakland Museum of California as part of Oakland Tech Week. Powered by the Black Teacher Project and BlackFemaleProject’s TeacherTruth initiative, this data gallery and panel discussion centers Black STEM educators as experts on the challenges they face and the possibilities ahead.
Explore the data, hear directly from teachers, and consider why investing in the educators shaping tomorrow’s scientists, engineers, and innovators is a workforce strategy worth paying attention to. Register to join.
Black educators in Deep East Oakland hold knowledge, experiences, and ideas that can help shape what’s possible for teachers and students across the community. Through the Rise East’s 40×40 Learn & Grow Initiative, the Black Teacher Project is inviting Black educators who teach in the 40×40 to help us imagine and shape supports, resources, and opportunities that respond to what Black teachers and their students need to thrive. We want to learn directly from educators about what is working, what could be stronger, and what meaningful support can look like both within and beyond the classroom. Your perspective will help ground this community-driven work in the lived experiences of Black educators and inform how we partner with local organizations to strengthen the educational experience for teachers and young people across Deep East Oakland.
If you’re a Black educator teaching in the 40×40, complete the interest form by Friday, Oct 10 and help shape what comes next.
On Tuesday, December 15 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. PT, the Black Teacher Project will host Hiring & Sustaining Black Teachers, a three-hour interactive virtual workshop for school and district leaders ready to strengthen what they can do to recruit, hire, and sustain Black educators.
Through facilitated learning, reflection, breakout conversations, and peer consultation, participants will examine their current practices and deepen their understanding of the historical and present-day context shaping Black teachers’ experiences.
You’ll also bring questions and challenges from your own context into conversation with other education leaders, gaining feedback and new perspectives you can carry back to your school or district. Registration is $250. Secure your spot and join us.
Stay in the Loop: We’re always working on new events and wellness-rooted professional development opportunities designed with and for Black teachers. Be the first to know what’s coming up—sign up for our monthly newsletter.