Black Teacher Collaborative

Mission

Black Teacher Collaborative, a social entrepreneurship venture, provides an opportunity to engage in the development of strategies and tools that build the mindsets, skills, and knowledge needed to actualize a new model for Black teacher impact and efficacy.

So how will we do it? Here are our tools to get there.

• Professional Development Teacher Leader Programming and Support that creates spaces for teachers to reflect, learn and embrace a commitment to ongoing growth and development of their craft in service to their students and community
• Shared Racial Identity Learning Environment Expertise that informs change across the entire education landscape
• A Platform for Systemic Change that lifts up the voices, experiences, leadership and insight of Black teachers

Most teacher preparation programs rightfully focus on making sure their teachers, across all racial and ethnic backgrounds, are equipped to serve our most vulnerable students.  Their efforts have fueled unprecedented levels of innovation in education over the last 25 years.

However, rarely if ever, has that innovation centered around or even considered a Black shared racial identity lens or Black teachers more broadly.

BTC will redefine the training and development of Black educators through an SRILE lens enabling us to fully maximize the unique benefits that emerge from Black SRILE classrooms across the public school landscape.

Organization Information