Dates for 2025 - 2026

School Year

Anti Racist Teacher - Affinity-Based Space for Classroom Educators, Teacher Leaders, and Instructional Coaches who identify as White Continue on your anti racist journey with a community of White teachers who are committed to their own will, skill, and application of leaning into the practice and mess that is unlearning Whiteness, while holding the nuance of power as a classroom educator and as a staff team member. Develop your racial identity development mindset and practices to cultivate learning environments of liberation and belonging.

*Professional Development Certificate of hours: 13-20+ hours that can be used for teacher licensure renewal in Colorado

We are on a mission to cultivate a community of White antiracist folks

Are you…

A teacher committed to racial equity and building a more inclusive classroom?
Supporting those who are in the classroom?
Feeling alone in this work and seeking community?

*Principals, APs, STLs, deans, central office staff can join White Women Doing the Work

Applications accepted on a rolling basis

JOIN US!

Cultivating White Antiracist Community

2025: Aug 26, Sept 9, Oct 7, Nov 11,

2026: Jan 20, March 3

Aug 26 - KICK OFF
Sept 9 - SELF
Sept: Triad
Oct 7 - COLLECTIVE
Oct Triad and 2:1 Coaching*
Nov 11 - SOMATICS
Dec: Triad and Mid -Reflection
Jan: 2:1 Coaching*
Jan 20 - SUSTAIN
Feb: Triad and/or 2:1 Coaching*
March 3 - ADJOURN

Included:

6 Live Content Sessions
3 triads required (more are always welcome!)
Two 2:1 Coaching with Haley and Maren
3 Office Hours Drop-In/Additional Coaching - September, November, February (optional)
3 Facilitated Office Hours for additional processing + group time - October, January, March (optional)
Ongoing Signal Group Thread available for check ins, support, resource sharing

Want to learn more and chat with us if this is for you?Schedule a call with us or Join our Office Hours: May 5, June 2nd, Aug 4, Sept 8, Oct 6, Nov 3 from 5 - 7pm MST

Included in School Year Cohort:

A new page in your racial identity development journey of unlearning Whiteness and its impacts for your students, classroom culture, and school community

This is NOT a spot for quick fixes, performative action, or working in isolation. For folks who believe they have “arrived.” You will get annoyed if you are looking for it to quickly become a community of practice or place for a lot of discussion like a book club. You will get frustrated if you are looking for a to do list or crystal clear answers.

*Note this is NOT a spot for school administrators. We’re intentionally cultivating this space for classroom educators, teacher leaders, and those who directly support in instructional roles. Administrators are encouraged to engage in White Women Doing the Work - Fall 2024, to explore complete this Interest Form or to contact us for additional program offerings.

This IS a spot for:

slowing down and continued internal racial identity development as a White educator – What impact did this have for my learning environment? How do I repair the harm?
shifting HOW you show up and use your power in your classroom context to support a more liberated classroom for your students now and in the future
taking inventory on where you have been, where you are now, and how you want to go forward
doing this alongside and in relationship with others in this cohort and your school community –
you know the value in accepting non closuring and creating space for breath into ideas and next actions
getting in your reps for continued practice and curiosity within group dynamics - why did I do that? Where did that come from?
countering white supremacy traits and predictable patterns that emerge within groups of white folks - quick to action, afraid to make mistakes, and being real nice.
developing resilience around discomfort re: race, politics, etc

Programs + Goals: Our intention is to grow a group that can hold the weight of unlearning, leading and nuance together and stay sustained by leaning on community and developing resiliency. But more importantly, being able to name when our capacity is low and burn out is building. We have homework, time built in with your Triads and opportunity for time with Maren and Haley.

Individual Racial Identity Development -- "I want some more learning..."
Community with other White folks on their antiracism journey -- "I want to build relationships with more allies in an affinity space..."
Systems-level structures and leadership implementation -- "I want to take action..."
Somatics and Embodied Antiracism -- "I want to practice, process, and metabolize..."
Small group for continued discussion between cohort sessions -- "I want to keep digging deeper..."
Personal investigation and reflection -- "I want to keep increasing consciousness and doing less harm..."
Coaching (individual and/or group) -- "I want more continued support and sustainability..."

What are the sessions like?

Sessions as a whole group always begin with a check in and grounding and conclude with commitments and check out. Each session’s focus is explored through a combination of individual, small group and large group reflection and dialogue with frameworks that support the session’s theme. Each session includes reflection of Self and of the System. How is it personal before it is professional? And then what do I do with this information in my role, context and unique sphere of influence – specifically in my classroom, on my team, and in my school?

This is experiential and your presence and engagement is part of what creates the group experience of reviewing what we already know, finding new cobwebs to clear and unlearn, and navigating our own and other White bodies on their own journey.

Our sessions:

KICKOFF: "The beauty of anti-racism is that you don't have to pretend to be free of racism to be an anti-racist. Anti-racism is the commitment to fight racism wherever you find it, including in yourself. And it's the only way forward." - Ijeoma Oluo

SELF: “If we don't do our work, we become work for other people.” - Lama Rod Owens, Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger

COLLECTIVE: “If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.” - Australian Aboriginal Elder Lilla Watson

SOMATICS: “Healing from white-body supremacy begins with the body — your body. But it does not end there. In order to heal the collective body that is America, we also need social activism that is body centered. We cannot individualize our way out of white-body supremacy. Nor can we merely strategize our way out. We need collective action — action that heals.” — Resmaa Menakem ”

SUSTAIN: “Small is All.” - Adrienne Maree Brown, Emergent Strategy

ADJOURN: Racial Equity and Liberation - movetoendviolence.org

From Disconnect to Reconnect to source
From Dissociate to Reclaim your body
From Distance to re-engage your emotions
From Distort to restore your story

In between sessions:

Office Hours: This is included in our membership and ongoing for anyone who has participated in our programs. Every 1st Monday of the month.

Triad: You will be put together with 2 other folks to create a triad. You will meet with this group of folks over the course of our time together.

Scratch: Is another way to process and practice reaching out for support, listening and metabolizing.

Applications accepted on a rolling basis - Get on the waitlist