Black Teacher Project Fellowship
“By coming together in this space, these Black teachers, who are often isolated in their school sites, are able to discern patterns of anti-blackness and collectively imagine possibilities for structural change.”
— “We Just Do Us” Dr. Micia Mosely, BTP Director and Jessica Stovall, Stanford GSE
About the Black Teacher Project Fellowship
Since 2018, the Black Teacher Project has offered a cohort-based fellowship for Black teachers who are committed to deeply exploring Black Identity Development, Wellness, Black Leadership for Liberation, and Quality Instruction Rooted in Blackness. We launched our 4th cohort in January 2023: an 18-Month experience for Black teacher leaders who have the desire, influence, and capacity to support an effort to forge systems-level change.
Fellows focus on building the knowledge, skills, and disposition needed to catalyze and influence the emergence of transformative practices that foster wellness, thriving, liberated learning, and increased opportunity for teachers, students, and communities. The Black Teacher Project Fellowship builds a supportive community of restoration and renewal through critical friendship, action learning, and shared experience.
Fellows experience a deeper understanding of both existing and new possibilities for their practice through their partnership in a national network of Black teacher leaders. They are provided with a multitude of tangible tools and resources including critical time and space to strategize, peer networking, access to experts, coaching, and technical assistance.
Fellows also have the opportunity to engage in thought partnership with coaches to strategize how best to address their equity challenge, or reach their instructional and leadership aspirations. Fellows may also earn a chance to assert themselves as experts in the field through possibilities for shared publication and peer-to-peer learning. Finally, Fellows receive a host of suggestions for ways to utilize the work produced by their team and resources to efficiently implement future initiatives so that they might scale their efforts moving forward.
“Systems do not maintain themselves; even our lack of intervention is an act of maintenance. Every structure in every society is upheld by the active or passive assistance of other human beings.”
— Sonya Renee Taylor
