Coming in 2025
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?
This is FOR YOU if…
You’re an educator who…
Has or wants to lead antiracism work in your school or classroom and is looking for your own place to practice, process, and metabolize culturally sustaining practices for your classroom
witnesses problematic statements and actions in your own classroom or with your team and wants to take action
wants to increase your own will and skill to do less harm for your students and colleagues of the Global Majority
is looking to build relationships with allies across schools and the country
notices and is curious about the impact of their Whiteness in their school community, both for White students and Students of the Global Majority
values growth mindset and knows the necessity to come back again and again - what's here for me this time? What is there for me to learn?
What we prioritize…
This is “101 ½” and an entry point to engage in the White antiracist community we’re cultivating. It’s a new page in your racial identity development journey to interrogate perfectionism, fear of doing it wrong, and how you’ve been told there is a right way to professionalism and leadership. It’s an invitation for nuance, complexity, power sharing, collaboration and vulnerability.
This is a small group space to process together through 4 different themes and to deepen or reassess where you are now.
This is a small group space to process together through 4 different themes of SELF, COLLECTIVE, SOMATICS, and SUSTAIN and to deepen, reassess, and expand deepen , and expand or reassess where you are now and what this means for your classroom and leadership. Where navigating each other is as much of the lesson as is asking uncomfortable questions and making mistakes.
For ten months, we spend time building glue for connection, relationship and long term community, accountability, practice, and embodiment. What does anti racist leadership look like to you? Now, at this moment? In your current role and context?
Wherever you are, there will always be a both/and that exists in regards to your process and understanding of racial dynamics.
To be able to navigate the ebb and flow.
The success and burn out.
The mistakes and celebrations.
The slow down to go fast.
The strategic moves and in-the-moment decisions.
The greater collective and our personal, local and immediate.
The personal before professional.
We’re here for developing our nervous system before being able to show up in our full authentic capacity as a teacher and classroom leader.
Info Sessions: JOIN US!
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.
Challenge the existing norms and reshape the landscape of leadership + education
Step One: White Women Doing the Work, Anti Racist Teacher
Step Two: Fractals: Communities of Practice, Facilitation Training
Ongoing: Presence, 1:1 Coaching, Office Hours, Community Q&A
Hire Us: Personalized Cohort or Community of Practice with your Colleagues/Workplace
Curious about any of the above? Please complete our Interest Form
Facilitators
Maren J Miller
Maren is on a mission to empower transformational and inclusive leaders. She brings with her 15 years of experience and is committed to intersectional anti-oppression, culture building, belonging and transformational organizational culture change. Maren has built a career of implementing systemic change, leadership transformation and models that have allowed diverse teams to thrive. Maren is a former art teacher, turned consultant, coach and facilitator and is certified in Organization Change and DEI. And as a white woman, desires to be a message of awareness, growth and transparency in order to help uncover and name the oppressive systems at work in our lives.
Haley Todd
With nearly fifteen years in education and non-profit leadership, Haley holds a deep commitment to those who have been most marginalized. As an innate teacher, facilitator, and leader, Haley has served in non-profit executive leadership, school administration, and faith-based spaces. As a White woman, Haley has invested in her own cultural intelligence to lead effectively in cross-racial and racial affinity spaces. Haley is dedicated to cultivating White folks' antiracism journeys through joy and integrity in service of a more liberated future of belonging and inclusion.
Not sure but curious? Let's talk! Email us to schedule a call.
