Announcement Details
Summary
The Black Teacher Project recognizes the importance of lifting up Black teachers as leaders in the re-imagination of schools. As Black teachers have experienced and navigated anti-Blackness as both students and adults, they possess an inherent lens that is unique and critical to abolishing oppressive school policy and transforming schools into liberated learning communities where students are supported to fulfill their full potential.
Announcement Message
BTP invites you to engage in a liberatory design (bit.ly/neplibdesign) process. In this 4-session offering, you will be guided by BTP's equity-centered frameworks and protocols to design school experiences that center the healing and well-being of both students and self. We are most powerful when we take collective responsibility and action, so as we continue to respond to teaching and learning needs, let’s learn from our students, our communities, and each other to design curriculum that is liberating and rooted in love. *Please note that this offering is intended for teams of 2 or more*
Please see below for the flow of sessions.
- Session 1: Community building with an introduction to Liberatory Design. SATURDAY, MARCH 20TH, 10:00 - 1:00pm PT; 12:00 - 3:00pm CT; 1:00 - 4:00pm ET
- Session 2: Using Liberatory Design approaches, engage with one another to identify and redesign practices that center healing and well-being in this time of ambiguity and uncertainty. THURSDAY, APRIL 1ST, 3:00 - 5:30pm PT; 5:00 - 7:30pm CT; ET 6:00 - 9:30pm ET
- Session 3: Using student and parent data from empathy listening, probes, prototyping, and testing protocols, engage with one another to refine design practices. THURSDAY, APRIL 15TH, 3:00 - 5:30pm PT; 5:00 - 7:30pm CT; ET 6:00 - 9:30pm ET
- Office Hours: Engage in thought-partnership and receive feedback about your prototype with design lab facilitators. WEEK OF APRIL 26TH, EXACT DATES/TIMES TBD
- Session 4: Continue to refine your design by sharing with other educators for further iteration and testing. SATURDAY, MAY 8TH, 10:00 - 1:00pm PT; 12:00 - 3:00pm CT; 1:00 - 4:00pm ET
Eligibility Requirements:
- Currently be a Black TK-12th grade teacher in a district, charter, or private school
- Be able to attend all 4 sessions for the full duration of time
- Have at least one teammate from your school or district that will participate in the Design Lab with you. If there aren't any Black teachers in your school/district able to participate with you, you may participate with a Black teacher from another network.
- APPLICATION DUE DATE IS SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28TH, 2021 BY 9PM PT
A few other things to note:
- This opportunity has a limited capacity of 30 participants, so please ensure that you can be at all the sessions to maximize the time and resources offered.
- All sessions will be hosted online via Zoom. Once applicants are selected, we will communicate the Zoom information to you and your teammate(s).
- If you participated in the Fall 2020 Black Teacher Design Lab, you are welcome to apply again!
- One of our core values at BTP is paying Black teachers for their labor; participants will receive at $750.00 stipend after completion of design lab sessions and tasks
