My Racial Justice Academy (RJA) is an intensive workshop to train teachers in reframing school culture around antibias and antiracist principles. It is specifically designed to support White teachers teaching White kids how to be antiracist. The RJA cohort serves the school community as a resource for colleagues and students who encounter challenging racial experiences.

Cohort participants start with self-reflective study to increase awareness of socially-constructed identity, race, power, and privilege. Through guided reflection activities, this training provides participants exercises to gently but firmly confront implicit bias and dispositions developed over years of enculturation. 

We then move outward to explore historical and systemic issues of institutional racism through literature, videos, and interactive online resources. Finally, we contextualize knowledge in case studies of specific and real-world instances of institutional racism at your school.

As a cohort, Academy participants collaborate in a space designed around safety, trust, and challenge to reinforce mutual growth and support. Our aim is to create the conditions under which we will be able to have courageous conversations with colleagues and students about race and repair embedded discriminations in our institutional structures and practices.

Racial Justice Academy cohorts engage with other school cohorts who have likewise completed the training to extend learning beyond the workshop period.