The Black Teacher Project’s (BTP) mission is to sustain and develop Black teachers to lead and reimagine schools as communities of liberated learning. Black Teacher Project is a program of the National Equity Project.

Black teachers navigate an ecosystem of push out factors, including: invisible racialized role expectations that are uncompensated; lack of leadership opportunities & culturally responsive professional development; difficulty navigating inequitable and anti-Black systems; racial micro and macro aggressions; isolation; and health & safety challenges.

BTP’s core services provide professional development in racial affinity that aim to equip participants with the knowledge, tools, conditions, and sources of rejuvenation needed to reimagine our schools and systems. We also offer workshops and consulting to support school, district, and systems leaders in recruiting, developing, and retaining Black teachers.