Through healing and learning, we equip leaders in education to interrupt racism within themselves and their organizations in order to co-design antiracist learning cultures.
Vision
Liberated leaders are leading their schools and organizations to collectively create antiracist learning cultures where everyone thrives!
Values
Healing
We create purposeful spaces for healing, reflection, and action.
Learning
We grow by being in inquiry, continually learning and unlearning – especially as it pertains to race and racism.
Joy
We inspire ourselves and others by working from joy and possibility.
Trust
We are honest, transparent, and authentic.
Partnership
We collaborate from a place of mutual respect, accountability, and alignment; using data to drive our decisions.
02Our Core ProgramThe Antiracist Collective
The Antiracist Collective (The Collective) is a two-year immersive experience that provides principals of color, their supervisors and instructional teams with the coaching, development, and community they need to lead liberated. Currently, we directly serve 12 principals of color, their supervisors and ILTs (~80 leaders).
We foster healing and collective action, by leveraging our 3Ps framework – rooted in our belief that racism is internalized, and therefore must be addressed, in our personal leadership, collective practices and organizational policies.
Personal Leadership: We support leaders to engage in their own healing by exploring the harmful messages they internalized about their racial identity and how they manifest in their leadership.
Collective Practices: As leaders liberate themselves from their internalized racism, they are able to reflect and act collectively to interrupt racism in their collective practices and decision making.
School Policies: As school teams heal personally and collectively, they are ready to learn and leverage liberatory design principles, allowing them to co-design antiracist school policies that meet the unique needs of their community.
Principals work closely with their supervisors and Instructional Leadership Teams (ILTs), fostering a collective approach to achieving antiracist outcomes. Unlike traditional professional development, which often separates instructional development from equity-driven work, The Collective intentionally weaves both together to develop antiracist instructional leaders
The Collective Impact:
Students of Color Thriving Beyond State Averages
On the 2024 California dashboard, our first three cohorts grew as follows:
03The Collective’s Goals & ImpactA Path Towards Real Change
*Cohorts 1-3 have graduated and completed the program. Cohorts 4 & 5 are still active.*
Retain Principals
Goal: 90% of principals thrive in their role for at least 5 years, excluding external pull factors.
Results: Cohorts 1 – 3: 100% of graduates are principals, all exceeding five years, or have been promoted to coach or supervise principals.
Cohorts 4 – 5: 100% of principals remain principals or have been promoted to supervise principals.
Develop Liberated Leaders
Goal: All leaders achieve their goals to develop as liberated leaders.
Results: Cohorts 1-3: 92% of principals and Supervisors and 87% of ILT members met their Liberated Leadership Goals.
Cohorts 4-5: 100% of principals and Supervisors are making significant progress towards their Liberated Leadership Goals. 93% of lead teachers could name specific ways in which their principal interrupted racism.
Strengthen ILTs
Goal: Principals and Instructional Leadership Teams (ILTs) use technical and adaptive skills to strengthen the ILT and Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) they lead.
Results: Cohorts 1-3: 86% of teams met their goals to grow on the rubric.
Cohort 4: 100% of principals self-assessed growth in leadership skills.
Cohorts 4-5: Principals and ILTs will assess and implement PLC shifts next year.
Credential Principals
Goal: All participating principals earn their Clear Administrative Services Credential
Progress: Cohort 1-3: Alliance did not exist.
Cohorts 4-5: 100% are on track to clear their credential.
Design Antiracist Policies & Practices
Goal: After two years, schools track the outcomes of antiracist practices or policies they implemented.
Results: Cohorts 1-3: 75% of schools implemented new practices and policies that yielded antiracist outcomes.
Cohorts 4-5: Initial results expected in December 2025 and June 2026.
In addition to The Collective, we partner with organizations who have a clear mission and vision to interrupt racism by supporting them to create an antiracist organizational culture. We form fee-for-service Partnerships with education organizations across the country rooted in individual coaching and professional development for teams.
Yu Ming Charter School:
A Truly Transformational PD
“…leaders of color on my staff [called the Antiracist Leadership Institute], ‘the best professional development experience’ they have ever received.”
“Daneen and Amber modeled how to create engaging learning opportunities that provided spaciousness to disrupt the tendency for constant urgency, and how we could go further faster by going slower and working through mindset shifts. It’s rare that a PD experience changes mindsets.”
Aspire Monarch Academy:
A Deeply Rooted Connection
From 2012 to 2024, Amber Saberton, journeyed through multiple roles at Monarch, including 5 years as Principal. In 2019, Amber joined the first cohort of The Antiracist Collective. When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, schools everywhere faced uncertainty. With the support of her coach and The Collective community, Amber was able to co-design a response with her school community.
Thanks to these actions, Monarch achieved 100% staff retention as they returned to in-person learning, a testament to Amber’s ability to adapt her leadership through crisis.
After Amber became a principal leadership coach at Lead Liberated, the new principal at Monarch maintained the partnership. Through years of intentional work with Lead Liberated, Monarch has built a strong foundation grounded in shared language, collective leadership, and antiracist values.
05Our Vision Through 2027 and Beyond
We invite you to join us in this movement.
Together, we can ensure all students walk into schools led by joyful, grounded, antiracist leaders who believe in their children’s brilliance and boundless potential. Together, we can co-create antiracist learning cultures where everyone thrives.
SECURE $2MM
through philanthropic support in order to grow the Antiracist Collective impacting approx 100 principals, supervisors, and lead teachers, 600 teachers and 11,200 students in the CA Bay Area
EXPAND PARTNERSHIPS
throughout the state and country to increase revenue to sustain the Collective, impacting hundreds of schools, districts, and CMOs across the country
FOSTER CULTURES
of antiracist learning in schools throughout the Bay Area and beyond
06Our FutureJoy is Resistance
07Our Heartfelt Thank YouFunders and Partners
To our funders and partners, we are deeply and forever grateful.
Bloomberg Philanthropies Chamberlin Education Foundation Mary A. Crocker Trust Sidney E. Frank Foundation Koshland Foundation New Schools Venture Fund Kenneth Rainin Foundation Rogers Family Foundation Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation S.H. Cowell Foundation Acorn Woodland Aspire Monarch Academy Aspire Richmond Cal Prep Amethod Public Schools EFC Ascend EFC Learning Without Limits Envision Education Gateway Horace Mann Hoover San Francisco Public Schools Yu Ming Charter School
08Join UsThe Movement Needs You
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