Lead Liberated

How does it work?

We convene principals of color, their supervisors, and their Instructional Leadership teams for collective learning over the course of three years. We provide support and accountability through 1:1 coaching and cohort based professional development to ensure leaders have the space to heal from racism, learn instructional leadership skills, and implement clear concrete next steps to develop antiracist learning cultures in their schools. We believe healing coupled with effective, aligned partnerships will lead to principal retention, thriving communities, and continuous improvement in student learning and experience.

We are embarking on a new alliance with REACH University. Starting with cohort 4, principals in the Antiracist Collective will clear their administrative credential through REACH.

How we grow together

We organize our approach through the 3 P’s which help us investigate and dismantle racism at every level it operates on and build new antiracist cultures, starting first with Personal Leadership.

Personal Leadership

First, you create a goal for your leadership that grounds your healing and development, after exploring how you have personally internalized and therefore reproduced racism.

Collective Practices

Then, we focus on collective practices. Principals and teams are developed to undo their collective racist practices and create new norms.

Organizational Policies

Finally, teams are able to critically examine their policies with an antiracist lens and design sustainable antiracist policies that become the cornerstone of an antiracist organizational culture.

"I haven’t received this type of development before. The focus is on antiracism as the through-line in everything that we think about in data, in reading, in math, in working with colleagues, partnering with parents, and in policy creation - this has been a very unique experience for me - and to have it be in coaching, Instructional Leadership Team work, learning sessions, and affinity spaces felt like a whole wrap-around program for me.”

Amber Luna Saberton

antiracist collective participant

"I feel like I'm a very different person. I don't know how to even quantify that. I am deliberate in ways that I was not deliberate before. I'm very clear on what I want and what I don't want. I am unafraid to speak my mind and my truth. I'm very clear on who I am and what I need. I am unwilling to sacrifice those things anymore, and that is what I did before. I sacrificed what I needed, I sacrificed my voice, and I just can't anymore."

Nicole Williams Browning

antiracist collective participant

“I am so grateful for this group… The expertise, facilitation, and joy made such a difference. We got substantive time to work together across schools and with our own school. We are held accountable to the whole. And I really hope that we will get to continue in the coming year."

Anonymous

antiracist collective participant

Program Details and Timeline

October - November 2023

Application Due

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis until the deadline. Round 1: Due October 6th, 2023. If spots are still available after Round 1, Round 2 applications are due November 27, 2023

October/November 2023

Orientation Session

During orientation, accepted leaders learn more about The Collective and officially commit to the program.
In-person session: Week of October 23, 2023
Virtual Session: December 6, 2023

January/June 2024

Cohorts Launch

Leaders go on a multi-day retreat. Cohort 4 launches in January 2024 and Cohort 5 launches in June 2024

2024-2027

Healing and Learning

Coaches observe teaching and Instructional Leadership Team meetings to inform professional development and coaching. Leaders participate in biweekly group learning sessions, biweekly 1:1 leadership coaching, a retreat and have monthly assignments to support their learning.

The Antiracist Collective

We organize our approach through the 3 P’s which help us investigate and dismantle racism at every level it operates on and build new antiracist cultures, starting first with Personal Leadership.

“I am so grateful for this group… The expertise, facilitation, and joy made such a difference. We got substantive time to work together across schools and with our own school. We are held accountable to the whole. And I really hope that we will get to continue in the coming year."

Program Details and Timeline

Ready to join the Antiracist Collective?