Challenging Racism is pleased to partner with National Education Association to bring you 3 exclusive training programs, Learning How to Learn to Lead and Racial Equity Toolkit Training. Brief descriptions of the training are below. You can register for the Racial Equity Toolkit training on this page.
Learning How and Learning to Lead require an application to be included in the cohort. You can express your interest in being considered for the program by submitting the form below.
Learning How
Learning How is our core curriculum of eleven 2.5-hour sessions. Our trained facilitators guide small diverse groups on a racial equity journey to engage in intimate conversations on race and racism. Stories serve to connect the participants as well as provide windows into the lived experiences of others. The environment is safe for risk-taking, supports discomfort, and uses discomfort to grow. It encourages self-identity and self-reflection, provoking the necessary mirror work for the individual and the organization. The curriculum also provides critical skill-building, including structured listening and difficult conversations.
Target Participants: Individuals that would benefit from deeper knowledge of race and racial equity, coupled with personal engagement, interaction, and practice holding difficult conversations.
Monthly Racial Equity Toolkit Trainings & Discussions
Asynchronous learning with weekly assignments each month. Lesson topics include bias, equity, privilege, systemic racism, cultural competency, etc. The topics will be explored by incorporating articles, podcasts, videos, journaling, and exercises. At the end of the month, there will be a facilitated group discussion online for all participants. These thought-provoking monthly sessions and conversational practices are led by the Challenging Racism-trained facilitation team on Zoom.
Learning to Lead
Learning to Lead is our training dedicated to facilitators already well-versed in racial literacy and equity issues but who want to develop skills to facilitate conversations about race, including guidelines to foster respectful environments that promote productive exchanges and connections. This program can be paired with our license for the Challenging Racism curriculum (for either high school or adult learners) so that alumni can confidently bring these structured discussions to their peers or students.
Applicants who are not alumni of Challenging Racism's Learning How program (or similar NEA programming) will receive a set of readings that are foundational for their study before the training.
Prerequisites: Applicants need an existing foundation of knowledge in discussing issues of white privilege, fragility and assumptions of superiority, structural racism, microaggressions, etc.
Learning How and Learning to Lead require an application to be included in the cohort. You can express your interest in being considered for the program by submitting the form below.
Learning How
Learning How is our core curriculum of eleven 2.5-hour sessions. Our trained facilitators guide small diverse groups on a racial equity journey to engage in intimate conversations on race and racism. Stories serve to connect the participants as well as provide windows into the lived experiences of others. The environment is safe for risk-taking, supports discomfort, and uses discomfort to grow. It encourages self-identity and self-reflection, provoking the necessary mirror work for the individual and the organization. The curriculum also provides critical skill-building, including structured listening and difficult conversations.
Target Participants: Individuals that would benefit from deeper knowledge of race and racial equity, coupled with personal engagement, interaction, and practice holding difficult conversations.
- Number of Participants: Consistent cohort of up-to-24 participants.
- Number of Sessions: 11.
- Length of each session: 2.5 hours.
- Total hours of training: 27.5 hours.
- Dates: Spring 2023.
- Format: Virtual Zoom hosted by Challenging Racism.
- Maximum Attendees: 24 Participants.
Monthly Racial Equity Toolkit Trainings & Discussions
Asynchronous learning with weekly assignments each month. Lesson topics include bias, equity, privilege, systemic racism, cultural competency, etc. The topics will be explored by incorporating articles, podcasts, videos, journaling, and exercises. At the end of the month, there will be a facilitated group discussion online for all participants. These thought-provoking monthly sessions and conversational practices are led by the Challenging Racism-trained facilitation team on Zoom.
Learning to Lead
Learning to Lead is our training dedicated to facilitators already well-versed in racial literacy and equity issues but who want to develop skills to facilitate conversations about race, including guidelines to foster respectful environments that promote productive exchanges and connections. This program can be paired with our license for the Challenging Racism curriculum (for either high school or adult learners) so that alumni can confidently bring these structured discussions to their peers or students.
Applicants who are not alumni of Challenging Racism's Learning How program (or similar NEA programming) will receive a set of readings that are foundational for their study before the training.
Prerequisites: Applicants need an existing foundation of knowledge in discussing issues of white privilege, fragility and assumptions of superiority, structural racism, microaggressions, etc.
- Number of Participants: Up-to-16 participants.
- Total hours of training: 24 hours of professional development training, structured over 3 subsequent weekends.
- Dates: June 2023.
- Format: Virtual Zoom hosted by Challenging Racism.