The Black Teacher Project Podcast
An extension of the mission of its namesake, the Black Teacher Project Podcast is a space where Black educators gather to speak truth, share stories, and imagine new possibilities for liberated learning. Produced by the Black Teacher Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting Black teacher thriving, the podcast brings together classroom teachers and education leaders in candid conversation about the joys and struggles of teaching while Black, navigating systemic barriers, centering wellness, and sustaining hope for the future. Through reflections on identity and justice and strategies for resilience and thriving, it amplifies the voices of Black teachers who are shaping schools, challenging inequities, and nurturing generations of all students to flourish.
Episodes
What does it really take to move from a pedagogy of compliance to a pedagogy of possibility? In this episode of the Black Teacher Project Podcast, BTP’s Dr. Micia Mosely is joined by renowned teacher educator and Ready4Rigor architect Zaretta Hammond, bestselling author of Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain and Rebuilding Students’ Learning Power, and Abdul-Haqq (Hawk) Khalifah of Agency by Design Oakland, a Black educato...
What does it mean to teach toward liberation in a moment shaped by fear, standardization, and political pressure? In this episode of the Black Teacher Project Podcast, BTP’s Dr. Micia Mosely is joined by educators JaVaughn Hardaway and Dr. Cecelia Gillam for a reflective conversation on literacy, STEM, and centering humanity in classrooms never designed for Black thriving.
From Indianapolis to New Orleans, the educators name the re...
What does it mean to teach Black history in a moment marked by backlash, erasure, and renewed struggle? And what does the 100-year journey of Black History Month ask of educators today? In this episode of the Black Teacher Project Podcast, Dr. Micia Mosely, Founder and Executive Director of BTP, is joined by Dr. Jarvis R. Givens, professor of Education and African American Studies at Harvard University, for a deeply g...
“Fear has overtaken everything.” Across the country, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) work is under siege. In this episode of the Black Teacher Project Podcast, hosts Dr. Cecelia Gillam, Dr. Lena Hamilton, Dr. LaTesa Brown, and Lisa Harton gather to name the chilling effects of political backlash on schools, teachers, and communities.
From Georgia to Indiana, North Carolina to Louisiana, the educators share firsthand how fear...
“When we speak truth, we are called antagonistic. When we excel, we are told it is not enough.” In this episode of the Black Teacher Project Podcast, four Black women educators name the barriers they face and reclaim their power through community, wellness, and unapologetic excellence.
Hosts Dr. Cecelia Gillam, Dr. Lena Hamilton, Dr. LaTesa Brown, and Lisa Harton lay bare the lived reality of being Black women in the classroom and ...
“I am both hopeful and fearful.” These words echo the tension that defines much of what it means to teach while Black in today’s schools. In this opening conversation of the Black Teacher Project Podcast, educators Dr. Cecelia Gillam, Dr. Lena Hamilton, and Lisa Harton share candid reflections on the joys, burdens, and unshakable calling of their work.
Together, they lift up what it means to teach in institutions that too often sil...
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