We are building a community of youth organizers, students, teachers, and teacher educators committed to advancing anti-racist pedagogy, curriculum and practice within K-12 public schools in Connecticut.

Teaching Black and Latinx Studies in CT Webinar Recording

The Attack on Anti-Racist Education in CT: What Educators, Parents, and Leaders Need to Know

About Us

The Anti-Racist Teaching and Learning Collective (ARTLC) brings together students, youth organizers, teachers, and teacher educators to build our shared capacity to transform K-12 public education in Connecticut. We share the belief that: 

  1. We are all embodying our roles as teachers and learners, no matter our age or background. We recognize that students and youth have critical roles to play as thinkers and teachers and that teachers and adults have important roles to play as learners.

  2. We are all students committed to learning from social movements and from diverse traditions of anti-racist teaching, learning and pedagogy.

  3. Anti-racist curriculum, consciousness-building, and pedagogy played a major role in sustaining and advancing many social movements. At their best, these curriculum efforts help to build and sustain many types of social movements.

  4. Anti-racist curriculum and pedagogy cannot be confined to a single course, but must shape a broad set of courses, curricula and practices. Teachers and students must play a central role in designing curricula, and in supporting and training other teachers in their development.

Candid shot from an early collective meeting at People Get Ready Books.

Candid shot from an early collective meeting at People Get Ready Books.

ATRLC educator, Nataliya Braginsky, in her classroom at New Haven Metropolitan Academy. Christopher Peak Photo : New Haven Independent

ATRLC educator, Nataliya Braginsky, in her classroom at New Haven Metropolitan Academy. Christopher Peak Photo : New Haven Independent