Minority Leadership Training Program
The Minority Leadership Training Program (MLTP) prepares early career educators and emerging leaders to be powerful advocates for their students, their profession, and their local, state, and national unions. Participants will learn how racial, social, and economic justice issues affect their school environments and learn strategies for organizing and activating members, parents, and community partners.
The MLTP will focus on the three Ps:
Power—Becoming an empowered leader
Purpose—Becoming a leader and activist
Platform—Becoming a change agent within the association
The curriculum includes leadership, coalition-building, and racial justice training grounded in diversity, equity, and inclusion—providing critical knowledge and skills that will define each participant’s leadership journey as an anti-racist educator and change agent for dismantling racism, sexism, and other forms of systemic discrimination and oppression in public education.
Selected cohort members will be expected to participate in every component of the program throughout the school year, including:
- Attendance at three in-person (or virtual) training sessions;
- Participation in several bridging meetings with other cohort members and leaders; and
- Completion of a leadership project, which will be presented at the end of the training year.
Please note: 35% of participants will be new activists to the work of the union.
This opportunity is provided for our members at no cost.
This training is primarily, but not exclusively, open to ethnic minorities.
All of the Friday sessions will begin at 5 p.m. and all of the Saturday sessions will end around 4 p.m.
Questions? Contact Tina Dove at [email protected].