ABSTRACT
Institute for Teachers of Color Committed to Racial Justice (ITOC), an intensive professional development offered each summer, exists to support teachers of Color who strive to use their vocation to help youth, schools, and communities of Color to succeed in school and achieve racial justice. Given the isolation that so many of the ITOC teachers experience, building a community of peers and mentors who share an advanced racial literacy is essential to their persistence in the profession. The racial justice healing practices of ITOC are powerful for the teachers, but to pursue their racial justice goals in their schools, they need and seek concrete tools that can be used in their daily practice at any number of levels. The explicit focus on nurturing praxis-oriented tools in a multi-tiered process provides racial justice-minded teachers with a support system for pursuing their goals through realistic strategies, practices, and daily habits.
