2024 Institute for Teachers of Color Committed to Racial Justice
June 26-28, 2024
In-Person at the University of California, Riverside

Hosted by the School of Education
S​ponsored by the California Endowment, San José State University Lurie College of Education, and Verizon

ITOC is an on-going professional development space designed to support wellbeing, strengthen racial literacy, and cultivate racial justice leadership capacities of teachers of Color and teacher educators of Color. A unique collaboration between the disciplines of Teacher Education, Educational Leadership, and Ethnic Studies, this national conference rigorously selects and supports ITOC Fellows across the U.S. and beyond each year.

Applications for the 2024 Summer Conference are now closed, but we are still accepting applications to be 2024-25 ITOC Fellow at attend virtual programming throughout the school year.

Apply Here

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ITOC Fellows Selection Criteria:

Participants are selected based on the following criteria:
ITOC Fellows and Teacher Educator Fellows:

• Identify as a Black, Indigenous, or person of Color (BIPOC) educator(pre-service teachers are eligible) or in a related capacity within K-12 schools
  
• Work (or will work) in a K-12 public schools serving majority BIPOC students
  
• Demonstrate an advanced level of racial literacy
  
• Have an asset framing of communities of Color
  
• Commit to critical and theoretically driven approaches to transforming schools
  
• ITOC Teacher Educator Fellows work in a university setting training K-12classroom educators

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2024 Summer Convening Includes:

• 4 Keynote Talks
• 4 Workshop Sessions
• 2 Racial Justice Action Plan Working Group Sessions
• Health, Wellness, and Creative Arts Programming
• Femtorship Program
• Breakfast and Lunch Daily
• Welcome Dinner

Confirmed Speakers for 2024 Summer Convening:

Dr. Amanda R. Tachine
Assistant Professor, University of Oregon​

Dr. Amanda R. Tachine is Navajo from Ganado, Arizona. She is Náneesht’ézhí Táchii’nii (Zuni Red Running into Water) born for Tł’ízí łání (Many Goats). She is an Assistant Professor in Educational Leadership & Innovation at Arizona State University. Amanda’s research explores the relationship between systemic and structural histories of settler colonialism and the ongoing erasure of Indigenous presence and belonging in college settings using qualitative Indigenous methodologies. She is the author of Native Presence and Sovereignty in College and co-editor of Weaving an Otherwise: In-relations Methodological Practice. She has published in the Journal of Higher Education, Qualitative Inquiry, International Review of Qualitative Research, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, and other scholarly outlets. She also has published thought pieces in the Huffington Post, Al Jazeera, The Hill, Teen Vogue, Indian Country Today, Inside Higher Ed, and Navajo Times where she advances ideas regarding discriminatory actions, educational policies, and inspirational movements. ​

Dr. Justin A. Coles
Associate Professor, Director of Arts, Culture, and Political Engagements at the Center of Racial Justice and Youth Engaged Research at University of Massachusetts Amherst

​Justin A. Coles, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Social Justice Education in the department of Student Development at the University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Education. Within the College, Dr. Coles serves as the Director of Arts, Culture, and Political Engagement at the Center of Racial Justice and Youth Engaged Research. His research agenda converges at the intersections of critical race studies, urban (teacher) education, language & literacy, and Black studies. Dr. Coles is published in the Journal of Teacher Education, Urban Education, The Journal of Negro Education, The High School Journal, Curriculum Inquiry, Race Ethnicity and Education, Equity & Excellence in Education, Journal of Language & Literacy in Education, Urban Education Research & Policy Annuals, and the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. Recently, he was named a William T. Grant Theories of Blackness, Indigeneity, and Racialization in Research to Reduce Inequality in the Lives of Young People Writing Fellow.

Artnelson Concordia
Educator, Ethnic Studies Curriculum Writer, Community Organizer at Santa Barbara Unified School District 

Artnelson was born and raised in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. The son of working-class, Filipino immigrants, he earned a BA in Political Science and History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has served 23 years as a public school educator and was a founding teacher of the SFUSD Ethnic Studies program which was the focus of a 2014 Stanford study that highlighted the academic benefits of the district’s 9th-grade ethnic studies course. Currently, he coordinates Santa Barbara Unified School District's (SBUSD) ethnic studies program. Artnelson is the father of four brown boys and is in cahoots with his wife to raise them to have deep knowledge & love of self/community, as well as to be active disrupters of the white supremacist, patriarchal, hetero-normative, imperialist hegemony. He and his family have the great privilege to live in the beautiful town of Oxnard, CA (Unceded Chumash Territory).

2024-2025 Virtual Programming Includes:

• 6 Keynote Talks with Community Building Time (3 fall, 3 spring)
• 2 Public Talks in Collaboration with UCR's K-12 Ethnic Studies Speaker Series
• Femtorship Program (quarterly meetings and pairings of femtors/femtees for independent meetings)

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Registration Fees for Selected Fellows:

Registration Rates
Early Bird Pricing (April 3rd - May 10th):
Summer Conference Registration:

• $400 Registration Rate
• $200 Financial Hardship Registration (cannot be sponsored by employer)

2024-25 Virtual Yearlong ONLY:

• $200 Registration Rate
• $100 Financial Hardship Registration (cannot be sponsored by employer)

Combined 2024 Summer and 2024-25 Virtual Programming: 

• $500 Registration Rate
• $275 Financial Hardship Registration (cannot be sponsored by employee)

Standard Registration Rates (May 11th - June 3rd):
2024 Summer Conference Registration:

• $450 Registration Rate
• $250 Financial Hardship Registration (cannot be sponsored by employer)

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2024-25 Virtual Yearlong ONLY:

• $250 Registration Rate
• $125 Financial Hardship Registration (cannot be sponsored by employer)

Combined 2024 Summer and 2024-25 Virtual Yearlong:

• $600 Registration Rate
• $350 Financial Hardship Registration (cannot be sponsored by employer)

Summer Conference Housing Rates (June 25-28)
Limited campus apartment style housing (4 per apartment, separate rooms):
$200 for all three nights
$50 Parking​

Apply Here!