Throughout the two-week seminar, teachers read and discuss texts on racial colorblindness and power, work on and receive detailed feedback on their unit plans, and get to know each other through personal presentations. HoSang estimates that ARTLC has engaged some 100 teachers since its inception, who find out about it through word of mouth. Teachers who choose to proactively engage in anti-racist work need peer support, Braginsky said, and the ARTLC has been one source of that support for her. Community supportThe push to bolster anti-racist education in Connecticut’s schools isn’t just lying with teachers. In late May, Nikki Poulard and Kristen Alexander, both white moms who live in Essex with Black husbands, felt the itch to do something.