Through co-creation across a series of design workshops and sprints with teachers from across the country, the Unteach Racism programme and application are designed to give teachers the tools to unteach the racist lessons society imparts to them and their students. The lessons that teachers themselves internalise and often unwittingly reinforce.

As part of the Give Nothing to Racism platform, through the digital tool teachers are challenged with a number of modules that break down the core concepts of racism in the teaching profession and society at large.

Exercises, tests, quotes from learners and teachers, additional research, conversation prompts, and other resources are packaged up in a mobile and desktop app being used in schools and kura kaupapa across New Zealand. It’s helping empower teachers to have safe and productive conversations, and move through three key stages: identifying, confronting, and dismantling racism in their learning environments.