The cultural zeitgeist has reinvigorated needed conversations about systemic racism and its longstanding impact on education. Educators confronting educational racism encounter social and psychological challenges that stifle their antiracist efforts. Challenging social psychological encounters, which reflect unavoidable but requisite facets of critical consciousness development, are experienced as jarring interactions and trigger reversions toward uncritical race-dysconscious thought and action. Without social supports, educators seeking to transform racist institutions are isolated, left to their own devices, and unprepared for the painful journey of self-liberation. We cover the foundations and structure of the "antiracist educator's journey," a model based implicitly on critical race theory and explicitly on ecosystemic, monomythic, and liberational perspectives. Our model details the social-psychological progression of race consciousness development. We identify 15 interconnected components nested across 4 phases of self-liberation. The quest for antiracist realization parallels the quests of mythical and contemporary "heroes" who achieve systemic change through self-transformation and reward. The reward is an "ecosystemic lens" whose acquisition drives the conversion of racist educational ecosystems into antiracist alternatives. The framework is a roadmap for prospective antiracist educators and is meant to validate their experiences along the journey.