Recipient of the 2022 Excellence in Equity Award!
It is not enough to be against racism in education - teachers must be
actively antiracist. Yet how do we start reflecting on our own beliefs
and lives so we can truly teach for racial literacy? In the
award-winning Teaching for Racial Equity: Becoming Interrupters,
authors Tonya Perry, Steven Zemelman, and Katy Smith engage in honest
conversations between educators of color and their white colleagues.
Authentic, inspiring, and sometimes uncomfortable, teachers share
stories of personal histories and experiences that shaped them as people
and educators.
In this book you will find:
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Strategies to understand different backgrounds through a racial lens
and ways to address potentially difficult conversations with fellow
educators
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In-depth overview of Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz's Archaeology of Self(TM) and
how it can be personally and professionally adopted
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Lists of resources for teaching about and actively interrupting racism
in education and tools that document systemic inequalities in the
classroom
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Ways to facilitate student-led conversations which examine race and
inequitable conditions found nationwide
By examining inequalities found at a systemic level, teachers can start
to remove some of their internal biases and allow students to show who
they truly are. In turn, this can help create a school curriculum that
makes space for BIPOC voices that inspire and invite students to share.
Teaching for Racial Equity: Becoming Interrupters provides a
resource for teachers and educators to critically reflect and begin work
to interrupt racism at all levels.
