Equity and Social Justice in Education Series
Becoming an Everyday Changemaker: Healing and Justice At School
1st Edition
By Alex Shevrin Venet
April 01, 2024
Educators with a vision for more equitable, caring schools often struggle with where to begin. I’m just one teacher, where can I start to make change? Is it even possible? How do I do this within current constraints? In this new book, bestselling author Alex Shevrin Venet empowers everyday ...
Case Studies on Diversity and Social Justice Education
3rd Edition
By Paul C. Gorski, Seema G. Pothini
February 06, 2024
Case Studies on Diversity and Social Justice Education offers pre- and in-service educators the opportunity to analyze and reflect upon a variety of real-life scenarios related to educational equity and social justice. The accessibly written cases allow educators to practice considering a range of ...
Literacy for All: A Framework for Anti-Oppressive Teaching
1st Edition
By Shawna Coppola
December 01, 2023
An equity-conscious, culturally sustaining approach to literacy education. Every student comes to the classroom with unique funds of knowledge in addition to unique needs. How can teachers celebrate and draw upon the valuable literacies each child already possesses to engage them more effectively ...
Teaching Asian America in Elementary Classrooms
1st Edition
By Noreen Naseem Rodríguez, Sohyun An, Esther June Kim
December 01, 2023
Asian American voices and experiences are largely absent from elementary curricula. Asian Americans are an extraordinarily diverse group of people, yet are often viewed through stereotypical lenses: as Chinese or Japanese only, as recent immigrants who do not speak English, as exotic foreigners, or...
Ableism in Education: Rethinking School Practices and Policies
1st Edition
By Gillian Parekh
September 01, 2023
How we organize children by ability in schools is often rooted in ableism.Ability is so central to schooling—where we explicitly and continuously shape, assess, measure, and report on students’ abilities—that ability-based decisions often appear logical and natural. However, how schools respond to ...
Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education
1st Edition
By Alex Shevrin Venet
September 01, 2023
Educators must both respond to the impact of trauma, and prevent trauma at school. Trauma-informed initiatives tend to focus on the challenging behaviors of students and ascribe them to circumstances that students are facing outside of school. This approach ignores the reality that inequity itself ...
Learning and Teaching While White: Antiracist Strategies for School Communities
1st Edition
By Jenna Chandler-Ward, Elizabeth Denevi
September 01, 2023
We need to name whiteness, in order to move toward antiracism. For too long, white educators have relied on people of color to make change to a relentlessly racist school system. Racial equity will not come until white educators recognize their role in supporting racist policies and practices, and ...
Public School Equity: Educational Leadership for Justice
1st Edition
By Manya Whitaker
September 01, 2023
Equality is not equity, tolerance is not inclusion, and access is not opportunity.Efforts to address inequities within our schools tend to ignore the underlying beliefs that sustain injustices, and focus instead on short-lived policies and practices. This book takes a different approach to ...