During the summer, I am sharing thematic posts bringing together responses on similar topics from the past 11 years. You can see all those collections from the first 10 years here.
Today鈥檚 theme is race and racism in schools. You can see the list following this excerpt from one such post:
1. 鈥榃hat Are You Doing to Help Students Understand Systemic Racism and Combat It?鈥�
Creating the conditions for effective dialogues and incorporating student voice are two ways to help students become anti-racist. Read more.
2. Anti-Racist Teaching Strategies for Predominantly White Schools
Creating common vocabulary and safe places for students and strengthening their critical-analysis skills support anti-racist teaching. Read more.
3. Want Students to 鈥楤uild a Better World?鈥� Try Culturally Responsive Social-Emotional Learning
The practice includes expanding students鈥� networks and developing their awareness of what it feels, looks, and sounds like to manage emotions. Read more.
4. Culturally Responsive Social-Emotional Learning: How to Get There
Bringing culturally responsive SEL into class can鈥檛 be done as an add-on. It needs to be integrated into daily routines and academic work. Read more.
5. Teaching About Slavery in the United States? Start With Honesty
Strategies have to include teachers acknowledging what they don鈥檛 know and recognizing they have to convey some ugly truths. Read more.
6. 鈥楻atchetdemic: Reimagining Academic Success'鈥擜n Interview With Author Christopher Emdin
The author talks about student rights in the classroom, student discovery of knowledge, and viewing students through the asset lens. Read more.
7. 鈥楽tudents Deserve to Know Our History鈥�
Two educators wrap up a four-part series on how teachers should respond to attacks on critical race theory and lessons on systemic racism. Read more.
8. Connect With Colleagues to Counter Critical Race Theory Critics
Three educators discuss how teachers respond to the CRT controversy, including urging administrators to create 鈥渟pace鈥� for collaboration. Read more.
9. Educators Should 鈥楾each the Truth to Young People鈥� in Response to Conservative Attacks
Three educators offer suggestions about how to respond to attacks on their ability to teach about systemic racism. Read more.
10. When It Comes to Critical Race Theory, Teachers 鈥楽hould Go on Offense With Inquiry鈥�
Four educators respond to conservative attacks on critical race theory and lessons on systemic racism. Read more.
More Q&A posts about race and racism in schools:
- 鈥楾he White Voice, Experience, and Interest Dominate Education鈥�
- We Can鈥檛 Wait Until People Feel Comfortable Talking About Race鈥�
- Tackling the 鈥楾aboo鈥� of Talking About Race & Privilege
- Twelve Ways to Make Math More Culturally Responsive
- Eight Strategies for Engaging in Culturally Relevant Teaching
- Author Interview: 鈥楴o More Culturally Irrelevant Teaching鈥�
- Moving Schools Beyond Anti-Racist Words to Action
- Nine Ways to Implement Culturally Responsive Teaching During Distance Learning
- Strategies for Implementing Online Culturally Responsive Teaching
- The Story of Arab & Muslim Students Is Often an Untold Story鈥�
- More Than Aladdin': Dismantling Common Misconceptions About Arab and Muslim Students
- Teaching Beyond Stereotypes': Ways to Teach the Middle East & Islam in Schools
- Supporting Arab & Muslim Students in the Classroom
- How Should Educators Respond to Trump Administration Attack on Anti-Racist Training?
- The Importance of Challenging Teachers鈥� Microaggressions
- Responding to a Colleague Who Makes a Racist Comment
- Ten Culturally Responsive Teaching Strategies for the Science Classroom
- Lessons for Teachers From George Floyd鈥檚 Death & Black Lives Matter
- Educators Must Challenge Racist Language & Actions
- Strategies for Embracing Anti-Racist Work in Our Classrooms
- Engaging With Students in Conversations About Race
- Teachers 鈥楥annot Stop at Conversations鈥� About Racism
- Four Ways Schools Can Support Teachers to Become 鈥楢ctively Anti-Racist鈥�
- The Problem With Kindness': SEL & the Death of George Floyd
- Six Truths About Racism That White Teachers Must Know
- 鈥楨ducators Must Realize That There Is No Neutral Position on Issues of Racial Justice鈥�
- 鈥楢dvice for the Newly Woke White Teachers on Teaching Black Children鈥�
- What Educators Should鈥攁nd Should Not Do鈥攊n Response to George Floyd鈥檚 Death
- What Teachers Should Learn From the Death of George Floyd
- Black Students Need Love Shown Through Action Right Now
- Assessing the Needs of Black Students During the Coronavirus Crisis
- Four Ways to Support African American Students Through the COVID-19 Emergency
- Supporting African American Students During the School Closure Crisis
- 鈥楥ulturally Responsive Teaching Is Not a Quick Fix鈥�
- 鈥楥ulturally Sustaining Pedagogy Honors the Humanity & Identity of Young People鈥�
- Culturally Responsive Instruction Is 鈥楴ot Just About Adding a Hip Hop Song to Your Lesson Hook鈥�
- Steps to Make Classrooms More Culturally Responsive
- 鈥楤eing Nice Is Not Enough to Make Racism Disappear鈥�
- Claiming to Not See Race Leads to Inequity in Education鈥�
- 鈥楶racticing Colorblindness Suppresses the Individuality of Our Students鈥�
- Educators Must Disrupt 鈥楥olorblind Ideologies鈥�
- Saying 鈥業 Don鈥檛 See Color鈥� Denies the Racial Identity of Students
- 鈥業 Don鈥檛 See Color in Education Means I Don鈥檛 See You Unless You Act Like Me鈥�
- When People Say They Don鈥檛 See Race, 鈥業 Ask Them If They Don鈥檛 See Me鈥�
- 鈥榃e All Have Implicit Biases鈥�
- There Isn鈥檛 a 鈥楽witch鈥� That Blocks Out Race in the Classroom
- If We 鈥楧on鈥檛 See Race,鈥� We Don鈥檛 See 鈥楽tudents鈥� Magic鈥�
- The 鈥楥olorblindness鈥� of Schools Has 鈥楩ailed Children of Color鈥�
- Author Interview: 鈥楥ultural Competence Now鈥�
- Author Interview With Dr. Gholdy Muhammad: 鈥楥ultivating Genius鈥�
- Author Interview: 鈥楥ulturally Responsive Education in the Classroom鈥�
- Author Interview: 鈥楿nconscious Bias in Schools鈥�
- Author Interview: 鈥楽peaking for Ourselves鈥�
- Author Interview: Black Appetite. White Food.
- 鈥榃e Need to Face Our Own Discomfort鈥� About Discussing Racism
- Race & Racism Are Not 鈥楳erely Curricular Topics鈥�
- Teachers Can鈥檛 Ignore Racism Issues and Hope They 鈥榃ill Go Away鈥�
- 鈥楬olla If You See Us': Black Girls in Spaces We Call Schools
- 鈥楾here Is Still a Lot of Work鈥� Schools Need to Do in Supporting Black Girls
- 鈥榃hat Does It Mean to Be Young, Black, and Female in America?鈥�
- Meeting the Needs of Native American Students
- 鈥楽omething Must Change鈥� to Address Challenges Facing Native American Youths
- Focusing on the Assets of Native American Students
- Author Interview With Matthew Kay: Not Light, But Fire
- Author Interview With Rich Milner: Reimagining 鈥楥lassroom Management鈥� for Equity
- Author Interview: Helping Students Reclaim Cognitive Resources Lost to Poverty and Racism
- Author Interview: Enhancing the 鈥楳ental Bandwidth鈥� of Students
- 鈥楨thnic-Studies Courses Benefit All Students鈥�
- Using Social-Emotional Learning to Challenge 鈥楽ystems of Oppression鈥�
- Equity & Social-Emotional Learning
- 鈥榃hite Educators Must Sharpen Their Humility鈥� Before They Discuss Race
- 鈥楥ourageous Conversations鈥� Are Needed to Discuss Race in Schools
- Approach Race & Implicit Bias by 鈥楲istening to Students鈥�
- Author Interview: Culturally Relevant Teaching
- Teachers Lose 鈥楥redibility鈥� If We Don鈥檛 Address 鈥楥ontroversial鈥� Topics
- 鈥楩ear鈥� Should Not Stop Us From Exploring 鈥楥ontroversial鈥� Topics in School
- Teachers Should Examine 鈥楤iases鈥� When Discussing 鈥楽ensitive鈥� Topics
- 鈥楧on鈥檛 Avoid Controversial Topics鈥� in School
- It鈥檚 鈥榁ital鈥� for Teachers to 鈥業ntegrate Controversial Topics Into Lessons鈥�
- Author Interview: Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies
- Author Interview: Growing Critically Conscious Teachers
- Author Interview: More Mirrors in the Classroom
- For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood...: An Interview With Chris Emdin
- 鈥業t Is Long Past Time to Meet the Needs of Students of Color鈥�
- Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy 鈥業ncreases Student Engagement & Learning鈥�
- Strategies for Recruiting Teachers of Color
- How Universities Are Recruiting More Teachers of Color
- Increasing the Diversity of America鈥檚 Teachers
- Book Review: Ta-Nehisi Coates鈥� Between the World & Me
- The Teachers of Color 鈥楧isappearance Crisis鈥�
- 鈥楨ducation Suffers鈥� Without More Teachers of Color
- Teachers of Color Can 鈥楤roaden Student Perspectives鈥�
- Culturally Responsive Teaching: An Interview With Zaretta Hammond
- Engaging With Class & Race in the Classroom
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