Full Description
In the past several years, we have witnessed unprecedented political, racial, economic, and health-related ruptures in society. The resulting turmoil has had an inevitable and negative impact on students, teachers, the profession of education, and especially marginalized and vulnerable populations. Academics and policymakers have had their say on how to address today's volatile issues, but teachers and other practitioners closest to students have not had the same visibility or access. This volume is an attempt to remedy that absence resulting in a compelling picture of education today. Chapters highlight essays written by a diverse group of K-12 classroom teachers who share their vision for education and describe their empowering classroom practices. At times hopeful and full of joy, at other times angry and full of frustration, these essays speak to what classrooms and schools based on social justice might mean for our nation. Teachers Speak Up! presents a bold vision of what education could be if teachers were to have a more direct influence on the purpose and aims of learning and teaching.
Book Features:
Offers grounded accounts about creating classrooms filled with hope and promise amid the many challenges to everyday practice.
Addresses the harm done by universal school closures due to the pandemic, growing political divisions, the ugly specter of racism, book bans, and more.
Gives voice to classroom teachers who describe their vision for education, as well as their successful practice teaching diverse students.
Includes chapter authors who are diverse in their identities, the subject matter they teach, and their time in the profession.
Contents
Contents (Tentative)
Introduction
1. Facing a New World in Teaching and Learning
Sonia NietoPart I: Identity, Family, and Community
2. You Lead Who You Are
Sonie Felix
3. Who Is That in the Mirror? A Journey of Self-Discovery, Resilience, and Pride
Nadla Tavares-Smith
4. Cape Verdean Kriolu, From the Community to the Classroom
Ambrizeth H. Lima, Dawna Marie Thomas, Abel Djassi Amado, Marlyse Baptista, and Lourenço GarciaPart II: Love and Affirming Practices
5. The Art of Intention
Odalis Amparo
6. From Prescriptions to Descriptions: Shaping Teacher Practice for Equity and Justice Through Aesthetic Experience
Suzanna Dali-Parker
7. Journey Onward, Beloved Educators
Mary Jade HaneyPart III: The Many Faces of Social Justice
8. Slowing Down, Learning From Canaries, and Listening to Resistance
Beth Adel
9. Running on Empty: Using Empathy and Kindness to Challenge Classroom Practices
Adi MartinezPart IV: Teaching and Activism in the Classroom and Beyond
10. The Winding Road to Educational Activism
Laurie García
11. Write to the City: Practicing Humanizing Pedagogy and Ethnic Studies in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles
Jorge Lopez
12. Finding My Place in the Educational Ecosystem: From Classroom Teacher to Teacherpreneur
Heather Robertson-DevinePart V: Teaching, Heartbreak, and Redemption
13. That's What She Said
Yahaira Marquez
14. Why I Still Teach: High School Is a Haunted House, but My Students Are Ghostbusters
Seth Richardson
15. Developing a Humane Pedagogy in Order to Live in the Sticky Promises of HOPE
Kerrita K. Mayfield
16. Love, Hope, Empathy, and the Way Forward
Alicia López Nieto
Index
About the Editors and Contributors
