Full Description
Almost 200 years after public schools moved toward free education for all children, educators are still exploring the best approaches for promoting equitable student growth. In early 2020, Covid-19 operational changes and the challenge to confront America's most profound racial problems exposed many equity issues in schools. As a result, educators were called to reimagine the field of education as the curtain closed on the first quarter of the 21st century.
The essays in this book challenge classroom instructors to consider new approaches to education theory, classroom praxis and teaching content. The chapters herein draw on mixed-methods and narrative form essays to provide practical tools and techniques for building equitable schools. Viewing schools as extensions of society-at-large, this book delivers innovative curricular approaches to STEM education, the Humanities and applied theater. The authors offer methods for empowering student voices, managing moments of crisis, increasing representation in computer science and implementing restorative justice disciplinary practices in learning institutions. Essays provide all educators with proven instructional models for curricular equity with the goal of moving America closer to a multicultural democracy.
Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction
Todd M. Mealy and Heather Bennett
In the Context of "Additional Context": A Syllabus
Connor Towne O'Neill
Towards an Inclusive and Equitable Future: The Imperative to Broaden Participation in Computing
Monique S. Ross
Training the Next Generation of Science Activists Using Critical Race Pedagogy
Lisette E. Torres
Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices in the Mathematics Classroom
Tressa D. Matthews and Jennifer D. Banks
Healing Through Stories: How Picture Books and Storytelling Can Cultivate Caring Spaces in Early Elementary Classrooms
Dominique Herard
Freedom Dreaming Through Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy
Ling-Se Chesnakas
Pedagogical Practices to Thwart Voicelessness Among America's Silenced Students
Patrice W. Glenn Jones and Kevin A. Rolle
Post-Pandemic Solidarity Through Social Justice Pedagogy in America and Beyond: An AsianCrit Autoethnographic Account of Race, Justice, and Education
Aaron Teo
Under-Resourced, Underfunded, and Covid: What a Pandemic Can Teach Schools Seeking Racial Equity
N.J. Akbar, Jennifer L. Martin, Christie Magoulias, and Dayle Rebelsky
Isolation, Incarceration, and Institutions: Exploring Abolitionist Policies for Post-Pandemic Education
Ebony L. Perro and Ted Nelson
From Woke to Action: School Counselors' Quest for Educational Equity and Social Justice in the Midst of Systemic
Racism and Covid-19
Marsha L. Rutledge and Tinisha Parker
Dismantling Disproportionality in Special Education Through Antiracist Practices
Dena D. Slanda, Lindsey M. Pike, Léa Herbert, Eric B. Wells, and Candace Pelt
Re-Imagining Racial Liberation Within the Applied Theatre Classroom and Beyond
Amanda Masterpaul
About the Contributors
Index
