Providing an essential counternarrative for white teachers in urban settings, the authors draw on historical belief systems and current events to reinforce the importance of their work and give strategies for improvement.
Moore, Eddie. 2018. The Guide for White Women Who Teach Black Boys. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin
In this video educational leaders discuss the challenges presented by and impacts experienced from implicit bias in schools.
The Voice: Highlights from 2018 (The Voice). 2018. Vialogue. EdLab Teachers College: Columbia University.
The empathic-mindset intervention is an online exercise to refocus middle school teachers on understanding and valuing the perspectives of students and on sustaining positive relationships even when students misbehave. This intervention reduced suspension rates especially for Black and Hispanic students, reduced the racial disparity over the school year by 45%. Significant reductions were also observed students with disabilities and for students with one previous suspension. These reductions persisted through the next year when students interacted with different teachers, suggesting that empathic treatment with even one teacher in a critical period can improve students’ trajectories through school.
Okonofua, Jason, J. Parker Goyer, Constance Lindsay, Johnetta Haugabrook, and Gregory Walton. 2022. “A scalable empathic-mindset intervention reduces group disparities in school suspensions.” Science Advances 8, no. 12, https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/sciadv.abj0691 (accessed January 30, 2023).
The authors discuss the need to use UDL and CRT in instruction. They argue that pre service and inservice teachers are culturally situated within cultural and linguistic groups. It is important for pre- and in-service teachers to understand this cross-pollination when using the UDL Guidelines as an implementation tool in their classrooms to proactively identify and address potential barriers to student learning while sustaining their students' cultural and linguistic identities.
Takemae, N., Nicoll-Senft, J., & Tyler, R. M. (2022). Addressing Issues of Equity Using the Cross-Pollination of Universal Design for Learning and Culturally Responsive Teaching. PDS Partners: Bridging Research to Practice, 17(1), 9–15.
This study explores Asian American teachers’ performances of racial/ethnic identities and pedagogical practices in the classroom.
Chow, C. J. (2021). Asian American teachers in U.S. classrooms: Identity performances and pedagogical practices. Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 29(1), 21–41.
Students of color, especially Black males identified as having emotional behavior disorders (EBD), are overrepresented in exclusionary practices. Exclusionary practices, such as in-school suspension, out-of-school suspension, and expulsion, negatively impact academic and social–emotional–behavioral outcomes for all students, especially students with EBD. This article identifies the overlapping principles of culturally responsive teaching and culturally responsive pedagogy as theorized by Gay and Ladson-Billings so that teachers of students of color identified with EBD can better support the specific learning needs of their students. These principles are explicitly applied to behavior-specific praise and error corrections, two evidence-based classroom behavioral management practices.
Power, M. E., Kelley, M. H., Selders, K. J., & Green, A. L. (2023). Culturally Responsive Evidence-Based Practices for Black Males with Emotional Behavioral Disorders. Intervention in School and Clinic, 0(0
Integrating brain science, culture, and learning, Hammond provides information on using information processing to improve capacity for learning.
Hammond, Zaretta. 2015. Culturally Responsive Teaching & the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.
A New York Times bestseller, this book provides a balance of stories and strategies to help urban educators to understand the realities of their students' lives and to recognize their strengths.
Emdin, Christopher. 2017. For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education (Race, Education, and Democracy). Boston: Beacon Press.
This article provides a method to bridge home to school through the use of a home to school bi-lingual journal which validates the experiences of Latinx families and learners and integrates it into the curriculum.
Lopez, M., Butvilofsky, S. A., Le, K., & Gumina, D. (2022). Project Recuerdo: Honoring Latinx Families’ Knowledge Within the School. Reading Teacher, 75(4), 429–440. https://doi.org/10.1002/trtr.2062
The book explores the implications of disproportionality on educational outcomes and equity. It is an important for practitioners because it offers a broad overview of findings and issues associated with inequity in special education.
Losen and Orfield. Racial Inequity in Special Education. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University; Harvard Education Press, 2005.
