We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
By: Bettina L. Love
4.54
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
Drawing on personal stories, research, and historical events, an esteemed educator offers a vision …
Want to Read $ 9.99"When you understand how these theories function, when they become your North Star, you understand why progress is so hard and why survival is a constant struggle. Theories are more than just academic words that folx with degrees throw around at coffee shops and poetry slams; they work to explain to us how the world works, who the world denies, and how structures uphold oppression."-Bettina L. Love, We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
"When you understand how these theories function, when they become your North Star, you understand why progress is so hard and why survival is a constant struggle. Theories are more than just academic words that folx with degrees throw around at coffee shops and poetry slams; they work to explain to us how the world works, who the world denies, and how structures uphold oppression."-Bettina L. Love, We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
"When you understand how these theories function, when they become your North Star, you understand why progress is so hard and why survival is a constant struggle. Theories are more than just academic words that folx with degrees throw around at coffee shops and poetry slams; they work to explain to us how the world works, who the world denies, and how structures uphold oppression."-Bettina L. Love, We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
"The four major testing companies—Pearson Education, Educational Testing Service, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and McGraw Hill—make $2 billion a year in revenue while spending $20 million a year lobbying for more mandated student assessments. Prisons bring in $70 billion a year in revenue, and its industry spends $45 million a year lobbying to keep people incarcerated and for longer sentences."-Bettina L. Love, We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
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1. Pedagogy of the Oppressed
By: Paulo Freire , Donaldo Macedo , Myra Bergman Ramos , None
4.30
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in En… read more
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"Critical consciousness, they say, is anarchic."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"People educate each other through the mediation of the world."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"Word is not the privilege of some few persons but the right of everyone"-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
2. Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
By: None
4.43
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Fifteen-year-old Diamond stopped going to school the day she was expelled for lashing out at peers … read more
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3. Is Everyone Really Equal?: An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education
By: Robin DiAngelo , None , Özlem Sensoy
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
This practical handbook will introduce readers to social justice education, providing tools for dev… read more
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4. Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students
By: Zaretta Lynn Hammond
4.27
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
A bold, brain-based teaching approach to culturally responsive instruction To close the achievement… read more
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5. For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education
By: Christopher Emdin
3.15
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Merging real stories with theory, research, and practice, a prominent scholar offers a new approach… read more
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6. Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom
By: Herbert R. Kohl , None
2.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
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7. Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America
By: None , Jose Antonio Vargas
4.29
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
"My world seems upside down. I have grown up but I feel like I'm moving backward. And I can't do an… read more
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8. Troublemakers: Lessons in Freedom from Young Children at School
By: None
2.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this dazzling debut, Carla Shalaby, a former elementary school teacher, explores the everyday li… read more
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9. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
By: bell hooks
3.46
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks--writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual--writes ab… read more
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10. We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
By: Bettina L. Love
4.54
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
Drawing on personal stories, research, and historical events, an esteemed educator offers a vision … read more
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"When you understand how these theories function, when they become your North Star, you understand why progress is so hard and why survival is a constant struggle. Theories are more than just academic…"-Bettina L. Love, We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
"The four major testing companies—Pearson Education, Educational Testing Service, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and McGraw Hill—make $2 billion a year in revenue while spending $20 million a year lobbyin…"-Bettina L. Love, We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
11. Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side
By: Eve L. Ewing
4.39
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
“Failing schools. Underprivileged schools. Just plain bad schools.” That’s how Eve L. Ewing ope… read more
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12. Street Data: A Next-Generation Model for Equity, Pedagogy, and School Transformation
By: Shane Safir
4.27
Format: None pages, ebook
Radically reimagine our ways of being, learning, and doing Education can be transformed if we erad… read more
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13. Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy
By: April Baker-Bell
4.64
Format: None pages, Unknown Binding
Bringing together theory, research, and practice to dismantle Anti-Black Linguistic Racism and whit… read more
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14. Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy
By: Gholdy Muhammad
4.45
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In Cultivating Genius, Dr. Gholdy E. Muhammad presents a four-layered equity framework—one that is … read more
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"As long as oppression is present in the world, young people need pedagogy that nurtures criticality."-Gholdy Muhammad, Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy
"Perhaps the people who need criticality the most become those who share identities with the greatest oppressors of the world."-Gholdy Muhammad, Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy
"We live in a period where there's no time for "urgent-free pedagogy." Our instructional pursuits must be honest, bold, raw, unapologetic, and responsive to the social times."-Gholdy Muhammad, Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy
"The need to agitate for criticality historically spoke to the social unrest at the time, and I argue that the need to agitate is still necessary and pressing in classrooms today."-Gholdy Muhammad, Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy
15. We Got This.: Equity, Access, and the Quest to Be Who Our Students Need Us to Be
By: Cornelius Minor
4.43
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
"That's the problem with you, Minor" a student huffed. "You want to make everything about reading o… read more
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16. Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education
By: Alex Shevrin Venet
4.56
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Trauma-informed initiatives tend to focus on the challenging behaviors of students and ascribe them… read more
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17. Textured Teaching: A Framework for Culturally Sustaining Practices
By: Lorena Escoto German
4.46
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
"Be prepared to be embraced with words, images, stories, examples, experiences, and a love for teac… read more
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18. The New Teacher Book: Finding Purpose, Balance and Hope During Your First Years in the Classroom
By: Linda Christensen
3.99
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
Teaching is a lifelong challenge, but the first few years in the classroom are typically a teacher'… read more
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19. Sing a Rhythm, Dance a Blues: Education for the Liberation of Black and Brown Girls
By: Monique W. Morris
4.41
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking and visionary call to action on educating and supporting girls of color, from the … read more
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20. Unearthing Joy: A Guide to Culturally and Historically Responsive Curriculum and Instruction
By: Gholdy Muhammad
4.33
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In this follow-up to Cultivating Genius, Dr. Gholdy Muhammad adds a fifth pursuit―joy―to her ground… read more
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21. Ratchetdemic: Reimagining Academic Success
By: Christopher Emdin
4.46
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
A revolutionary new educational model that encourages educators to provide spaces for students to d… read more
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