My first honest conversation about white privilege came much too late in life. I was a 40-something doctoral candidate taking a class on multicultural education with a dozen other white women. Thankfully, the course was taught by the same (white) professor whose mantra became my own: The more I learn, the less I know. This […]
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Teaching Black Consciousness and White Privilege
One matter we have gotten over very quickly as a country is the notion, beginning in 2008 and carried throughout the Obama presidency, that we now live in a “post-racial” society. Â The fact that an African American was twice-elected to the nation’s highest office gave rise to the idea that racial discord can now be […]
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Learning and Teaching While White: A White Educator’s Review
Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! Learning and Teaching While White: Antiracist Strategies for School Communities by Jenna Chandler-Ward and Elizabeth Denevi is one of the latest entries to the growing market of antiracist education books. With favorites like We Want to Do More than […]
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Teaching for Justice & Belonging: A White Educator’s Review
Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! Teaching for Justice & Belonging, co-written by Dr. Lucretia Carter Berry, Founder and President of Brownicity, and Dr. Tehia Starker Glass, Associate Professor of Educational Psychology and Elementary Education at UNC Charlotte, is a breath of fresh, healing air in the educational […]
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Leading Equity: A White Educator’s Review
Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! Dr. Sheldon L. Eakins, Ph.D.’s Leading Equity: Becoming an Advocate for All Students, touches on mindsets, beliefs, and practices that are foundational to equity-centered teaching and learning. The book is reflective of his work as the director of Leading Equity […]
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My Question to White Teachers: Why Are You Here?
Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! Why I Asked the Question School has already begun for many students across the country and will begin for many more in the next few weeks. Like most teachers, I spent the summer recuperating from and reflecting on the […]
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How to Raise an Antiracist: A White Educator’s Review
Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! It’s safe to say scholar, professor, and author Ibram X. Kendi brought the term antiracist into our collective consciousness with his bestseller, How to be an Antiracist.In his latest book, How to Raise an Antiracist, Kendi adapts his work […]
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Dear White Teachers, Black Students Matter
Dear White Teachers, Black Students Matter After George Floyd’s murder, I woke up to a string of messages from one of my Black students, M. She poured her heart out to me at three in the morning, releasing the burdens she carries as a young Black woman in America.  She said she was desperate to […]