Leading Race and Equity Efforts in Schools

The authors discuss next steps for teaching racial equity, including actions educators can take on a daily basis and ways to overcome resistance to their efforts.

Guests: Tonya B. Perry, Steven Zemelman, Katy Smith, authors, Teaching for Racial Equity

Educators Shonterrius Lawson-Fountain and Vanessa Heller join Tonya to share how to create classroom conditions where students can find and claim their own voices and enable students to interrupt inequity in their schools and communities.

Guests:

Tonya B. Perry, author, Teaching for Racial Equity

Shonterrius Lawson-Fountain, literacy support teacher

Vanessa Heller, teacher

Two educators featured in the book, Teaching for Racial Equity, join author Tonya Perry to discuss how they lead the race and equity efforts at their schools and integrate these topics into teaching and learning. Guests:

Tonya B. Perry, author, Teaching for Racial Equity

Tina Curry, Chicago Public Schools

Adelfio Garcia, retired principal and literacy coach (Chicago)

The authors discuss how Teaching for Racial Equity came to be and its potential impact on race and equity issues in education today.  They share how their self-reflection work impacted their collaboration and the development of the book.  Guests: Tonya B. Perry, Steven Zemelman, Katy Smith, authors, Teaching for Racial Equity.

Learn More: 

Teaching for Racial Equity: Becoming Interrupters 

Available April 2022.