Learning From Equity In Action Research and Resource List

This is a collection of the key research and resources that are informing the four-part Learning From Equity In Action series. It includes links to the influential resources that are connected to the seven principles of Anti-Racist Teaching that Goalbook’s Co-Founder and CEO, Daniel Jhin Yoo identified in Part 2 of the series.

1. Acknowledging the Prevalence of Racism
2. High Expectations of Student Success
3. Success Beyond Measure
4. Ownership of Racial Inequities
5. Personalized and Localized Solutions
6. Continuous Learning and Growth
7. Primacy of Outcomes

It should be noted, none of these works fit squarely within any of these individual categories, it’s important to understand that these groupings were subjective, based solely on Daniel Jhin Yoo’s research.

Acknowledging the Prevalence of Racism

• Harris, Angel L. Kids Don’t Want to Fail: Oppositional Culture and the Black-White Achievement Gap. Harvard University Press, 2011. https://www.amazon.com/Kids-Dont-Want-Fail-Oppositional/dp/0674057724/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=kids+don%27t+want+to+fail&qid=1615929408&sr=8-1
• Shores, Kenneth, et al. “Categorical Inequalities between Black and White Students Are Common in US Schools-but They Don’t Have to Be.” Brookings, Brookings, 21 Feb. 2020, www.brookings.edu/blog/brown-center-chalkboard/2020/02/21/categorical-inequalities-between-black-and-white-students-are-common-in-us-schools-but-they-dont-have-to-be/.

High Expectations of Student Success

• Benson, Tracey. “Unconscious Bias in Schools: A Developmental Approach to Exploring Race and Racism.” Williams College. Oct. 2019, Williamstown, MA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F75kbacFJN0
• McKamey, Pirette. “What Anti-Racist Teachers Do Differently.” The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, 9 Sept. 2020, www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2020/06/how-be-anti-racist-teacher/613138/.

• Millner-Williams, Shemeka. “We Owe All Students High Expectations.” TED-Ed Educator Talks. Nov. 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw1O1_ySKAs

• Steele, Claude, and Theresa Perry. Young, Gifted, and Black: Promoting High Achievement among African-American Students. Edited by Asa Hillard, Beacon Press, 2004. https://www.amazon.com/Young-Gifted-Black-Achievement-African-American/dp/0807031054
• TNTP. The Opportunity Myth: What Students Can Show Us About How School Is Letting Them Down — and How to Fix It, 2018. https://tntp.org/assets/documents/TNTP_The-Opportunity-Myth_Web.pdf

Success Beyond Measure

• Hammond, Zaretta. Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students. Corwin, a SAGE Company, 2015. https://www.amazon.com/Culturally-Responsive-Teaching-Brain-Linguistically/dp/1483308014

• Love, Bettina. We Want To Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom. Beacon, 2020. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/622408/we-want-to-do-more-than-survive-by-bettina-love/

Ownership of Racial Inequities

• Noguera, Pedro. “Grit, Overemphasized Agency, Overlooked.” In Motion Magazine, 3 Mar. 2015. https://inmotionmagazine.com/er15/pn_15_grit_and_agency.html

Personalized and Localized Solutions

• Ladson‐Billings, Gloria. “But That’s Just Good Teaching! The Case for Culturally Relevant Pedagogy.” Theory Into Practice, vol. 34, no. 3, 1995, pp. 159–165., doi:10.1080/00405849509543675. http://raisingachievement.org/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/Ladson_Billings_But_thats_just_good_teaching_The_case_for_Culturally_Relevant_pedagogy.261225116.pdf

• Paris, Django, and H. Samy Alim. Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies: Teaching and Learning for Justice in a Changing World. Teacher’s College Press, 2017. https://www.amazon.com/Culturally-Sustaining-Pedagogies-Teaching-Learning/dp/0807758337

Continuous Learning and Growth

• Picower, Bree. “Teaching Outside One’s Race: The Story of an Oakland Teacher.” Radical Teacher, vol. 100, 2014, pp. 112–121., doi:10.5195/rt.2014.166. https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Bree-Picower-ebook/dp/B00U0XCBRC

Primacy of Outcomes

• Fritzgerald, Andratesha, and Samaria Rice. Antiracism and Universal Design for Learning: Building Expressways to Success. CAST Professional Publishing, an Imprint of CAST, Inc., 2020. https://www.amazon.com/Antiracism-Universal-Design-Learning-Expressways-ebook/dp/B08HSPG6YJ

• Kendi, Ibram X. How to Be an Antiracist. Penguin Random House Publishing Group, 2020. https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Antiracist-Ibram-Kendi/dp/0525509283

• Rizga, Kristina. Mission High: One School, How Experts Tried to Fail It, and the Students and Teachers Who Made It Triumph. Nation Books, 2016. https://www.amazon.com/Mission-High-Experts-Students-Teachers/dp/1568585675

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