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Learning as a Way of Leading: Lessons from the Struggle for Social Justice

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Learning as a Way of Leading: Lessons from the Struggle for Social Justice

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Stephen D. Brookfield and Stephen Preskill

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Learning as a Way of Leading: Lessons... book by Stephen D. Brookfield

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Dignity and Justice in Sexuality Education (slides)

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Dignity and Justice in Sexuality Education (slides)

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Ruha Benjamin

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Race After Technology (Polity) cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce white supremacy and deepen social inequity. Benjamin argues that automation has the potential to hide, speed, and even deepen discrimination, while appearing neutral and even benevole

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Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain

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Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain

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Zaretta Hammond

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Culturally Responsive Teaching & the Brain

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Hey. Thanks for stopping by my blog. You might have found your way here through a number of possible paths. Maybe you heard about my book, Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain. Or, maybe you typed in www.ready4rigor.com and those shadowy internet puppeteers redirected you here. Maybe you ended up here because you were doing a Google search for culturally responsive teaching practices

Or maybe your school is reading Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain in a book study and you wanted to know more about this Zaretta Hammond chick who wrote it.

It doesn't matter how you got here. What's important is that you and I are now connected.

Since you are an equity-minded educator like me, you are probably waging your own private movement to bust the myths behind student engagement (or the lack of) among low performing students of color, poor students, and English learners.

Well, you are in the right place. This is a blog where we can get answers to our collective and individual questions about how we can help students become confident and competent learners. In this space, I want to highlight what I am learning from being out in schools and classrooms with teachers who are successful with diverse students. I want to focus on how we can take everyday strategies and practices and put them to work in their classrooms to be more culturally responsive.

So, again, welcome!

Just to let you know, on average, I publish a new post every other week - two times per month at the least (sometimes a few more). That gives me time to be in schools and to write. If you don't want to miss updates on what I am seeing and learning, sign up for my newsletter by pushing that button below.

Binge-worthy Posts and Podcasts

Books are good, but sometimes you want your knowledge in bite-sized doses. That's what I like to deliver: consumable, usable, and entertaining food for thought (and action). Here are some of the most popular blog posts and guest podcast interviews to sample.

About Zaretta Hammond

It's funny. These days a lot of folks are calling me "Dr. Hammond" since the book has become required reading in many teacher education programs and school districts. Well, to set the record straight, I am not a PhD. I do have a Master's degree, but I consider myself a "boots on the ground" teacher. I call myself a former writing teacher turned equity freedom fighter. My heart is forever with children and teachers in the classroom, not in an ivory tower, even if these days most of my "students" are new leaders and pre-service teachers. [ A quick note: Not throwing any shade at all the PhDs out there doing the work.]

When I was in the classroom back in the day, I taught composition (expository writing). It was where I started to understand how important literacy was to equity, and how neuroscience and culture should inform our instructional practice.

Since leaving the classroom, I have done work as a curriculum designer and professional developer at organizations such as the National Equity Project and the Annenberg-funded Bay Area School Reform Collaborative (BASRC) in the San Francisco-Bay Area. I am a trained facilitator in anti-bias processes and have facilitated groups focused on learning to talk about issues of racial politics and privilege.

My primary work has been linking instruction, equity, and literacy. I have spent time as an adjunct instructor at Saint Mary's College in Norther California where I taught Adolescent Literacy and trained tutors and parents in reading support strategies for struggling students of color.

As an undergraduate, I attended University of California, Berkley before finishing up my degree at New York University where I majored in English Literature with a minor in Writing. I completed my Masters in Secondary English Education, with a Concentration in Writing Instruction at University of Colorado, Boulder where I simultaneously did my teacher certification program (starting three months after the birth of my son. I do not recommend this).

For the past 25 years, I've maintained a small, independent education consulting practice from which I do my research and writing as well as support schools doing deep instructionally-focused equity work.

Stay in touch

I hope this blog inspires, motivates, and challenges you to try some new practices that move you toward being more culturally responsive. If it does, send me a note. I'd love to hear from you. The best way to keep in touch with me is to sign up for free email updates (where you get all kinds of exclusive goodies).

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About - Culturally Responsive Teaching & the Brain

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Hey. Thanks for stopping by my blog. You might have found your way here through a number of possible paths. Maybe you heard about my book, Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain. Or, maybe you typed in www.ready4rigor.com and those shadowy internet puppeteers redirected you here.

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CODED BIAS explores the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, and her journey to push for the first-ever legislation in the U.S. to govern against bias in the algorithms that impact us all.

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Modern society sits at the intersection of two crucial questions: What does it mean when artificial intelligence increasingly governs our liberties? And what are the consequences for the people AI is biased against? When MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini discovers that many facial recognition technologies do not accurately detect darker-skinned faces or classify the faces of women, she delves into an investigation of widespread bias in algorithms. As it turns out, artificial intelligence is not neutral, and women are leading the charge to ensure our civil rights are protected.

"Thought-provoking. "Coded Bias" serves as both a wake-up call (to invasive practices the public doesn't yet realize are being implemented) and a call to action."

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CODED BIAS explores the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, and her journey to push for the first-ever legislation in the U.S. to govern against bias in the algorithms that impact us all.

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Weapons of Math Destruction has been Longlisted for the National Book Award!

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A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life - and threaten to rip apart our social fabric
We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives-where we go to school, whether we get a car loan, how much we pay for health insurance-are being made not by humans, but by mathematical models. In theory, this should lead to greater fairness: Everyone is judged according to the same rules, and bias is eliminated.

But as Cathy O'Neil reveals in this urgent and necessary book, the opposite is true. The models being used today are opaque, unregulated, and uncontestable, even when they're wrong. Most troubling, they reinforce discrimination: If a poor student can't get a loan because a lending model deems him too risky (by virtue of his zip code), he's then cut off from the kind of education that could pull him out of poverty, and a vicious spiral ensues. Models are propping up the lucky and punishing the downtrodden, creating a "toxic cocktail for democracy." Welcome to the dark side of Big Data.

Tracing the arc of a person's life, O'Neil exposes the black box models that shape our future, both as individuals and as a society. These "weapons of math destruction" score teachers and students, sort résumés, grant (or deny) loans, evaluate workers, target voters, set parole, and monitor our health.

O'Neil calls on modelers to take more responsibility for their algorithms and on policy makers to regulate their use. But in the end, it's up to us to become more savvy about the models that govern our lives. This important book empowers us to ask the tough questions, uncover the truth, and demand change.

Published by Crown Random House

Order now from Amazon or from Barnes and Noble.

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Weapons of Math Destruction has been Longlisted for the National Book Award! Book description: A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life - and threaten to rip apart our social fabric We live in the age of the algorithm.

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Daniel H. Pink

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Daniel H. Pink | The official site of author Daniel Pink

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* New York Times bestseller

* BusinessWeek bestseller

* Wall Street Journal bestseller

* Washington Post bestseller

Discussion Guide for Business (Free 2-page PDF)

Discussion Guide for Educators (Free 2-page PDF)

Lawyers. Accountants. Computer programmers. That's what our parents encouraged us to become when we grew up. But Mom and Dad were wrong. The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind. The era of "left brain" dominance, and the Information Age that it engendered, are giving way to a new world in which "right brain" qualities-inventiveness, empathy, meaning-predominate. That's the argument at the center of this provocative and original book, which uses the two sides of our brains as a metaphor for understanding the contours of our times.

In this insightful and entertaining book, which has been translated into 20 languages, Daniel H. Pink offers a fresh look at what it takes to excel. A Whole New Mind reveals the six essential aptitudes on which professional success and personal fulfillment now depend, and includes a series of hands-on exercises culled from experts around the world to help readers sharpen the necessary abilities. This book will change not only how we see the world but how we experience it as well.

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New York Times bestseller * BusinessWeek bestseller * Wall Street Journal bestseller * Washington Post bestseller Discussion Guide for Business (Free 2-page PDF) Discussion Guide for Educators (Free 2-page PDF) Lawyers. Accountants. Computer programmers. That's what our parents encouraged us to become when we grew up. But Mom and Dad were wrong.

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Identity, and Political Vision: Toward a Justice-Centered Approach to Equity in Computer Science Education

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Identity, and Political Vision: Toward a Justice-Centered Approach to Equity in Computer Science Education

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Sepehr Vakil

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Disrupting the Preschool to Prison Pipeline (slides)

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Disrupting the Preschool to Prison Pipeline (slides)

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Disrupting the Preschool to Prison Pipeline (SLIDES)

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Tips for Making Sex-as-Risk Lessons More Love-based

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Compare Messages_ Sex-as-Risk vs. Love-based

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Advocating for Love-Based Models with Admin

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Advocating for Love-Based Models with Admin

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Mapping

We strive to map Indigenous territories, treaties, and languages across the world in a way that goes beyond colonial ways of thinking in order to better represent how Indigenous people want to see themselves.

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Native Land is a resource to learn more about Indigenous territories, languages, lands, and ways of life. We welcome you to our site.

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Educators for Justice Inc. is an organization committed to creating a positive, inclusive, and empowering educational experience for students of all individual intersections, ethnic backgrounds, and socio-economic statuses. Our focus is to cultivate holistic educational environments that empowers and enlightens all students, parents and educators.

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Educators for Justice Inc. is an organization committed to creating a positive, inclusive, and empowering educational experience for students of all individual intersections, ethnic backgrounds, and socio-economic statuses. Our focus is to cultivate holistic educational environments that empowers and enlightens all students, parents and educators.

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For American parents, teenage sex is something to be feared and forbidden, and sex is often a source of family conflict. In the Netherlands, where teenage pregnancies are far less frequent than in the United States, parents aim above all for family cohesiveness, often permitting older teenage couples to sleep together and providing them with contraceptives. Probing our child-rearing for what it tells us about our culture, Not Under My Roof offers an unprecedented, intimate account of the ways girls and boys in both countries negotiate sex, love, and growing up.
Praise for Not Under My Roof

Carefully researched, wicked smart, and filled with the voices of parents and teenagers, this is one of the best books on sexuality and culture in years.

-Joshua Gamson, PhD, University of San Francisco

Has the power to transform adolescent and adult sexuality and family relations.

-John Santelli, MD, Columbia University

Offers American parents a new, hopeful-if at times unsettling-sense of how we might better love, respect, and care for our children.

-Ann Swidler, PhD, University of California at Berkeley

It is my sincere hope that every parent will read this book. As the parent of a 23 and 17-year-old, I am humbled by how very much I had to learn. From the first time I heard Amy speak, I was forever changed as a parent. Thank you Amy!

-Lynn B. Barclay, Parent & President, American Social Health Association

One of the most helpful and insightful books that I've read on adolescents in America. I highly recommend it to any parent educator or parent of teens who is debating how to engage teenagers around the topics of sex, drug and alcohol use, and curfews. A very important and timely book.

- Joshua Coleman, PhD, Author and Psychologist

[Not Under My Roof] starts in the adolescent bedroom, and ends up explaining why the US is so conservative on social issues and the Netherlands so liberal.

This is a thorough and intriguing look at how attitudes about sexuality have developed in each country since the 1970s.... Schalet has juxtaposed US and Dutch cultural histories, family values, and societal attitudes about such seemingly diverse issues as sexuality, immigration, and the intersection of individual autonomy and state sovereignty to produce a fascinating look into the origins and consequences of two diametrically opposed paradigms of adolescent sexuality. . . . Highly recommended.

Amy Schalet's book compares the sexual attitudes of American and Dutch parents and her findings are nothing short of staggering: Whereas most American parents panic about the idea of allowing their kids to have sex with other kids under their roof, for many Dutch parents, it's not only fine - it's responsible parenting. . . . Schalet's extensively researched, fascinating work . . . is a startling wake-up call about America's largely misguided attitudes toward sex and growing up.

It's courageous of Amy Schalet ... to offer up her fascinating and wise new book, "Not Under My Roof: Parents, Teens, and the Culture of Sex." Based on a blending of meticulous scholarly research and extensive interviews with both Dutch and American parents and teenagers ... Schalet's book ... amounts to a ringing rationale for the sexual autonomy of adolescents.

For scholars looking to use this book in the classroom, Schalet's writing style is clear and engaging, and she has written this book with both academics and the wider public in mind. This book is particularly ideal for encouraging introductory students to "think difference differently," as gender scholars are apt to say.

-Berkeley Sociology of Gender

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For American parents, teenage sex is something to be feared and forbidden, and sex is often a source of family conflict. In the Netherlands, where teenage pregnancies are far less frequent than in the United States, parents aim above all for family cohesiveness, often permitting older teenage couples to sleep together and providing them with contraceptives.

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Al Vernacchio: Sex needs a new metaphor. Here's one ...

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For some reason, says educator Al Vernacchio, the metaphors for talking about sex in the US all come from baseball -- scoring, getting to first base, etc. The problem is, this frames sex as a competition, with a winner and a loser.

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Sexuality Education | Al Vernacchio | TEDxWakeForestU

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Beyond Abstinence and Risk: A New Paradigm for Adolescent Sexual Health

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Beyond Abstinence and Risk: A New Paradigm for Adolescent Sexual Health

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preventexpulsion.org

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preventexpulsion.org

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American Kids & The School-To-Prison Pipeline

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Addressing Disproportionate Suspension of Black Children & Youth

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Black Minds Matter: Addressing Disproportionate Suspensions of Black Children and Youth

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Dr. Rosemarie Allen: Disrupting the Preschool to Prison Pipeline

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Dr. Rosemarie Allen: Disrupting the Preschool to Prison Pipeline

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What Happens When Children Are Suspended from School Before They Can Walk?

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On June 12, 2020, the Denver Public School board unanimously voted to end its contract with the Denver Police. This is an important first step in the process to end Denver's school-to-prison pipeline . In her TEDxMileHigh talk, early childhood education expert Dr. Rosemarie Allen discusses how the pipeline starts earlier than most think.

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Eliminating Disparities in School Discipline

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Eliminating Disparities in School Discipline

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Eliminating Disparities in School Discipline 2017

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White Dominant Culture and Something Different

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White Dominant Culture and Something Different

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Introducing: Nice White Parents (Published 2020)

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A new five-part series about building a better school system, and what gets in the way. New episodes of “Nice White Parents” are available here, brought to you by Serial Productions and The New York Times.