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<h2 class="hd hd-2 unit-title">Book List</h2>
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<p>Becoming a more equitable educator is a lifelong pursuit. One of the best ways we've found to join the conversation and boost your own learning is through books. Here is a list of books we'd recommend for your reading list, organized by unit. </p>
<p>Please note we do not expect learners to absorb whole books during the run of this course; rather, we hope these books will be useful for long-term learning (summer reading, faculty book clubs, etc.).</p>
<h3><strong>Unit 0 Recommended Books</strong></h3>
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<li>Hammond, Zaretta. 2015. <em>Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain.</em> Corwin Publishing. This book combines recent brain research, education science, cultural theory, and a career’s worth of educational strategies to describe a pathway to help culturally and linguistically diverse learners become confident, independent learners. <em>For a preview of themes from the book, check out this <a href="http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/classroom_qa_with_larry_ferlazzo/2015/07/culturally_responsive_teaching_an_interview_with_zaretta_hammond.html" target="_blank">short interview</a> with Hammond. </em></li>
<li>Millner, Richard H IV. 2020. <em>Start Where You Are but Don’t Stay There: Understanding Diversity, Opportunity Gaps, and Teaching in Today’s Classrooms, Second Edition.</em> Harvard Education Press. This book combines theory and case studies to describe the mindsets and practices that can help create opportunity for culturally diverse learners. </li>
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<h3><strong>Unit 1 Recommended Books</strong> </h3>
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<li>Minor, Cornelius. 2018. <em>We Got This: Equity, Access, and the Quest to Be Who Our Students Need Us to Be</em>. Heinemann Publishing. Minor gives concrete strategies to listen and be responsive to student needs, reframe our thinking about discipline, and speak up when initiatives aren’t working for kids. <em>For a preview of the book’s content, this <a href="https://blog.heinemann.com/on-the-podcast-building-better-heroes-with-cornelius-minor" target="_blank">30 minute podcast</a> episode recaps themes from Minor’s book. </em></li>
<li>Meyer, Anne, David H. Rose, and David Gordon. 2014. <em>Universal Design for Learning: Theory & Practice.</em> CAST Professional Publishing. This book describes the concept of universal design for learning, as well as how it can be applied by educators in schools. </li>
<li>Ahmed, Sara K. 2018. <em>Being the Change: Lessons and Strategies to Teach Social Comprehension.</em> Heinemann. <span id="docs-internal-guid-5033fe9d-7fff-36d0-84bf-1fbcba545a54"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #313131; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ahmed, a former member of the teacher leadership team for Facing History and Ourselves, </span></span>offers lesson plans and strategies for teaching about topics of identity, bias, and more. </li>
<li>Shalaby, Carla. 2017. <em>Troublemakers</em>. The New Press. In this remarkable book, Shalaby uses case studies of four early-elementary children to reframe “troublemakers” as teachers of valuable lessons. </li>
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<h3><strong>Unit 2 Recommended Books</strong></h3>
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<li>Steele, Claude M. 2011. <em>Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do (Issues of Our Time)</em>. W.W. Norton & Company.</li>
<li>Valenzuela, Angela. 1999.<em> Subtractive Schooling: U.S. - Mexican Youth and the Politics of Caring.</em> SUNY Press. Starting from research findings of Mexican-born students outperforming their US-born Mexican-American peers, Valenzuela uses a micro-ethnographic study of a Texas high school to look at the ways that biased or assimilationist schooling might decrease student achievement. </li>
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<h3><strong>Unit 3 Recommended Books </strong></h3>
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<li>Tatum, Beverly Daniel. 2017. <em>Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations about Race.</em> Hachette Book Group. This book traces how racial identity development starts in young children and grows over the lifecourse. This book can help teachers understand students of color as they develop their identity, and offers a roadmap for White students to develop a positive racial identity, and gives suggestions on how to talk about race. Preview themes in the book with Dr. Tatum’s <a href="https://tedx.stanford.edu/lineup/beverly-daniel-tatum" target="_blank">short TEDx talk</a> with advice about discussing race with young children.</li>
<li>Singleton, Glenn E. 2015 <em>Courageous Conversations About Race: A Field Guide for Achieving Equity in Schools.</em> Corwin. This book walks readers through a step-by-step process for considering one’s own identity, the challenges of interracial conversations, and how race impacts schools. Useful for individuals, but also provides resources for leading group conversations. </li>
<li>Irving, Debby. 2014. <em>Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race.</em> Elephant Room Press. This mix of personal memoir, history, and how-to tells the story of how the author came to understand her own cultural roots in the process of understanding racial justice. Filled with insight, this is a great starting place for introspection for White educators. </li>
<li>DiAngelo, Robin. 2018. <em>White Fragility</em>. Beacon Press. DiAngelo coined the term “white fragility” to describe the reactions that White people in the US may have to a racially stressful or uncomfortable situation, which serve to reinforce a white racial hierarchy. The book explores how white fragility develops and how it helps maintain systemic racism, and provides suggestions for how we can move forward productively. </li>
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<h3><strong>Unit 4 Recommended Books</strong></h3>
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<li>Delpit, Lisa. 2013. <em>“Multiplication Is for White People": Raising Expectations for Other People's Children.</em> The New Press. This book describes inequitable educational outcomes in the United States and ways to create more equitable classrooms.</li>
<li>Meizhu Lui, Barbara Robles, Betsy Leondar-Wright, Rose Brewer, and Rebecca Adamson. 2006. <em>The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide.</em> United for a Fair Economy. This book asks the question: why do some racial groups in the U.S. have more wealth today? To answer, it looks back at U.S. policies going back generations and how they impacted Indigenous people and Latino, Black, Asian and White Americans. A primer on how government and law has shaped the U.S. racial experience. </li>
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<h3><strong>Other Books</strong></h3>
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<li>Cushman, Kathleen. 2005. <em>Fires in the Bathroom: Advice for Teachers from High School Students.</em> The New Press. This book shares input and perspectives from students for teachers in urban high schools.</li>
<li>Van Maele, Dimitri, Patrick B. Forsyth, and Mieke Van Houtte. 2014. <em>Trust and School Life: The Role of Trust for Learning, Teaching, Leading, and Bridging. </em>Springer.</li>
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