Preparing and Sustaining Social Justice Educators

Preparing and Sustaining Social Justice Educators is a valuable resource for educators,school leaders,and policymakers interested in promoting social justice in schools.
Preparing and Sustaining Social Justice Educators is a book that highlights the challenging and necessary work of fostering social justice in schools. It provides an intersectional approach to educational justice grounded in research about deeper learning, community development, and school reform. The book illustrates how professional learning collaborations promote diverse, antiracist, and socially responsible learning communities, and case studies at three university-partnered K–12 schools in Los Angeles demonstrate the benefits of these practices.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 28 September 2021
Publisher: Harvard Educational Publishing Group

Preparing and Sustaining Social Justice Educators delves into the critical and indispensable task of promoting social justice within schools. At the forefront of this effort are the educators and school leaders who actively embody the principles of social justice, including racial equity, cultural inclusivity, and identity acceptance, on a daily basis within their classrooms. This comprehensive volume argues that the provision of high-quality public education is contingent upon the recruitment, professional development, and retention of educators who are equipped to navigate complex systemic and structural inequalities in order to best serve vulnerable student populations.

In collaboration with contributing scholars and practitioners, Annamarie Francois and Karen Hunter Quartz present an intersectional approach to educational justice that is firmly rooted in research on deeper learning, community development, and school reform. Throughout the book, the contributors provide detailed accounts of professional activities that have proven to sustain social justice educators. They showcase how effective teacher coaching, for instance, empowers educators to confront their explicit and implicit biases, engage in critical conversations and self-reflection, and evaluate teacher performance through a social justice lens.

The book vividly illustrates how professional learning collaborations foster diverse, antiracist, and socially responsible learning communities. Through case studies at three university-partnered K–12 schools in Los Angeles, the benefits of these professional alliances and practices are demonstrated.

Francois and Quartz acknowledge the formidable challenges faced by social justice educators, particularly in the context of a K–12 teacher shortage, an undersupplied teacher pipeline, and school closures. Nonetheless, they remain steadfast in their pursuit of a just and equitable future, and in this work, they provide educators with the necessary tools to build such a future.

Weight: 360g
Dimension: 153 x 228 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781682536520