The Race Card: Leading the Fight for Truth in America's Schools

Race-neutral leadership is not an option, and education leaders must co-construct practices to disrupt storylines, policies, and practices that perpetuate opportunity gaps. The Race Card is a guide for frontline leaders to confront and disrupt racism, providing a road map for building anti-racist leadership capacity in a turbulent political environment.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 176 pages
Publication date: 04 July 2023
Publisher: Sage Publications Inc Ebooks

Education leaders are at the forefront of the fight for racial justice, and they must co-construct practices to disrupt storylines, policies, and practices that perpetuate opportunity gaps. Drawing from established research and the wisdom of teachers, young people, parents, community members, policy advocates, and school leaders, The Race Card is a guide for frontline leaders at every level to confront and disrupt racism. Designed to engage leaders in candid conversations about race and racism, this book provides a road map for building anti-racist leadership capacity in today's turbulent political environment. Features include:

Eight interrelated tenets of Frontline Leadership: Strategies for supporting faculty, staff, students, and the broader community in practices centering racial justice and equity.
Guidance for dismantling the lies and beliefs that perpetuate inequities.
Design principles and strategies to cultivate opportunity-rich and robust curriculum, instruction, relationships, and assessment.

The frontline isn't always a comfortable place, but it's where education leaders are needed right now. Lead the fight for truth in your school community and help change history—by putting our nation back on the path to racial justice.

Weight: 340g
Dimension: 254 x 177 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781071907771