The Conscious Educator

Many people are in a place of disbelief and shock as they turn on (or scroll through) the news cycle in our nation lately. For those wanting answers as who, what, when, where, why, and HOW the U.S. has come to be as it is today...I offer a few reading selections to help you understand.

Hopefully, after turning only a few pages in any of these books, WE can stop asking: How is this happening? And instead, start DOING something about it.

Happy reading!!!!

New publication is out!!!!! Just in time for Juneteenth!!!! What better way to celebrate Freedom Day with some proclamations to reclaiming Black Lives!!!!!!👇🏽🖤🤎✊🏽

Get it here: https://www.igi-global.com/chapter/teacher-education-for-black-lives/382402?camid=4v1

👉🏽This chapter will address the critical need for transformative professional development in teacher education, aimed at developing educators with the liberatory approaches necessary to effectively support Black students' identities and their lived experiences in school settings. Recognizing the unique challenges that Black students often face within educational spaces, this chapter advocates for a shift in teacher training that emphasizes cultural competency and responsive, identity-affirming, and liberatory pedagogy. By fostering an understanding of systemic inequities, their impact on Black students' educational experiences, and Black historical epistemologies, this chapter will outline practical approaches for embedding a liberatory professional development framework for school leaders and teacher educators to use within professional development initiatives.

New publication!!!!!! Check out my contribution to give voice to the experiences of Black female teacher educators who prepare pre-service teachers for today's diverse classrooms! I'll give you a hint: resistance is REAL!!!! We got this tho!!!!😉

👉Read my article here: https://doi.org/10.70144/sg010107ii%C2%A0

👉Read the entire issue from the Texas Journal for Multicultural Education here: https://www.txname.org/published-issues/august-2024