More Courageous Conversations About Race

Use courageous conversations to build racial equity in your schools and districts! Since the highly acclaimed Courageous Conversations About Race offered educators a framework and tools for promoting racial equity, many schools have implemented the Courageous Conversations Protocol. Now, author Glenn Singleton shares the challenges that have often led to random acts of equity and pockets of excellence rather than systemic transformation. In a book that′s rich with anecdote, Singleton celebrates the successes, outlines the difficulties, and provides specific strategies for moving Courageous Conversations from racial equity theory to practice at every level, from classroom to the school superintendent′s office. Voices From the Inside narratives, written by champions of racial equity, offer moving illustrations of personal, professional, and organizational transformations. Here′s the MORE in More Courageous Conversations About Race: Examines the knowing-doing gap and suggests ways to transform your passion for racial equity into a powerful purpose that can transform our nation′s schools and classrooms. Demonstrates the positive outcomes for students and their schools when educators have the will, the skill, and the knowledge to sustain courageous conversations about race. Shows how the social and political climate provides increasing challenges to ensuring that underserved students get the educational opportunities they need to succeed. Explicitly embraces other people of color in the drive for racial equity and illustrates how the Courageous Conversations Protocol can be applied to their circumstances. Offers specific advice for engaging leaders beyond the school house door—district staff, superintendents, school boards, and local community leaders—and underscores the importance of their contributions. If you are committed to exercising leadership on behalf of all students, and especially underserved students of color, More Courageous Conversations About Race provides insight and inspiration for achieving your racial equity purpose.

Table of Contents:
Foreword by James P. Comer Preface Acknowledgments About the Author 1. Why Do We Need Another Book on Courageous Conversations About Race? It′s (Still) A Question of Will! Writing in Difficult Times Building on the Field Guide The "More" in More Courageous Conversations 2. From Will and Passion to Purpose Courage Requires Personal Purpose Differing Approaches to Diversity Purpose at Every Level Voices From the Inside: Macarre Traynham 3. Revisiting the Courageous Conversations About Race Protocol Getting Behind the Protocol′s Agreements, Conditions, and Compass Isolating Race: Intersectionality and Cultural Layering Getting Centered in a Mindful Way Examining the Presence and Role of Whiteness Closing the "Knowing-Doing" Gap Voices From the Inside: Devon Alexander 4. Seven Years Later: What′s Different and What′s the Same? Embracing Equity and Naming the "It": Systemic Racism The Data Minding the Gaps Can We Really Afford Equity? Applying New Technology to Racial Equity Work Voices From the Inside: Donna Hart-Tervalon 5. Why Are We Still Talking About Race? Beyond a Moral Imperative: Neuroscience and the Physiological Impact of Racism A Critique of Liberalism Are Black Males Beyond Love? Defining Resistance and Transforming "Resisters" What Should Be "Special" About Special Education? Voices From the Inside: Charles L. Hopson 6. Moving Courageous Conversations Beyond Black and White Empowering ALL People of Color Making the Invisible Visible: A Courageous Conversation About American Indians and Schooling Brown Space The Politics of English-Language Acquisition: Skin Color, Immigration Status, and Other Barriers Voices From the Inside: Luis Versalles, Elona Street-Stewart 7. A Vision and A Framework for Achieving Racial Equity in Education "Just Say No!" ... to Random Acts of Equity Unmasking Courageous Conversations About Racial Disparities in Independent Schools Where Is Higher Education? A Call for Seamless Racial Equity in PreK-16 Education Voices From the Inside: Bodie Brizendine, Akemi Matsumoto 8. Leadership for Racial Equity: From Theory to Practice Equity Development for School Boards District Equity Leadership Teams (DELT and DELTA) Site and Central-Office Department Leaders Engaged in Equity/Antiracism Development (LEADs) Equity Teams The Beacon Project Staff of Color Equity Development Students Organized for Anti-Racism (SOAR) Voices From the Inside: Carla Randall, Patrick Duffy, Anthony Galloway 9. Learning and Teaching for Racial Equity: From Theory to Practice Culturally Relevant Pedagogy Collaborative Action Research for Equity (CARE) Voices From the Inside: Jackie Roehl 10. Empowering Parents and Communities of Color for Racial Equity: From Theory to Practice Partnerships for Academically Successful Students Engaging and Developing White Allies to Support Parents and Community Members of Color in Schools Engaging White Allies in the Development and Recruitment of Other Whites to the Struggle for Racial Equity Developing and Reinventing School Boards as Allies in the Struggle for Racial Equity Voices From the Inside: Andrea Haynes Johnson 11. Eden Prairie Schools: A Case Study Eden Prairie Then and Now The District Develops a Clear Vision of Equity A Changing Climate The Results Are In: Progress Was Made Voices From the Inside: Connie Hytjan 12. Beyond Passion, Practice, and Persistence ... A Purpose for Achieving Equity! Notes Recommended Reading Index