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DEI Book Talks: “Classroom Cultures: Equitable Schooling for Racially Diverse Youth”
March 28, 2022 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm EDT
ABOUT THE BOOK
This practical resource will assist secondary educators in creating equitable schooling environments for racially diverse youth. Classroom Cultures provides direct insight into the experiences, challenges, and successes of teachers and school leaders who engaged in professional development to better understand and implement culturally relevant educational practices. The authors identify key aspects of successful strategies and offer recommendations for tackling the many challenges of implementing effective school change. Short vignettes incorporate the perspectives of teachers, counselors, administrators, and the authors as they collaborate and reflect on their own practices.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
- Dr. Michelle Knight-Manuel is a Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Teaching at Teachers College, Columbia University and executive editor of Teachers College Record. Her scholarly work includes three distinct yet complementary strands of inquiry: college readiness and access, immigrant youth’s civic strengths, and culturally relevant teacher preparation. She has published in such journals as the American Educational Research Journal, Teachers College Record, Race, Ethnicity and Education, Review of Research in Education, and the Journal of Educational Policy. She is the recipient of several honors and awards, including the AERA Research on Women in Education Willystine Goodsell Award and a Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship. Michelle Knight-Manuel has also served as the Director of Culturally Relevant College and Career Readiness for the New York City Department ofEducation’s Expanded Success Initiative and as a Senior Research Fellow at theMassachusetts Institute of Career and College Readiness at Boston University.
- Dr. Joanne E. Marciano is an Assistant Professor of English Education in theDepartment of Teacher Education at Michigan State University and a former New York City public high school English teacher. Her research examines opportunities for educators to disrupt inequities by enacting participatory approaches to curriculum and teaching that acknowledge and extend youths’ literacy practices as strengths. She has published her work in journals including Urban Education, Journal of Teacher Education, Research in the Teaching of English, and International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. She was awarded the 2021 Outstanding Publication of the Year Award by the Narrative Research SIG of the American Educational Research Association for her paper “‘This is America’: Examining artifactual literacies as austere love across contexts of schools and everyday use,” co-authored with Vaughn W.M. Watson.