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Reclaiming Authenticity
Unearth Your True Self and Build an Equitable Classroom
Gain a transformative and practical guide that will help you deepen your understanding of how systemic inequities impact you and your students. In this book, the authors serve as co-conspirators to help educators develop authentic, inclusive approaches. You’ll learn to strategically challenge the status quo, empower other educators, and make practical changes to ensure equitable learning environments for all students.
Benefits
- Examine the complexity of identity to help them understand themselves and their students and avoid perpetuating harm
- Take a journey from examining systemic inequities that affect schools to envisioning a future of equitable education
- Identify unintentionally harmful practices and shift to culturally competent practices that ensure authenticity in the classroom
- Ponder their individual journeys as educators respond to chapter-reflection prompts
- Engage with interactive tools, activities, and reproducibles
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: The Value of Authenticity
Chapter 2: Teacher Identity, Intersectionality, and Cultural Competence
Chapter 3: The System and Authenticity
Chapter 4: Schooling, Authenticity, and Student Relationships
Chapter 5: (Try to) Do No Harm
Chapter 6: Dreams of an Authentic Future
PRINTABLE REPRODUCIBLES
Chapter 1: The Value of Authenticity
- Figure 1.1: Navigating Internal and External Identities
- Figure 1.3: Sample Teacher Reflection on Dialogical Components
- Reflecting on External and Internal Identities
- Journaling for Further Reflection
Chapter 2: Teacher Identity, Intersectionality, and Cultural Competence
Chapter 3: The System and Authenticity
- Figure 3.1: Unpacking Internalized Systems Sample Worksheet
- Figure 3.2: Unpacking Student Perspectives of Systems
- Figure 3.5: Sample Change Framework
- Unpacking Internalized Beliefs
Chapter 4: Schooling, Authenticity, and Student Relationships
Chapter 5: (Try to) Do No Harm
- Figure 5.2: Reflecting on the Roots of Harm
- Figure 5.6: Sample Prompts to Use During an Empathy Dialogue
- Figure 5.7: Journal Prompts for Teachers
- Figure 5.8: Potential Audit Questions
- Figure 5.9: Empathy Map
- Processing Harm and Moving Forward
- Unpacking Harm
Chapter 6: Dreams of an Authentic Future
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
Books
- Rogin, M. (2022). Change starts with me: Talking about race in the elementary classroom. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Sousa, D. A., & Tomlinson, C. A. (2018). Differentiation and the brain: How neuroscience supports the learner-friendly classroom(2nd ed.). Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Wiliam, D. (2018). Embedded formative assessment (2nd ed.). Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
