Calling school leaders — your students can change the world.

I didn’t enter the field of education just to teach quadratic equations or literary analysis. I came to make a difference. 

And I believe school leaders are in a unique position to create schools that prepare the next generation to build a better world.

That’s why I was so excited to talk about the book Educating for Justice: School-Wide Strategies to Prepare Students to Recognize, Analyze, and Challenge Inequity.

Authors Scott Seider, Aaliyah El-Amin, and Julia Bott created a four-part framework for helping schools systematically prepare students to recognize, analyze, and challenge injustice — in every grade, every classroom, and every content area.

Listen as we discuss those four parts to consider what you might bring back to your own school.

- Build Adult Capacity

- Foster Powerful Partnerships

- Center Justice in Curriculum and Pedagogy

- Engage Students in Social Action

Walk away with MAIN IDEAs…

1 MAIN IDEA: Schools have both the power and responsibility to prepare students to recognize, analyze, and challenge injustice — in every classroom and every subject.

1 HIGH-LEVERAGE ACTION: Use time intentionally. Create coherence across professional development, collaborative planning, and classroom instruction.

RESOURCES: Cultivating Genius by Gholdy Muhammad

Free 6-12th grade advisory curriculum for students to build a better world: bc.edu/4cs

Learn More About the Authors’ Work: 

Don’t Teach Your Students to be Passive Observers of Social Injustice

Critical Consciousness: A Key to Student Achievement

Five Ways to Teach Critical Thinking in Challenging Times 

Book: Educating for Justice: Schoolwide Strategies to Prepare Students to Recognize, Analyze, and Challenge Inequity

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