As students navigate learning and begin to establish a sense of self, local surroundings can have a major influence on the range of choices they make about who they are and who they want to be. This book investigates how various constructions of identity can influence educational achievement for African American students, both within and outside school. Unique in its attention to the challenges that social and educational stratification pose, as well as to the opportunities that extracurricular activities can offer for African American students' access to learning, this book brings a deeper understanding of the local and fluid aspects of academic, racial, and ethnic identities. Exploring agency, personal sense-making, and social processes, this book contributes a strong new voice to the growing conversation on the relationship between identity and achievement for African American youth.
This book reveals the complex and crucial work of sustaining justice-focused educational systems change in the face of subtle resistance and outright attacks. Scholars and practitioners, who have worked together in various capacities across different school systems, examine systemic equity leadership in U.S. public schools over the course of nearly a decade and across a time of profound racial and historical change. This volume weaves together real-world insights, research-based strategies, and practical tools for transforming P– 2 education systems into more equitable and just learning spaces. Contributors explore the early days of district equity leadership sparked by the Obama administration's focus on civil rights in education Black Lives Matter (beginning with the Million Hoodies Movement for Justice) the proliferation of formal equity director roles, policies, and priorities and the recent politically driven anti-DEI backlash. This book is important reading for school leaders, district personnel, policymakers, and everyone who cares about a public education that works for all students. Book Features: Provides bird's-eye and on-the-ground accounts of equity leadership to address broad questions and map invisible trends that have influenced how equity leadership happens.Explores approaches to district-wide equity leadership that emerged on the heels of Trayvon Martin's death, in what we now understand as the era of Black Lives Matter.Uses a frame of mornings, middays, and evenings to account for the cyclical nature of equity leadership and the limits and possibilities of working from within school systems to affect transformative change.Goes beyond the experience of any one school leader or team by illuminating organizational conditions, routines, networks, and practices.Includes insights on establishing district equity offices and institutionalizing equitable processes using data to influence change and create accountability and designing formal and informal networks that support the day-to-day work.
This book reveals the complex and crucial work of sustaining justice-focused educational systems change in the face of subtle resistance and outright attacks. Scholars and practitioners, who have worked together in various capacities across different school systems, examine systemic equity leadership in U.S. public schools over the course of nearly a decade and across a time of profound racial and historical change. This volume weaves together real-world insights, research-based strategies, and practical tools for transforming P– 2 education systems into more equitable and just learning spaces. Contributors explore the early days of district equity leadership sparked by the Obama administration's focus on civil rights in education Black Lives Matter (beginning with the Million Hoodies Movement for Justice) the proliferation of formal equity director roles, policies, and priorities and the recent politically driven anti-DEI backlash. This book is important reading for school leaders, district personnel, policymakers, and everyone who cares about a public education that works for all students. Book Features: Provides bird's-eye and on-the-ground accounts of equity leadership to address broad questions and map invisible trends that have influenced how equity leadership happens.Explores approaches to district-wide equity leadership that emerged on the heels of Trayvon Martin's death, in what we now understand as the era of Black Lives Matter.Uses a frame of mornings, middays, and evenings to account for the cyclical nature of equity leadership and the limits and possibilities of working from within school systems to affect transformative change.Goes beyond the experience of any one school leader or team by illuminating organizational conditions, routines, networks, and practices.Includes insights on establishing district equity offices and institutionalizing equitable processes using data to influence change and create accountability and designing formal and informal networks that support the day-to-day work.
Ancient history is full of mysteries, and Machu Picchu is one of the most interesting topics. The amazing and incredible Machu Picchu is explored, specifically addressing what secrets does this sacred place holds? What civilization built the citadel at Machu Picchu? How did science shape the Inca civilization? Why are people still visiting this place, and what are the popular cultural depictions of Machu Picchu? You will discover the answers to these questions and more in What in the World is Machu Picchu?, a compilation of student essays.
Today's diverse classrooms include students who have a wide range of previous academic achievement and different levels of receptive and productive proficiency in the language of instruction. Complex Instruction (CI), a popular pedagogical approach used in many countries, provides access to learning opportunities for all students. Designing Groupwork, Fourth Edition incorporates current research findings with new materials on how to implement the specific conditions necessary to ensure that CI strategies reach their expected goals of equity and excellence. This updated edition addresses new classroom technologies that impact teaching and learning; challenges that arose from the global pandemic; and students' vulnerable social-emotional states. Readers will learn how to respond to challenges and organize their classroom so that all students participate equitably. This classic text remains a valuable and sensible resource for educators in K-12 classrooms, for teacher candidates, and for anyone working in the field of education.Book Features:Easy-to-follow examples and research-based teaching strategies. The advantages and dilemmas of using groupwork in academically, linguistically, socially, and culturally heterogenous classrooms. Step-by-step approaches to successful planning, implementation, and assessment of the quality of the group tasks. Identification of interventions to remediate social processes that impede equitable access to academic and social resources in the classroom.Research findings from the work of the Program for Complex Instruction at Stanford University and other scholarly studies.
Today's diverse classrooms include students who have a wide range of previous academic achievement and different levels of receptive and productive proficiency in the language of instruction. Complex Instruction (CI), a popular pedagogical approach used in many countries, provides access to learning opportunities for all students. Designing Groupwork, Fourth Edition incorporates current research findings with new materials on how to implement the specific conditions necessary to ensure that CI strategies reach their expected goals of equity and excellence. This updated edition addresses new classroom technologies that impact teaching and learning; challenges that arose from the global pandemic; and students' vulnerable social-emotional states. Readers will learn how to respond to challenges and organize their classroom so that all students participate equitably. This classic text remains a valuable and sensible resource for educators in K-12 classrooms, for teacher candidates, and for anyone working in the field of education.Book Features:Easy-to-follow examples and research-based teaching strategies. The advantages and dilemmas of using groupwork in academically, linguistically, socially, and culturally heterogenous classrooms. Step-by-step approaches to successful planning, implementation, and assessment of the quality of the group tasks. Identification of interventions to remediate social processes that impede equitable access to academic and social resources in the classroom.Research findings from the work of the Program for Complex Instruction at Stanford University and other scholarly studies.
Interviews with young Muslims in Chicago explore the complexity of identities formed at the crossroads of Islam and hip hop This groundbreaking study of race, religion and popular culture in the 21st century United States focuses on a new concept, "Muslim Cool." Muslim Cool is a way of being an American Muslim—displayed in ideas, dress, social activism in the 'hood, and in complex relationships to state power. Constructed through hip hop and the performance of Blackness, Muslim Cool is a way of engaging with the Black American experience by both Black and non-Black young Muslims that challenges racist norms in the U.S. as well as dominant ethnic and religious structures within American Muslim communities. Drawing on over two years of ethnographic research, Su'ad Abdul Khabeer illuminates the ways in which young and multiethnic US Muslims draw on Blackness to construct their identities as Muslims. This is a form of critical Muslim self-making that builds on interconnections and intersections, rather than divisions between "Black" and "Muslim." Thus, by countering the notion that Blackness and the Muslim experience are fundamentally different, Muslim Cool poses a critical challenge to dominant ideas that Muslims are "foreign" to the United States and puts Blackness at the center of the study of American Islam. Yet Muslim Cool also demonstrates that connections to Blackness made through hip hop are critical and contested—critical because they push back against the pervasive phenomenon of anti-Blackness and contested because questions of race, class, gender, and nationality continue to complicate self-making in the United States.
Interviews with young Muslims in Chicago explore the complexity of identities formed at the crossroads of Islam and hip hop This groundbreaking study of race, religion and popular culture in the 21st century United States focuses on a new concept, "Muslim Cool." Muslim Cool is a way of being an American Muslim—displayed in ideas, dress, social activism in the 'hood, and in complex relationships to state power. Constructed through hip hop and the performance of Blackness, Muslim Cool is a way of engaging with the Black American experience by both Black and non-Black young Muslims that challenges racist norms in the U.S. as well as dominant ethnic and religious structures within American Muslim communities. Drawing on over two years of ethnographic research, Su'ad Abdul Khabeer illuminates the ways in which young and multiethnic US Muslims draw on Blackness to construct their identities as Muslims. This is a form of critical Muslim self-making that builds on interconnections and intersections, rather than divisions between "Black" and "Muslim." Thus, by countering the notion that Blackness and the Muslim experience are fundamentally different, Muslim Cool poses a critical challenge to dominant ideas that Muslims are "foreign" to the United States and puts Blackness at the center of the study of American Islam. Yet Muslim Cool also demonstrates that connections to Blackness made through hip hop are critical and contested—critical because they push back against the pervasive phenomenon of anti-Blackness and contested because questions of race, class, gender, and nationality continue to complicate self-making in the United States.
