Elizabeth Denevi

Educator growth, well-being, and evaluation are often disconnected. How can we weave them together to better champion adult learning needs so educators can thrive and remain in their roles?In this important resource, bestselling authors Lori Cohen (The PD Book) and Elizabeth Denevi (Learning and Teaching While White) present a framework for creating a healthy ecosystem of school transformation: equity, well-being, growth, and evaluation. The authors discuss each foundation in depth and provide research-informed practices, tools, and case studies for easy implementation. Resources include reflections to co-create a vision for equity, a sample coaching/mentoring conversation arc, steps for implementing a growth structure, the Teacher–Student Relationship Quality (TSRQ) Matrix, the Integrated Classroom Practices for Equity rubric, and more.Whether you’re a school leader, mentor, or teacher evaluator, this accessible guide will help you create a transformative school environment to sustain and grow effective, empowered educators.

We need to name whiteness, in order to move toward antiracism.For too long, white educators have relied on people of color to make change to a relentlessly racist school system. Racial equity will not come until white educators recognize their role in supporting racist policies and practices, and take responsibility for dismantling them.Learning and Teaching While White is an accessible guide to help white educators, leaders, students, and parents develop an explicit, skills-based antiracist practice. Through their own experiences working with school communities, and the strategies and tools they have developed, Jenna Chandler-Ward and Elizabeth Denevi share how white educators can gain greater consciousness of their own white racial identity; analyze the role of whiteness in their school systems; rethink pedagogical approaches and curricular topics; address the role of white parents in the pursuit of racial literacy and equity; and much more. Their book will empower white educators to be part of creating a more equitable educational system for all students.