1st Edition
Strengths-Based Changemakers in Education A Framework for Initiating Systemic Change
1. How Did We Get Here: A Brief History of the State of Race in Education 2. Education in Your State and Community 3. Better Understand Your School 4. You and Your School Community: Intensive Self-Reflection 5. Students and Your School Community 6. Change and Resistance to Change 7. Continued Change 8. Maintaining Progress: Dismantling the Foundation to Build Anew 9. Afterward: Resist
Biography
Alicia K. Oglesby is a high school counselor with over a decade of experience in urban education. She recently began her doctoral studies at The University of Pittsburgh.
Rebecca Atkins is a lifelong educator, nationally board-certified school counselor, and frequent speaker and presenter. She currently serves as a central office administrator in North Carolina.
"Strengths-Based Changemakers. In the face of difficulty and adversity, this book will help the reader to see that opportunities are being brilliantly disguised as impossibilities. Facing the critical need to stand and deliver to those who are actually doing the work and those impeding their progress, this book delivers the mail to the right address."
Dr Stephen Peters, President/CEO of The Peters Group and Consultant with Initiative One Leadership Institute
"Strengths-Based Changemakers in Education: A Framework for Initiating Systemic Change is an essential guide for educators committed to racial equity. This book equips individuals and teams with historical insights, self-reflection prompts, and actionable steps to drive meaningful change in their schools. It is a must-read for those ready to take action."
Sheldon L. Eakins, PhD, author and CEO of the Leading Equity Center
