1st Edition
Teaching to Close the Achievement Gap for Students of Color Understanding the Impact of Factors Outside the Classroom
Part 1: The Importance of Teacher Education for Diverse Classrooms
1. The Related and Unrelated Relationship of Cultural Competency, Self-identity and Academic Identity: Cultural Competency or Rigor?
Theodore S. Ransaw, Algerian Hart, & Francis, D.
2. Trauma Informed Teacher Training: The Impact of Trauma on Minority Student School Success
Angela M. Proctor, Thomas R. Brooks, and Mark J. Reid
3. Race and Restorative Justice in Urban Schools
Terry K. Flennaugh and Cierra Presberry
Part 2: Acknowledging the Impact of Student Life Beyond the Classroom
4. Family Discussions of Race Impacting Children’s PK-12 Schooling: Critical Pedagogy
Tarryn E. McGhie and Rebekah Piper
5. Sport Coach as Educational Leader: Distributed Leadership
Christel Rocha-Beverly
6. Informing the Career Development Process of Black Male Community College Basketball Players: More Than the Game
Tonjala Eaton
Part 3: Using Narrative Approaches to Problematize Student Experience
7. Refuge Among the Revolution: The Power of Narrative Inquiry
Tara B. Blackshear
8. Developing Consensus Through Digital Storytelling: Exploring Perceptions of Collaboration From Native Youth
Christie M. Poitra, Angela Kolonich, and Emily Sorroch
9. Narrative Approaches to Exposing the Racialized Experiences of Asian American Male Students
Mark Martell
Biography
Theodore S. Ransaw is Outreach Specialist in the Department of K-12
Outreach in the College of Education and affiliated faculty in African
American and African Studies at Michigan State University, U.S.A.
Richard Majors is Honorary Professor at the University of Colorado-
Colorado Springs, Senior Fellow of the Applied Centre for Emotional
Literacy & Research (ACELLR) and former Clinical Fellow at Harvard
Medical School, U.S.A.
