Description
Book SynopsisReview, rethink, and redesign racial support systems NOW
As schools engage in courageous conversations about how racialization and racial positioning influences thinking, behaviors, and expectations, many educators still lack the resources to start this challenging and personally transformative work.Race Resilienceoffers guidance to educators who are ready torethink, review,andredesigntheir support systems and foster the building blocks of resiliency for staff.
Readers will learnhow to:
- Model ethical, professional, and social-emotional sensitivity
- Develop, advocate, and enact on a collective culture
- Maintain a continuously evaluative process for self and school wellness
- Engage meaningfully with students and their families
- Improve academic and behavioral outcomes
Race resilient educators work
Trade Review
"Fostering Educator Resilience is practical, useful, and very realistic. I would love to use this book in professional development with my staff or in a workshop. The activities, vignettes, and reflection activities will help administrators create or change the culture and climate in whatever environment they find themselves."
-- Janice Wyatt-Ross
"Fostering Educator Resilience
provides timely and immediately applicable guidance. The resources and ability to reflect on them with prompts guides your reflection. The book provides realistic and practical guidance that educators can easily relate to and that resonate with their current needs.
One of the major strengths of the book is the variety of ways resources are being shared. I walked away knowing new people I wanted to read up on, new resources I needed to check out, and thinking about how I could take the exercises in this book into my work. It’s a resource full of resources!"
-- Tamisha Williams
"A major strength of this book is the reflective opportunities and personal perspectives which give the reader the opportunity to internalize the information that is presented."
-- Jayne Ellspermann
Table of ContentsForeword by Nancy Boyd-Franklin, PhD Preface Acknowledgments About the Authors Chapter 1. The Implementation Process: Steps to Becoming a Race Resilient School Year 1: Planning to Become a Race Resilient School No Need to Reinvent the Wheel Years 2–4 and Continuous Improvement Chapter 2. The NEED: Societal Changes Change Schools Changes in the Workplace Household, Community, and Environment: The Three Realms of Adverse Childhood Experiences Chapter 3. Creating the Culture for Developing a Race Resilient Climate School-to-Prison Pipeline Blind Spots Impact Other Groups of Students Measuring Up: Culture and Climate Are Not Synonymous Locus of Control Chapter 4. Educators’ Emotions Matter: Building Up Stamina for Developing a Race Resilient Climate So How Do Educators Feel? Our Daily Goal: Minimizing Distress and Maximizing Eustress Our Hormonal Brain Under Distress and Eustress Chapter 5. Racialization Can Be Blinding Racial Positioning United We Stand, Divided We Crawl The “R” Word 2020 and America’s Racial Awakening Through the Eyes of a Child: Racialization and Historical Trauma Historical and Generational Trauma Genes Load the Gun, Environment Pulls the Trigger E Pluribus Hurt, E Pluribus Healing This Is Us Chapter 6. Race Has Mattered in the School House The Effects of Racialization: White Identity Dispositions, Internalized Racism, and Stereotype Threat White Identity Dispositions Internalized Racism and Stereotype Threat Chapter 7. Mindful of Race Mindfulness in Teaching and Learning The Weight Room Versus the Wait Room Positive Psychology’s Five Building Blocks of Life Chapter 8. Educator Resilience, Educator Race Resilience, and Mindfulness for Racial Equity Transforming a District Transforming a School In the Space Between Is Mindfulness Introduction to Space Between Appendix Appendix A. Processing for Racial Awareness and Creating a Race Resilient Action Plan Appendix B. Race Resilient School Checklist Glossary of Terms References Index
