Teachers Speak Up!

Stories of Courage, Resilience, and Hope in Difficult Times

Sonia Nieto, Alicia López Nieto (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2024
Teachers' College Press (Verlag)
978-0-8077-6952-2 (ISBN)

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Offers a compelling picture of education today. Chapters highlight essays written by a diverse group of K-12 classroom teachers who share their vision for education and describe their empowering classroom practices.

In the past several years, we have witnessed unprecedented political, racial, economic, and health-related ruptures in society. The resulting turmoil has had an inevitable and negative impact on students, teachers, the profession of education, and especially marginalized and vulnerable populations. Academics and policymakers have had their say on how to address today’s volatile issues, but teachers and other practitioners closest to students have not had the same visibility or access. This volume is an attempt to remedy that absence, resulting in a compelling picture of education today. Chapters highlight essays written by a diverse group of K–12 classroom teachers who share their visions for education and describe their empowering classroom practices. At times hopeful and full of joy, at other times angry and full of frustration, these essays speak to what classrooms and schools based on social justice might mean for our nation. Teachers Speak Up! presents a bold vision of what education could be if teachers were to have a more direct influence on the purpose and aims of learning and teaching.

Book Features:

Offers grounded accounts about creating classrooms filled with hope and promise amid the many challenges to everyday practice.
Addresses the harm done by universal school closures due to the pandemic, growing political divisions, the ugly specter of racism, book bans, and more.
Gives voice to classroom teachers who describe their vision for education, as well as their successful practice teaching diverse students.
Includes chapter authors who are diverse in their identities, the subject matter they teach, and their time in the profession.

Sonia Nieto is professor emerita of language, literacy, and culture at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her books include The Light in Their Eyes, Why We Teach, and Why We Teach Now. Alicia López Nieto is an ELL teacher in the Amherst Public Schools, Massachusetts. Together, they are the authors of Teaching, A Life's Work: A Mother–Daughter Dialogue.

Contents

Introduction 1

1. Facing a New World in Teaching and Learning 7

Sonia Nieto

Part I: Identity, Family, and Community

2. You Lead Who You Are 27

Sonie Felix

3. Who Is That in the Mirror? A Journey of Self-Discovery, Resilience, and Pride 39

Nadla Tavares Smith

4. Cabo Verdean Kriolu, From the Community to the Classroom 47

Ambrizeth H. Lima, Dawna Marie Thomas, Abel Djassi Amado, Marlyse Baptista, and Lourenço Garcia

Part II: Love and Affirming Practices

5. The Art of Intention 65

Odalis Amparo

6. From Prescriptions to Descriptions: Shaping Teacher Practice for Equity and Justice Through Aesthetic Experience 75

Suzanna Dali-Parker

7. Journey Onward, Beloved Educators 95

Mary Jade Haney

Part III: The Many Faces of Social Justice

8. Slowing Down, Learning from Canaries, and Listening to Resistance 107

Beth Wohlleb Adel

9. Running on Empty: Using Empathy and Kindness to Challenge Classroom Practices 117

Adriana Martinez

Part IV: Teaching and Activism in the Classroom and Beyond

10. The Winding Road to Educational Activism 133

Laurie García

11. Write to the City: Practicing Humanizing Pedagogy and Ethnic Studies in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles 147

Jorge Lopez

12. Finding My Place in the Education Ecosystem: From Classroom Teacher to Teacherpreneur 171

Heather Robertson-Devine

Part V: Teaching, Heartbreak, and Redemption

13. Why Are We Here?: The Power of Being Seen and of Belonging 193

Yahaira D. Márquez

14. Why I Still Teach: High School Is a Haunted House, but My Students Are Ghostbusters 205

Seth Peterson

15. Developing a Humane Pedagogy in Order to Live in the Sticky Promises of Hope 225

Kerrita K. Mayfield

16. Love, Hope, Empathy, and the Way Forward 237

Alicia López Nieto

About the Editors and Contributors 249

Index 255

Erscheinungsdatum	27.03.2024
Reihe/Serie	Visions of Practice Series
Mitarbeit	Herausgeber (Serie): Sonia Nieto
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 229 mm
Gewicht	386 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8077-6952-5 / 0807769525
ISBN-13	978-0-8077-6952-2 / 9780807769522
Zustand	Neuware