The guide for White women who teach Black boys: understanding, connecting, respecting

Part 1. Exploring the self. Ready to make a difference, the old fashioned way / Debby Irving ; Vignette: Raisins in the sun: white teacher as a force of nature buffering the radiation of racial retaliation / Howard Stevenson

The state of the white woman teacher / Julie Landsman

Advancing the sucess of boys and men of color /

The Seven Centers ; Vignette: Two black boys / Solomon Smart

Understanding unconscious bias as one more tool in the committed white teacher's equity toolkit / Diane Finnerty

White female teachers and black boys : right teachers and (mis)understood boys / John Marshall

White racial identity development / Ali Michael

"What if being called 'racist' is the beginning, not the end, of the conversation?" / Elizabeth Denevi ; Vignette: New understandings / Eli Scearce

What does it mean to be a white teacher? / Robin DiAngelo.

Part 2. Understanding the constraints and challenging the narratives about who black boys are and who white women can be. Respecting black boys and their history / Jawanza Kunjufu

"I can switch my language, but I can't switch my skin" : what teachers must understand about linguistic racism / April Baker-Bell ; Vignette: The color of poop / Krystal de'León

Identity safety as an antidote to stereotype threat / Becki Cohn-Vargas

The science behind psychological verve and what it means for black students / Darla Scott

The visit / Chezare Warren and Justin Coles

Rewriting the narrative / Toni Williamson ; Vignette: Slavery's archetypes affect white women teachers / Olugbala Williams

"Don't lean, jump in" : the fierce urgency to confront, dismantle, and (re)write the historical narrative of black boys in educational institutions / Sharoni Little.

Part 3. Respecting the broad diversity of black boys' experiences and identities. Vignette: Prince taught me the redefinition of black masculinity / Jack Hill

Strategies for showing love to black boys / Jaime Washington

White privilege and black excellence: two terms i've been "afraid" of for much of my life /

David Stills

Black boys and their racial identity : learning how they fit into society and in your classroom / Paul A. Robbins, Leann V. Smith, and Keisha Bentley-Edwards ; Vignette: I had a right / Adrian Chandler

Teaching black boys during childhood : a counter narrative and considerations / Joseph Derrick Nelson ; Vignette: Being black and deaf is a double stigma / Sean Norman

"How dare you make this about race?!" : centering race, gender and poverty / H. Richard Milner

The n!gga(er) in me / Eddie Moore Jr. ; Vignette: Die n-word die / Marguerite W. Penick-Parks

Blackness/transness : two targets on my back / Zeam Porter with Ty Gale ; Vignette: What educators can do to support trans students / Phillipe Cunningham

White teachers and the power to transform : early childhood educators and the potential for lasting harm / Chonika Coleman-King and Jabina Coleman ; Vignette: Brown mothers, white children

Learn about us before you teach (about) us : queer black boys / Benny Vásquez

Black male students and teachers in K-12 classrooms : strategies for support to increase performance as students and professionals / Chance Lewis and Amber Bryant ; Vignette: The administrative assistant staff member: oh, and black! / Deneen R. Young.

Part 4. Relationships with parents, colleagues, and community. Helping amazing black boys become amazing black men / an interview with Vernā Myers

Connecting with black students and parents : equal vision / Shakti Butler ; Vignette: Being a black mom of black boys / Orinthia Swindell

Activating inclusiveness / Chris Avery

Belief, pedagogy and practice : strategies for building powerful classroom communities / Stefanie Rome and Ty-Ron Douglas ; Vignette: The symbolic teacher / Carl Moore

Ruminations from the intersections of a #BlackMommyActivist / Shemariah Arki ; Vignette: Discipline practices of Caribbean families / Chonika Coleman-King

Find freedom in the classroom : a love letter to my babies' teachers / Crystal Laura.

Part 5. Connecting student success and failure to school structures and classroom strategies. Start out firm / Valerie Adams-Bass

A parable of academic misgivings : the educator's role in addressing college undermatch / Ed Smith ; Vignette: Nonviolence, violence and standing up / Aaron Abram

The collusion of social norms and working with interracial families / Jennifer Chandler

What are we doing to address "these" students? : strategies for creating equitable classrooms / Brian Johnson ; Vignette: Dismantling the "white savior mentality" / Marvin Pierre

Interrupting school structures: ADD/ADHD over-identification and how black cultural styles are often confused for ADD / Erica Snowden

Football, sports and Moore : using schools structures to get more out of black boys / Eddie Moore Jr. and Frederick Gooding Jr.

Part 6. Connecting student success to school structures and classroom strategies. Vignette: How do black lives matter in your curriculum? / Russell Marsh

Strategies that de-escalate conflict in the classroom / Barbara Moore-Williams, Deidre Spence, and Christopher McGinley

Meeting students where they are: project-based learning and critical thinking skills / Marguerite W. Penick-Parks, Suzanne Fondrie, and Omobolade Delano-Oriaran

Black faces and white spaces : recognizing and supporting black boys in gifted education / Brian L. Wright, Donna Y. Ford and Tarek C. Grantham

The book matters: using the color-coded bloom-banks matrix to support the literacy and engagement of black boys / Michelle Trotman Scott, Brian L. Wright, and Donna Y. Ford

Books and curriculum : what to read with black males in elementary school to create a strong foundation of positive racial identity development / Marie Michael

Global skills : beyond the classroom and the playground / Dion Crushshon

Outtro : remember, black girls aren't doing "just fine" : supporting black girls in the classroom / Charlotte E. Jacobs.