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Teach! Change! Empower!
Solutions for Closing the Achievement Gaps



November 2009 | 152 pages | Corwin
Carl Grant, a leading authority on multicultural education, offers a constructive action plan to help teachers affirm and support their studentsÆ diverse individual and group identities while simultaneously developing pedagogies that will enable them to close the achievement gap.áTeach! Change! Empower! introduces a step-by-step change processùfrom acknowledging the need for change to implementation of changeùand presents a model for creating schools that are: Places where students can have significant achievementsCulturally relevant environments for studentsPlaces where power is used to promote caring communities
 
Preface
 
Acknowledgments
 
About the Author
 
Getting the Most out of the Book
 
Part 1. The Harder Work of Teaching
 
1. The Achievement Gap
What is the Achievement Gap and Why Must It Be Eliminated?

 
The Multiplicity and Intersectionality of Gaps

 
Effects of the Academic Achievement Gap

 
Action Plan 1: Revisiting the Struggle for Closing the Achievement Gap with Fresh Eyes

 
 
2. Diversity and Power
Diversity

 
Affirming Diversity

 
All Teachers Need to Learn about Diversity

 
Power in the Context of Change

 
Where is Power in Your School?

 
Action Plan 2: Affirming Diversity in Your Classroom & Power Structures in Society

 
 
3. Caring With Socio-Political Consciousness
Becoming Socially Critical

 
Fostering a Caring Community Among Students

 
Action Plan 3: Caring with Socio-Political Consciousness

 
 
4. Acknowledging the Change/Transition: Step One
Mobility and Change: A New and Different Time

 
Multiple Teacher Roles & Change

 
Changing the Markers of Achievement

 
Action Plan 4: Goals for Change

 
 
5. Reacting to Change/Transition: Step Two
Strong Feeling and Mixed Emotions

 
Searching to Connect With Student Knowledge and Experiences

 
Nervous Reactions to Racism and Other “Ism”s

 
Reactions are Influenced by Context and Settings

 
New Teachers Need Help

 
Action Plan 5: Reacting to the Change - Confronting Our Biases and Conditioning

 
 
6. Investigating the Change/Transition: Self Investigation - Step Three
Teacher Multicultural Attitude Survey (TMAS)

 
Knowledge of Self: Self-Understanding and Self-Acceptance

 
Multicultural Personality for Affirming Diversity

 
Teacher Personal Dispositions Toward Diversity

 
Knowledge About the School Community

 
Attitudes and Dispositions of Teachers Who Work to Close the Achievement Gaps

 
Reflection 6.4

 
Action Plan 6: Self-Investigation

 
 
7. Investigating the Change/Transition: Program Investigation
The Achievement Reform Movement

 
Action Plan 7: Program Investigation

 
 
8. Implementing Change: Step Four
Knowledge Base for Closing the Achievement Gaps

 
Knowledge of Curricular Content: A Strong Subject Matter Base

 
Knowledge About Teaching: Pedagogical Content Knowledge

 
Pedagogical Skills for Closing the Achievement Gaps

 
Teacher Pedagogical Skills Survey

 
Reflective Skills

 
Action Plan 8: Teacher Knowledge About Content and Pedagogy

 
 
Part 3. Change/Solutions in Practice
 
9. Cultural Competence
Culturally Relevant Curriculum

 
Reflection 9.3

 
Action Plan 9: Cultural Competence and Culturally Relevant Teaching

 
 
10. Change/Solution in Practice: Four Examples
 
Conclusion
 
References
 
Index

"Teach! Change! Empower! takes the concepts of diversity and change—which are often complex, abstract, confusing, and not salient to many teachers who struggle with the meaning of the concepts in actual classroom practices—and uses them as a framework for something that is very real to teachers: the achievement gap. This connection both increases salience to the teacher and gives him or her a greater motivation for examining and understanding the impact of diversity and change."

Barbara Heuberger Rose, Associate Professor
Miami University

"This book is easy to read and holds the reader's attention. The tools for self assessment and interactive discussion are outstanding. Readers are challenged to think about themselves and their role in addressing achievement gaps in a non-blaming manner. Carl Grant does an outstanding job of incorporating the work of a number of researchers in a way that readers easily see the connections between the researcher's work and the achievement gap."

Maria Whittemore, Minority Achievement Coordinator
Frederick County Public Schools, MD

"The foundation of this work is helping individuals understand themselves racially and how racism works institutionally, and how we can build on this knowledge to create culturally responsive pedagogy. The hundreds of teachers and principals we work with will find this book extremely helpful."

Peter T. Wilson, President
Education Equity Consultants, LLC

Sample Materials & Chapters

Preface

Chapter 1: The Achievement Gap


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