Gilda Martinez-Alba, EdD, is the Assistant Dean in the College of Education at Towson University. She focuses her scholarship and service initiatives on diversity, equity, and inclusion with accessible actions, such as asset-based literacy instruction for multilingual learners integrating technology and social-emotional learning as well as advocating for underrepresented students in the field of education.Luis Javier Pentón Herrera, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the University of Warsaw, and a Coordinator of the Graduate TESOL Certificate at The George Washington University.His scholarship revolves around topics related to antiracism, such as indigenous epistemologies and decolonizing research methodologies. Afra Ahmed Hersi, PhD, is the Interim Dean of the School of Education at Loyola University Maryland and Professor in Literacy Teacher Education. She has published research in the areas of immigration and education, literacy, language development for bilingual learners, culturally and linguistically responsive practice, and teacher education.

• Foreword - Preparing Teachers to be Counterstorytellers and Antiracistsby Juan A. Ríos VegaIntroductionBecoming Together: Interrogating Antiracism in Teacher Education through Critical Self-Study by Courtney Baker, Melissa Troudt, Sara Donaldson, Robin Anderson & Dawn WoodsAntiracist Praxis in Teacher Education by Rosemary HendriksInoculating Against COVID-19 Disconnection within the White Dominant Spaces of Teacher Education and Fashioning Liberation Along the Way: Testimonio Inquiry as Antiracist Teacher Preparation Re-centering Knowledge and Power by Mia Sosa-Provencio, Ybeth Iglesias, Jackie Cusimano, Zachary Ramsey, and Helena Omaña ZapataSpilling the Tea: Stories of Confronting and Addressing Racism in ESOL Classrooms by Manuel De Jesús Gómez Portillo, Ethan Trinh, and Luis Javier Pentón HerreraEmbracing Community, Disrupting Isolation: The Importance of Relationships and Land in Antiracist Teacher Education by Ionah M.E. Scully and D. Romo It’s About the Relationship: Deepening Antiracist Educational Praxis with Teacher Candidates Through the Graduate Curriculum by Pamela M. Jones and Jessica G. WontropskiAntiracist Teacher Construction Zone: Journeying with Teacher Candidates by Maria J. Franshaw and Shannon E. Prince

Evocative and timely, Antiracist Teacher Education: Counternarratives and Storytelling, foregrounds the significance of reflexively listening to the lived experiences of minoritized people and communities. Provocatively calling everyone—from K-12 practitioners to those in teacher education programs—to think critically about sociopolitical histories as they are tangled up in contemporary contexts, Antiracist Teacher Education, is essential reading for those creating and maintaining inroads to antiracist pedagogies, practices, and schools.

Gilda Martinez-Alba, EdD, is the Assistant Dean in the College of Education at Towson University. She focuses her scholarship and service initiatives on diversity, equity, and inclusion with accessible actions, such as asset-based literacy instruction for multilingual learners integrating technology and social-emotional learning as well as advocating for underrepresented students in the field of education.Luis Javier Pentón Herrera, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the University of Warsaw, and a Coordinator of the Graduate TESOL Certificate at The George Washington University.His scholarship revolves around topics related to antiracism, such as indigenous epistemologies and decolonizing research methodologies. Afra Ahmed Hersi, PhD, is the Interim Dean of the School of Education at Loyola University Maryland and Professor in Literacy Teacher Education. She has published research in the areas of immigration and education, literacy, language development for bilingual learners, culturally and linguistically responsive practice, and teacher education.

• Foreword - Preparing Teachers to be Counterstorytellers and Antiracistsby Juan A. Ríos VegaIntroductionBecoming Together: Interrogating Antiracism in Teacher Education through Critical Self-Study by Courtney Baker, Melissa Troudt, Sara Donaldson, Robin Anderson & Dawn WoodsAntiracist Praxis in Teacher Education by Rosemary HendriksInoculating Against COVID-19 Disconnection within the White Dominant Spaces of Teacher Education and Fashioning Liberation Along the Way: Testimonio Inquiry as Antiracist Teacher Preparation Re-centering Knowledge and Power by Mia Sosa-Provencio, Ybeth Iglesias, Jackie Cusimano, Zachary Ramsey, and Helena Omaña ZapataSpilling the Tea: Stories of Confronting and Addressing Racism in ESOL Classrooms by Manuel De Jesús Gómez Portillo, Ethan Trinh, and Luis Javier Pentón HerreraEmbracing Community, Disrupting Isolation: The Importance of Relationships and Land in Antiracist Teacher Education by Ionah M.E. Scully and D. Romo It’s About the Relationship: Deepening Antiracist Educational Praxis with Teacher Candidates Through the Graduate Curriculum by Pamela M. Jones and Jessica G. WontropskiAntiracist Teacher Construction Zone: Journeying with Teacher Candidates by Maria J. Franshaw and Shannon E. Prince

Evocative and timely, Antiracist Teacher Education: Counternarratives and Storytelling, foregrounds the significance of reflexively listening to the lived experiences of minoritized people and communities. Provocatively calling everyone—from K-12 practitioners to those in teacher education programs—to think critically about sociopolitical histories as they are tangled up in contemporary contexts, Antiracist Teacher Education, is essential reading for those creating and maintaining inroads to antiracist pedagogies, practices, and schools.

Gilda Martinez-Alba, EdD, is the Assistant Dean in the College of Education at Towson University. She focuses her scholarship and service initiatives on diversity, equity, and inclusion with accessible actions, such as asset-based literacy instruction for multilingual learners integrating technology and social-emotional learning as well as advocating for underrepresented students in the field of education.Luis Javier Pentón Herrera, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the University of Warsaw, and a Coordinator of the Graduate TESOL Certificate at The George Washington University.His scholarship revolves around topics related to antiracism, such as indigenous epistemologies and decolonizing research methodologies. Afra Ahmed Hersi, PhD, is the Interim Dean of the School of Education at Loyola University Maryland and Professor in Literacy Teacher Education. She has published research in the areas of immigration and education, literacy, language development for bilingual learners, culturally and linguistically responsive practice, and teacher education.

• Foreword - Preparing Teachers to be Counterstorytellers and Antiracistsby Juan A. Ríos VegaIntroductionBecoming Together: Interrogating Antiracism in Teacher Education through Critical Self-Study by Courtney Baker, Melissa Troudt, Sara Donaldson, Robin Anderson & Dawn WoodsAntiracist Praxis in Teacher Education by Rosemary HendriksInoculating Against COVID-19 Disconnection within the White Dominant Spaces of Teacher Education and Fashioning Liberation Along the Way: Testimonio Inquiry as Antiracist Teacher Preparation Re-centering Knowledge and Power by Mia Sosa-Provencio, Ybeth Iglesias, Jackie Cusimano, Zachary Ramsey, and Helena Omaña ZapataSpilling the Tea: Stories of Confronting and Addressing Racism in ESOL Classrooms by Manuel De Jesús Gómez Portillo, Ethan Trinh, and Luis Javier Pentón HerreraEmbracing Community, Disrupting Isolation: The Importance of Relationships and Land in Antiracist Teacher Education by Ionah M.E. Scully and D. Romo It’s About the Relationship: Deepening Antiracist Educational Praxis with Teacher Candidates Through the Graduate Curriculum by Pamela M. Jones and Jessica G. WontropskiAntiracist Teacher Construction Zone: Journeying with Teacher Candidates by Maria J. Franshaw and Shannon E. Prince

Evocative and timely, Antiracist Teacher Education: Counternarratives and Storytelling, foregrounds the significance of reflexively listening to the lived experiences of minoritized people and communities. Provocatively calling everyone—from K-12 practitioners to those in teacher education programs—to think critically about sociopolitical histories as they are tangled up in contemporary contexts, Antiracist Teacher Education, is essential reading for those creating and maintaining inroads to antiracist pedagogies, practices, and schools.