Antonio L. Ellis is a scholar in residence and the director of the Institute on Education Equity and Justice at the American University School of Education. Nicholas D. Hartlep is the Robert Charles Billings Endowed Chair in Education at Berea College where he chairs the Department of Education Studies. Gloria Ladson-Billings is professor emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and president of the National Academy of Education. David O. Stovall is professor of Black Studies and criminology, law, and justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

• ContentsForeword Leslie T. Fenwick  ixEffective Teachers as Windows and Mirrors: An Introduction  1Antonio L. Ellis, Nicholas D. Hartlep, Gloria Ladson-Billings, and David O. StovallPART I: AFRICAN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES: TOWARD “DEMOGRAPHIC” AND “DEMOCRATIC” IMPERATIVES1.  Mr. Linard H. McCloud:  A Dreamkeeper in the American Education Milieu  7Antonio L. Ellis  2.  “Perfect Practice Makes Perfect”: Sister Mary Regis, OSP—Tempered Radical and Refined Revolutionary  14Judy Alston3.  Undoing My Miseducation: Lessons Learned from Brother Kmt Shockley  27Ramon B. Goings4.  Two White Teachers Who Cultivated My Hidden Talents: The Story of An African American Male in Special Education  40Shawn Anthony Robinson5.  Married to Education: The Impact of Teacher Expectations on African American Student Success  52Roslyn Clark ArtisPART II: ASIAN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES: BEYOND BLACKNESS AND WHITENESS6.  Like Captured Fireflies: Effective Teaching Pedagogy of a White Elementary School Counselor  65Nicholas D. Hartlep7.  Finding My Voice: Developing a Critical Writing and APIDA Identity in a Newspaper Course  76Theodore ChaoPART III: NATIVE AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES: INDIGENEITY IS NOT RACE8.  “The Moon Will Tell Us When It Will Rain”: Aesthetics of Grandmothers’ Pedagogies  91Amanda R. Tachine9.  Reclaiming Our Position as the Most Important Educators of Our Native Children  102Jameson D. Lopez10.  Honoring My (Academic) Matriarchs  112Theresa Stewart-AmboPART IV: LATINX PERSPECTIVES: THE LATINIZATION OF EDUCATION11.  Cultural Affirmations of Giftedness: An Autoethnography of My Experiences with Educational Leadership Faculty at an HBCU  125Lisa Maria Grillo12.  “¿No me ves?”: Seen by Two Teachers in a Sea of Blind Educators  145Aimeé I. CepedaAfterword: The Deliberative Practice of Teacher Educators’ Reflections on Culturally Relevant Teachers  155Dawn G. WilliamsAbout the Editors and the Contributors  159Index  165

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