Teaching to Close the Achievement Gap for Students of Color

Theodore S. Ransaw is Outreach Specialist in the Department of K-12Outreach in the College of Education and affiliated faculty in AfricanAmerican and African Studies at Michigan State University, U.S.A.Richard Majors is Honorary Professor at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs, Senior Fellow of the Applied Centre for EmotionalLiteracy & Research (ACELLR) and former Clinical Fellow at HarvardMedical School, U.S.A.

• Part 1: The Importance of Teacher Education for Diverse Classrooms 1. The Related and Unrelated Relationship of Cultural Competency, Self-identity and Academic Identity: Cultural Competency or Rigor? 2. Trauma Informed Teacher Training: The Impact of Trauma on Minority Student School Success 3. Race and Restorative Justice in Urban Schools Part 2: Acknowledging the Impact of Student Life Beyond the Classroom 4. Family Discussions of Race Impacting Children’s PK-12 Schooling: Critical Pedagogy 5. Sport Coach as Educational Leader: Distributed Leadership 6. Informing the Career Development Process of Black Male Community College Basketball Players: More Than the Game Part 3: Using Narrative Approaches to Problematize Student Experience 7. Refuge Among the Revolution: The Power of Narrative Inquiry 8. Developing Consensus Through Digital Storytelling: Exploring Perceptions of Collaboration From Native Youth 9. Narrative Approaches to Exposing the Racialized Experiences of Asian American Male Students