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This volume highlights approaches to closing the achievement gap forstudents of color across K-12 and post-secondary schooling. It uniquelyexamines factors outside the classroom to consider how these influencestudent identity and academic performance.Teaching to Close the Achievement Gap for Students of Color offerswide-ranging chapters that explore non-curricular issues includingtrauma, family background, restorative justice, refugee experiences, andsport as determinants of student and teacher experiences in the classroom.Through rigorous empirical and theoretical engagement, chaptersidentify culturally responsive strategies for supporting students as theynavigate formal and informal educational opportunities and overcomeintersectional barriers to success. In particular, chapters highlight howthese approaches can be nurtured through teacher education, effectiveeducational leadership, and engagement across the wider community.This insightful collection will be of interest to researchers, scholars,and post-graduate students in the fields of teacher education, sociologyof education, and educational leadership.
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