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In honor of #ScholarStrikeCanada and in solidarity with #ScholarStrike, I am going to share a 
of materials from my Building Classroom Communities syllabus, which was designed to support new teachers in working toward caring learning environments, rather than carceral ones: 1/
of materials from my Building Classroom Communities syllabus, which was designed to support new teachers in working toward caring learning environments, rather than carceral ones: 1/
Session 1: Michael Dumas & Joseph Derrick Nelson, “(Re)Imagining Black Boyhood: Towaed a Critical Framework For Educational Research” https://hepgjournals.org/doi/abs/10.17763/0017-8055.86.1.27 (2)
Session 1: Robert Lake, “An Indian Father’s Plea” https://mobile.edweek.org/c.jsp?cid=25919701&bcid=25919701&rssid=25919691&item=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.edweek.org%2Fv1%2Ftm%2Findex.html%3Fuuid%3D5D4EF838-2FB7-11DB-BD55-CC2980C3ACA9 (3)
Session 2 & 3: @BLoveSoulPower, “We Want to Do More Than Survive” https://bookshop.org/books/we-want-to-do-more-than-survive-abolitionist-teaching-and-the-pursuit-of-educational-freedom/9780807028346 (4)
Session 4: Gloria Ladson-Billings, “The Dreamkeepers” https://bookshop.org/books/the-dreamkeepers-successful-teachers-of-african-american-children/9780470408155 (5)
Session 4: @eveewing, “Arrival Day” https://theadroitjournal.org/issue-twenty-two-eve-ewing-the-adroit-journal/ (6)
Session 4: Ed Brockenbrough, “Becoming queerly responsive: Culturally relevant pedagogy for Black and Latino urban queer youth” (7) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0042085914549261
Session 5: Pedro Noguera, “Preventing and producing violence: A critical analysis of responses to school violence” (8) https://www.hepg.org/her-home/issues/harvard-educational-review-volume-65-issue-1/herarticle/a-critical-analysis-of-responses-to-school-violenc
Session 6: Carla Shalaby, “Troublemakers” (9) https://bookshop.org/books/troublemakers-lessons-in-freedom-from-young-children-at-school/9781620972366
Session 7: @DrSubini, “The Pedagogy of Pathologization” (10) https://www.routledge.com/The-Pedagogy-of-Pathologization-Disabled-Girls-of-Color-in-the-School-prison/Annamma/p/book/9781138696907
Session 7: Fanna Gamal, “Good girls: Gender-specific interventions in juvenile court” (11) https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/D8698KM4
Session 8: Nadine Burke Harris’ TED talk, “How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime” (12)
Session 8: Anna Deavere Smith’s film, “Notes From The Field” (13)
Session 9: Maisha Winn, “Justice on Both Sides: Transforming Education Through Restorative Justice” (14) https://www.hepg.org/hep-home/books/justice-on-both-sides
Session 9: Excerpts from Angela Davis, “Are Prisons Obsolete?” (15) https://bookshop.org/books/are-prisons-obsolete/9781583225813
This is just a selection of the readings, and of course it doesn’t give you the full scope of the course. That said, I hope it is useful! So far, it has been my favorite class to teach. For more, stay tuned for a practice-focused publication coming sometime in the next year! (16)
I should also be clear that this was designed for an elementary teacher education program :)
