Friday, September 4, 2020

"What Anti-racist Teachers Do Differently"

"What Anti-racist Teachers Do Differently: They view the success of black students as central to the success of their own teaching."

  This article in The Atlantic online magazine is part of a series "On Teaching". 

The article is eloquently written by

Pirette McKamey is the first black principal of Mission High School in San Francisco, and has taught high-school English and history for 26 years. From 2005 to 2016, she co-founded and co-led the anti-racist teaching committee at Mission High.

A little about The Atlantic:

The Atlantic is an American lifestyle magazine and multi-platform publisher. It was founded in 1857 in Boston, Massachusetts, as The Atlantic Monthly, a literary and cultural commentary magazine that published leading writers' commentary on the abolition of slavery, education, and other major issues in contemporary political affairs. Its founders included Francis H. Underwood and prominent writers Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and John Greenleaf Whittier. James Russell Lowell was its first editor. It is known for publishing literary pieces by leading writers.

  https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2020/06/how-be-anti-racist-teacher/613138/

 

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