What We Are Reading
Virginia’s #EdEquityVA work is informed by literature, best practice, and research. Below are the resources the Office of Equity and Community Engagement references in the development of our work, as well as texts we recommend:
- Walking the Equity Talk: A Guide for Culturally Courageous Leadership in School Communities by John Roert Browne II
- Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain by Zaretta Hammond
- The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children by Gloria Ladson-Billings
- Culturally Responsive Teaching: Theory, Research, and Practice (third edition) by Geneva Gay
- Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique W. Morris
- We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom by Bettina Love
- How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
- Using Equity Audits to Create Equitable and Excellent Schools by Linda E. Skrla
- Cultural Proficiency: A manual for School Leaders by Randall B. Lindsey, Kikanza Nuri-Robins, Raymond D. Terrell, and Delores B. Lindsey
- Race, Equity, and Education: Sixty Years from Brown by Pedro Noguera, Jill Pierce, Roey Ahram
- Courageous Conversations About Race: A Field Guide for Achieving Equity in Schools by Glen Singleton
- Foundations of Critical Race Theory in Education by Edward Taylor and David Gillborn and Gloria Ladson-Billings
- Making It: What Today’s Kids Need for Tomorrow’s World
- Four Hundred Souls – A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
- Cultural Proficiency – A Manual for School Leaders, 4th Edition
- Breakthrough Leadership – Six Principles Guiding Schools Where Inequity Is Not an Option
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