Race Resilience

Achieving Equity Through Self and Systems Transformation
Victoria E. Romero - Educational Consultant
Amber N. Warner - Social Worker
Justin Hendrickson - PreK-8 Principal
Race Resilience
September 2021 | 224 pages | Corwin
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Review, rethink, and redesign racial support systems NOW

As schools engage in courageous conversations about how racialization and racial positioning influences thinking, behaviors, and expectations, many educators still lack the resources to start this challenging and personally transformative work. Race Resilience offers guidance to educators who are ready to rethink, review, and redesign their support systems and foster the building blocks of resiliency for staff.

Readers will learn how to:

  • Model ethical, professional, and social-emotional sensitivity
  • Develop, advocate, and enact on a collective culture
  • Maintain a continuously evaluative process for self and school wellness
  • Engage meaningfully with students and their families
  • Improve academic and behavioral outcomes

Race resilient educators work continuously to grow their awareness of how their racial identity impacts their practice. When educators feel they are cared for, have trusting relationships, and are autonomous, they are in a better position to teach and model resilience to their students.

Contents

Foreword by Nancy Boyd-Franklin, PhD

Foreword by Nancy Boyd-Franklin, PhD

Preface

Preface

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

  • Chapter 1. The Implementation Process: Steps to Becoming a Race Resilient School
  • Year 1: Planning to Become a Race Resilient School
  • No Need to Reinvent the Wheel
  • Years 2–4 and Continuous Improvement
  • Chapter 2. The NEED: Societal Changes Change Schools
  • Changes in the Workplace
  • Household, Community, and Environment: The Three Realms of Adverse Childhood Experiences
  • Chapter 3. Creating the Culture for Developing a Race Resilient Climate
  • School-to-Prison Pipeline
  • Blind Spots Impact Other Groups of Students
  • Measuring Up: Culture and Climate Are Not Synonymous
  • Locus of Control
  • Chapter 4. Educators’ Emotions Matter: Building Up Stamina for Developing a Race Resilient Climate
  • So How Do Educators Feel?
  • Our Daily Goal: Minimizing Distress and Maximizing Eustress
  • Our Hormonal Brain Under Distress and Eustress
  • Chapter 5. Racialization Can Be Blinding
  • Racial Positioning
  • United We Stand, Divided We Crawl
  • The “R” Word
  • 2020 and America’s Racial Awakening
  • Through the Eyes of a Child: Racialization and Historical Trauma
  • Historical and Generational Trauma
  • Genes Load the Gun, Environment Pulls the Trigger
  • E Pluribus Hurt, E Pluribus Healing
  • This Is Us
  • Chapter 6. Race Has Mattered in the School House
  • The Effects of Racialization: White Identity Dispositions, Internalized Racism, and Stereotype Threat
  • White Identity Dispositions
  • Internalized Racism and Stereotype Threat
  • Chapter 7. Mindful of Race
  • Mindfulness in Teaching and Learning
  • The Weight Room Versus the Wait Room
  • Positive Psychology’s Five Building Blocks of Life
  • Chapter 8. Educator Resilience, Educator Race Resilience, and Mindfulness for Racial Equity
  • Transforming a District
  • Transforming a School
  • In the Space Between Is Mindfulness
  • Introduction to Space Between

Appendix

Appendix

Appendix A. Processing for Racial Awareness and Creating a Race Resilient Action Plan

Appendix A. Processing for Racial Awareness and Creating a Race Resilient Action Plan

Appendix B. Race Resilient School Checklist

Appendix B. Race Resilient School Checklist

Glossary of Terms

Glossary of Terms

References

References

Index

Index

Resources

Description

Review, rethink, and redesign racial support systems NOW

As schools engage in courageous conversations about how racialization and racial positioning influences thinking, behaviors, and expectations, many educators still lack the resources to start this challenging and personally transformative work. Race Resilience offers guidance to educators who are ready to rethink, review, and redesign their support systems and foster the building blocks of resiliency for staff.

Readers will learn how to:

  • Model ethical, professional, and social-emotional sensitivity
  • Develop, advocate, and enact on a collective culture
  • Maintain a continuously evaluative process for self and school wellness
  • Engage meaningfully with students and their families
  • Improve academic and behavioral outcomes

Race resilient educators work continuously to grow their awareness of how their racial identity impacts their practice. When educators feel they are cared for, have trusting relationships, and are autonomous, they are in a better position to teach and model resilience to their students.

Contents

Foreword by Nancy Boyd-Franklin, PhD

Foreword by Nancy Boyd-Franklin, PhD

Preface

Preface

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

  • Chapter 1. The Implementation Process: Steps to Becoming a Race Resilient School
  • Year 1: Planning to Become a Race Resilient School
  • No Need to Reinvent the Wheel
  • Years 2–4 and Continuous Improvement
  • Chapter 2. The NEED: Societal Changes Change Schools
  • Changes in the Workplace
  • Household, Community, and Environment: The Three Realms of Adverse Childhood Experiences
  • Chapter 3. Creating the Culture for Developing a Race Resilient Climate
  • School-to-Prison Pipeline
  • Blind Spots Impact Other Groups of Students
  • Measuring Up: Culture and Climate Are Not Synonymous
  • Locus of Control
  • Chapter 4. Educators’ Emotions Matter: Building Up Stamina for Developing a Race Resilient Climate
  • So How Do Educators Feel?
  • Our Daily Goal: Minimizing Distress and Maximizing Eustress
  • Our Hormonal Brain Under Distress and Eustress
  • Chapter 5. Racialization Can Be Blinding
  • Racial Positioning
  • United We Stand, Divided We Crawl
  • The “R” Word
  • 2020 and America’s Racial Awakening
  • Through the Eyes of a Child: Racialization and Historical Trauma
  • Historical and Generational Trauma
  • Genes Load the Gun, Environment Pulls the Trigger
  • E Pluribus Hurt, E Pluribus Healing
  • This Is Us
  • Chapter 6. Race Has Mattered in the School House
  • The Effects of Racialization: White Identity Dispositions, Internalized Racism, and Stereotype Threat
  • White Identity Dispositions
  • Internalized Racism and Stereotype Threat
  • Chapter 7. Mindful of Race
  • Mindfulness in Teaching and Learning
  • The Weight Room Versus the Wait Room
  • Positive Psychology’s Five Building Blocks of Life
  • Chapter 8. Educator Resilience, Educator Race Resilience, and Mindfulness for Racial Equity
  • Transforming a District
  • Transforming a School
  • In the Space Between Is Mindfulness
  • Introduction to Space Between

Appendix

Appendix

Appendix A. Processing for Racial Awareness and Creating a Race Resilient Action Plan

Appendix A. Processing for Racial Awareness and Creating a Race Resilient Action Plan

Appendix B. Race Resilient School Checklist

Appendix B. Race Resilient School Checklist

Glossary of Terms

Glossary of Terms

References

References

Index

Index

Resources

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Race Resilience

Achieving Equity Through Self and Systems Transformation

Victoria E. Romero , Amber N. Warner , Justin Hendrickson
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September 2021 | 224 pages | Corwin

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Review, rethink, and redesign racial support systems NOW

As schools engage in courageous conversations about how racialization and racial positioning influences thinking, behaviors, and expectations, many educators still lack the resources to start this challenging and personally transformative work. Race Resilience offers guidance to educators who are ready to rethink, review, and redesign their support systems and foster the building blocks of resiliency for staff.

Readers will learn how to:

  • Model ethical, professional, and social-emotional sensitivity
  • Develop, advocate, and enact on a collective culture
  • Maintain a continuously evaluative process for self and school wellness
  • Engage meaningfully with students and their families
  • Improve academic and behavioral outcomes

Race resilient educators work continuously to grow their awareness of how their racial identity impacts their practice. When educators feel they are cared for, have trusting relationships, and are autonomous, they are in a better position to teach and model resilience to their students.


Table Of Contents:

  • Foreword by Nancy Boyd-Franklin, PhD
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Authors
  • Chapter 1. The Implementation Process: Steps to Becoming a Race Resilient School
  • Year 1: Planning to Become a Race Resilient School
  • No Need to Reinvent the Wheel
  • Years 2–4 and Continuous Improvement
  • Chapter 2. The NEED: Societal Changes Change Schools
  • Changes in the Workplace
  • Household, Community, and Environment: The Three Realms of Adverse Childhood Experiences
  • Chapter 3. Creating the Culture for Developing a Race Resilient Climate
  • School-to-Prison Pipeline
  • Blind Spots Impact Other Groups of Students
  • Measuring Up: Culture and Climate Are Not Synonymous
  • Locus of Control
  • Chapter 4. Educators’ Emotions Matter: Building Up Stamina for Developing a Race Resilient Climate
  • So How Do Educators Feel?
  • Our Daily Goal: Minimizing Distress and Maximizing Eustress
  • Our Hormonal Brain Under Distress and Eustress
  • Chapter 5. Racialization Can Be Blinding
  • Racial Positioning
  • United We Stand, Divided We Crawl
  • The “R” Word
  • 2020 and America’s Racial Awakening
  • Through the Eyes of a Child: Racialization and Historical Trauma
  • Historical and Generational Trauma
  • Genes Load the Gun, Environment Pulls the Trigger
  • E Pluribus Hurt, E Pluribus Healing
  • This Is Us
  • Chapter 6. Race Has Mattered in the School House
  • The Effects of Racialization: White Identity Dispositions, Internalized Racism, and Stereotype Threat
  • White Identity Dispositions
  • Internalized Racism and Stereotype Threat
  • Chapter 7. Mindful of Race
  • Mindfulness in Teaching and Learning
  • The Weight Room Versus the Wait Room
  • Positive Psychology’s Five Building Blocks of Life
  • Chapter 8. Educator Resilience, Educator Race Resilience, and Mindfulness for Racial Equity
  • Transforming a District
  • Transforming a School
  • In the Space Between Is Mindfulness
  • Introduction to Space Between
  • Appendix
  • Appendix A. Processing for Racial Awareness and Creating a Race Resilient Action Plan
  • Appendix B. Race Resilient School Checklist
  • Glossary of Terms
  • References
  • Index

Recent Product Reviews:

"Fostering Educator Resilience is practical, useful, and very realistic. I would love to use this book in professional development with my staff or in a workshop. The activities, vignettes, and reflection activities will help administrators create or change the culture and climate in whatever environment they find themselves.”
Janice Wyatt-Ross, Program Director, Fayette County Public Schools, Lexington, KY
"Fostering Educator Resilience provides timely and immediately applicable guidance. The resources and ability to reflect on them with prompts guides your reflection. The book provides realistic and practical guidance that educators can easily relate to and that resonate with their current needs. One of the major strengths of the book is the variety of ways resources are being shared. I walked away knowing new people I wanted to read up on, new resources I needed to check out, and thinking about how I could take the exercises in this book into my work. It’s a resource full of resources!"
Tamisha Williams, Director of Equity and Community Initiatives, Potomac Schools, MD
"A major strength of this book is the reflective opportunities and personal perspectives which give the reader the opportunity to internalize the information that is presented."
Jayne Ellspermann, Jayne Ellspermann, 2015 NASSP National Principal of the Year

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