Foster a culture of student achievement through authentic relationships and student leadership
Expanding her groundbreaking study on Warm Demander pedagogy, Franita Ware offers educators a framework for restoring their ideals about teaching and creating more rewarding and engaging learning experiences. Beginning with a deep dive into Radical Self-Care, the author addresses the harmful effects of stress on teachers and students.
Subsequent chapters instruct educators on how to start their journey to become Warm Demander Teachers. Exposing the challenges that educators face, the author encourages them to develop healthy identities for themselves. From there, Ware lays out a path toward collective healing from the harms of an inequitable education system, systemic racism, and intersecting systems of oppression. Engaging and eye opening throughout, Ware
Reflection-practice activities in every chapter Guidance for facilitators to support shared learning Real-world examples from Warm Demander Teachers
Warm Demander Teachers presents a new perspective and framework for promoting culturally responsive fundamentally, high expectations for students are grounded in trusted, supportive relationships, and instructional strategies highlight culturally responsive inquiry and positive student learner identities. Ware’s insightful delivery provides the necessary support for educators to become healthy, whole, and transformational.
I feel this book works more as a primer on the importance of recognizing the importance of self-care in education and recognizing how bias manifests in the classroom than it does exploring specifically the strategies that make an effective warm demander. The ideological framework is here and that framework is important, but the section actually dedicated to being a warm demander is rather slim in regard to the overall work.