Learning and Teaching While White: Antiracist Strategies for School Communities

by Jenna Chandler-Ward, Elizabeth Denevi

We need to name whiteness, in order to move toward antiracism.
For too long, white educators have relied on people of color to make change to a relentlessly racist school system. Racial equity will not come until white educators recognize their role in supporting racist policies and practices, and take responsibility for dismantling them.
Learning and Teaching While White is an accessible guide to help white educators, leaders, students, and parents develop an explicit, skills-based antiracist practice. Through their own experiences working with school communities, and the strategies and tools they have developed, Jenna Chandler-Ward and Elizabeth Denevi share how white educators can gain greater consciousness of their own white racial identity; analyze the role of whiteness in their school systems; rethink pedagogical approaches and curricular topics; address the role of white parents in the pursuit of racial literacy and equity; and much more. Their book will empower white educators to be part of creating a more equitable educational system for all students.

Genres: Education, Teaching, Race, Nonfiction, Anti Racist

288 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 26, 2022

Reviews

[Stephen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Awesome book, difficult to read (as it should be). Wish the writers didn’t ignore the flip side to the conversation, specifically, how to work with students of color who aren’t victims like this posits, rather, active contributors to the evolution (in both good and bad ways), regardless of how aware or capable they are in this movement occurring right now.

[Rachel Miller Wright · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great next book for educators after reading White Fragility - gives me several ideas about what to do next as a school leader.

[Joy Kirr]

I liked the podcast episodes better. This book was a good reminder, and although it’s for teachers, I feel it would be better suited for administration.
Go here for the podcast: https://www.teachingwhilewhite.org/po...

[Dave · Rating 4 out of 5]

Definitely a book worth reading for any educator interested in antiracism. Some of the material is more useful/relevant to my practice than others, but I do appreciate that the authors provide a lot of case studies and scenarios that made my feel like I understood how to put many of the ideas into practice—I feel like that’s not always the case with this sort of text.

[Fred Daly · Rating 3 out of 5]

I don't know why books for teachers can't be better. There's useful stuff in here, but like every other book for educators I've ever read, it's repetitive at times and maddeningly vague at others.

[Eleanor · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quick read that does not drag on, but gets straight to the point on anti-racism in education. Helpful strategies for self-evaluation and classroom/school wide practice.

[Krista · Rating 3 out of 5]

I learned a lot from this book and got a lot more books to read and learn from.