Black Scholar’s Education

• Moja: Closing the Opportunity Gap: Black Children Thriving in Schools

http://libjournals.unca.edu/moja/issues/special-issue-closing-the-education-gap/

• “The publication stems from the September 14, 2019 Closing the Opportunity Gap: Black Children Thriving in Schools Symposium sponsored by UNC Asheville's Africana Studies Program & Expanding Equity in Our Schools. It was held at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville (UUCA) with approximately 200 people in attendance, and free childcare and meals.  I appreciate Chancellor Cable, Provost Campbell, and many UNC Asheville faculty and staff for participating in the symposium.”

Authors: 

• Guest editors (UNC Asheville Professors Emerita, Drs. Dee and Charles James, and Drs. Dolly and Dwight Mullen )
• Featured scholars and community activists (Dr. Agya Boakye-Boaten, Cortina Jenelle Caldwell, Dr. Summer Carrol, Dr. Brandi Hinnant-Crawford, Itiyopiya Ewart, Dr. Joseph Fox, Dr. Tiece Ruffin, and Dr. Darrius Stanley)
• Copy-editor (Taylor Sykes, Lecturer, Department of English @ UNC Asheville) 
• Production editor (Brandy Bourne, Interim University Librarian @ UNC Asheville) 
• Managing Editor (Tiece Ruffin) & Administrative Support (Rebecca Tomberlin, Administrative Assistant, Africana Studies, and Interdisciplinary & International Studies) 

A Black Education Network

http://www.ayaed.com/aben/#xl_xr_page_resources

http://www.ayaed.com/aben/si/#xl_xr_page_examples-ace1

• A consortium of Community Education and Citywide Council members working to improve NYC public schools
• http://www.educationcouncils.org/
• https://www.neiu.edu/news/erica-meiners-publishes-book-examining-school-prison-pipeline
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=katwPTn-nhE
• https://tje.ucdavis.edu/people/maisha-winn
• https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2020/0908/How-a-pandemic-exposed-and-may-help-fix-inequalities-in-education

Books to Read

• Revolutionary Pedagogy by Molefi Rete Asante
• Heritage Knowledge in the Curriculum by Joyce King

That Support Social & Emotional Learning in Education

• Integrating Social, Emotional and Academic Development An Action Guide for School Leadership Teams March 2019

https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED596336.pdf

• Pursuing Social and Emotional Development Through a Racial Equity Lens:

https://www.aspeninstitute.org/publications/pursuing-social-and-emotional-development-through-a-racial-equity-lens-a-call-to-action/

• The Impact of Racial Equity Coaching On White Educators Personal Growth And Professional Practice by Gretchen Baglyos- Hamline University 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ltkxef-Ij9hRKGv9VCY4obSiZMJHrXZo/view

• https://www.nagc.org/resources-publications/nagc-publications/teaching-high-potential
• A Culturally Responsive Equity-Based Bill of Rights for Gifted Students of Color Authors- Donna Y. Ford, Kenneth T. Dickson, Joy Lawson Davis, Michelle Trotman, Scott, and Tarek C. Grantham https://www.forestoftherain.net/uploads/3/5/8/2/3582998/gifted_students_of_color_bill_of_rights__2018___1_.pdf

Anti-Racism & Systematic Racism

• Racial Equity Institute

https://www.racialequityinstitute.com/

            Asheville REI September 19-20 2020 Full

         Dates for Oct 3-4 2020 and Nov 7-8 2020

         There will be an only ACS REI this Fall

Books to Read

• How to be Anti-Racist by Ibram X Kendi

Podcasts

          Resmaa Menakem ‘Notice the Rage;Notice the Silence’

          https://onbeing.org/programs/resmaa-menakem-notice-the-rage-notice-the-silence/

           Robin Di Angelo and Resmaa Menakem In Conversation

           https://onbeing.org/programs/robin-diangelo-and-resmaa-menakem-in-conversation/

           Introducing: Nice White Parents

           https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/podcasts/nice-white-parents-serial.html

          “Seeing White” A 14-part documentary series exploring whiteness in America

            https://www.sceneonradio.org/seeing-white/

           “1619.” Hosted by Nicole Hannah-Jones. Part of the 1619 Project, major initiative from   the New York Times observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery.

           https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-new-york-times/nyt-1619

“Color Blind or Color Brave” by Mellody Hobson (March 2014)

https://www.ted.com/talks/mellody_hobson_color_blind_or_color_brave

“We Need to Talk About Injustice” Bryan Stevenson.TedX video.

https://www.ted.com/talks/bryan_stevenson_we_need_to_talk_about_an_injustice