Resources

The following are a few of the books that have been enormously helpful to my thinking about issues related to culturally-relevant teaching:

Hilliard, Asa G.,III. "Do We Have the Will to Educate All Children?" in Educational Leadership, Volume 49, No.1. September 1991.

I learned the term culturally relevant teaching practices in reading the work of Gloria Ladson-Billings. See The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children. Jossey Bass. 1994

Through Ebony Eyes: What Teachers Need to Know But Are Afraid to Ask About African American Students, Gail L. Thompson, Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2004.

bad boys: Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity, Ann Arnett Ferguson, The University of Michigan Press, 2001.

Sista, Speak! Black Women Kinfolk Talk About Language and Literacy, Sonja L. Lanehart, University of Texas Press, 2002.

The Essential Conversation: What Parents and Teachers Can Learn From Each Other, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Random House, 2003.

The Center for Applied Cultural Studies & Educational Achievement (CACSEA) is an organization that has provided me tremendous guidance in the journey toward becoming a more culturally-relevant teacher (through its summer institutes "Nsaka Sunsum: Touching the Spirit, An Educational Process for Achieving Educational Excellence with African American Students"): cacsea@iasbflc.org