We Got This! Equity, Access, and the Quest to Be Who Our Students Need Us to Be by Cornelius Minor

We Got This! Equity, Access, and the Quest to Be Who Our Students Need Us to Be by Cornelius Minor

We Got This!: Equity, Access, and the Quest to Be Who Our Students Need Us to Be “That's the problem with you, Minor” a student huffed. “You want to make everything about reading or math. It's not always about that. At school, you guys do everything except listen to me. Y'all want to use your essays and vocabulary words to save my future, but none of y'all know anything about saving my now.” In We Got This Cornelius Minor describes how this conversation moved him toward realising that listening to children is one of the most powerful things a teacher can do. By listening carefully, Cornelius discovered something that kids find themselves having to communicate far too often. That “my lessons were not, at all, linked to that student's reality.” While challenging the teacher as hero trope, We Got This shows how authentically listening to kids is the closest thing to a superpower that we have. What we hear can spark action that allows us to make powerful moves toward equity by broadening access to learning for all children. A lone teacher can't eliminate inequity, but Cornelius demonstrates that a lone teacher can confront the scholastic manifestations of racism, sexism, ableism and classism by showing: exactly how he plans and revises lessons to ensure access and equity ways to look anew at explicit and tacit rules that consistently affect groups of students unequally suggestions for leaning into classroom community when it feels like the kids are against you ideas for using universal design that make curriculum relevant and accessible advocacy strategies for making classroom and schoolwide changes that expand access to opportunity to your students “We cannot guarantee outcomes, but we can guarantee access” Cornelius writes. “We can ensure that everyone gets a shot. In this book we get to do that. Together. Consider this book a manual for how to begin that brilliantly messy work. We got this.” Samples Preview sample pages from PART 1 This Ain't Everybody's Hero Story—It's Yours

Cornelius Minor works as a teacher in Brooklyn. He collaborates with teachers, school administrators, and community-based organization leaders to promote equitable literacy reform in cities (and occasionally villages) all over the world. We Got This, his most recent book, examines how the job of establishing more equitable educational environments is ingrained in our daily decisions, particularly the decision to truly listen to children. Education Week, Brooklyn Magazine, and Teaching Tolerance Magazine have all covered him. The Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, the New York City Department of Education, the International Literacy Association, and Lesley University's Center for Reading Recovery and Literacy Collaboration are among the organizations with which he has collaborated.

Cornelius has been a featured speaker at conferences all through the world, and his documentary, Out of Print, has made its way around the film festival circuit. Most recently, he founded The Minor Collective with his partner and wife, Kass Minor, a community-based organization aimed at fostering long-term transformation in schools. Cornelius uses his passion for technology, hip-hop, and social media to bring communities together, whether he's working with educators and students in Los Angeles, Seattle, or New York City. Cornelius relies on his experience teaching middle school in the Bronx and Brooklyn, as well as his experiences skating, shooting baskets, and working with teenagers.

You may follow him on Twitter at @MisterMinor or at Kass and Corn.

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ISBN 13	9780325098142
ISBN 10	032509814X
Title	We Got This! Equity, Access, and the Quest to Be Who Our Students Need Us to Be
Author	Cornelius Minor
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pearson Education (US)
Year published	2018-11-06
Number of pages	24
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.