Scholars, practitioners, and students are working to determine the best forms of resistance against a system intricately designed to limit poor people and people of color. Some scholars advocate for a change in the approach teachers, who are predominantly white, enter the classroom with on day one. Others advocate for a more hands-on participatory teacher corps while other scholars encourage a curricula revamping. The Peer Reviewed and Practitioner Articles below address all of these points and their intersection with one another.

Practitioner-Oriented Articles

“Where y’all teachers at when we need you?”: Expectations of city public school teachers beyond the schoolhouse by Keith E. Benson, Ed.D

“Pin@y Educational Partnerships A Counter-Pipeline to Create Critical Educators” by Cubales Tintiangco,& Magbual Daus

Peer-Reviewed Journals

“Very Powerful Voices”: The Influence of youth Organizing on Education Policy in Philadelphia by Jerusha Conner, Karen Zaino and Emily Scarola

Hashtag Activism and Why #BlackLivesMatter In (and To) the classroom by Prudence Cumberbatch and Nicole Trujillo-Pagán

Tending to the Heart of Communities of Color: Towards Critical Race Teacher Activism  by  Cheryl E. Matias and Daniel D. Liou