More Courageous Conversations About Race

by Glenn E. Singleton

Overview

Use courageous conversations to build racial equity in your schools and districts!

In this companion to his best-selling book, Glenn Singleton presents specific examples in which racism impedes student success and illustrates how to usher in courageous conversations to ignite systemic transformation. Through first-person vignettes and an actual school district case study, this breakthrough handbook focuses on the powerful possibilities that are unleashed when you:

• Learn how other education leaders have addressed and improved race relations
• Explore urgent challenges in racial equity and courageous approaches to solving them
• Reflect on your personal role in the struggle to achieve racial equity
• Introduce culturally relevant curriculum, instruction, and assessment in your school or district

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412992664
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	10/03/2012
Pages:	360
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.90(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Glenn Singleton has devoted over thirty years to constructing racial equity worldwide and developing leaders to do the same. Author, thought leader, and strategist, he is the creator of Courageous Conversation a protocol and framework for sustained, deepened dialogue, and Beyond Diversity, the curriculum that has taught hundreds of thousands of people how to use it. Glenn is the Founder and President of Courageous Conversation TM, an agency that guides leadership development in education, government, corporation, law enforcement, and community organizing. He is the award-winning author of Courageous Conversations About Race; A Field Guide for Achieving Equity in Schools, Second Edition; and of MORE Courageous Conversations About Race.

Glenn has consulted executives at Wieden + Kennedy (W+K) Advertising, Google, Amazon, Procter & Gamble, the New York Department of Education, the New Zealand Ministry of Education, the Stavros Niarchos, Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library and the Bill & Melinda Gates foundations. Along with W+K, he received the 2017 Most Valuable Partnership (MVP) Award by Ad Color. He is the recipient of the George A. Coleman Excellence in Equity Award by the Connecticut State Education Resource Center. Cited in the June 2018 edition of the Hollywood Reporter for his work with 21st Century Fox Animation, most recently, Glenn was awarded the Ad Week/Ad Color 2020 Champion Award, and the 2020 National Speech and Debate Association Communicator of the Year Award. In 1995, Glenn founded the Foundation for A College Education and continues to serve on its Board of Advisors. He is also the founder and Board Chair of the Courageous Conversation Global Foundation, which develops partnerships to promote racial justice, interracial understanding and human healing worldwide.

Glenn has trained law enforcement leaders with the U.S. Embassy in Western Australia, and established the Courageous Conversation South Pacific Institute in Auckland, New Zealand. For eight years, he served as an adjunct professor of educational leadership at San Jose State University. Glenn has been a guest lecturer at Harvard University and has instructed faculty, students and administrators at the University of Minnesota, New York University School of Medicine, and the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Stanford University, Glenn Singleton is a member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. and 100 Black Men. He currently resides in Washington, D.C.

Table of Contents

Foreword James P. Comer viii

Preface xiv

Acknowledgments xvii

About the Author xix

1 Why Do We Need Another Book on Courageous Conversations About Race? 1

It's (Still) a Question of Will! 1

Writing in Difficult Times 3

Building on the Field Guide 6

The "More" in More Courageous Conversations 10

2 From Will and Passion to Purpose 15

Courage Requires Personal Purpose 16

Differing Approaches to Diversity 20

Purpose at Every Level 22

Voices From the Inside Macarre Traynham 23

3 Revisiting the Courageous Conversations About Race Protocol 27

Getting Behind the Protocol's Agreements, Conditions, and Compass 30

Isolating Race: Intersectionality and Cultural Layering 38

Getting Centered in a Mindful Way 45

Examining the Presence and Role of Whiteness 47

Closing the "Knowing-Doing" Gap 55

Voices From the Inside Devon Alexander 63

4 Seven Years Later: What's Different and What's the Same? 67

Embracing Equity and Naming the "It": Systemic Racism 69

The Data 74

Minding the Gaps 78

Can We Really Afford Equity? 84

Applying New Technology to Racial Equity Work 91

Voices From the Inside Donna Hart-Tervalon 92

5 Why Are We Still Talking About Race? 97

Beyond a Moral Imperative: Neuroscience and the Physiological Impact of Racism 97

A Critique of Liberalism 102

Are Black Males Beyond Love? 112

Defining Resistance and Transforming "Resisters" 116

What Should Be "Special" About Special Education? 118

Voices From the Inside Charles L. Hopson 121

6 Moving Courageous Conversations Beyond Black and White 129

Empowering ALL People of Color 129

Making the Invisible Visible: A Courageous Conversation About American Indians and Schooling 131

Brown Space 143

The Politics of English-Language Acquisition: Skin Color, Immigration Status, and Other Barriers 146

Voices From the Inside Luis Versalles 151

Voices From the Inside Elona Street-Stewart 155

7 A Vision and a Framework for Achieving Racial Equity in Education 158

"Just Say No!"...to Random Acts of Equity 163

Unmasking Courageous Conversations About Racial Disparities in Independent Schools 175

Where Is Higher Education? A Call for Seamless Racial Equity in PreK-16 Education 184

Voices From the Inside Bodie Brizendine 189

Voices From the Inside Akemi Matsumoto 191

8 Leadership for Racial Equity: From Theory to Practice 195

Equity Development for School Boards 197

District Equity Leadership Teams (DELT and DELTA) 198

Site and Central-Office Department Leaders Engaged in Equity/Antiracism Development (LEADs) 199

Equity Teams 201

The Beacon Project 202

Staff of Color Equity Development 202

Students Organized for Anti-Racism (SOAR) 204

Voices From the Inside Carla Randall 209

Voices From the Inside Patrick Duffy Anthony Galloway 213

9 Learning and Teaching for Racial Equity: From Theory to Practice 227

Culturally Relevant Pedagogy 238

Collaborative Action Research for Equity (CARE) 242

Voices From the Inside Jackie Roehl 246

10 Empowering Parents and Communities of Color for Racial Equity: From Theory to Practice 251

Partnerships for Academically Successful Students 252

Engaging and Developing White Allies to Supports Parents and Community Members of Color in Schools 260

Engaging White Allies in the Development and Recruitment of Other Whites to the Struggle for Racial Equity 264

Developing and Reinventing School Boards as Allies in the Struggle for Racial Equity 266

Voices from the Inside Andrea Haynes Johnson 269

11 Eden Prairie Schools: A Case Study 272

Eden Prapirie Then and Now 273

The District Develops a Clear Vision of Equity 280

A Changing Climate 283

The Results Are In: Progress Was Made 286

Voices From the Inside Connie Hytjan 291

12 Beyond Passion, Practice, and Persistence...A Purpose for Achieving Equity! 302

Notes 315

Recommended Reading 322

Index 326

Editorial Reviews

"Readers who embrace the courageous conversations that Glenn Singleton has written about in these pages will find themselves analyzing their own thoughts and conversations about race in school settings. This text is a deeper analysis of previous conversations and the protocol introduced in Courageous Conversations About Race. The vignettes and cases are a strength. "

Ignacio Lopez

"This book provides insight into the thinking of one of the foremost advocates for addressing the achievement gap in authentic ways that result in the underlying assumptions of racism being uncovered and addressed. Singleton's delineation of the concept 'racial equity work' is a major contribution. "

Randall B. Lindsey

"In this book, Glenn Singleton takes the courageous steps to model what he teaches as he gives us the pathways for our own journeys to confront racism in our lives. Glenn proves the necessity of holding courageous conversations about race if we want to eliminate the opportunity gap for ALL students. "

Bonnie M. Davis