Featured Research
A Space to Be Whole: A Landscape Analysis of Education-Based Racial Affinity Groups in the U.S.
This report is a national landscape analysis of racial affinity groups focused on supporting educators of color. The report is intended to: 1) document national and state organizations; 2) highlight similarities and differences between groups; 3) explore potential collaborations between affinity space approaches; and 4) identify policy and activism implications of racial affinity work.
The report explores how and why Black teachers and other teachers of color participate in affinity spaces in order to gain and share a comprehensive awareness regarding educator-based racial affinity groups nationwide; and inform a policy-advocacy platform that promotes racial affinity groups to support educator development and sustainability.
The report was written and researched by April Warren-Grice of Liberated Genius, commissioned by the Black Teacher Project and funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
We hosted an introductory webinar in June 2021. Watch and share the video below to hear from researcher and author Dr. April Warren-Grice of Liberated Genius, Dr. Micia Mosely of the Black Teacher Project, and LaShawn Routé Chatmon of the National Equity Project in conversation about the report findings, surprises, and policy implications.
The introductory webinar hosted on June 16, 2021 featured researcher and author Dr. April Warren-Grice of Liberated Genius, Dr. Micia Mosely of the Black Teacher Project, and LaShawn Routé Chatmon of the National Equity Project in conversation about report findings, surprises, and policy implications.
Research Base
Our curriculum and coaching model is research-based and we regularly review new studies and peer efforts to improve our effectiveness. Here is some of the key research that informs our work.
Emergence / Complex, Adaptive and Oppressive Systems / Structural Racism
Alexander, Michelle (2012). The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. The New Press: New York, NY.
Brown, Adrienne Maree (2017). Emergent strategy : shaping change, changing worlds. AK Press: Chico, CA.
DiAngelo, Robin and Michael Eric Dyson (2018). White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism. Beacon Press: Boston, MA.
Irving, Debby (2014). Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race. Elephant Room Press: Plano, TX.
Katznelson, Ira (2013). When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America. W. W. Norton & Company: New York, NY.
Kendi, Ibram X (2017). Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America. Bold Type Books: New York, NY.
Kendi, Ibram X (2019). How to be an anti-racist. The Bodley Head: London, UK.
Lawrence, Keith, et. al, (2009), “Constructing A Racial Theory of Change”, Aspen Institute.
Love, Bettina (2019). We want to do more than survive : abolitionist teaching and the pursuit of educational freedom. Beacon Press: Boston, MA.
Menakem, Resmaa (2017). My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies. Central Recovery Press: Las Vegas, NV.
Okum, Tema (2010). The Emperor Has No Clothes: Teaching About Race And Racism To People Who Don’t Want To Know. Information Age Publishing: Charlotte, NC.
Painter, Nell Irvin (2011). The History of White People. W. W. Norton & Company: New York, NY.
powell, john. (June 2009). “Post-Racialism or Targeted Universalism”, Denver University Law Review.
powell, john (2012). Racing To Justice, Indiana University Press.
powell, john, (2005), “Toward a Structural Racism Framework.”
Rothstein, Richard (2018). The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. New York, NY: Liveright Publishing.
Snowden, David and Kurtz, Cynthia, “The New Dynamics of Strategy”, IBM Systems Journal, 2003.
Tatum, Beverly Daniel (2003). Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria: And Other Conversations About Race. Basic Books: New York, NY.
Wheatley, Margarey and Deborah Frieze (2011). Walk Out Walk On: A Learning Journey into Communities Daring to Live the Future Now. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Oakland, CA.
Organizational Development: Coaching and Group Facilitation
Brown, Tim, (2009). Change by Design. Harper Collins Publishers.
Heron, John. (1999). The Complete Facilitator’s Handbook. Kogen Page Limited.
Heron, John (2001). Helping the Client: A Creative Practical Guide. SAGE Publications.
Costa, Arthur, et. al. (2002). Cognitive Coaching: A Foundation for Renaissance Schools. Christopher-Gordan Publishers.
Brookfield, Stephen (2004). The Power of Critical Theory: Liberating adult learning and teaching. Jossey-Bass.
Weissglass, Julian. (1998). Ripples of hope: Building relationships for educational change. Center for Educational Change in Mathematics and Science, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Lipmanowicz, Henri and McCandless, Keith (2013). The Surprising Power of Liberating Structures: Simple Rules to Unleash A Culture of Innovation. Liberating Structures Press.
Leadership Development
Heifetz, Ronald, et, al. (2009). The Practice of Adaptive Leadership. Harvard Business Press.
Knowles, Richard (2002). The Leadership Dance: Pathways to Extraordinary Organizational Effectiveness.
Snowden, David and Boone, Mary E. “A Leader’s Framework for Decision-Making”, Harvard Business Review, November 2007.
Wheatley, Margaret (2006). Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World. Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
Zuieback, Steve (2012). Leadership Practices for Challenging Times: Principles, Skills and Practices that Work. www.stevezuieback.com.
Instruction and Culturally Responsive Classrooms
Hammond, Zaretta (2014). Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain. Corwin.
Cushman, Kathleen. (2010). Fires In the Mind: What Kids Can Tell Us About Motivation and Mastery. Jossey Bass.
Dweck, Carol. (2007). Mindsets: The New Psychology of Success. Ballatine Books. Gay, G. (2000).
Gay, Geneva (2010). Culturally responsive teaching: Theory, research, and practice. New York: Teachers College Press.
Howard, G. (1999). We Can’t Teach What We Don’t Know: White Teachers, Multiracial Schools. Teachers College Press.
Irvine, J. J. (1990). Black students and school failure: Policies, practices, and prescriptions. Greenwood Press.
Kohl, H. (1995). ‘I Won’t Learn from You’: And Other Thoughts on Creative Maladjustment. New Press.
Ladson-Billings, G. (2001). Crossing Over to Canaan: The Journey of New Teachers in Diverse Classrooms. ossey-Bass.
Ladson-Billings, G. (Summer, 1995). “But That’s Just Good Teaching! The Case for Culturally Relevant Pedagogy.” Theory into Practice, Vol. 34, No.3, pp.159-165.
Steele, C. (2009). Whistling Vivaldi: And Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us (Issues of Our Time). New York: W.W. Norton & Co.