Resources We Recommend & Use to Inform Our Pedagogy

Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom - bell hooks

Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Paulo Friere

Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students

For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood…and the Rest of Y’all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education - Christopher Emdin

Ratchetdemic: Reimagining Academic Success - Christopher Emdin

The Whole-Brain Child - Daniel J. Siegel, MD and Tina Payne Bryson, PhD

We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom - Bettina L. Love

Normal Sucks: How to Live, Learn, and Thrive Outside the Lines - Jonathan Mooney

STEM, STEAM, MAKE, Dream: Reimagining the Culture of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics - Christopher Emdin

Lost at School: Why Our Kids with Behavioral Challenges are Falling Through the Cracks and How We Can Help Them - Ross Greene, PhD

What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing - Bruce D. Perry, MD, PhD and Oprah Winfrey

#HipHopEd: The Compilation on Hip-Hop Education - Christopher Emdin and Edmund Adjapong, Editors

Off White: Readings on Race, Power, and Society - Michelle Fine

Books, articles, and pedagogy by Gloria Ladson-Billings

Beyond Behaviours: Using Brain Science and Compassion to Understand and Solve Children’s Behavioural Challenges - Mona Delahooke, PhD

Other People’s Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom - Lisa Delpit

Schooling Without Labels: Parents, Educators, and Inclusive Education - Douglas Biklen

My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies - Resmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW, SEP

The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog - Bruce D Perry, MD, PhD and Maia Szalavitz

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma - Bessel Van Der Kolk, MD