Revolutionary solutions for an American school system that is systemically failing Black and brown children In Justice Seekers, celebrated social justice activist and veteran educator Lacey Robinson delivers an engaging combination of storytelling and research that explains why justice is something that is happening--or not happening--inside the classroom and within the details of teaching and learning. You'll explore ways to identify and eliminate the shame-inducing pedagogies impacting Black and brown children from classrooms and the world at large. In the book, you'll discover the many ways that justice is in the details of race, pedagogy, and standards-driven education, as well as: Strategies for challenging educators to see the ways in which they can contribute to eradicating racial inequity from the classroom and from society New ways to recognize and reduce the impact of low cognitive demand material presented to Black and brown children in schools across America Methods for improving the quality of your own teaching here and now An intuitive and exciting roadmap for K-12 teachers, teachers-in-training, school administrators, and principals who aim to reverse the racial injustices today's children face every day, Justice Seekers also belongs in the hands of instructional coaches, coordinators, and concerned parents everywhere.

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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Educational Inequity: How We Got Here -- From Moment to Movement -- The Foundation of Bias and the Educational System It Upholds -- Teaching Mitchell -- Denaturing Our DNA -- 2 Witnessing and Signifying: How Lenses Shape Our Teaching -- The Reconstruction of Education -- Battling White Discontent -- Colonization in Black and Indigenous Schooling -- Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas -- Nothing New Under the Sun -- 3 Learning at the Intersections: Race and Standards -- Fighting Against the Norm -- The Unwritten Rules -- Justice in the Details -- The Five Charges -- Taking Action -- 4 Legacies and Lenses -- Understanding Legacies -- What Are Lenses? -- The Foundation for Equitable Education -- 5 Overview of GLEAM -- Developing GLEAM -- Shifting Mindsets -- GLEAM: Grade-Level,Engaging, Affirming, and Meaningful -- Reflecting on GLEAM -- 6 GLEAM in Practice -- Deconstruction, Reconstruction, and Construction -- Ms. Arberg's Story (GLEAM in Math) -- Seeing GLEAM in Ms. Arberg's Rice Lesson -- Ms. Carvajal's Story (GLEAM in ELA) -- Seeing GLEAM in Ms. Carvajal's Epidemic Lesson -- Mr. Bowman's Story (GLEAM in Science) -- GLEAM in Mr. Bowman's Genetics Lesson -- Looking through a GLEAM Lens -- 7 Our Equity Charge -- Remembering Our Why -- The Formula of Hope -- Centering Curiosity and Mindsets -- Conclusion -- Toolkit Page -- Notes -- About The Author -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- EULA.