Books for Educators: Cultural Competence and Social Reform

Black History Month with Books for Black Kids

Black History Month with Books for Black Kids: Books for Educators—Cultural Competence and Social Reform

Books for Black Kids aims to empower Black children, strengthen Black families and communities, and improve outcomes for Black students. However, as a lot of that responsibility lies with schools, teachers, and public policies, the directory has dozens of books to help educators better educational outcomes and experiences for Black youth.

As such, this edition of BHM with BFBK is dedicated to cultural competence and social reform in education.

For more books for educators, visit the Books for Black Kids directory: Books for Educators. Also visit the Teaching Black Girls and Teaching Black Boys editions of the Black History Month with Books for Black Kids series.

Books listed here:

📚Finding Your Blind Spots: Eight Guiding Principles for Overcoming Implicit Bias in Teaching by Hedreich Nichols

📚Equitable by Design: A Guide to Utilizing the Abundance of Resources Within Black Families and Communities to Support Students by Yvette C Latunde

📚Revolutionary Love for Early Childhood Classrooms: Nurturing the Brilliance of Young Black Children

📚Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy by Gholdy Muhammad

📚The Antiracist School Leader: What to Know, Say, and Do by Daman Harris

📚Reckoning With Racism in Family–School Partnerships: Centering Black Parents’ School Engagement by Jennifer L. McCarthy Foubert

📚Literacy Is Liberation: Working Toward Justice Through Culturally Relevant Teaching by Kimberly N. Parker

📚City Schools and the American Dream: Reclaiming the Promise of Public Education by Pedro A. Noguera

📚Anti-Blackness at School: Creating Affirming Educational Spaces for African American Students by Joi A. Spencer and Kerri Ullucci

📚Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal by Bettina L. Love

📚Cultivating the Genius of Black Children: Strategies to Close the Achievement Gap in the Early Years by Debra Ren-Etta Sullivan

📚Why Race and Culture Matter in Schools: Closing the Achievement Gap in America’s Classrooms by Tyrone C. Howard

📚The Equity & Social Justice Education 50: Critical Questions for Improving Opportunities and Outcomes for Black Students by Baruti K. Kafele