Books for Educators: Teaching Black Boys

Black History Month with Books for Black Kids

Black History Month with Books for Black Kids: Teaching Black Boys

This edition of “BHM with BFBK” shows books educators can use to improve their cultural competence in the classroom. Today’s resources are about the betterment of Black male education, ensuring that Black boys have teachers who are dedicated to their success.

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Books listed here:

📚The Brilliance of Black Boys: Cultivating School Success in the Early Grades by Brian L. Wright and Shelly L. Counsell

📚Toward a BlackBoyCrit Pedagogy: Black Boys, Male Teachers, and Early Childhood Classroom Practices by Nathaniel Bryan

📚The Guide for White Women Who Teach Black Boys by Eddie Moore, Ali Michael, and Marguerite W. Penick-Parks

📚Schooling for Resilience: Improving the Life Trajectory of Black and Latino Boys by Edward Fergus, Pedro A. Noguera, and Margary Martin

📚Promises Kept: Raising Black Boys to Succeed in School and in Life by Joe Brewster, Michele Stephenson, and Hilary Beard

📚Keeping Black Boys Out of Special Education by Jawanza Kunjufu

📚Teaching Black Boys in the Elementary Grades: Advanced Disciplinary Reading and Writing to Secure Their Futures by Alfred W. Tatum

📚Reading for Their Life: (Re)Building the Textual Lineages of African American Adolescent Males by Alfred W. Tatum

📚How Teachers Position Black Boys in Ontario’s K-12 Schools by Charmaine Simms-Saunders, M.Ed.

📚The Trouble with Black Boys: …And Other Reflections on Race, Equity, and the Future of Public Education by Pedro A. Noguera

📚Teaching Reading to Black Adolescent Males: Closing the Achievement Gap by Alfred W. Tatum

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