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Featured Author: Robert Jackson

Book: Becoming the Educator they Need: Strategies, Midsets, and Beliefs for Supporting Male Black and Latino Students (click to  purchase on Amazon)

Why We Picked This Book by Robert Jackson

• This book includes real stories about young Black and Latino males, which provides a perspective for a predominantly white workforce in education. We need to know more about our students, and they need to know more about us.

• Robert’s book begins with the five factors that impact male Black and Latino students, and educators need to be incredibly aware of them:
  • Invisibilization
  • Marginalization
  • Pre-criminalization
  • Stereotype threat
  • Colorism

• He challenges educators with a how-to chapter on culturally aware teaching practices. We should be doing a book study on this book in every school. 

• Robert writes from the heart. By weaving in his own experiences, the book emerges as a powerful testimony to the work that can be done.

Don’t miss our One Thing Series podcast interview with Robert Jackson where we dive into the book and so much more.  

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Joe & T.J.

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