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Change the Narrative: How to Foster an Antiracist Culture in Your School by [Henry Turner, Kathy Lopes]

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Dismantling Racism Starts with You

School leaders, in partnership with educators, students, parents, and the community, have remarkable potential to change the narrative so that all students, regardless of race, can feel seen, empowered, and engaged in their learning communities. Through the lens and actions of antiracism, Change the Narrative provides a pathway for school administrators, leaders, and change agents who want to put into action the values of antiracism in their school community every day.

Henry J. Turner and Kathy Lopes, a high school principal and a director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for Newton Public Schools in Massachusetts, weave their professional experiences and their personal stories to connect the reader to the importance of the consistent routines, ongoing learning, and structural changes that will help foster an antiracist school culture.

Full of practical and effective strategies, this book is for those who have been fighting for equity their entire career as well as those who are just beginning on their journey. It will push you to expand your mindset in new ways and serve as a reference you can return to as often as you need.

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"A book that bridges the knowing-doing gap for school and district leaders interested in real change for antiracist culture. - Dr. Rosa Perez-Isiah, Educational Leader, Author, Speaker, Social Justice Advocate

"Every child needs and deserves a school experience where they are seen, included, and valued, and Turner and Lopes have created this dynamic resource to help you do just that!" -Thomas C. Murray, Director of Innovation, Future Ready SchoolsⓇ, Best-Selling Author of Personal & Authentic & Learning Transformed

"A breath of fresh air in the form of a much-needed resource to guide schools in a positive direction." —Eric Sheninger, best-selling author and keynote speaker

"Will help readers reimagine their schools and evolve their practice." —Katie Novak, author of UDL Now and Equity by Design

"A must-read for any educator preparing to confront structural barriers with awareness, empathy, and cultural competency." —Hedreich Nichols von Reichert, author, educator, and founder of SmallBites

"Bold, brave, and groundbreaking tool that will ignite change in public education." -Bethany Hill, Teacher Retention and Recruitment Specialist

"Easy to follow steps that guide readers to the intersection of grace and accountability for the sake of all students, staff, and families." -Devin Morris, Co-Founder and Executive Director, The Teachers' Lounge

"A powerful framework to engage in critical conversations to work collaboratively and create meaningful change." -Katie Martin, Author of Evolving Education and Learner-Centered Innovation, Chief Impact Officer, Learner-Centered Collaborative

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09YXX16P3
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dave Burgess Consulting, Incorporated (May 6, 2022)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 6, 2022
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 665 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 269 pages

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Kathy Lopes is a clinical social worker and educator with over twenty years of experience ranging throughout primary, secondary and postsecondary education. She currently serves as the director of diversity, equity and inclusion in Newton, Massachusetts, leading the district's work in their antiracist leadership practices and principles. Additionally, she holds a long-standing adjunct faculty position at her alma mater, Simmons University School of Social Work.
Lopes is known as a local and national public speaker on topics of cultural humility, racial identity and antiracism in education and mental health organizations.
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Henry Turner
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Henry J. Turner is an award-winning high school principal and nationally renowned speaker. He is most proud of the collaborative community he works within to empower students to fight hate and bigotry in their school. Pointing to his unwavering commitment to equity and a student-centered culture, Henry was named 2020 K–12 Principal of the Year by K–12 Dive.
He shares his experience as an innovative instructional leader, passionate advocate, and committed antiracist educator with educators and organizational leaders across the United States and beyond. Henry works with educators, leaders, and communities on how to create a culture that commits to diversity, equity, and inclusion empowers students’ voices, and addresses economic and racial disparities.
Henry is an instructor at the Educator Leadership Institute (ELI). He serves on the University of Massachusetts Commonwealth Honors College Advisory Board and the Massachusetts School Administrators’ Association Board. He received his doctorate in education from Boston College, a master’s in education from Framingham State University, and an undergraduate degree in history from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He has a biweekly newsletter, "Lessons on Social Justice Leadership" that can be found at HenryJTurner.com.
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Esta Montano

Accessible, practical and critical - one of the best I've seen on the topic!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 21, 2022

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It is often the case that educators want to begin to implement a large scale antiracist practice in their districts or schools, but they are without the knowledge as to how to do so. Many have not begun to unpack their own biases and assumptions, and still, others have begun the work, but are not certain as to how to get things moving and how to affect a critical mass.

Change the Narrative: How to Foster an Antiracist Culture in You School is a book that makes beginning this work doable. It is written in a manner that is extremely accessible, and while it doesn't promise that the work will be easy -- as a matter of fact, it promises the opposite, it does provide information to lay the groundwork and offers necessary suggestions to begin the process..

The authors of the book are Henry J Turner, a high school principal, and Kathy Lopes, DEI director, both of the Newton, Massachusetts Public Schools. Each was raised in a school system where they were one of the only students of color, and where the absence of racial equity affected them significantly. This book suggests that in order to in effect change the narrative, ie, the status quo of a district, teachers and administrators alike need to adopt the habit of following four steps that together form a cycle of learning: learn, reflect, act and assess.

Change the Narrative addresses leadership, the student experience and the experience of teachers, whether white or BIPOC. It also suggests how to collaborate with families and the community and how to disrupt racist policies and structures. A list of resources is included at the end for further study.

This book is one of the clearest and most practical that I have seen on the topic and I highly recommend it to educators, whether teachers or administrators, (and to students and families!).

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Mark Hecker

A Clear Guide For Aspiring Anti-Racist Leaders

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 22, 2022

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Being a school leader is an almost-impossible job. And, during a global pandemic, the realities became even more complex. During this period of extraordinary challenge, school leaders are also being asked to lead young people in navigating the racial reckoning currently underway in our country. It is unsurprising that, in this moment, many school leaders are stepping away.

Kathy Lopes and Henry Turner offer a well-timed guidebook for school leaders feeling overwhelmed by the work of anti-racism. Helpfully broken into two parts - the first focused on introspection and the second on culture creation - the authors offer behaviors, processes, and practices to contribute to the creation of an anti-racist culture. Most importantly, the authors make no false promises about linear progress and ultimate success. They’re honest about the difficulty of this work.

Clearly positioned as a starting point for anti-racist school leadership, the book also offers opportunities to Learn, Reflect, Act, and Assess at the end of each of the book’s chapters. Direct and honest, Change The Narrative serves as a useful tool for any aspiring anti-racist leader.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 5, 2022

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For public educators in these times , a read worth your time , thought and action!

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Ruben Dario Carmona

Most practical Equity resource I have read recently.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 25, 2022

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Great to find a practical resource that can inform and support your efforts at the school and district level.

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Phanide Simon-Ulysse

Change the Narrative is a great read!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 21, 2022

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I highly recommend this book to anyone who believes in helping all children reach their full potential.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 5, 2022

In Change the Narrative, Turner and Lopes challenge leaders and educators to design antiracist schools and systems so all students, particularly students of color, can thrive. Throughout the text, they make connections to effective leadership and educational strategies - collaborative leadership, professional learning communities, the importance of data-based decision making, universal design for learning - to help practitioners see how these frameworks can be used to dismantle racist ideas and policies and affirm more equitable schools. They call us to collective work as we learn, reflect, and take action to build and reinforce an antiracist culture while also reminding us about the weight of this work. Their recommendation to, "make sure there are many off-ramps for people who need self-care and on-ramps for new people" shows the power of collective efficacy and their responsiveness to both antiracism and trauma-informed leadership.

It is clear that Turner and Lopes are practicing school leaders who are immersed in this important work. They strike a balance of coaching and patience; reflection and risk-taking, moral imperative and concrete strategies. There is no doubt that this text, brilliantly researched and woven with their personal stories, will help readers reimagine their schools and evolve their practice.

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Anna Nolin, Ed.D

The chapter on instructional leadership is THE most comprehensive on this topic

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 30, 2022

As a 25 year building and curriculum / instructional leader in public schools, I need you to know that the instructional leadership chapter is THE best and most comprehensive on this matter while still being clear, and frankly, elegant. I would love to interview the authors on scaling the work with teacher teams. That is my area of expertise (Professional learning communities as they try to take on problems and innovate). Knowledge and research on this topic has served us well in COVID pandemic innovation work, but now I would like to turn more squarely to scaling anti-racism work with teams. It's all we deal with right now--and we need to do better. Outlier teachers doing the right or wrong work or doing nothing cannot be allowed to persist. Teams are either blind or complicit or afraid. Chapter 8 of your book is excellent in all ways.

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