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by Alexs Pate
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This ASCD Study Guide was developed by Jaimee Wolcott, Assistant Vice President, Sami Saltzman, Assistant Director of Programs, and Julian Condie, Associate Vice President of Innocent Classroom. It is designed to enhance your understanding and application of the information presented in The Innocent Classroom: Dismantling Racial Bias to Support Students of Color, an ASCD book by Alexs Pate, published in August 2020.
You can use the study guide before or after you have read the book or as you finish each chapter. The study questions provided are not meant to cover all aspects of the book, but, rather, to address specific ideas that might warrant further reflection.
Most of the questions contained in this study guide are ones you can think about on your own, with a colleague, or in a study group with others who have read (or are reading) The Innocent Classroom.
* Many of our children of color are mired in the way American culture portrays them.
* Students' response to you and to their education is often proscribed by the stereotypical images and narratives about them that they have absorbed.
* Knowing and responding to students' good increases the likelihood that they will accept you and your efforts to educate them.
The Innocent Classroom: Dismantling Racial Bias to Support Students of Color was written by Alexs Pate. This 121-page, 6" × 9" book (Stock #120025; ISBN-13: 978-1-4166-2933-7) is available from ASCD. Copyright © 2020 by Alexs Pate. To order a copy, call ASCD at 1-800-933-2723 (in Virginia 1-703-578-9600) and press 2 for the Service Center. Or buy the book from ASCD's Online Store.
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