Theschoolhouse302 #onethingseries Leadership Podcast

Featured Author: Robert Jackson Book: Becoming the Educator they Need: Strategies, Midsets, and Beliefs for Supporting Male Black and Latino Students Why We Picked This Book: 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 mor