Revolutionary Love: Creating a Culturally Inclusive Classroom
When educators place love at the center of their work, they change lives—and that is precisely what the authors of this remarkable book aim to do. Drawing from years as researchers and teachers, they share ways they’ve overcome challenges and demonstrate how to engage in ongoing self-reflection and examine common but harmful practices that narrow the curriculum for all children. They offer:

  • Practices that affirm and celebrate all students’ identities, languages, and cultures—building a community of engaged and thoughtful learners.
  • Hands-on tools for examining yourself, your systems, and your instruction.
  • Effective ways to engage with students, families, and communities.
  • Ideas for transforming reading and writing workshop to work for all children.
  • Guidelines for selecting diverse children’s books and using them to help children become kinder and more empathetic, as they become more proficient readers and writers.

If you want to create a vibrant classroom community that honors the funds of knowledge that children of color bring, this book is for you.

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Revolutionary Love: Creating a Culturally Inclusive Classroom
When educators place love at the center of their work, they change lives—and that is precisely what the authors of this remarkable book aim to do. Drawing from years as researchers and teachers, they share ways they’ve overcome challenges and demonstrate how to engage in ongoing self-reflection and examine common but harmful practices that narrow the curriculum for all children. They offer:

  • Practices that affirm and celebrate all students’ identities, languages, and cultures—building a community of engaged and thoughtful learners.
  • Hands-on tools for examining yourself, your systems, and your instruction.
  • Effective ways to engage with students, families, and communities.
  • Ideas for transforming reading and writing workshop to work for all children.
  • Guidelines for selecting diverse children’s books and using them to help children become kinder and more empathetic, as they become more proficient readers and writers.

If you want to create a vibrant classroom community that honors the funds of knowledge that children of color bring, this book is for you.

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Revolutionary Love: Creating a Culturally Inclusive Classroom

Revolutionary Love: Creating a Culturally Inclusive Classroom

Revolutionary Love: Creating a Culturally Inclusive Classroom

Revolutionary Love: Creating a Culturally Inclusive Classroom

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Overview

When educators place love at the center of their work, they change lives—and that is precisely what the authors of this remarkable book aim to do. Drawing from years as researchers and teachers, they share ways they’ve overcome challenges and demonstrate how to engage in ongoing self-reflection and examine common but harmful practices that narrow the curriculum for all children. They offer:

  • Practices that affirm and celebrate all students’ identities, languages, and cultures—building a community of engaged and thoughtful learners.
  • Hands-on tools for examining yourself, your systems, and your instruction.
  • Effective ways to engage with students, families, and communities.
  • Ideas for transforming reading and writing workshop to work for all children.
  • Guidelines for selecting diverse children’s books and using them to help children become kinder and more empathetic, as they become more proficient readers and writers.

If you want to create a vibrant classroom community that honors the funds of knowledge that children of color bring, this book is for you.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781338828733
Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date: 05/16/2022
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 7.38(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range: 5 - 10 Years

About the Author

Eliza G. Braden, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Elementary Education at the University of South Carolina. Her research interests include critical literacy and language practices of Black and Latinx children and their families, culturally relevant teaching, and critical multicultural children’s literature.


Michele Myers, Ph.D., is a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina (UofSC). As a holistic, social justice educator, Myers is committed to ensuring that all children receive a humanizing education that honors their histories, heritages, literacies, languages, cultures, family structures, and communities as assets for learning.


Natasha Thornton, Ph.D., is a teacher educator and the founder of Thornton Educational Consulting where she develops professional learning experiences and curricular resources that center children of color.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 8

Foreword Gloria Swindler Boutte 10

Introduction: What Does It Mean to Be a Teacher Who Embraces Revolutionary Love? 12

Chapter 1 Revolutionary Love in Action 18

Principles of Teachers Who Embrace Revolutionary Love 19

Part I Know Yourself, Your Systems, and Your Practices 23

Chapter 2 Know Yourself 24

Understanding Culture and Identity 25

Self-Examination Activity 1: Identity Web: Who Am I? 25

Self-Examination Activity 2: Labeling Dimensions of My Social Identity 28

Self-Examination Activity 3: Social Identity and Stereotypes: But That's Not Me 30

Critical Self-Examination: Biases Are Real 32

In Summary 34

Chapter 3 Know Your Systems 35

A Historical Timeline 36

Teaching Is Political 38

Self-Examination Activity: Investigating Practices and Policies for Bias 41

The Normalization of Whiteness 44

Policy and Language/Positioning of Students 44

In Summary 49

Chapter 4 Know Your Literacy Instruction and Curriculum 50

What Is Literacy? 51

Children's Literature as Windows, Mirrors, Sliding Glass Doors 52

Literacy as Historically Political 53

Teaching Hard History 53

Literacy Today … Still Political 56

Self-Examination Activity: Creating Your Literacy Timeline 57

Examining Curricula 60

Curriculum Audit: Questions to Consider 62

Guidelines for Selecting Children's Literature 64

Examining Classroom Libraries 65

Classroom Library Audit: Questions to Consider 65

Class Activity: Classroom Library Audit With Students 67

In Summary 70

Part II Engage with Students, Families, and Communities 71

Chapter 5 Engage with Students 72

Embracing Culturally Inclusive Norms in the Classroom 73

Class Activity: Co-Creating Classroom Norms With Students 77

Children's Books That Build Community 81

Community-Building Activities That Honor Students' Identities 83

Where I'm From Poems 83

"Raised By" Poems 86

Honey, I Love Poems 88

Oral History Activities 89

Building Authenticity in a Classroom Community 90

Morning Meeting/Family Time 90

Mindfulness 91

In Summary 92

Chapter 6 Engage with Families and Communities 93

Microaggressions Toward Families 95

Self-Examination Activity: Mining Your Microaggressions 95

Common Microaggressions Experienced by Black and Latine Families 96

Broadening Our Conceptions of Home and Families 97

Committing to Unlearning and Relearning 97

Culturally Inclusive Practices With Families 99

Name Stories 101

Intergenerational Writing 102

Where I'm From Memoirs 103

Family Photo Stories 103

Family Read-Alouds 103

Family Book Clubs 104

Class and Family Text Sets 104

In Summary 104

Part III Practice Liberating Literacy Instruction 105

Chapter 7 Liberate Languages 106

Honoring Home Languages 106

Self-Examination Activity 1: Exploring Your Beliefs About Language 108

Translanguaging: A Humanizing and Transformative Approach 111

What Is Translanguaging? 111

African American Language (AAL) 113

AAL: A Historical Perspective 114

Self-Examination Activity 1: Unpacking AAL 116

Culturally Inclusive Unit Plans 116

Mexican American Language (MxAL) 124

MxAL: A Historical Perspective 124

Self-Examination Activity 2: Rebutting Microaggressions About Language 127

Culturally Inclusive Unit Plans 127

In Summary 128

Chapter 8 Liberate Reader's Workshop 129

An Overview of Reader's Workshop 131

Getting to Know Students as Readers 131

Interactive Read-Aloud 134

Mini-Lessons 141

Independent Reading 145

Reading Assessment Through a Revolutionary Love Lens 146

Kidwatching and Notetaking 147

The Oral Reading Record 151

Small-Group Instruction Through a Revolutionary Love Lens 151

Teaching Reading Based on Needs 152

Creating Book Clubs 153

In Summary 156

Chapter 9 Liberate Writer's Workshop 157

An Overview of Writer's Workshop 158

Common Writing Practices 159

Self-Examination Activity 1: Reflecting on Writing Practices 161

Getting to Know Students as Writers 161

Self-Examination Activity 2: Examining Your Beliefs About Writing and Writers 163

Creating a Community of Writers 163

Mini-Lessons 167

Mentor Texts 170

Conferring: Providing Feedback Through a Revolutionary Love Lens 176

Sharing Work Through a Revolutionary Love Lens 177

Writing Assessment Through a Revolutionary Love Lens 178

Self-Examination Activity 3: Noticing Strengths 179

Holistic Rubrics 179

Writing Celebrations 182

In Summary 186

Closing Reflection 185

Children's Books Cited 185

References 188

Index 190

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