Steven Zemelman




Steve Zemelman is founding Director of the Illinois Writing Project and works on student civic engagement and social action in Chicago schools, advising restorative justice and student social action teams. He is presently a visiting scholar at Northeastern Illinois University, where the Illinois Writing Project is based. He helped start innovative small schools in Chicago including Best Practice High School, which for ten years demonstrated the power of integrated, student-centered curriculum. His expertise covers literacy, whole-school instructional development, teacher leadership, restorative justice and students’ civic action. His most recent previous book is From Inquiry to Action: Civic Engagement with Project-Based Learning in All Content Areas. With various partners he’s authored 13 Steps to Teacher Empowerment; Content Area Writing; Subjects Matter: Every Teacher’s Guide to Content Area Reading; Best Practice: Bringing Standards to Life in America’s Classrooms; and Rethinking High School. Earlier works, also with partner authors, include History Comes Home: Family Stories Across the Curriculum, A Community of Writers: Teaching Writing in the Junior and Senior High School, and A Writing Project: For Teachers of Composition from Kindergarten to College.

Formerly he developed and directed National-Louis University’s Center for City Schools, which worked with a wide range of Chicago schools to provide professional development on writing and related topics. He also served a term as Co-Chair of the Steering Committee of the Chicago Consortium on School Research at the University of Chicago. He has spoken and led panels and workshops on writing instruction and civic engagement for schools across the country and at numerous conferences of the National Council of Teachers of English. He was Prof. of Humanities at Roosevelt University, 1976 – 1994, Asst. Prof. of English at Rutgers University, 1970-1976, and Instructor & Asst. Prof. of English, Amherst College, 1967-1970. He has two sons, one a musician, the other a dancer and artist – and one brilliant eight-year-old grandson.

Steven Zemelman

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Teaching for Racial Equity
Teaching for Racial Equity
Tonya B. Perry, Steven Zemelman, and Katy Smith
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Teaching for Racial Equity

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$42.67 $32.00 Save $10.67
Recipient of the 2022 Excellence in Equity Award!

It is not enough to be against racism in education – teachers must be actively antiracist. Yet how do we start reflecting on our own beliefs and lives so we can truly teach for racial literacy? In the award-winning Teaching for Racial Equity: Becoming Interrupters, authors Tonya Perry, Steven Zemelman, and Katy Smith engage in honest conversations between educators of color and their white colleagues. Authentic, inspiring, and sometimes uncomfortable, teachers share stories of personal histories and experiences that shaped them as people and educators.

In this book you will find:
  • Strategies to understand different backgrounds through a racial lens and ways to address potentially difficult conversations with fellow educators
  • In-depth overview of Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz’s Archaeology of Self™ and how it can be personally and professionally adopted
  • Lists of resources for teaching about and actively interrupting racism in education and tools that document systemic inequalities in the classroom
  • Ways to facilitate student-led conversations which examine race and inequitable conditions found nationwide
 
By examining inequalities found at a systemic level, teachers can start to remove some of their internal biases and allow students to show who they truly are. In turn, this can help create a school curriculum that makes space for BIPOC voices that inspire and invite students to share. Teaching for Racial Equity: Becoming Interrupters provides a resource for teachers and educators to critically reflect and begin work to interrupt racism at all levels.


 
Teaching for Racial Equity