Tonya B. Perry




Tonya B. Perry is a Professor of Secondary English Education and serves as the Executive Director for GEAR UP Alabama and the Red Mountain Writing Project. In addition, she is the director for NCTE’s Cultivating New Voices program. In every capacity, she has worked to achieve equity for her students, teachers, colleagues, families and communities, and her work focuses on civically and justice-engaged teaching, service, and scholarship.

Her research in the secondary schools is primarily focused on supporting marginalized populations, particularly in the areas of writing, urban and rural education, and teacher preparation. She is most interested in the ways in which we prepare middle and high school students and their teachers to meet the demands of the 21st century and beyond. Her work has been published in English Journal, Voices from the Middle, Theory Into Practice, and other journals, handbooks, and books. She continues to serve, research and work directly with teachers, students, and families to promote equitable literacy practices through programs and events, such as Family Write Nights, Writing with the Stars, When Teachers Write group, and the Community Writes programs.

She has taught English Language Arts Methods courses and young adult literature. In 2000-2001, she was named Alabama Teacher of the Year and further awarded National Teacher of the Year Finalist. In 2012, she was the recipient of the UAB Teaching Excellence Award. She serves as a member of the Research on Women in Education executive board, affiliated with AERA. She will soon join the National Writing Project Board of Directors and is a member of the Beloved Community in the National Writing Project.

In her free time, Tonya enjoys spending time with her husband, daughter, other family and friends. In her spare time, she loves to travel and expand her understanding of different cultures.

Tonya B. Perry

 

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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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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