Justice Seekers

Revolutionary solutions for an American school system that is systemically failing Black and brown children

In Justice Seekers, celebrated social justice activist and veteran educator Lacey Robinson delivers an engaging combination of storytelling and research that explains why justice is something that is happening—or not happening—inside the classroom and within the details of teaching and learning. You’ll explore ways to identify and eliminate the shame-inducing pedagogies impacting Black and brown children from classrooms and the world at large.

In the book, you’ll discover the many ways that justice is in the details of race, pedagogy, and standards-driven education, as well as:

• Strategies for challenging educators to see the ways in which they can contribute to eradicating racial inequity from the classroom and from society
• New ways to recognize and reduce the impact of low cognitive demand material presented to Black and brown children in schools across America
• Methods for improving the quality of your own teaching here and now

An intuitive and exciting roadmap for K-12 teachers, teachers-in-training, school administrators, and principals who aim to reverse the racial injustices today’s children face every day, Justice Seekers also belongs in the hands of instructional coaches, coordinators, and concerned parents everywhere.

Introduction

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Educational Inequality: How We Got Here

Chapter 2: Witnessing and Signifying: How Lenses Shape Our Teaching

Chapter 3: Learning at the Intersections: Race and Standards

Chapter 4: Legacies and Lenses

Chapter 5: Overview of GLEAM

Chapter 6: GLEAM in Practice

Chapter 7: Our Equity Charge

Conclusion

About the Author

Index

LACEY ROBINSON is President and CEO of UnboundEd, an education organization that offers standards-aligned resources and immersive Professional Learning for teachers and leaders seeking equity. She has over 20 years’ experience in education and focuses on helping educators in school systems disrupt systemic racism and its legacies.

Transformative lessons and ideas for a school system that is failing Black and Brown children

“We’ve been waiting so long for this book. Rather than inundate teachers with laudable ‘big ideas’ that prove so hard to put into practice, Lacey Robinson and UnboundEd dive deeply into the everyday world of classrooms, with explicit guidance on how to design high-quality, equitable education for Black and other students marginalized by our current education system. Lacey’s voice is at once authoritative and self-reflective, passionate and vulnerable, insightful and inspiring. She provides strategies for those of us who share spaces with children to look deeply at ourselves, our practice, and our students; to imbue every lesson with academic rigor and cultural relevance; and to understand that every classroom decision can make a monumental difference in a child’s life. As Lacey and UnboundEd remind those of us who labor in schools to create a better world, ‘justice is found in the details of teaching and learning.’”
—DR. LISA D. DELPIT, Education Reformer, Visionary Scholar, and Author

In Justice Seekers, veteran education leader Lacey Robinson delivers a blend of storytelling and research that explains how justice itself is something that is happening—or not happening—inside the classroom, within the granular details of teaching and learning.

An essential blueprint for K-12 teachers, principals, teachers-in-training, and school administrators who seek to help reverse racial inequities, Justice Seekers will also earn a prominent place in the libraries of instructional coaches and coordinators.