We Got This.: Equity, Access, and the Quest to Be Who Our Students Need Us to Be Audiobook (Free)

In We Got This Cornelius Small describes how this conversation moved him toward realizing that hearing children is among the most effective things a teacher can do. By listening carefully, Cornelius found out something that children find themselves having to communicate far too often. That “my lessons weren’t, at all, associated with that student’s truth.”

While challenging the instructor mainly because hero trope, We Got This shows how authentically listening to kids may be the nearest point to a superpower on the subject of We Got This.: Collateral, Access, as well as the Quest to become Who Our Learners Need Us to Be that we have got. What we hear can spark action that allows us to create powerful goes toward collateral by broadening access to learning for everyone kids. A lone teacher can’t get rid of inequity, but Cornelius demonstrates a lone teacher can confront the scholastic manifestations of racism, sexism, ableism and classism by showing:

exactly how he programs and revises lessons to make sure access and equity

ways to look anew at explicit and tacit guidelines that consistently influence groups of learners unequally

suggestions for leaning into class community when it feels like the kids are against you

suggestions for using general design that make curriculum relevant and accessible

advocacy approaches for producing class room and schoolwide changes that expand usage of possibility to your students

“We cannot warranty outcomes, but we can guarantee access” Cornelius writes. “We are able to make sure that everyone gets a shot. In this reserve we reach do that. Together. Consider this book a manual for how to begin that brilliantly messy work. We got this.”