Staff Book Recommendations: Daryl Williams
I’ve been working on a recent release from 2020, titled From Equity Talk to Equity Walk: Expanding Practitioners Knowledge for Racial Justice in Higher Education by Tia Brown McNair, Estella Mara Bensimon, and Lindsey Malcolm-Piqueux. Here’s an excerpt from the back cover: “It provides race-conscious guidance on designing and implementing effective campus change strategies that… Read More »
Staff Book Recommendations: Susan Shaffer
I entered the educational equity field almost 50 years through my experiences as a high school teacher and a young mom. When I was a teacher in the 1970s, I joined the Class Action Suit for Teachers to fight for the right to teach after twelve weeks of pregnancy. We won the case under Title… Read More »
Staff Book Recommendations: Charo Basterra
There are three books that develop my conceptual framework within educational equity work. The first one is Con Respeto by Guadalupe Valdes (“Con Respeto” means “With Respect” in Spanish). This book, published in 1996, discusses how to address Latino families from various backgrounds. It talks about how to communicate with Latinx parents and establish a conceptual framework regarding addresses… Read More »
Staff Book Recommendations: Marianna Stepniak and Kathleen Pulupa
November is National Literacy Month! To celebrate, we asked our staff to recommend their favorite equity books. Here’s what they said… By Marianna Stepniak and Kathleen Pulupa MAEC’s Communications team Marianna: I’m reading The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson right now and really loving it. Wilkerson’s brilliant nonfiction writing is rooted in telling… Read More »
Staff Book Recommendations: Dannele Ferreras
November is National Literacy Month! To celebrate, we asked our staff to recommend their favorite equity books. Here’s what they said… by Dannele Ferreras Data and Evaluation Specialist, MAEC I would like to share two books with you today: Teaching with Poverty in Mind by Eric Jensen and All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M.… Read More »
Staff Book Recommendations: Phoebe Schlanger
November is National Literacy Month! To celebrate, we asked our staff to recommend their favorite equity books. Here’s what they said… by Phoebe Schlanger Finance Manager, MAEC I want to start by saying I am not an educator. For my book recommendations, I’m going to borrow two books that my son had to read in… Read More »
Staff Book Recommendations: Kasia Razynska
November is National Literacy Month! To celebrate, we asked our staff to recommend their favorite equity books. Here’s what they said… by Kasia Razynska Director of Evaluations, MAEC This book recommendation dates me. I had to read this book at the beginning of my grad program. It was the first of four books we were… Read More »
Staff Book Recommendations: Heather Tomlinson
November is National Literacy Month! To celebrate, we asked our staff to recommend their favorite equity books. Here’s what they said… By Heather Tomlinson Senior Specialist for Early Childhood and Family Engagement, MAEC I have three book suggestions, each of them different in intended audience and style. The first one I’ll mention inspired me in… Read More »
Staff Book Recommendations: Karmen Rouland
November is National Literacy Month! To celebrate, we asked our staff to recommend their favorite equity books. Here’s what they said… By Karmen Rouland Associate Director of Technical Assistance & Training, CEE There are two books that I am always ready to recommend to other people! One of them is The Color of Law: A… Read More »
Staff Book Recommendations: Young-chan Han
November is National Literacy Month! To celebrate, we asked our staff to recommend their favorite equity books. Here’s what they said… By Young-chan Han Senior Family Engagement Specialist, MAEC I have worked closely with immigrants for my entire adult life, so my interest in books is also about immigrants. There are two books in particular… Read More »
