Antiracism and Universal Design for Learning: Building Expressways to Success by Andratesha Fritzgerald
A classroom should be a place where all learners — not just a select few — have opportunities to succeed.
In her new book, Antiracism and Universal Design for Learning: Building Expressways to Success, author Andratesha Fritzgerald issues a challenge. She asks educators to protest school systems that benefit white, privileged students but have detrimental effects on other students. Students with disabilities, English language learners, LGBTQ students, students who experience trauma, economically disadvantaged students, and Black and Brown students.
The book from CAST Professional Publishing illuminates how to identify and eliminate barriers. It also shows how to prepare learning environments so all students — especially Black and Brown students — can succeed.
“[Antiracism and Universal Design for Learning] had to be written, and written now, because the temperature in the world is right,” says Fritzgerald, 41, Director of Teaching, Learning and Innovation in the East Cleveland City School District. She also works as an education consultant, online course instructor and virtual module content provider with Novak Educational Consulting
“Fritzgerald offers very practical suggestions for making inclusion, antiracism, and the acceptance of differences the first and most important step in lesson planning. … This book gives me hope that in education we can begin to eliminate the violence of academic and social prejudice that kills the spirit of our babies and belittles the needs and experiences of people of color.”
— From the Foreword by Samaria Rice
The author expresses gratitude to Samaria Rice for writing the forward in this book, and shares more of her purpose.
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