Lessons In Liberation An Abolitionist Toolkit For Educators – The Education For Liberation Network

Focus Routine: Observing children’s actions Required Reading Carla Shalaby, Troublemakers: Lessons in Freedom from Young Children at School (New York: New Press, 2017). Recommended for Further Reading Subini Annamma, The Pedagogy of Pathologization: Dis/abled Girls of Color in the School-Prison Nexus (Milton Park, UK: Routledge, 2017). Alfie Kohn, Beyond Discipline: From Compliance to Community, 10th Anniversary ed. (Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development, 2006). Session 7 Studying the Architecture: Small Puzzles and Bigger Challenges for Classroom Communities Guiding Questions What kinds of challenges do classroom communities face, and how can we respond to them with care and respect for children?

What can we do to better understand students and situations that challenge us? Focus Routine: Energizers, choreographed games, and supporting group work/play Required Readings Subini Annamma, Deb Morrison, and Darrell Jackson, “Disproportionality Fills in the Gaps: Connections Between Achievement, Discipline and Special Education in the School-to-Prison Pipeline,” Berkeley Review of Education 5, no. 1 (2014). Fanna Gamal, “Good Gender-Specific Interventions in Juvenile Court,” Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 35, no. 2 (2018): 228–63. Joan F. Goodman, “The Shame of Shaming,” Phi Delta Kappan, September 24, 2017, https://kappanonline.org/goodman-the-shame-of-shaming. Session 8 Writing a Story: Difficult Feelings, Conflict, and Trauma in the Classroom Guiding Questions What can we do to address difficult emotions and conflict in the classroom?

How can we support children who have experienced trauma? Focus Routine: Reflective storytelling and social stories Required Readings Susan E. Craig, Trauma Sensitive Schools: Learning Communities Transforming Children’s Lives, K–5 (New York: Teachers College Press, 2016). Chapters 3–6. Nadine Burke Harris, “How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime,” TED Talk Video, September 2014, https://www.ted.com/talks/nadine_burke_harris_how_childhood_trauma_af fects_health_across_a_lifetime. Recommended for Further Reading Katie Statman-Weil, “Creating Trauma-Sensitive Classrooms,” Young Children 70, no. 2 (May 2015).

Session 9 Acting Together: Moving from Punishment to Transformative Justice and Repair Guiding Questions When and how might we need to redirect student behavior? What can we do to repair and restore community in response to harm? What are some of the consequences of school punishment systems? Focus Routine: Classroom circles, conflict resolution, and redirecting students. Required Readings Excerpts from Angela Y. Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete? (New York: Seven Stories, 2003). Erica Meiners, For the Children?: Protecting Innocence in a Carceral State (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016).

Chapter 2. Maisha T. Winn, Justice on Both Sides: Transforming Education through Restorative Justice (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press, 2015).

“Lessons in Liberation is an abundant and generous offering, packed with resources to help us collectively build toward abolition in and out of the classroom. This excellent toolkit is a call to imagine, to act, to dream, to expand our notions of what education is and can be—and of the bold and radically nurturing society we can grow together.

It’s an essential read for teachers, organizers, and students of all kinds!” —Maya Schenwar, co- author of Prison by Any Other Name and editor-in-chief of Truthout “This resource book underscores the necessity and urgency of abolition of the prison industrial complex in, by, and through educational systems. Chock full of ideas, workshop activities, guiding principles, tools, reflections, and campaign strategies, Lessons in Liberation will grow and deepen our movements. For those looking for an on-ramp into abolition through education—this is for you.” —Liat Ben-Moshe, author of Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition “Lessons in Liberation is an inspiration!

The authors establish foundational knowledge about what it means to be an abolitionist educator while also providing concrete actions for those who are committed to co-constructing a more just world with the youth in their classrooms. It is a deeply critical, empathetic, and loving text—the medicine that is needed to rise together.” —Curtis Acosta, Ethnic Studies Educator “The tools needed for liberation and freedom are in this book.

Like all of us, if you are striving to be an abolitionist educator, this book is your guide. Lessons in Liberation pushes us to unlearn, to be vulnerable, and to find our humanity so we can enter classrooms ready to freedom dream, to dismantle, and build for collective struggle, liberation, and love.” —Bettina L. Love, author of We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom “Abolition is a theory whose time has come in classrooms and schools, but those of us practicing in these spaces need a more complete picture of what that looks like on the day to day.

Lessons in Liberation is just that. Each page is an invitation to dream and create a new world, but also how to build that world and what tools we may need to do so.”

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