Educator Book Club
This book club is a professional development series for educators. Though educators will be engaging with the book and participating in discussions and activities, the purpose is to ensure that participants are able to takeaway strategies to use each text in educational spaces with their students.
Goals for This Book Club
- Learn about, interact with, and commit to teaching the Black Historical Consciousness Principles (Power, Oppression, & Anti-Blackness, Agency, Resistance, & Justice, Africa & the African Diaspora, Black Emotionality, Black Identities, Historical Contention, Community, Local, & Social Histories, and Black Futurism).
- Create a collection of resources and layered texts to pair with each book.
- Engage in critical discussions and inquiry with other educators.
- Build a community of educators to connect with and support within and outside of the book club.
- Acknowledge that we too can learn Black histories through texts written for our students.
Check Back for the Latest Books
Our book club will take a small hiatus during the summer months. We'll be back with more books, authors and engaging conversations for the 2026-2027 school year.
Books by Title
Title: I'll Make the World: The 100-Year Journey of Black History Month
Author: Jarvis R. Givens
Title: One Crazy Summer: The Graphic Novel
Author: Rita Williams-Garcia Illustrator: Sharee Miller
Title: Creating Educational Justice: Learning from Black Home Educators
Author: Cheryl Fields-Smith
Title: Teaching Black History to White People
Author: Leonard N. Moore
Title: Original Sings: The (Mis)Education of Black And Native Children and the Construction of American Racism
Author: Eve L. Ewing
Title: The Three Mothers: How The Mothers of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
Author: Anna Malaika Tubbs
Title: Pro-Blackness in Early Childhood Education: Diversifying Curriculum and Pedagogy in K–3 Classrooms
Authors: Gloria Swindler Boutte, Jarvais J. Jackson, Saudah N. Collins, Janice R. Baines, Anthony Broughton, George Lee Johnson Jr.
TItle: We Refuse: The Forceful History of Black Resistance
Author: Kellie Carter Jackson
Title: The Door of No Return
Author: Kwame Alexander
Title: Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching
Author: Jarvis Givens
Title: Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
Author: Monique W. Morris
Title: Beyond February: Teaching Black History Any Day, Every Day, All Year Long
Author: Dawnavyn James
Title: Black Lives Matter at School: An Uprising for Educational Justice
Facilitated by: Jesse Hagopian and Denisha Jones