"We've been doing it your way long enough" : choosing the culturally relevant classroom / Janice Baines, Carmen Tisdale, Susi Long.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface: A Letter to Educators -- Introduction: Knowing Us -- 1. Choosing Culturally Relevant Pedagogy -- 2."Good Love": Knowing Self, Knowing Families, Knowing Histories -- 3. Starting the Year in Culturally Relevant Ways -- 4. Musical Literacies in the Culturally Relevant Classroom -- 5. Oral Histories: Preserving Community Stories -- 6. Re-Membering History: Links to Africa and Literacy -- 7. Developing a Critical Consciousness: Silence Says "I'm Fine with the Way Things Are" -- 8. Culturally Relevant Teaching as the Pedagogical Norm.

"Filled with day-to-day literacy practices, this book will help elementary school teachers understand their role in dismantling the imbalance of privilege in literacy education. Chapters take readers into classrooms where they will see, hear, and feel decolonizing and humanizing culturally relevant pedagogies as students learn literacy and a critical stance through musical literacies, oral histories, heritage lessons, and building a critical consciousness. The authors also share strategies to help teachers examine their own educational spaces, start the school year in culturally relevant ways, build reciprocal relationships with families and communities, and teach within standards and testing mandates while challenging unjust systems. Practices are brought to life through students, families, and community members who voice the realities of pedagogical privilege and oppression and urge educators to take action for change."--Provided by publisher.