Understanding Your Instructional Power: Curriculum and Language Decisions to Support Each Student

Explore the web of factors that influence your power as a teacher—and how you can better use that power to foster student agency and empowerment.

What kind of power do teachers have? What influences their instructional decision making—and how does that affect students, particularly Black students and other students of color? How can educators move away from practices that oppress and devalue students to practices that support and empower them?

These are just a few of the questions that author...