A review by staceface
For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education by Christopher Emdin

5.0

Damn, this book is wonderful. Christopher Emdin is a genius. The book focuses on reality pedagogy — meeting students on their own "cultural and emotional turf[s]." Emdin focuses on student-centered approaches and offers numerous practical ways to center students' voices in improving classrooms. I particularly appreciated his useful suggestions for ways to discuss code switching in the classroom, and ways to implement using social media for learning, even in schools that might block social media access. Definitely going to use this as one of my many bibles as I head into my first year of teaching high school.