These Kids Are Out of Control: Why We Must Reimagine Classroom Management for Equity - Paperback

by H. Richard Milner (Author), Cunningham (Author), Lori Delale-O′connor (Author)

Today's classrooms reimagined

If you're looking for a book on how to "control" your students, this isn't it! Instead, this is a book on what classroom learning could be if we aspire to co-create more culturally responsive and equitable environments--environments that are safe, affirming, learner-centered, intellectually challenging, and engaging. If we create the kind of places where our students want to be . . .

A critically important resource for teachers and administrators alike, "These Kids Are Out of Control" details the specific practices, tools, beliefs, dispositions, and mindsets that are essential to better serving the complex needs of our diverse learners, especially our marginalized students. Gain expert insight on:

• What it means to be culturally responsive in today's classroom environments, even in schools at large
• How to decide what to teach, understand the curriculum, build relationships in and outside of school, and assess student development and learning
• The four best practices for building a classroom culture that is both nurturing and rigorous, and where all students are seen, heard, and respected
• Alternatives to punitive disciplinary action that too often sustains the cradle-to-prison pipeline

Classroom "management" takes care of itself when you engage students, help them see links and alignment of the curriculum to their lives, build on and from student identity and culture, and recognize the many ways instructional practices can shift. "These Kids Are Out of Control" is your opportunity to get started right away!

Author Biography

H. Richard Milner IV (also known as Rich) is the Helen Faison Endowed Chair of Urban Education, Professor of Education, Professor of Social Work (by courtesy), and Professor of Africana Studies (by courtesy) as well as Director of the Center for Urban Education at the University of Pittsburgh. Previously, Professor Milner was Lois Autrey Betts Associate Professor and Associate Professor of Education in the Departments of Teaching and Learning and Leadership, Policy and Organizations (by courtesy) as well as a founding director of the graduate program, Learning, Diversity and Urban Studies at Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. At Vanderbilt, in 2008, he became the first Black person to earn promotion and tenure in the entire College of Education's 225-year history. He is a policy fellow of the National Education Policy Center. His research, teaching and policy interests concern urban education, teacher education, African American literature, and the sociology of education.

Erika Gold Kestenberg is the Associate Director of Community Partnerships and Practice for the Center for Urban Education as well as a professor in the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh. Her 20+ years in the field of education have spanned Pre-K through graduate school teaching and traditional, non-traditional and alternative education program management all focused on urban education with a social justice, equity lens.

Heather Cunningham is a doctoral candidate in the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh. She has almost 10 years of experience teaching in urban schools.