The Dreamkeepers

Learn from exceptional educators In the education classic The Dreamkeepers, urban education expert Gloria Ladson-Billings profiles eight teachers who have mastered the art of culturally relevant teaching. These portraits, interwoven with personal reflections, will challenge you to envision intellectually rigorous classrooms that simultaneously affirm students' cultural identities. Learning from this brilliant mixture of scholarship and storytelling, you'll discover techniques and attitudes that will help you work with the unique strengths each child brings to the classroom. This new edition has been updated to reflect changes in society, African American culture, civil rights, equity and inclusion research, and more. It features updates on the teachers discussed in the prior editions, as well as modified teaching approaches for secondary education. The Dreamkeepers helps teachers build classrooms with the power to improve the lives of not just African American students, but all children.