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Although there has been significant exploration of the need for and importance of culturally responsive, sustaining, equitable and inclusive teaching and learning within the past several years, the focus is often on creating these environments and experiences for Black and Brown students. While it is essential for teachers to become culturally responsive practitioners, we don't often explore how racialization has negatively impacted White students, and the importance and benefit of creating and sustaining learning environments where White students learn to shift from centering their own racial identity to recognizing and valuing the histories, perspectives, experiences, interests, identities, and contributions of traditionally marginalized people.
Open Windows, Open Minds: Developing Antiracist, Pro-Human Students (2022) will build on Rudine Sims Bishop and Emily Style's concept of Windows and Mirrors to explore why learning to appreciate the experiences and perspectives of others is essential for White students, and offer an approach to teaching and learning that will equip White students as informed, empathetic, inclusive global citizens who genuinely value diversity and will actively engage in dismantling systemic inequities, as well as what White antibias, antiracist practitioners wish they had known when they were K-12 students.