For the past few years, I haven't had a classroom. However, I have been able to guest teach lessons with students. This is challenging because I don't get the luxury of multiple opportunities to build teacher-student relationships. I have to earn a little trust within 30 seconds of meeting them. This episode is about five ways to earn students' trust and letting them know they belong in our classrooms. We'll focus on the use of excerpts from four major young-adult novels to help us with these conversations in the classrooms and talk about how they can inform conversations with our faculty.

Works Cited

Acevedo, Elizabeth. With the Fire on High. HarperTeen, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2019.

DiAngelo, Robin. White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism. Beacon Press, 2018.

Jewell, Tiffany, and Aurélia Durand. This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake up, Take Action, and Do the Work. Frances Lincoln Children's Books, 2020.

Mafi, Tahereh. A Very Large Expanse of Sea. Harpercollins, 2018.

Sánchez, Erika L. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter. Alfred A. Knopf, an Imprint of Random House Children's Books, 2017.

Thomas, Angie. On the Come Up. HarperCollins Publisher, 2019.

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