'Grant us the sun': What Black teachers need. (September 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Stovall, Jessica Lee; Sullivan, Tara R.
• Is Part Of: Phi Delta Kappan. Volume 104:Number 1(2022)
• Page Start: 18
• Page End: 21
• Publication Date: 2022-09
• Subjects: teachers -- Blackness -- race -- diversity -- Black teachers -- racism -- inequity -- affinity spaces -- healing -- Black-affirming pedagogy; Education -- United States -- Periodicals; Greek letter societies -- Periodicals; Onderwijs; Éducation -- Périodiques; Associations désignées par des lettres grecques -- Périodiques; Éducation; Enseignement; Pédagogie; Politique éducative; Recherche en éducation; Réforme du système éducatif; Services aux élèves; Système éducatif; États-Unis; Étude comparée (Descripteur de forme); Périodique électronique (Descripteur de forme); Ressource Internet (Descripteur de forme); 371.0097305
• DOI: 10.1177/00317217221123644
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0031-7217

Abstract

In a time of growing teacher shortages, Black teachers are rapidly and disproportionately leaving the profession. Drawing upon their interviews with 30 Black teachers in the California Bay Area, Jessica Lee Stovall and Tara R. Sullivan provide insight into what it will take to keep Black teachers in the profession. The interviews depict both the anti-Blackness that Black teachers face and their freedom dreams for a better tomorrow for their students. Ultimately, Black teachers want schools to be transformed into healing-centered spaces where they can show up authentically to create a world in which Blackness is centered and affirmed .