More Courageous Conversations About Race

Glenn Singleton has devoted over thirty years to constructing racial equity worldwide and developing leaders to do the same. Author, thought leader, and strategist, he is the creator of Courageous Conversation a protocol and framework for sustained, deepened dialogue, and Beyond Diversity, the curriculum that has taught hundreds of thousands of people how to use it. Glenn is the Founder and President of Courageous Conversation TM, an agency that guides leadership development in education, government, corporation, law enforcement, and community organizing. He is the award-winning author of Courageous Conversations About Race; A Field Guide for Achieving Equity in Schools, Second Edition; and of MORE Courageous Conversations About Race. Glenn has consulted executives at Wieden + Kennedy (W+K) Advertising, Google, Amazon, Procter & Gamble, the New York Department of Education, the New Zealand Ministry of Education, the Stavros Niarchos, Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library and the Bill & Melinda Gates foundations. Along with W+K, he received the 2017 Most Valuable Partnership (MVP) Award by AdColor. He is the recipient of the George A. Coleman Excellence in Equity Award by the Connecticut State Education Resource Center. Cited in the June 2018 edition of the Hollywood Reporter for his work with 21st Century Fox Animation, most recently, Glenn was awarded the AdWeek/AdColor 2020 Champion Award, and the 2020 National Speech and Debate Association Communicator of the Year Award. In 1995, Glenn founded the Foundation for A College Education and continues to serve on its Board of Advisors. He is also the founder and Board Chair of the Courageous Conversation Global Foundation, which develops partnerships to promote racial justice, interracial understanding and human healing worldwide. Glenn has trained law enforcement leaders with the U.S. Embassy in Western Australia, and established the Courageous Conversation South Pacific Institute in Auckland, New Zealand. For eight years, he served as an adjunct professor of educational leadership at San Jose State University. Glenn has been a guest lecturer at Harvard University and has instructed faculty, students and administrators at the University of Minnesota, New York University School of Medicine, and the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Stanford University, Glenn Singleton is a member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. and 100 Black Men. He currently resides in Washington, D.C.

Foreword by James P. Comer Preface Acknowledgments About the Author 1. Why Do We Need Another Book on Courageous Conversations About Race? It's (Still) A Question of Will! Writing in Difficult Times Building on the Field Guide The "More" in More Courageous Conversations 2. From Will and Passion to Purpose Courage Requires Personal Purpose Differing Approaches to Diversity Purpose at Every Level Voices From the Inside: Macarre Traynham 3. Revisiting the Courageous Conversations About Race Protocol Getting Behind the Protocol's Agreements, Conditions, and Compass Isolating Race: Intersectionality and Cultural Layering Getting Centered in a Mindful Way Examining the Presence and Role of Whiteness Closing the "Knowing-Doing" Gap Voices From the Inside: Devon Alexander 4. Seven Years Later: What's Different and What's the Same? Embracing Equity and Naming the "It": Systemic Racism The Data Minding the Gaps Can We Really Afford Equity? Applying New Technology to Racial Equity Work Voices From the Inside: Donna Hart-Tervalon 5. Why Are We Still Talking About Race? Beyond a Moral Imperative: Neuroscience and the Physiological Impact of Racism A Critique of Liberalism Are Black Males Beyond Love? Defining Resistance and Transforming "Resisters" What Should Be "Special" About Special Education? Voices From the Inside: Charles L. Hopson 6. Moving Courageous Conversations Beyond Black and White Empowering ALL People of Color Making the Invisible Visible: A Courageous Conversation About American Indians and Schooling Brown Space The Politics of English-Language Acquisition: Skin Color, Immigration Status, and Other Barriers Voices From the Inside: Luis Versalles, Elona Street-Stewart 7. A Vision and A Framework for Achieving Racial Equity in Education "Just Say No!" ... to Random Acts of Equity Unmasking Courageous Conversations About Racial Disparities in Independent Schools Where Is Higher Education? A Call for Seamless Racial Equity in PreK-16 Education Voices From the Inside: Bodie Brizendine, Akemi Matsumoto 8. Leadership for Racial Equity: From Theory to Practice Equity Development for School Boards District Equity Leadership Teams (DELT and DELTA) Site and Central-Office Department Leaders Engaged in Equity/Antiracism Development (LEADs) Equity Teams The Beacon Project Staff of Color Equity Development Students Organized for Anti-Racism (SOAR) Voices From the Inside: Carla Randall, Patrick Duffy, Anthony Galloway 9. Learning and Teaching for Racial Equity: From Theory to Practice Culturally Relevant Pedagogy Collaborative Action Research for Equity (CARE) Voices From the Inside: Jackie Roehl 10. Empowering Parents and Communities of Color for Racial Equity: From Theory to Practice Partnerships for Academically Successful Students Engaging and Developing White Allies to Support Parents and Community Members of Color in Schools Engaging White Allies in the Development and Recruitment of Other Whites to the Struggle for Racial Equity Developing and Reinventing School Boards as Allies in the Struggle for Racial Equity Voices From the Inside: Andrea Haynes Johnson 11. Eden Prairie Schools: A Case Study Eden Prairie Then and Now The District Develops a Clear Vision of Equity A Changing Climate The Results Are In: Progress Was Made Voices From the Inside: Connie Hytjan 12. Beyond Passion, Practice, and Persistence ... A Purpose for Achieving Equity! Notes Recommended Reading Index

"This book provides insight into the thinking of one of the foremost advocates for addressing the achievement gap in authentic ways that result in the underlying assumptions of racism being uncovered and addressed. Singleton's delineation of the concept 'racial equity work' is a major contribution." -- Randall B. Lindsey, Author of Cultural Proficiency "Readers who embrace the courageous conversations that Glenn Singleton has written about in these pages will find themselves analyzing their own thoughts and conversations about race in school settings. This text is a deeper analysis of previous conversations and the protocol introduced in Courageous Conversations About Race. The vignettes and cases are a strength." -- Ignacio Lopez, Director of Outreach and Professor of Education "In this book, Glenn Singleton takes the courageous steps to model what he teaches as he gives us the pathways for our own journeys to confront racism in our lives. Glenn proves the necessity of holding courageous conversations about race if we want to eliminate the opportunity gap for ALL students." -- Bonnie M. Davis, Author of How to Teach Students Who Don't Look Like You