LEFTTURN Podcast showcases individuals who have accomplished remarkable achievements, including founding and managing organizations, writing articles, and publishing books that contribute to building a strong sense of community. The recommended books from our guests offer a peek into their insights and experiences, aiming to inspire, educate, and entertain readers. Happy reading!
In "Start, Love, Repeat: How to Stay in Love with Your Entrepreneur in a Crazy Start-up World," Dorcas Cheng-Tozun provides insights into how being part of a start-up can affect one's life....Book Details
Start, Love, Repeat
"Let There d.light" tells the story of the journey to build one of the world’s most successful social enterprises, offering an honest account of the team’s failures and successes....Book Details
Let There d.light
In "Beyond the Big House: African American Educators on Teacher Education," Gloria Ladson-Billings uses in-depth interviews and storytelling, depicts deeply personal portraits of scholars’ experien...Book Details
Beyond the Big House
"Justice Matters" strips away the rhetoric that keeps us from understanding what justice is, particularly in education, but also in relation to health, race, economy, and environment....Book Details
Justice Matters
Initially published in 1994, "The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children, distinguished professor Gloria Ladson-Billings delivers an encouraging exploration of the future of ed...Book Details
The Dreamkeepers
In "Critical Race Theory in Education: A Scholar's Journey" Gloria Ladson-Billings brings together key writings from one of the most influential education scholars of our time. ...Book Details
Critical Race Theory in Education
This compilation of Ladson-Billings’s published work on Culturally Relevant Pedagogy examines the theory, how it works in specific subject areas, and its role in teacher education.
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Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
In "Crossing Over to Canaan: The Journey of New Teachers in Diverse Classrooms," Gloria Ladson-Billings argues that most programs do not do enough to foster "culturally relevant pedagogy."...Book Details
Crossing Over to Canaan
"To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul" by Tracy K. Smith is a memoir that delves into her family history and draws connections between their resilience and today's ongoing challenges of ...Book Details
To Free the Captives
In "Life on Mars," Tracy K. Smith's poetry envisions a sci-fi future sucked clean of any real dangers, contemplates the dark matter that keeps people both close and distant, and revisits the kitschy c...Book Details
Life on Mars: Poems
"Such Color: New and Selected Poems" is Tracy K. Smiths' first career-spanning volume, which traces an increasingly audacious commitment to exploring the unknowable, the immense mysteries of existence...Book Details
Such Color
"In Ordinary Light: A Memoir," Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Tracy K. Smith tells her remarkable story, giving us a quietly potent memoir that explores her coming-of-age and the meaning of home agains...Book Details
Ordinary Light
The extraordinary poetry collection, Wade in the Water: Poems by Tracy K. Smith, boldly ties America’s contemporary moment both to our nation’s fraught founding history and to a sense of the spiri...Book Details
Wade in the Water
"American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time" edited by Tracy K. Smith explores and celebrates our country and our lives with a remarkable chorus of voices that ring up and down the registers of Americ...Book Details
American Journal
"The Body's Question: Poems" is the debut collection by the Poet Laureate of the United States that confronts loss, historical intersections with race and family, and the threshold between childhood a...Book Details
The Body’s Question
The award-winning second collection by Tracy K. Smith, "Duende: Poems," reflects the creative and ecstatic power an artist seeks to channel from within, while exploring history and the intersections o...Book Details
Duende
In "Eternity: Selected Poems," Tracy K. Smith has gathered this selection spanning her entire remarkable career. From the private experience of desire to the devastation of political strife, these poe...Book Details
Eternity
"There's a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis" edited by Tracy K. Smith and John Freeman, provides a kaleidoscopic portrait of an unprecedented time brings with some of our most treasu...Book Details
There’s a Revolution Outside
"Social Justice for the Sensitive Soul: How to Change the World in Quiet Ways" explores how sensitive individuals can make a positive social impact to the world. ...Book Details
Social Justice for the Sensitive Soul
In "An Unintentional Accomplice," Carolyn L. Baker shares her personal journey and observations on her awakening of cultural white privilege and unintentional racial harm to becoming an ally in buildi...Book Details
Published On : September, 2020
Publisher : 2Leaf Press
An Unintentional Accomplice
