AUTHORS
JALEEL R. HOWARD is currently a sixth-grade English language arts teacher in Houston, Texas. Jaleels research interests center around urban contexts and social forces that affect educational experiences and outcomes for chronically underserved students.
TANYA MILNER-McCALL is a thirty-year veteran classroom teacher in Carrollton, Georgia. She is certified in Early Childhood Education and Middle Grades Education, and she holds a Gifted Endorsement. Tanya has taught several grades, including fourth (12 years), fifth (15 years), and sixth (2 years). She and several of her team members were Instructional Excellence recipients in 2012. Tanya also received a Golden Apple Award as an honor teacher in 2017, given by an honor graduate whose life she impacted more than any of his other teachers. One of her favorite quotes is, To teach is to touch a life forever. Anonymous
TYRONE C. HOWARD is a Professor of Education in the School of Education at UCLA. He is also the Director of the UCLA Black Male Institute and the UCLA Pritzker Center for Strengthening Children and Families. A former classroom teacher in Compton, California, his current research interests center on race, equity, access, and improved school outcomes for marginalized youth.
Praise for
No More Teaching Without Positive Relationships
This vital resource reminds us that the work of teaching and learning is fundamentally human work: relational, social, and cultural. With a rare and necessary balance of personal, practical, and political, the authors support us in nurturing the kinds of anti-oppressive relationships with and among young people that make schools healthy, just, joyful, and successful.
Carla Shalaby, author of Troublemakers: Lessons in Freedom from Young Children at School
Through the voices of those closest to the classroom, Howard, Milner-McCall, and Howard remind us that at the end of the day, teaching and learning often boils down to caring relationships. While it is troubling that the field must be reminded of this fact yet again, until our most wounded children experience school cultures that prioritize their well-being over their test scores, we need the kinds of powerful voices represented in this book to keep the focus where it belongs.
Jeff Duncan-Andrade, Associate Professor of Raza Studies and Education, San Francisco State University
This book should be on every educators shelf and in every pre-service teachers toolkit. This book is clear and concise yet complete.
Maisha T. Winn, Faculty Director and Co-Founder of the Transformative Justice in Education Center, University of California, Davis
Establishing and sustaining meaningful relationships with diverse learners is an increasingly urgent task for education practitioners. No More Teaching Without Positive Relationships offers sound instruction for how to make subtle shifts in language and teaching disposition that enable favorable student outcomes. More than a one-size-fits-all how-to guide of relationship-building, Howard and his colleagues draw on expertise in critical race studies, early childhood, and human development to forecast a vision of teaching and learning centered on more humanizing social relations.
Chezare A. Warren, Associate Professor of Urban Education and Teacher Education, Michigan State University
No More
Teaching Without
Positive Relationships
Dear Readers,
Much like the diet phenomenon Eat This, Not That, this series aims to replace some existing practices with approaches that are more effectivehealthier, if you willfor our students. We hope to draw attention to practices that have little support in research or professional wisdom and offer alternatives that have greater support. Each text is collaboratively written by authors representing research and practice. , the author(s) representing practitioner perspective(s) give detailed descriptions of how to implement these better practices. By the end of each book, you will understand both what not to do, and what to do, to improve student learning.
It takes courage to question ones own practiceto shift away from what you may have seen throughout your years in education and toward something new that you may have seen few, if any, colleagues use. We applaud you for demonstrating that courage and wish you the very best in your journey from this to that.
Best wishes,
Nell K. Duke and M. Colleen Cruz, Series Editors
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Howard, Jaleel R., author. | Milner-McCall, Tanya, author. | Howard, Tyrone C. (Tyrone Caldwell), author.
Title: No more teaching without positive relationships / Jaleel R. Howard, Tanya Milner-McCall, Tyrone C. Howard.
Description: Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019049746 | ISBN 9780325118130 (paperback)
Subjects: LCSH: Teacher-student relationships. | Educational psychology.
Classification: LCC LB1033 .H695 2020 | DDC 371.102/3dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019049746
Series Editors: Nell K. Duke and M. Colleen Cruz
Editor: Margaret LaRaia
Production Editor: Kimberly Capriola
Cover and Interior Designer: Monica Ann Crigler
Typesetter: Valerie Levy, Drawing Board Studios
Manufacturing: Val Cooper
e-ISBN: 978-0-325-12049-2
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Dedicated to
All my students who
demanded more of me
than my content knowledge.
Jaleel
My parents, Henry and Barbara Milner, and
my brother Dr. Rich Milner, who are my biggest
supporters; my husband, Derek, and my children,
Ieshia, Byron, and Xavier, who encouraged me