Teaching on Days After
Alyssa Hadley Dunn
Publication Date: December 3, 2021
Pages: 240
Where I can, I’ve found myself—like so many other teachers—leaning on crowdsourced materials to address the emotional fallout that follows news of a school shooting. The book Teaching on Days After: Educating for Equity in the Wake of Injustice, written by Michigan State University researcher and teacher Alyssa Hadley Dunn, is one of the few comprehensive texts that exist on how to navigate these crises in their wake. The companion Facebook group—consisting of nearly 20,000 educators, parents and other stakeholders—also provides a wealth of crowdsourced options that teachers can use in their classrooms. This subtext, too, is clear: We are largely on our own in navigating this difficult reality.
From “I’m a teacher educator, and my work has never felt so hopeless” by Christina Wyman. Read the full essay at Salon