Brilliant Teaching: Using Culture and Artful Thinking to Close Equity Gaps (Paperback)

Dedication

Preface

Do I, or Do I Not, Take This Picture?

What Is This Book About?

To Whom Am I Speaking?

Part One: Culturally Responsible Artmaking Teaching

Chapter 1: What Does It Mean to Think Like an Artist?

What Is Artmaking?

Social Learning

Notes on Artmaking: Influence and Inspiration

Endnotes

Chapter 2: Defining Equity...and the Problem of Fairness

A Problem of Fairness

Measured by Outputs

Quality and Effectiveness

Difference ≠ Deficits

What Schools Can Do

Notes on Artmaking: The Heart of Equity

Endnotes

Chapter 3:  Shifting Paradigms

Equity Problems of Practice

Race

Nonstarters

Notes on Artmaking: Layered Methodologies

Endnotes

Chapter 4: Artmaking—As an Equity Issue

What Does It Mean to Understand?

The Role of Culture Relative to Achievement

Notes on Artmaking: Composition

Endnotes

Part Two: The Culturally Responsive Artmaking Teaching (In) You

Chapter 5: 12 Days of Instruction

Seating Charts, Volcanoes, and Different Glimpses of Themselves

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Notes on Artmaking: Ordinary Resurrections

Endnotes

Chapter 6: Improvisation

Make It into a Melody

Uncertainty

Imprint the Memory

Notes on Artmaking: Have Students Translate the Melody

Endnotes

Chapter 7: Story

Our Job Is To Be a Storyteller...

The Star of the Show

The Story Unfolds as a Question...

Notes on Artmaking: The Power of Story

Endnotes

Chapter 8: Audience

A Captive Audience

A Good Classroom Is Supportive of New Ideas...

In Defense of Incentives

Notes on Artmaking: Incentives Are Not the Reward

Endnotes

Chapter 9: The Art of Culturally Responsive Assessment

A Culture of Responsive Assessments

Why Are Performative Assessments More Equitable than Traditional Standardized Assessments?

Measure It Performatively...

Notes on Artmaking: “They Weren’t Taking Cues Off of Me.”

Afterword

References