Lisa Delpit gathers all-star advice for K-12 teachers on engaging students around today's toughest issues. Is it okay to discuss politics in class? How can teachers talk about immigration without putting undocumented students in the spotlight or at risk? What are constructive ways to help young people process the daily news coverage of sexual assault? Climate change? Hate speech? Confederate statue controversies? This timely, urgent volume is sure to inspire teachers who are eager to support their students in navigating the current events, cultural shifts, and social dilemmas that shape our communities, our country, and our world.

About the Author

MacArthur Award winner Lisa Delpit is the Felton G. Clark Professor of Education at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The author of Other People's Children and "Multiplication Is for White People," and co-editor (with Joanne Kilgour Dowdy) of The Skin That We Speak (all published by The New Press), she lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Reviews

Praise for Teaching When the World Is on Fire:
Named one of "Our Favorite Books for Educators in 2019" by Greater Good Magazine

"The perfect blueprint. We can't change this world or put out these fires unless we engage and activate the minds and hearts of ourselves and our students. That process starts in these pages. "
-Ms. magazine

"The stories from teachers' classrooms, their efforts, creativity and insight, and their students' resistance and activism . . . moved me [and] will inspire teachers to help students take action."
-Radical Teacher

"An honest and rich collection."
-Zinn Education Project

"Insightful and thought- provoking . . . just what you need to remember that change is possible and within our reach."
-Pedro Noguera

Book Information
ISBN 9781620974315
Author Lisa Delpit
Format Hardback
Page Count 384
Imprint The New Press
Publisher The New Press