Book Club

The Integrated Schools Book Club is a way for people from across the country to come together and discuss books, articles, videos, and podcasts pertaining to school integration. While the conversations are geared for parents and caregivers, everyone is welcome.

We meet via zoom and keep the sessions small so that everyone has a chance to talk — this is not a webinar!  There is no cost to attend — you need only internet access at the time of the meeting (and if you don’t have access to a computer with a camera, no worries).

Stay tuned for our next bookclub pick coming soon!

Join us for the next Integrated Schools Book Club discussion!

We are reading Punished For Dreaming:How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal by Dr. Bettina Love.

Dr. Bettina L. Love is the William F. Russell Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University and the bestselling author of We Want To Do More Than Survive. In 2022, the Kennedy Center named Dr. Love one of the Next 50 Leaders making the world more inspired, inclusive, and compassionate. She is a co-founder of the Abolitionist Teaching Network (ATN), whose mission is to develop and support teachers and parents fighting injustice within their schools and communities, having granted over $250,000 to abolitionists around the country. She is also a founding member of the Task Force that launched the program In Her Hands, distributing more than $15 million to Black women living in Georgia. In Her Hands is one of the largest guaranteed income pilot programs in the U.S. Dr. Love is a sought-after public speaker on a range of topics, including abolitionist teaching, anti-racism, Hip Hop education, Black girlhood, queer youth, educational reparations, and art-based education to foster youth civic engagement. In 2018, she was granted a resolution by Georgia’s House of Representatives for her impact on the field of education.

about the book

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     How Book Club Works

      Register using the links on this page (you’ll be emailed a confirmation with a zoom link)

      Invite your friends! Post on social media!

      Get ahold of the book/ readings/ podcast/ videos

      Read/ Listen/ View (do your homework)

      Join the video-conference discussion at the scheduled time and talk

      Check out our previous Book Clubs to see what else we’ve been reading!