ABSTRACT
The trouble with most school diversity and social justice education initiatives is not so much a shortage of strategies or approaches for making classrooms and schools more equitable and just. We often feel buried in strategies and approaches. If it’s not the now-debunked focus on “learning styles,” it’s “grit.” If it’s not “grit” it’s the “mindset of poverty.” If it’s not that, it’s just about anything else that enables us to step gingerly around real conversations about issues like racism, heterosexism, and ableism in schools.
