Creating Equity-Centered Communities - by Teresa G Perkins (Hardcover)

About the Book

This is a practical toolkit and companion for the heart and hard work of self-reflection. Personal and systematic transformation starts here. Building relationships, increasing personal capacity, recognizing, and removing systemic inequities, requires pushing past haphazard acts of improvement and policies that divide rather than unify.

Book Synopsis

Creating Equity-Centered Communities: Belonging, Bold Hope, and Youis a practical toolkit and companion for the heart and hard work of self-reflection.The concepts and strategies offered meet each reader in the moment. Meeting in the moment is sometimes complicated, raw, and unsteady, because we are humans. The human experience may be messy and trying. The human experience is also joyful. It turns out the road to joy is complicated and the journey is worth it.

Your "future self" is counting on you to forge pathways of possibility built with hope, not just for yourself, but for the people with you today and those who come after.

Throughout the book, recurring features keep you in the work of growing as a reflective thinker and processor. Exploring pieces of individual, daily interactions with the systematic processes identified in this book brings the tensions and testaments of individual human experiences to the surface. Hope-filled, purpose-driven people keep showing up. Self-reflection is the connective tissue binding people together who choose to build inclusive communities of belonging and hope.

About the Author

Teresa Perkins, EdD, has served at every level of education for over 30 years with a mission rooted in creating and sustaining equity-centered communities of hope and belonging. A former English teacher and middle school administrator, she transitioned to higher education in 2019 at Doane University as department chair, master of education leadership director, and assistant professor. She is currently serving as an assistant professor in educational Leadership at the University of Nebraska- Omaha.