Bøger af Dwayne D. Williams

There is no doubt that educational policies and practices require an overhaul, a redo, a redesign. While this is true, a critical question is, "Where should practitioners and school leaders start when redesigning instruction in ways that are antiracist, inclusive, and culturally sustaining?"In this highly anticipated work, Dwayne D. Williams argues that schools often rush to make surface-level changes that don't address the racist beliefs and practices that result in inequity. He contends that educators side-step the hard conversations by starting with curricula: purchasing new curricula and inserting into their lessons something of "cultural relevance" for Black and Brown students. In a compelling argument, Williams problematizes this approach. He contends, "It is possible to design highly engaging, culturally responsive programming for students of color, yet maintain racist and oppressive beliefs and attitudes about their cultures, abilities, languages, literacies, and identities." Instead, educators must engage in surgical work of the mind by interrogating and rejecting racist, deficit-based thinking concerning students of color, which Williams describes as the "prep work" that precedes designing antiracist and culturally sustaining programming. Williams employs CASEL's five SEL competencies as both a framework and a toolkit to interrogate beliefs and attitudes, and then to prepare for antiracist and culturally sustaining teaching. Redesign includes a host of practical activities that educators can engage with individually, as well as within problem-solving teams and department meetings, to prepare for antiracist and culturally sustaining work.

While there are "evidence-based" curricula available to help students develop social-emotional learning (SEL) competencies and process traumatic events, many students in general and culturally diverse learners in particular, refuse to participate in traditional school-based groups that address SEL and trauma.In the curriculum Like Music to My Ears: A Hip-Hop Approach to Addressing Social Emotional Learning and Trauma in Schools, Dwayne D. Williams reveals proven strategies that educators can use to get students to say "Yes!" to developing SEL competencies and "Yes!" to dealing with stress and trauma in schools. Not only does Williams share how to adapt SEL and trauma-informed curricula to include hip-hop cultural elements for students who embrace hip-hop-but also, he details exactly how to get your students to help you do it.Like Music to My Ears provides: A step-by-step map to creating hip-hop SEL groups-and how you can get your students to help you do it18 lessons by Williams, all tested and shown to increase engagement, 18 action-item agendas that practitioners can adapt to bring hip-hop SEL and trauma-informed lessons to life, A simple, evidence-based tool students can use to monitor their progress, Rap songs aligned with the 5 SEL competencies, Strategies that students can use to process stress and trauma, Engaging community building activities that include hip-hop themes-and more!" . . . By the end of the group, which was extended by student request, the students had not only reached nearly 100% group attendance, but they also demonstrated an increase in their school attendance. One student even stated that the only reason he came to school was so that he could attend group." -Sheena Mohseny-SeranellaSchool Social Worker

"Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in good health." 3 John: 2, NKJV In this groundbreaking book, school psychologist Dwayne D. Williams explains human behavior from a spiritual perspective. He reveals that God intends for you to experience success in every area of your life-that's right, every area! He pairs psychological principles and Scripture to show the role your mind plays in spiritual development and achieving success. In this book, Dwayne shares exactly what you must do to overcome anxiety, fear, and other social and emotional challenges that interfere with success! From this book, you will learn -how to use thoughts to develop spiritually -how to use your mind to create Godly habits -why memory is key to accessing the blessings of God -why meditation is critical to spiritual development -why God places emphasis on learning accurate information -how to use mental abilities to experience success God's way Human Behavior from a Spiritual Perspective is a two-book series. This book's (Book 2) theme is "mental tools" and focuses on using mental abilities, including thoughts, memory, and meditation, to renew your mind and experience success in every area of your life. It is recommended that readers read Book 1 prior to reading Book 2.

The author of this book: -was held back in elementary school because he couldn't read -lived in housing projects as a kid -received "food stamps" for weekly allowance -was homeless -got into many fights in middle and high school -earned a "1-point something" GPA -obtained a whopping "15" on his ACT This same author: -graduated from high school -earned an associate's degree, bachelor's degree, and 2 master's degrees -is a school psychologist and success coach -started his own business-and earned close to $30,000 within 30 hours -published 4 books -receives requests from professors to ghostwrite books -trains teachers on how to make learning fun for all students This author is Dwayne D. Williams, and in this book, he shares his powerful story of overcoming poverty and academic failure-and explains just what students must do to experience success in every area of their life!

Guides educators toward an understanding of the socio-cultural characteristics of classrooms and why such an understanding is critical to fostering academic engagement of African American students.