Teach! Change! Empower!: Solutions for Closing the Achievement Gaps

Carl Grant, a leading authority on multicultural education, offers a constructive action plan to help teachers affirm and support their students' diverse individual and group identities while simultaneously developing pedagogies that will enable them to close the achievement gap.

Teach! Change! Empower! introduces a step-by-step change process-from acknowledging the need for change to implementation of change-and presents a model for creating schools that are:

• Places where students can have significant achievements
• Culturally relevant environments for students
• Places where power is used to promote caring communities