Mentoring, Education System, and Tools for Interactions and Understanding

This is by no means an exhaustive or definitive list of resources. Rather, it is meant to simply act as a “jumping-off point” for those interested in learning more about education, mentoring and engagement.

Books & Articles:

Note: To best support the authors and as a part of the fight against systemic racism, please consider purchasing these books directly from the author, the publisher, or from the list of Black independently owned bookstores with online stores listed here whenever possible.

Critical Mentoring: A Practical Guide by Torie Weiston-Serdan with foreward by Bernadette Sanchez
“This book introduces the concept of critical mentoring, presenting its theoretical and empirical foundations, and providing telling examples of what it looks like in practice, and what it can achieve. Critical mentoring provides mentors with a new and essential transformational practice that challenges deficit-based notions of protégés, questions their forced adaptation to dominant ideology, counters the marginalization and minoritization of young people of color, and endows them with voice, power and choice to achieve in society while validating their culture and values.”

Podcasts & Videos:

The View from Room 205: By Linda Lutton from Chicago public radio. “Can schools make the American Dream real for poor kids?”
The Danger of a Single Story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (TED Talk)
3 Ways to Speak English by Jamila Lyiscott

Toolkits and Trainings:

5 Ways to Move from a Charity Mindset toward Justice Work from St Johns Episcopal, CT

Understanding and Confronting Racial Injustice from University of Minnesota Extension

21-Day Racial Justice Challenge, a powerful collection of resources created by the Student Diversity & Inclusion Services Office at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul.