Publisher's Acknowledgments About the Author Introduction Prologue Chapter 1: Shut Up and Listen...Actively: Value the Voices of Others Chapter 2: Should Is a Futile Word: Build Your Students Up With Principles Chapter 3: Re-Examine Yourself: Dig Deep and Go Beyond Biases Chapter 4: Know Their Strengths: Develop Positive Attitudes and Student Growth Chapter 5: Put Yourself in Their Shoes: Understand and Respond to Their Whys Chapter 6: Show Them You Care: Create Safe Spaces and Build Trust Chapter 7: Get Them Moving: Engage Them with Kinesthetic and Collaborative Learning Chapter 8: Your Students Will Teach You: Connect With Culturally Responsive Teaching Chapter 9: Dreams Lead to Education: Capture Their Passions in Your Lessons Chapter 10: What Shaped My Perspective?: Your Students Need You References
Layered with effective methodologies, this guide shares a holistic construct encompassing mindset, emotions, effort, and outcomes to address relationships, empathic capacity, trust, culturally responsive teaching, and student passion.
Dr. Tommie Mabry grew up in Jackson, Mississippi. With a lack of positive role models, Dr. Mabry turned to life in the streets. He was expelled from numerous schools and by age 11, he was arrested for breaking and entering. Things started to change for Dr. Mabry when he joined an AAU basketball team that traveled around the world. Although he was shot in the foot during his senior year, he received a full basketball scholarship to Missouri State University West Plains. After completing his undergraduate studies at Tougaloo College, he taught school in the same district where he had been expelled numerous times. Subsequently he has served as Director of Enrollment at Tougaloo College before founding the company that bears his name. He earned his Ph.D. from Jackson State University and has published three books, A Dark Journey to a Light Future, If Tommie Can Do It, We Can Do It, and Little Tommie's Four B's. Dr. Mabry's platform tackles the experiences and challenges that minority students face in communities and educational environments. By focusing on real-life topics such as, bullying, life skills, classroom management and more, it gives students a positive outlook on teaching and learning and the ability to balance. As an advocate for education and student success, Dr. Mabry travels around the country encouraging educators to focus on the whole student and motivating youth to never give up on hope.