Stephen Sharp is a school counselor and best-selling author. He has worked to provide students with the knowledge and skills to be healthy and successful in the 21st century. Stephen has served on the governing boards of both his local, state and national school counseling organizations. Stephen completed his M.Ed at Millersville University of Pennsylvania, and BA from Lycoming College. Steve is a best-selling author, and he is a co-founder of the Leadership Summit, a community-based social justice network to provide students the language and tools to understand and combat the many forms of oppression. Stephen is a Nationally Certified School Suicide Prevention Specialist, and worked with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to pilot an electronic behavioral health screening for schools. He works tirelessly across nationally to provide education and training on mental health, substance abuse, and inequality. Stephen frequently presents and writes on school counseling practice, leadership, technology, emerging career skills, mental health and race in education. Stephen was named the 2017 Pennsylvania Middle School Counselor of the Year.
Make schools the gateway to knowledge, equality, and freedom for all The statistics are real: Black students are more likely to be suspended, more likely to attempt suicide, and less likely to attend college than their white peers. What can we do to change these realities? Do you want to just talk about race, or do you want to make real change in the lives of children and what they experience every day? Antiracism is the design and implementation of practices to address, mitigate, and dismantle racism. In Redesigning Schools to Be Antiracist, author and professional school counselor Stephen Sharp shares a new framework for implementing effective and sustainable systems change to counter racism and redesign education. You'll discover Why so many systems remain unchanged despite intensive self-discovery and learning What the Oppression Cycle is and how to disrupt it Lessons learned from history and how to design a better future by remembering and not repeating the past Redesigning Schools to Be Antiracist provides school counselors, leaders, and education professionals a way to conceptualize racism and race as systemic in nature, understand systems dynamics and the related tools, and apply these tools to make education better for every student you serve.
Dedication About the Author Foreword by Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy Introduction Part I: Historic Design Chapter 1 - Colonial United States, Prototype for a Nation Chapter 2 - Early United States - Launching a New Country Chapter 3 - The Evolving America - Systems and Scientific Racism Part II - Unequal Futures - The Risk of Inequality in Systems Chapter 4 - Future Outcomes - Realities of Unequal Systems Part III - Systemic Change Chapter 5 - The Dynamics and Complexity of Systems Part IV - Designing Equitable Futures Chapter 6 - Reverse Engineering Racism and Equitable Designs Chapter 7 - Human Design - Future Systems Glossary References