Book Review Beyond Crises: Overcoming Linguistic and Cultural Inequities by Debbie Zacarian, Margarita Calderón, and Margo Gottlieb Review by Sarah Burnett Click the cover to view on Amazon.
A Call To Action: “Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste” An insightful leader once advised me to, “Never let a good crisis go to waste” (Rowe, 2020). These words of wisdom have never been more relevant than throughout the Covid-19 worldwide pandemic. Though no one could have predicted such a tumultuous time in education’s history, there prevails a silver lining in what we have learned and the opportunities that await us. The terrific trio of Zacarian, Calderón, and Gottlieb publish their book Beyond Crises: Overcoming Linguistic and Cultural Inequities at precisely the right time as we begin to see the light at the end of the coronavirus tunnel.
Beyond Crises is a visionary read as the authors depict a strengths-based framework in which students, families, and educators partner with communities to ensure equitable opportunities and educational flourishing for all students, focused on multilingual and multicultural learners. The book is structured by addressing ‘the BIG three’ of communities, schools, and classrooms, in inverse order from what a reader may typically expect. Structuring the text from the outside-in perspective was a genius move, allowing one’s mind
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