Forward
Marie Battiste
Introduction
Flynn Ross and Larissa Malone
1 Theoretical Framework for Decolonizing Classroom Management
Flynn Ross
2 Colonialism, Assimilation, and Dominant Discourse: A Brief History of Classroom Management
Adam Schmitt
SECTION 1: Assumptive Language - Decolonizing Our Thinking
3 Problematizing Best Practices and Educational Research by Ronald Philip Cunningham
4 Under the Hood of a Well-Oiled Machine: Revealing Racism and Ableism within Classroom Management Practices Through Disability Critical Race Theory (DisCrit)
April Coloma Boyce and Maggie R. Beneke
5 Building Belonging in Classroom Learning Communities
Erika McDowell
6 Decolonizing Classroom Relationships
Dina Strasser
7 Centering Humanity, Love, and Connection in Classroom Management
Erica Holyoke
SECTION 2: Challenging Established Classroom Management Models
8 From Interest Convergence in PBIS to Co-Generative Praxis
Matthew Green and Jade Calais
9 Reimagining Classroom Management: A Humanizing Social and Emotional Framework
Brandie Oliver, Brooke Harris Garad, Brian Dinkins, Danielle Madrazo, and Katie Brooks
10 Decolonizing Mindfulness: Centering Liberation and Connection
Patricia Benitez Hemans
11 Challenging the Narrative: How Unexamined Behaviorist Beliefs Can Sabotage Trauma Informed Practices
Jennifer Randhare Ashton, Jessica Sniatecki, and Maria Timberlake
12 Shaking Restorative Justice Free from Retributive Justice
Flynn Ross
SECTION 3: Directions to Consider
13 Fostering Social and Emotional Bonds Through Indigenous Storytelling
Jose Ortiz
14 Dreaming Communities of Care: Radical World-Building with Abolitionist Organizers Toward Students’ Heartwholeness
Riley Drake
15 Creating Harmonious Classroom Communities by Embracing Community Cultural Wealth and Connection Building
Violet Jiménez Sims and Dana Trunquest
16 A Collaborative Approach of Ubuntu: Dismantling Colonial Classroom Management Practices in South African Schools through the Spirit of Ubuntu
Amy Sarah Padaychee and Samatha Kriger
Epilogue: Decolonial Theory to Practice, Toward Shared Anti-Colonial Futures
Rebecca Sockbeson, Fiona Hopper, Bridgid Neptune, and Starr Kelly
Contributors
About the Editors