I’ve spent years researching, collaborating with educators, and designing resources to support school improvement. I’m excited to share these resources for free. The videos, handouts, infographics, and study guides on this page are designed to contribute to the practical efforts of equity-minded educators and leaders.
My ultimate goal is to provide high quality resources and tools that will help educators develop a deeper understanding of what the work of racial equity improvement truly entails. I’ve included resources that educators have told me are particularly useful.
Feel free click around, download, and share what you find. If you have an idea for a resource that would be useful, drop me line.
Are you leading professional development in your school, district, or network and need infographics that will capture your audience? Stuck Improving infographics provide visual references for the ideas presented in my book, Stuck Improving.
An incisive case study of changemaking in action, Stuck Improving analyzes the complex process of racial equity reform within K–12 schools. Scholar Decoteau J. Irby emphasizes that racial equity is dynamic, shifting as our emerging racial consciousness evolves and as racism asserts itself anew. Those who accept the challenge of reform find themselves “stuck improving,” caught in a perpetual dilemma of both making progress and finding ever more progress to be made. Rather than dismissing stuckness as failure, Irby embraces it as an inextricable part of the improvement process.
Looking beyond this single school, Irby pinpoints the factors that are essential to the work of equity reform in education. He argues that lasting transformation relies most urgently on the cultivation of organizational conditions that render structural racism impossible to preserve. Irby emphasizes how schools must strengthen and leverage personal, relational, and organizational capacities in order to sustain meaningful change.
Stuck Improving offers a clear-eyed accounting of school-improvement practices, including data-driven instructional approaches, teacher cultural competency, and inquiry-based leadership strategies. This timely work contributes both to the practical efforts of equity-minded school leaders and to a deeper understanding of what the work of racial equity improvement truly entails.
Though written from a higher education level in a school observatory setting, the human behaviors described in Stuck Improving carry over into the business world and society in general. People may be apprehensive about admitting it, but we all have lived or witness some of the events described in the book. Through Dr. Irby's storytelling he reveals the hard truths that need to be acknowledged but are so many times cast aside in this day. It may be a bit uncomfortable to read for some, but Irby seems to realize this and addresses it head-on. The truth does and will set you free if only embraced. Great read for unbiased individuals who want to understand different cultures.
Stuck Improving is referenced throughout the available free resources. We recommend using the book to improve your learning experience.
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