Edwin Nii Bonney – författare

Navigating Higher Education as Black Male Faculty: Strategies for Resilience, Mentorship, and Institutional Change centers the voices and lived realities of Black men in the academy, a space that promises equity yet perpetuates racial exclusion and marginalization.Moving beyond deficit narratives, this book blends autoethnography, research-informed analysis, and practical toolkits to illuminate strategies for resilience, mentorship, and institutional transformation. Contributors surface daily experiences of bias, isolation, and hyper-visibility while offering actionable guidance for classroom practice, promotion, and policy design. It challenges symbolic diversity commitments, positioning Black male faculty as essential architects of systemic change. With case studies, reflection prompts, and concrete recommendations, this collection provides a roadmap for thriving and a blueprint for institutions committed to recruiting, supporting, and retaining diverse talent.

Navigating Higher Education as Black Male Faculty: Strategies for Resilience, Mentorship, and Institutional Change centers the voices and lived realities of Black men in the academy, a space that promises equity yet perpetuates racial exclusion and marginalization.Moving beyond deficit narratives, this book blends autoethnography, research-informed analysis, and practical toolkits to illuminate strategies for resilience, mentorship, and institutional transformation. Contributors surface daily experiences of bias, isolation, and hyper-visibility while offering actionable guidance for classroom practice, promotion, and policy design. It challenges symbolic diversity commitments, positioning Black male faculty as essential architects of systemic change. With case studies, reflection prompts, and concrete recommendations, this collection provides a roadmap for thriving and a blueprint for institutions committed to recruiting, supporting, and retaining diverse talent.

While several texts provide pedagogical and theoretical insights on improvement science for faculty, graduate students, and educational leaders, practitioners’ voices are seldom heard. Improvement Science in the Field: Cases of Practitioners Leading Change in Schools fills this gap by presenting real-life cases of K-12 practitioners’ use of improvement science to lead change in their educational systems.Improvement Science in the Field: Cases of Practitioners Leading Change in Schools contains two sections. Part I presents practitioners’ accounts of their use of improvement science to address actual problems of practice, such as closing discipline and achievement gaps, managing teacher stress and mental health, and improving school climate. Part II follows a tradition of case-based teaching in which authors provide part of their improvement journey and then invite readers to practice, discuss, brainstorm, and reflect on how they would address the problem presented using the tools of improvement science.

While several texts provide pedagogical and theoretical insights on improvement science for faculty, graduate students, and educational leaders, practitioners’ voices are seldom heard. Improvement Science in the Field: Cases of Practitioners Leading Change in Schools fills this gap by presenting real-life cases of K-12 practitioners’ use of improvement science to lead change in their educational systems.Improvement Science in the Field: Cases of Practitioners Leading Change in Schools contains two sections. Part I presents practitioners’ accounts of their use of improvement science to address actual problems of practice, such as closing discipline and achievement gaps, managing teacher stress and mental health, and improving school climate. Part II follows a tradition of case-based teaching in which authors provide part of their improvement journey and then invite readers to practice, discuss, brainstorm, and reflect on how they would address the problem presented using the tools of improvement science.