Choosing to See: A Framework for Equity in the Math Classroom

Authors: Pamela Seda and Kyndall Brown

Description: In Choosing to See, Pamela Seda and Kyndall Brown offer a substantive, rigorous, and necessary set of interventions to move mathematics education toward greater equity, particularly in serving the needs of Black and Brown students, who are underrepresented and underserved as math scholars. The authors’ thoughtful ICUCARE equity framework serves as a lens to help teachers see where they are achieving alignment and where they are not.

Purchase: Available on Amazon.ca and Indigo.ca

Dates: Wednesday meetings 

• October 8, 2025
• October 22
• November 5
• November 19

Time: 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. EDT/EST

Cost: Free

Facilitator: Mervi Salo, Toronto DSB

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Stop the Hate for Goodness Sake: How can classroom teachers disrupt discrimination and promote hope, foster healing and inspire joyful learning?

Authors: Andrew Campbell and Larry Swartz

Description: Stop the Hate for Goodness Sake shows teachers how to confront racism and disrupt discrimination in order to deepen students’ understanding of social justice, diversity and equity. Background information, statistics, and reports on incidents of hate will help students consider ethical and moral behavior.

Forty step-by-step lessons involve discussion, oral and written narratives, case studies, assumption charts and more. This thoughtful examination of today’s world will help teachers encourage reflection, foster inclusion, and inspire students to take action.

This in-depth guide will show teachers of 8- to 14-year-olds how to start and manage important conversations that will lead to change.

Purchase: Available on OrcaBook.com and PembrokePublishers.com

Dates: Thursday meetings

• January 15, 2026
• January 29
• February 12
• February 26

Time: 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. EST

Facilitator: Julia De Rose, York Region DSB

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The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

Author: Jonathan Haidt

Description: In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults. Haidt shows how the “play-based childhood” began to decline in the 1980s, and how it was finally wiped out by the arrival of the “phone-based childhood” in the early 2010s. He presents more than a dozen mechanisms by which this “great rewiring of childhood” has interfered with children’s social and neurological development, covering everything from sleep deprivation to attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, social comparison, and perfectionism. He explains why social media damages girls more than boys and why boys have been withdrawing from the real world into the virtual world, with disastrous consequences for themselves, their families, and their societies.
Most important, Haidt issues a clear call to action. He diagnoses the “collective action problems” that trap us, and then proposes four simple rules that might set us free. He describes steps that parents, teachers, schools, tech companies, and governments can take to end the epidemic of mental illness and restore a more humane childhood.

Purchase: Available on Amazon.ca and Indigo.ca

Dates: Thursday meetings 

• January 22, 2026
• February 5
• February 19
• March 5

Time: 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. EST

Cost: Free

Facilitator: Poonam Gahunia, Halton DSB

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Author: Elena Aguilar

Description: If we hope to interrupt educational inequities and create schools in which every child thrives, we must open our hearts to purposeful conversation and hone our skills to make those conversations effective. With characteristic honesty and wisdom, Elena Aguilar inspires us to commit to transforming our classrooms, lays bare the hidden obstacles to equity, and helps us see how to overcome these obstacles, one conversation at a time.

Coaching for Equity uncovers the ways we engage with our staff, students and the community to uncover their talents and skills. This book helps educators to recognize inequities and then do something about them. This book describes in detail the ways these inequities can be confronted and how people's' beliefs can be changed which in turn will change their behaviour and ways of being.

Purchase: Available on Amazon.ca and Indigo.ca

Dates: Thursday weekly meetings 

• April 3, 2025 *new start/end dates!
• April 10
• April 24
• May 1

Time: 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. EST

Cost: Free

Facilitator: Gurmeet Gill, Peel DSB

Thank you to those that participated and provided feedback!

Authors: Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey

Description: Through deeply personal conversations, Oprah Winfrey and renowned brain and trauma expert Dr. Bruce Perry offer a groundbreaking and profound shift from asking “What’s wrong with you?” to “What happened to you?”

It’s a subtle but profound shift in our approach to trauma, and it’s one that allows us to understand our pasts in order to clear a path to our future―opening the door to resilience and healing in a proven, powerful way.

Purchase: Available on Amazon.ca and Indigo.ca

Dates: Tuesday bi-weekly meetings 

• April 1, 2025
• April 15
• April 29
• May 13

Time: 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. EST

Cost: Free

Facilitator: Asha Rathod, York Region DSB

Registration now closed. Please contact learning@principals.ca regarding this book club.