About Centering Possibility In Black Education
Improving education outcomes for Black students begins with resisting racist characterizations of blackness. Chezare A. Warren, a nationally recognized scholar of race and education equity, emphasizes the imperative that possibility drive efforts aimed at transforming education for Black learners…
Urban Preparation: Young Black Men Moving from Chicago's South Side to Success in Higher Education
Chezare A. Warren chronicles the transition of a cohort of young Black males from Urban Prep Charter Academy for Young Men to their early experiences in higher education. A rich and closely observed account of a mission-driven school and its students, Urban Preparation makes a significant contribution to our understanding of how young men of color can best be served in schools throughout the United States today.
Restorative Justice (RJ) is an approach to school discipline that hinges on repair, reconciliation, and healing. Explore the resources below to learn more about RJ and its implementation.
ARTICLES
-
Warren, C. A., Coles, J. A., & Jenkins, D. A. (2025). Playing in the dark? Blackness, humanity, and studies of Black life in education 2012-2022. Review of Educational Research.
Warren, C. A. & Wood, D. (2023). Rupturing the Black-White binary: Critical race theory, mourning and pathways to racial justice. Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education
Legette, K. B., Rogers, L. O., & Warren, C. A. (2022). Humanizing student–teacher relationships for black children: Implications for teachers’ social–emotional training. Urban Education, 57(2), 278-288.
Acosta, M. M., Griffin, A. A., King, J. E., & Warren, C. A. (2022). Radical futures of Black literacies and Black education. Research in the Teaching of English, 57(1), 89-94.
Warren, C. A. (2021). From morning to mourning: A meditation on possibility in Black education. Equity & Excellence in Education, 54(1), 92-102.
Warren, C. A., Andrews, D. J. C., & Flennaugh, T. K. (2022). Connection, antiblackness, and positive relationships that (re) humanize black boys’ experience of school. Teachers College Record, 124(1), 111-142.
Warren, C. A. (2020). Meeting myself: Race-gender oppression and a genre study of Black men teachers’ interactions with Black boys. Race Ethnicity and Education, 23(3), 367-391.
Warren, C. A., & Coles, J. A. (2020). Trading spaces: Antiblackness and reflections on Black education futures. Equity & Excellence in Education, 53(3), 382-398.
-
Warren, C. A., & Bonilla, C*. (2018). Care and the influence of student-adult stakeholder interactions on young Black men’s college aspirations. Multicultural Perspectives, 20(1), 13-24.
Warren, C. A., Presberry, C.*, & Louis, L.* (2022). Examining teacher dispositions for evidence of (transformative) social and emotional competencies with Black boys: The case of three urban high school teachers. Urban Education, 57(2), 251-277.Warren, C. A. & Venzant Chambers, T. T. (2020). The imperative of social foundations to (urban) education research and practice. Educational Researcher, 49(5), 369-375.
Marciano, J. E., & Warren, C. A. (2019). Writing toward change across Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) projects. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 62(5), 485-494.
Warren, C. A. & Marciano, J. E. (2018). Activating student voice through Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR): Policy-making that strengthens urban education reform. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 31(8), 684-707.
Warren, C. A. (2016). “We learn though our struggles”: Nuancing notions of urban Black male academic preparation for postsecondary success. Teachers College Record, 118(6), 1-38.
-
Thomas, E. E., & Warren, C. A. (2017). Making it relevant: How a Black male teacher sustained professional relationships through culturally responsive discourse. Race Ethnicity and Education, 20(1), 87-100.
Warren, C. A. (2015). Scale of Teacher Empathy for African American Males (S-TEAAM): Measuring teacher conceptions and the application of empathy in multicultural classroom settings. Journal of Negro Education, 84(2), 154-174.
Warren, C. A. (2015). Conflicts and contradictions: Conceptions of empathy and the work of good-intentioned White female teachers. Urban Education, 50(5), 572-600.
Warren, C. A. & Hotchkins, B. K. (2015). Teacher education and the enduring significance of “false empathy”. The Urban Review, 47(2), 266-292.
Warren, C. A. (2014). Perspective divergence and the miseducation of Black boys…like me. Journal of African American Males in Education, 5(2), 134-149.
Warren, C. A. (2014). Towards a pedagogy for the application of empathy in culturally diverse classrooms. The Urban Review, 46(3), 395-419.
Warren, C. A. & Lessner, S.** (2014). “Who has family business?” Exploring the role of empathy in student-teacher interactions. Perspectives on Urban Education, 11(2), 122-131.
Warren, C. A. (2013). The utility of empathy for White female teachers’ culturally responsive interactions with Black male students. Interdisciplinary Journal of Teaching and Learning, 3(3), 175-200.
-
Jenkins, D. A. & Warren, C. A. (2024). Towards anti-carceral leadership: Remaking public schools to refuse Black students’ surveillance, containment, and control. Educational Policy, 38(3), 624-641.
Warren, C. A. (2022). Toward an antiracist restorative justice approach with Black children. Student Experience Research Network.
Warren, C. A. & Lane, B. (2024). “I just want them to be free”: Black boys and the imperative for secure emotional bonds with Black educators. In D. Stanley (Ed.) #BlackEducatorsMatter: Black educators as freedom fighters amidst antiblackness (pp. 5-17). Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.
Warren, C. A., & Hancock, S. D. (2017). White women’s work? Unpacking its meaning and significance for the contemporary schooling of diverse youth. In S. D. Hancock & C. A. Warren (Eds.). White women’s work: Examining the intersectionality of teaching, identity, and race (pp. vii-xiii). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.
Henry, K. L., & Warren, C. A. (2017). The evidence of things not seen? Race, pedagogies of discipline, and White women teachers. In S. D. Hancock & C. A. Warren (Eds.). White women’s work: Examining the intersectionality of teaching, identity, and race (pp. 177-199). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.
Warren, C. A. (2016). Making relationships work: Elementary-age Black males and the schools that serve them. In S. R. Harper & J. L. Wood (Eds.) Advancing Black male student success from preschool through Ph.D. (pp. 21-43). Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing.