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Pedagogies of Voice: Street Data and the Path to Student Agency
Transform your classroom into a liberatory space for student voice, belonging, and intellectual development.
Too often, traditional educational models silence students’ voices and stifle their genius. Pedagogies of Voice invites educators at all levels to reinvent their schools and classrooms into spaces that celebrate student identity, nurture agency, awaken inquiry, and cultivate deep belonging for every child. Pedagogies of Voice introduces four domains of Identity, Belonging, Inquiry, and Efficacy—foundational pillars for fostering student engagement and growth. Additional features include
8 Pedagogies in Practice: Strategies like microaffirmations, questions over answers, learning design templates, and radical inclusion to spark concrete transformation in your schools and classrooms.
Awakenings: Reflective moments designed to foster self-awareness and deepen pedagogical practice.
Integrative Case Study: A powerful exploration of Indigenous land-based education and learning by British Columbia leader John Harris.
Developed using the Equity Transformation Cycle introduced in the bestselling Street A Next-Generation Model for Equity, Pedagogy, and School Transformation and informed by conversations with educators across North America, this book presents a compelling framework for creating schools that affirm every learner while dismantling systems of oppression. Reimagine your role as an educator and create classrooms that honor every student’s voice.
Too often, traditional educational models silence students’ voices and stifle their genius. Pedagogies of Voice invites educators at all levels to reinvent their schools and classrooms into spaces that celebrate student identity, nurture agency, awaken inquiry, and cultivate deep belonging for every child. Pedagogies of Voice introduces four domains of Identity, Belonging, Inquiry, and Efficacy—foundational pillars for fostering student engagement and growth. Additional features include
8 Pedagogies in Practice: Strategies like microaffirmations, questions over answers, learning design templates, and radical inclusion to spark concrete transformation in your schools and classrooms.
Awakenings: Reflective moments designed to foster self-awareness and deepen pedagogical practice.
Integrative Case Study: A powerful exploration of Indigenous land-based education and learning by British Columbia leader John Harris.
Developed using the Equity Transformation Cycle introduced in the bestselling Street A Next-Generation Model for Equity, Pedagogy, and School Transformation and informed by conversations with educators across North America, this book presents a compelling framework for creating schools that affirm every learner while dismantling systems of oppression. Reimagine your role as an educator and create classrooms that honor every student’s voice.
344 pages, Paperback
Published August 4, 2025
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August 16, 2025
We teachers have a lot of power, for inside our classrooms we are helping to create the next generation of leaders. The research in this book will guide all educators to promote student agency through building identity, belonging, inquiry, and efficacy. By doing so, we give our children a path to survive, heal, and understand of our shared humanity. This is often tough work, for our education system was built on compliance, but through sharing “10 Ways of Being” and eight pedagogies, we can “give rise to learner voice and agency” (101). It will take courage, but we can do this. I see the need for teacher voice and agency, through five structural “shifts,” and I firmly believe this book can help districts get there. We just need to remember we are “grown-up students with stories and lived experiences that, when welcomed, can energize profound shifts in practice” (264).
Passionate educators Shane Safir, Marlo Basik, Sawsan Jaber, and Crystal M. Watson created this book for every grade and subject area. Referencing James Baldwin, bell hooks, their own work, and many other educators’ and students’ voices, they show us how we can teach our children to ask questions and think for themselves by giving them positive, encouraging school experiences. Everyone—from administrators to teachers to teachers aides—can gain something from this book. Filled with tips, video clips, reflection questions, and note-taking space, these educators invite us all to transform our classrooms to make them homeplaces (bell hooks) for all and filled with love. I will go back to this title again and again.
Passionate educators Shane Safir, Marlo Basik, Sawsan Jaber, and Crystal M. Watson created this book for every grade and subject area. Referencing James Baldwin, bell hooks, their own work, and many other educators’ and students’ voices, they show us how we can teach our children to ask questions and think for themselves by giving them positive, encouraging school experiences. Everyone—from administrators to teachers to teachers aides—can gain something from this book. Filled with tips, video clips, reflection questions, and note-taking space, these educators invite us all to transform our classrooms to make them homeplaces (bell hooks) for all and filled with love. I will go back to this title again and again.
August 15, 2025
Pedagogies of Voice: Street Data and the Path to Student Agency is a transformative work that illuminates the deep currents of education, equity, and care. Shane Safir, Marlo Bagsik, Sawsan Jaber, and Crystal M. Watson offer not only insight but also a heartfelt guide for educators striving to create classrooms where students are not merely present, but powerful and fully seen.
This book is a mirror reflecting the hidden joys, challenges, and hopes of teaching, a map for navigating the complexities of identity, agency, and relational learning, and a movement that calls all of us to act with courage and compassion. Its pages cultivate a sense of community, reminding educators that even the quiet, daily work of care and equity matters profoundly!
Grounded in stories, research, and lived experience, this text provides both inspiration and actionable frameworks. It equips educators to honour student voices, foster agency, and transform learning environments into spaces of dignity, engagement, and liberation while also engaging educators in recognizing how the transformative education is reciprocal and how we too are changed alongside the students and families we serve.
Reading this book felt less like turning pages and more like being invited into a conversation I didn’t realize I had been longing for. It reminded me that the most powerful truths do not arrive as declarations, but as a quiet hand on the shoulder, turning your gaze toward what may be overlooked. There is a rhythm in these words, part heartbeat-part drumbeat, that makes you want to move differently in the world. With each chapter, I felt both steadier and braver, as though I had been walking alongside someone who not only knew the terrain, but also believed, without question, that I could make the journey too. Pedagogies of Voice was less like encountering a text and more like walking into a living conversation that sees you without speaking. It met me in the quiet spaces between metrics and reminded me that numbers can measure, but only stories can move.
In its pages, I felt the tug of memory: classrooms where a student’s laughter could rearrange the air, hallways where whispered truths held more weight than any test score. This is a book that doesn’t just invite you to see differently; it insists you feel differently, until the work of justice is no longer an abstract ideal but embodied in the everyday.
For anyone committed to education as a practice of justice, care, and possibility, this book is a gift, a guide, and a call to awaken the transformative power of teaching.
Highly recommended!
This book is a mirror reflecting the hidden joys, challenges, and hopes of teaching, a map for navigating the complexities of identity, agency, and relational learning, and a movement that calls all of us to act with courage and compassion. Its pages cultivate a sense of community, reminding educators that even the quiet, daily work of care and equity matters profoundly!
Grounded in stories, research, and lived experience, this text provides both inspiration and actionable frameworks. It equips educators to honour student voices, foster agency, and transform learning environments into spaces of dignity, engagement, and liberation while also engaging educators in recognizing how the transformative education is reciprocal and how we too are changed alongside the students and families we serve.
Reading this book felt less like turning pages and more like being invited into a conversation I didn’t realize I had been longing for. It reminded me that the most powerful truths do not arrive as declarations, but as a quiet hand on the shoulder, turning your gaze toward what may be overlooked. There is a rhythm in these words, part heartbeat-part drumbeat, that makes you want to move differently in the world. With each chapter, I felt both steadier and braver, as though I had been walking alongside someone who not only knew the terrain, but also believed, without question, that I could make the journey too. Pedagogies of Voice was less like encountering a text and more like walking into a living conversation that sees you without speaking. It met me in the quiet spaces between metrics and reminded me that numbers can measure, but only stories can move.
In its pages, I felt the tug of memory: classrooms where a student’s laughter could rearrange the air, hallways where whispered truths held more weight than any test score. This is a book that doesn’t just invite you to see differently; it insists you feel differently, until the work of justice is no longer an abstract ideal but embodied in the everyday.
For anyone committed to education as a practice of justice, care, and possibility, this book is a gift, a guide, and a call to awaken the transformative power of teaching.
Highly recommended!
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