This article focuses on Mr. Kurt, a white, first-year English teacher in an all-white context who has chosen to teach his students about whiteness, white supremacy, white privilege, and the many ways institutionalized racism is enacted in daily life. I center this article on classroom scenarios that highlight the challenges embedded in dealing…

In this study, we examine a multiyear professional development program designed to help English teachers incorporate "connected learning" into their classrooms. We propose a model of professional learning we term "collaborative design as mediated praxis," which refines and extends the five features of high-quality professional…