PROJECTS
The Mapping Racial Trauma Project
The Mapping Racial Trauma (MRT) website compiles incidents of racialized violence committed by teachers, students, curricula, activities, and assignments in U.S. schools. These practices of racist harm include personal attacks, aggressions targeting the entire classroom, and discriminatory school-wide policies.
The MRT Project tracks such atrocities as they occur over time, visualizing acts of racial trauma to tell us what students endure day in and day out across the country. The MRT website provides an interactive map accompanied by descriptions of the various types of racial trauma, as well as a report of recent cases of racialized trauma. The MRT Facebook page amplifies specific news stories and testimonials, offering a forum for students, parents, and educators to share their realities.
As a tool, the MRT Project is an unprecedented resource testifying to the devastating scope and impact of racial trauma in schools, building the data collections, community connections, and the visual and temporal space necessary to address this ongoing harm.
Publications
- Robinson, R.P. & Jones, S.P. (June 2023) Left behind but not left alone: Testimonies of Black Preservice Teachers Experiences with White Cooperating Teachers. Journal for Multicultural Education
- Capello, M., Wiseman, A., Barton, R., Griffin, A., Jones, S.P., Coles, J., Rosoja, A., Zapata, A., Turner, J.D. (Feb 2023) Mapping our truths: Envisioning the future of multimodal research for racial justice. Research in the Teaching of English, (57)3, 294 -305.
- Jones, S.P. (Oct 2022) Curriculum Violence and Text Selection. English Leadership Quarterly 45(2)
- Jones, S.P. (May 2022) The Language of Curriculum Violence. English Journal. 111(5), 15-17.
- Jones, S.P. & Robinson, R.P. (2021) Reflections on the Politics of Professionalism: Critical Autoethnographies of Anti-Blackness in ELA Classrooms. Northwest Journal of Teacher Education, 16(2), 13.
- Jones, S.P. & Liu. R.Z.(2021) Being needed but not wanted: Antiblackness in English Curriculum, Practice and Culture. English Teaching Practice & Critique 20(4).
- Jones, S.P. & Osler, J. (March, 2021) Disrupting the Teacher-Character in YA: A Model of Abolitionist Teaching. English Journal.
- Jones, S.P. (January, 2020) Mapping curriculum violence. Teaching Tolerance Magazine, 64 (Spring 2020). *As of June 2021, there have been 135,718 unique views to this article.
- Toliver, S.R., Jones, S.P., Jimenez, L., Player, G., Rumenapp, J., Munoz, J. (August, 2019) “This meeting at this tree”: Reimagining the Town Hall Session and Illuminating the Future. Literacy Research: Teaching, Methods & Practice.
TEACHING
- EDU 101 – Introduction to Education
- EDU 214 – Critical Literacy for Diverse Learners
- EDU 215 – Reading and Writing Youth Culture (cross listed in English)
- EDU 295 – Special Topics Course: Teaching Risky Texts
- EDU 295 – Special Topics Course: Incarcerated Literacies
- EDU 295 – Special Topics Course: School to Prison Pipeline (cross listed in American Studies and Philosophy)
- EDU 295 – Special Topics Course: Literacy and Liberation: A Survey of Free
- Black Women
- EDU 295 – Special Topics Course: Mapping Racial Trauma (cross listed in Humanities and Social Studies)
- EDU 340 – Research and Teaching Methods for the Young Adult
- EDU 341 – Teaching Methods in English Language Arts
- TUT 100 – Adulting (First Year Tutorial Seminar)
- Directed Readings: Black Women Playwrights, Edith Renfrow Smith Black Women’s Library, Music & Literature in U.S. Culture
