Studies effective methods for cultivating a caring, supportive, nurturing, and rigorous classroom community. Discusses communities organizing for educational justice and how teachers are and can be involved in collective change. Engages in a sociohistorical and sociocultural analysis of inequity in U.S. schools and society. Uses critical reflection and reflexivity to discuss ideological development through schooling and socialization and to work to develop a foundation of socially just teaching and learning methods (curricular and pedagogical) that disrupt dominant ideologies and inequalities.