Warm Demander Teachers
Healthy, Whole, and Transformational
- Franita Ware - F Ware Ph.D. Consulting LLC
Foster a culture of student achievement through authentic relationships and student leadership
Expanding her groundbreaking study on Warm Demander pedagogy, Franita Ware offers educators a framework for restoring their ideals about teaching and creating more rewarding and engaging learning experiences. Beginning with a deep dive into Radical Self-Care, the author addresses the harmful effects of stress on teachers and students.
Subsequent chapters instruct educators on how to start their journey to become Warm Demander Teachers. Exposing the challenges that educators face, the author encourages them to develop healthy identities for themselves. From there, Ware lays out a path toward collective healing from the harms of an inequitable education system, systemic racism, and intersecting systems of oppression. Engaging and eye opening throughout, Ware provides:
- Reflection-practice activities in every chapter
- Guidance for facilitators to support shared learning
- Real-world examples from Warm Demander Teachers
Warm Demander Teachers presents a new perspective and framework for promoting culturally responsive practices: fundamentally, high expectations for students are grounded in trusted, supportive relationships, and instructional strategies highlight culturally responsive inquiry and positive student learner identities. Ware’s insightful delivery provides the necessary support for educators to become healthy, whole, and transformational.
"Ware’s treatment of understanding the role of a Warm Demander in our educational systems and the impact they can make on marginalized populations is handled with care and urgency. She implores us to be better people for all our students because we have the power to help them fly."
“The term warm demander has become part of the educational lexicon. Yet, few know how to use the practice as a pedagogy rather than behavior management. In Warm Demander Teachers: Healthy, Whole, Transformational, Dr. Franita Ware enlightens us about the potential of this practice to uplevel our instruction in the service of greater student voice and agency. More than a bag of tricks, warm demander pedagogy is an extension of our partnership with students in the service of equity.”
“Through an invitation to become Warm Demanders, Ware has gifted educators across time, content, and context with a book that showcases how our personal and professional worlds work in confluence to meet complex needs of young people. A reminder that care is manifest through high expectations and high expectations show up through caring practices, this book should be read by all who believe in the power, promise, and possibilities of education. This book inspires as it pushes educators and young people toward healing and humanity.”
