
We Want to Do More Than Survive by Bettina L. Love
Why This Book Matters
Bettina Love critiques traditional education systems and their failure to serve Black and Brown children. In this urgent and inspiring work, she introduces abolitionist teaching as a model rooted in joy, love, and resistance. Her writing challenges educators to reject survival-based pedagogy and build classrooms that nurture freedom and possibility.
For teachers, youth organizers, and education leaders, this book is a rallying cry. It uplifts radical imagination, cultural identity, and collective care as essential to educational justice.
Use this book to shape curriculum, guide professional development, or spark conversations that center equity, student power, and transformative learning.
We Want to Do More Than Survive by Bettina L. Love
Why This Book Matters
Bettina Love critiques traditional education systems and their failure to serve Black and Brown children. In this urgent and inspiring work, she introduces abolitionist teaching as a model rooted in joy, love, and resistance. Her writing challenges educators to reject survival-based pedagogy and build classrooms that nurture freedom and possibility.
For teachers, youth organizers, and education leaders, this book is a rallying cry. It uplifts radical imagination, cultural identity, and collective care as essential to educational justice.
Use this book to shape curriculum, guide professional development, or spark conversations that center equity, student power, and transformative learning.