A Guide for (K-12) Educators

This guide is meant to accompany the ethnographic book Brothers in Grief. It is intended as a practical resource for educators — primarily those in K-12 schools — who are interested in learning from the book and applying those learnings to their own practice and school community.

The guide represents a collaboration between author Dr. Nora Gross and a diverse team of scholars, educators, and students who have spent a lot of time, both individually and collectively, thinking about the issues in this book and how they play out in everyday life inside American schools. This guide also includes contributions from educators and community members from “Boys’ Prep” who lived through the year depicted in Brothers in Grief and have since reflected on that time.

Our hope with this guide is that other readers will also be able to gain the wisdom and reflection from these hard times to consider new approaches in their schools which may better serve students.

Think of this Educator’s Guide as a menu of prompts, activities, and resources that you can pick and choose from based on your needs and interests and those of your own community. We invite you to engage with whatever parts of this guide are useful in whatever order and with whatever size group of collaborators and colleagues makes sense for you and in whatever time frame is useful and realistic for busy educators.

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