Bernadette Anand

• Deep trust in the abilities of students and their own stories.
• Privilege that comes with a responsibility to effect social equity.
• Sense of urgency, passion and commitment to high professional and student expectations.
• Lastly my reading of the worlds around me stimulates me towards  innovation and visions of the “big ideas” for education.

• Co-designer Learning Across Borders (LAB), cultural partnership with Indian institutions for research.  
• Co-director- CRM-Remix grant (Schomburg, Liberty Leads, Bank Street College). Students design digital application around Civil Rights Movement.
• Administration of two integrated public "magnet" middle schools, one founded on principles of equity and excellence through an interdisciplinary curriculum.

• Designing interdisciplinary social studies curriculum Grades K-8 and  6-8 with teachers in both New York and New  Jersey.
• Workshops in India around collaborative learning, interdisciplinary curriculum and  designing student centered activities .
• Designed an inclusive teacher education program for teachers in India.

Selected Publications

• Anand, B. (2009, September). Project ACCESS: A global collaboration for social justice education. Paper presented at Inter Network Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

• Anand, B. & Sujathamalini, J. (Eds.). (2008). Finding the joy in teaching:  Stories from inservice teachers in Tamil Nadu.  Chennai, India:  United States-India Education.

• Fine, M. & Anand, B. (2008). Revisiting the struggle for integration. In J.B. Entin, R.C. Rosen & L. Vogt (Eds.) Controversies in the classroom: a radical teacher reader. pp. 73-82.   New York: Teachers College Press.
• Anand, B., Fine, M., Perkins,T. & Surrey,D.  Building partnerships to hear freedom’s heroes within our community. History of Education Quarterly, March 2004 44(1), 113-119.
• Anand, B., Fine, M., Perkins, T., Surrey, D. & the Renaissance School Class of 2000 (2002). Keeping  the struggle alive: Studying desegregation in our town. A guide to doing oral history.  New York: Teachers College Press.

• Fine, M. & Anand, B. (2000). Revisiting the struggle for integration.  Radical Teacher, 57, 16-19.

• Fine, M., Anand, B., Jordan, C., & Sherman, D. (2000). Before the bleach gets us all. In L. Weis & M. Fine (Eds.), Constructions sites: excavating race, class and gender among urban youth.  (pp. 161-179). New York: Teachers College Press.

• Teachers College Press (Producer). (1998). Off track: Classroom privilege for all. [VHS]. Available from http://store.tcpress/com/0807737880.stml