Experience

As a published scholar, dedicated advocate, seasoned editorialist, experienced teacher educator, and skilled workshop facilitator, I have dedicated myself to fostering educative spaces where all students can thrive by training leaders to shape anti-oppressive education practices, laws, and policies.  Check-out an interview about one of my publications here. 

I invite you to learn more about my efforts by expanding the drop downs below.

Advocacy & Editorials 

 I am a champion for educational equity. From legislative bodies to newspapers, I use my voice to champion justice for marginalized students.

You may read about my work as an educational equity fellow at Intercultural Development Research Association (IDRA) here. 

My editorial works have been featured in the following publications:

• Caldera, A. et. al. (2023, July). The case for woke pedagogy. Education Week.
• Caldera, A. (2023, February.  OPINION: Growing up in the South, I had no chance to learn my own heritage and culture. The Hechinger Report.
• Caldera, A. (2022, November). Stop demonizing Black boys, let them play, too​​. Education Week. 
• Caldera, A. (2021, November). No, love won't fix institutional racism in education. Education Week.
• Caldera, A. (2021, July). Anti-critical race theory laws attack women and people of color. Thomas Reuters Foundation News. 
• Caldera, A. (2021, May). Texas, let educators decide how to teach race, current events. Fort Worth Star-Telegram.​
• Caldera, A. (2021, May). Southlake community must not continue to avoid conversations about race. Fort Worth Weekly. ​

News Features 

 My social and political commentary has been featured in various outlets across the nation in articles such as:
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• Major Changes to School Curricula Could Have Lasting Impact on U.S. Education
• Unpacking Critical Race Theory and How the New Bill Impacts the Mississippi Education System
• Local educator heading to Howard University
• Attacks on Critical Race Theory in Texas (Radio interview)
• Juneteenth is a national holiday. Can it be taught after Texas limited teaching on race?
• Educator talks critical race theory and racism in America​
• 100 years ago, women got the right to vote: Today, 100 women explain what that means to them​
• Blacklisted

Scholarship

I am proud to have published Ourselves in Our Work: Black Women Scholars of Black Girlhood, alongside Dr. Toni Denese Sturdivant. The edited collection is comprised of the work of 15 scholars in Black Girlhood and illuminates how they situate themselves in their work with Black girls. 

I have also authored dozens of peer-reviewed publications including book chapters and articles, including Woke Pedagogy, the most downloaded article in the journal’s history (more than19,000 downloads). Below is a list of some of my scholarly works. 

• Classroom management in urban schools: Proposing a course framework.​ A Caldera, MC Whitaker, DAD Conrad Popova. Teaching Education 31 (3), 343-361.
• Woke pedagogy: A framework for teaching and learning. A Caldera. Diversity, Social Justice, and the Educational Leader 2 (3), 1.
• Eradicating anti-Black racism in U.S. schools: A call-to-action for school leaders. A Caldera. Diversity, Social Justice, and the Educational Leader 4 (1), 12-25.
• Challenging capitalistic exploitation: A Black feminist/womanist commentary on work and self-care. A Caldera. Feminist Studies 46 (3), 707-716.
• When researching the “Other” intersects with the self: Women of color intimate research. A Caldera, S Rizvi, F Calderon-Berumen, M Lugo. Departures in Critical Qualitative Research 9 (1), 63-88.
• Being a conduit and culprit of white language supremacy: A duo autohistoria teoria. A Caldera, A Babino. Trayectorias Humanas Trascontinentales/Transcontinental Human Trajectories.
• Suspendable and expendable, kicking out and throwing away Black girls: An analysis of a school district’s policies and practices. A Caldera. Texas Education Review. 2018.
• Black feminist/womanist epistemologies, pedagogies, and methodologies: A review of literature. A Caldera. College Curriculum at the Crossroads, 35-51. 2017.
• Moving toward culturally sustaining language instruction that resists white language supremacy. A Caldera, A Babino. The National Journal of Middle-Grades Reform 3, 9-15. 2019.
• Towards wholeness: Anzaldúan theorizing used to imagine culturally accepting educative spaces for Black girls. A Caldera. Teaching Gloria E. Anzaldúa: Pedagogy and practice for our classrooms and ….2020.
• How Rachel Dolezal Forced us to Examine Who Gets to be Black. A Caldera. ProudFlesh: New Afrikan Journal of Culture, Politics and Consciousness. 2015.
• You Can’t Be a Teacher Teaching Talking Like That: Decolonizing Raciolinguistic Identities for Teachers of Color. F Calderon-Berumen, A Babino, A Caldera. From Being Woke to Doing# theWork, 48-58. 2023.
• Classroom Management Instruction in Teacher Education: A Culturally Responsive Approach. BR Butler, D Gladney, Y Lo, A Caldera. Handbook of Classroom Management, 477-498. 2022.
• Moment, Momentum, or Movement? Forging Paths Toward Racial Justice for Black Students. A Caldera. Race and Pedagogy Journal: Teaching and Learning for Justice 5 (2), 1-5. 2021.
• Strangers can make no noise. A Caldera. Amplified Voices, Intersecting Identities: Volume 1, 101-106. 2020.
• African American single mothers as curricula and teachers: A qualitative study. A Caldera. Texas Christian University. 2016.
• Equitably assessing emergent bilinguals. A Caldera, C Revelle, F Calderon-Berumen. Social justice perspectives on English language learners, 101-108.2023.
• You Can’t Be a Teacher Teaching Talking Like That. F Calderon-Berumen, A Babino, A Caldera. From Being Woke to Doing# theWork: Using Culturally Relevant Practices to …2023.
• A Portrait of Como High School, Fort Worth, Texas. A Caldera. Black cultural capital: Activism that spurred African American high schools. 2023.
• Solidarity across, solidarity within, equity for all. A Caldera, S Rizvi. Duoethnographic encounters... 2021.
• A dialog between sisters. A Caldera, R Simms. The Beauty and the Burden of Being a Black professor 24, 89-102. 2021.
• The power of formative assessment: Using Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) to promote learning. A Caldera. The New Teacher's Guide to Overcoming Common Challenges.
• Reading the word and world in Haiti: Literacy education for social justice. A Caldera, T Morton. Read An Online Journal for Literacy Educators 4 (7).