Main description:

* Focuses on the relationships, skills, and resources school psychologists need to foster educational equity
* Combines informative personal narratives with research, gives historical background to explain why schools and school psychologists need support, and devotes attention to the skills needed for effective advocacy with legislative leaders
* Examples are drawn from the author's teaching experiences in an all-Black elementary school during racial desegregation, in a private American school in Pakistan, in a migrant school for Hispanic students in North Dakota, and from three decades of school psychology experience as an itinerant rural school psychologist

Contents:

1. Introduction 2. Why It Took Me so Long to Become a School Psychologist 3. Claiming Disability Rights 4. Hard Lessons: Teaching in the South 5. Segregation, Desegregation, Resegregation 6. Hard Lessons: Teaching in Pakistan 7. Beyond 9/11 8. They're Just Talking Gibberish: English Language Learners 9. Issues in Diversity: 'There's No Way He'd Tell a White Woman That' 10. Better Ally Than Savior 11. Rites of Passage: Becoming a School Psychologist 12. Health in School 13. The Health of Schools 14. Speaking Up: Civic Action Through Lobbying Elected Officials 15. Adversary or Ally: Working with Administrators 16. The Changing Role of School Principalship 17. Remember to Breathe: Crisis Intervention 18. Hand in Glove: Our Relationship with Teachers 19. A Delicate Journey: Our Relationship with Parents 20. Entering Their World: Our Relationship with Children 21. Rolling with Our Roles 22. Looking Back, Facing Forward