Letters from the Future

In sharing their philosophy of teaching diversity and the challenges they face in the classroom, each contributor uniquely integrates revealing letters from former students within his or her chapter. These letters offer observations and reflections upon key lessons learned or ideas that were challenged in the teacher’s classroom and how these lessons are connected to or disconnected from students’ professional and/or personal lives. We also see how the teachers in turn have modified their practice in the light of their students’ feedback. The editors revisit the chapters to find the emergent Best Practices as take-aways for the reader.

Brenda Jarmon is Associate Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Social Work, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee.

Deborah A. Brunson is Director of the Upperman African American Cultural Center and Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington.

Linda L. Lampl is President/CEO and co-founder of Lampl Herbert Consultants, Tallahassee, where she works as a practicing anthropologist and organization development consultant.