McKinney de Royston is an assistant professor with the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction.

Vialogues is a community of learners that center discussion through video. The article was titled, “He’s More Like a ‘Brother’ Than a Teacher”: Politicized Caring in a Program for African American Males.”

Positive student-teacher relationships are known to benefit students’ experiences in school and academic success, but positive student-teacher relationships are not the norm for African-American male students. In the article, McKinney de Royston researches what characterizes teacher-student relationships within all-black, all-male classrooms.

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