Publications

Weil, Zoe and Ayo Magwood. 5 Ways to Teach About Structural Racism in a Polarized Times Psychology Today, 24 August 2022.
Magwood, Ayo. “Why 'elite' independent schools can't retain Black and Brown faculty” in K. Swalwell & D. Spikes (Eds.) Anti-Oppressive Education in "Elite" Schools: Promising Practices and Cautionary Tales. New York, NY: Teachers College Press, 2021.
Magwood, Ayo. “Not Perfect for All, But Perfect for Some,” in the book Dilemmas of Educational Ethics. Cases and Commentaries. Eds. Meira Levinson and Jacob Fay, Harvard Education Press, 2016.
Magwood, Ayo and Krista Fantin Ferraro. “Using Conceptual Tensions and Supreme Court Cases to Increase Critical Thinking in Government and Civics Classrooms”, in Social Education Vol. 77 No. 4, Sep 2013.

Media/Press

Identified as a leading expert on social justice education in Swalwell, K., Rodríguez, N. N., Updegraff, A., & Winters, L. A. (2023). Distracting, Erasing, and Othering: A Critical Analysis of the Teachers Pay Teachers’ Teach for Justice Collection. Harvard Educational Review, 93(1), 104-130.
Featured in WAMU’s Morning Edition "Teens from Two Very Different D.C. Schools Hold Tough Conversations on Race” by Mikaela Lefrak, April 12, 2017. Re-broadcasted on NPR´s Here and Now on April 30, 2017.
Featured in McAvoy, P. (Fall 2016). “Polarized classrooms: Understanding political divides can help students learn to bridge them”. Teaching Tolerance (54): 19-22.

Magwood, Ayo. “Ayo Magwood Talks Inequity, Antiracism, and History.” Interview conducted by Julie Stern and Trevor Aleo, Conceptually Speaking Podcast, 9 September, 2020.
Magwood, Ayo. “Preparing Students to Understand, Discuss and Dismantle Racism.” Interview conducted by Alec Patton and Jean Catubay, High Tech High’s Unboxed Podcast, 3 February, 2021.
Magwood, Ayo. “Teaching About Racism in Schools: Success Facilitating Student Discourse.” Conducted by Dr. Brian K. Perkins, Perkins Platform, 21 November, 2022.
Magwood, Ayo. “A Framework for Teaching Structural Racism in US History with Ayo Magwood M.Sc.” Conducted by Lindsay Lyons, Time for Teachership. The Blog Turned Podcast, 12 September, 2023.