It’s Not About Grit pulls back the veil, revealing the social systems that marginalise and stigmatize mostly poor, urban students of colour and their communities. Steve Goodman, founding director of NYC’s highly acclaimed Educational Video Center, shows the tremendous intelligence, resilience, and sense of agency of these students. Through the students’ experiences, enhanced with curriculum guides and award-winning video clips from EVC, this book demonstrates how to create a safe and inclusive school climate that responds to students’ culture, race, gender, sexual orientation, language, housing status, and ability. Teachers will use this book to develop a pedagogy of transformative teaching.