When teachers feel forced to adopt a false persona due to professional expectations and systemic challenges, they lose their passion for the work and forfeit genuine connections with students. Through their work to make systems-level changes with hundreds of educators, authors Jacobe Bell and Reshma Ramkellawan have come to deeply understand the challenges educators face and the need for educational justice and authenticity. In Reclaiming Authenticity: Unearth Your True Self and Build an Equitable Classroom, Bell and Ramkellawan prompt K-12 teachers to reflect on how unjust educational systems cause harm and shape their own perspectives, teaching, and interactions. Readers of this transformative guide will question current methods' impact, identify unintentionally harmful practices, and move to make authenticity the focal point of the classroom. In this way, educators will be equipped to enact meaningful, manageable changes for themselves, their classrooms, and the broader educational landscape. Readers will: Consider the complexity of identity to help them understand themselves and their students, Examine systemic inequities that affect schools and envision a future of equitable education, Identify unintentionally harmful practices and shift to culturally competent practices that ensure authenticity in the classroom, Ponder their individual journeys as educators and respond to chapter reflection prompts, Utilize the book's interactive tools, activities, and reproducibles.