books
Faith Made Flesh: The Black Child Legacy for Transformative Justice and Healthy Justices (2023)
The Soul of Learning: rituals of resistance, magnetic pedagogy and living justice (2022)
Transformative Schooling: Towards Racial Equity in Education (2018)
Learning to Liberate: Community-Based Solutions to the Crisis in Urban Education (2012)
some published works
Watson, V. (2020, Jun 1). Open Question: What is a world without whiteness? Medium.
Watson, V. (2019). “Liberating Methodologies: Reclaiming Research as a Site for Radical Inquiry and Transformation.” In Community-Based Participatory Research: Testimonios from Chicana/o Studies. Editor: Natalia Deeb-Sossa. The University of Arizona Press.
Watson, V. (2019). “Embodied Justice: We are the Divine Text.” In The Whole Person: Lectio Divina as Transformative Practice in Teaching and Learning. Editors: Jane Dalton and Maureen Hall. Rowman & Littlefield.
Watson, V. (2017). “Life as Primary Text: English Classrooms as Sites for Soulful Learning.” Invited submission for The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning, an affiliate of the National Council of Teachers of English.
Watson, V. (2014). The Black Sonrise: Oakland Unified School District’s Commitment to Address and Eliminate Institutionalized Racism. Final evaluation report submitted to Oakland Unified School District’s Office of African American Male Achievement.
Watson, V. (2013). “Censoring Freedom: Community-Based Professional Development and the Politics of Profanity.” In Equity & Excellence in Education, 46:3, 387-410.