Key Aspects of Critical Literacy: An Excerpt
…find a text offensive, it is hard to engage with it. But we have to do both; we have to engage with texts on their own terms—both to learn from…
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Fighting Old Battles of the Curriculum vs. the Students
…. . educate each pupil in terms of his own uniqueness within the context of the group. All this has special import for the curriculum. It cannot be done adequately…
What Is Just Theory?
…and ecology; as if theory could be only itself, just theory. In the second sense, what I have been calling just theory is a literal, non-ironic, evaluative term naming the…
Student Audio Recordings: Leverage for Writers
…mispronounce a term. And it can be even tougher for new language learners. In audio recording a mispronounced word is no big deal. We’ve listened to many students mess up,…
The Power of Story and Classroom Management in Affirming Sexual and Gender Diversity
…in terms of empathy and perspective (Wiggins & McTighe) should be one of our primary goals as English teachers. Story is a way to achieve this goal. Excerpts from young…
Living with, Learning from, and Loving the Toughest Readers to Please
…self-efficacy or their emotional responses to reading—which is also sadly too often the case. The truth is the term “toughest reader to please” can, at various times, be applied to…
Creating LGBTQ-Affirming Elementary Classrooms from Day One
…I then taught the term “intersectionality,” a concept originated by legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989, to describe when a person belongs to more than one group of people who…
Digital Storytelling and the Digital Divide
…was always followed by deficits or stereotypes of what they lacked or did not have. When the term “digital divide” was introduced in the 1990s (US Department of Commerce, National…
Being an Antiracist Educator Is a Verb
…where we’ve been silent in terms of quelling the growing violence our country faces. These perpetrators were once students. Our teaching must therefore be an act that addresses, challenges and…
Finding and Enacting a Professional Identity in Basic Writing
…preservice and early career faculty, strategies for enacting a professional identity in basic writing that are accessible and doable in terms of time, focus, and commitment. Such strategies must fit…
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