Community Literacies en Confianza, Part II
…become participants in bilingual communities, they partake in a form of community membership, demonstrating a kind of role modeling that will both engage emergent bilingual youth and build confianza in…
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Excavating and Honoring our Trauma: The Work of Eugenia Leigh and Joan Kwon Glass
…that, “Writing stories from the ‘I’ position lays a path to building a classroom community grounded in testimony and critical witness” (pg 59). Immediately, when I think of these issues…
How Storytelling Is a Path to a More Diverse, Empathetic World
…is converted into electrical pulses. These pulses build models of whatever information the letters provide. Essentially, our brain rebuilds the model world that was originally imagined by the author. This…
Teaching While Grieving a Death
…that teaching involves relational work. Relational Work Relational work is the work teachers do to form relationships with students and colleagues, including building trust, showing care, developing mutual interests, and…
Teaching Behind Bars: A Moment of Reflection
…escorted a colleague and me to the Education Building while curious onlookers clad in khaki crisscrossed the compound enclosed by barbed wire fences. When I arrived at my classroom door,…
Making Metacognition Part of Student Writing
…of conversational feedback, allowing students to feel more agency over their own writing, and the power of building rapport that comes with conferences. In my own classroom, I’ve been on…
Beyond the Rhyme: Teaching Poetry for Liberation
…help us to see the world differently, challenging our perspectives and inspiring us to think outside the box. Build connections: Poetry can help us to understand and empathize with the…
Give Students the Power to Start and Sustain Rich Discussion
…discourse. Share appropriate ways to respond during discussion. Model the language used to agree, disagree, ask for clarification, and build on others’ ideas. I display a list of sentence-starters and…
Expanding the Ideals of Cosmopolitanism in the Classroom through Global Perspectives
…encourage the integration of strategies for intercultural understanding within classrooms. The types of texts that are used in classrooms have great potential to build bridges toward cultural understanding. Luke (2018,…
Black History Belongs in Early Elementary School
…educators must begin with a deep commitment to humanizing, amplifying, and honoring Black history. Elementary teachers must be willing—and trained—to suspend the conventional notions of knowledge building and content mastery,…
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