NCTE invites members to join researcher Ricki Ginsberg and NCTE President Tonya B. Perry to hear more about the recently released report The State of Literature Use in US Secondary English Classrooms.
Ginsberg and her coauthor surveyed more than 4,000 English language arts teachers in public schools in all 50 states about what books they teach to students in their classrooms. When compared with a similar but smaller-scale study, this study shows that the list of the most-taught books remains largely unchanged from 35 years ago. Ginsberg and her team also surveyed teachers about their curricular autonomy, diverse book inclusion, and censorship perspectives.
This webinar will highlight more findings from the research, as well as suggestions for further study. This engaging and valuable discussion will center what teachers experience in the classroom.
Wednesday, September 10, 7:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m. ET
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FEATURED GUESTS
Ricki Ginsberg is an associate professor and director of English education at Colorado State University. Her research interests focus on supporting teachers dealing with book censorship and intellectual freedom issues, and reimagining literacy practices to be grounded in local communities. Dr. Ginsberg served as president of the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of the National Council of Teachers of English (ALAN) and associate editor of The ALAN Review. At Colorado State University, she co-directs the BIToC Collective and directs the True Color Effects program.
Dr. Ginsberg’s work has been published in journals including Research in the Teaching of English, Teachers College Record, Reading Research Quarterly, Journal of Adolescent Research, Multicultural Perspectives, Journal of Human Rights, English Journal, Voices from the Middle, and The ALAN Review. Her first book, coedited with Dr. Wendy Glenn, is Engaging with Multicultural YA Literature in the Secondary Classroom: Critical Approaches for Critical Educators (2019). Her second book is Challenging Traditional Classroom Spaces with YA Literature: Students in Community as Course Co-Designers (2022).
Tonya B. Perry, provost and senior vice president at Miles College in Fairfield, Alabama, is a tireless advocate for students and educators who are often denied a voice. She works with and for educators, students, and communities to develop programs and initiatives that uplift historically marginalized peoples. In addition, she has advocated for others on numerous committees, including as a member of the NCTE Executive Committee, NCTE Research Foundation trustee, member of the NCTE Inclusivity Task Force, NCTEAR chairperson, NCTE Editorial Board member, and director for NCTE’s Cultivating New Voices among Scholars of Color program.
She currently is NCTE president and serves on the National Writing Project’s board of directors. Perry has also served the nation as a 2000 National Teacher of the Year finalist and a two-time National Board Certified Teacher. She has worked as a middle school teacher, teacher educator, full professor, executive director, principal investigator for a large GEAR UP grant, director of the Red Mountain Writing Project, and both interim department chair and executive director for outreach and engagement for a school of education.
Her coauthored book Teaching for Racial Equity: Becoming Interrupters (2022) is a collaborative work with two teacher educators, Steven Zemelman and Katy Smith, and other brilliant teacher-writers.