Connecting Equity, Literacy, and Language
Connecting Equity, Literacy, and Language

Author: Althier M. Lazar

Publisher:

Published: 2023-12-22

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780807768754

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This book shows literacy professionals how to develop the dispositions and actions associated with advocacy-focused teaching. While portraits of culturally conscious literacy teachers are now readily available, becoming such a teacher continues to be a challenge. Drawing from 60+ years of experience working with teacher candidates and teachers in the city of Philadelphia, the authors argue that becoming an advocacy-focused literacy teacher requires making moral commitments to students and developing professional competencies that fuse literacy, language, and equity studies. Recognizing that educators can be overwhelmed trying to match the realities they face daily with the theory behind good practice, Connecting Equity, Literacy, and Language packs a lot of big ideas into one readable, concise book that is perfect for use in literacy methods courses. The text includes definitions and examples of equity concepts, relatable teacher vignettes, and "Pause and Reflect" boxes to encourage reflection and classroom conversation. Book Features: Examines the central problems of students' disconnection with school, spirit murdering, and the teacher education gap. Looks at inequities that have become normalized in classrooms and schools through standardized testing, literacy teaching routines and structures, and deficit-laced language about students and families. Discusses literacies and languages as cultural practices and the need to be vigilant about the linguistic violence that occurs when students' languages are delegitimized. Describes critically and culturally centered teaching frameworks. Provides vivid examples of advocacy-focused teaching.

Connecting Equity, Literacy, and Language
Connecting Equity, Literacy, and Language

Author: Althier M. Lazar

Publisher: Teachers College Press

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13: 0807781924

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This book shows literacy professionals how to develop the dispositions and actions associated with advocacy-focused teaching. While portraits of culturally conscious literacy teachers are now readily available, becoming such a teacher continues to be a challenge. Drawing from 60+ years of experience working with teacher candidates and teachers in the city of Philadelphia, the authors argue that becoming an advocacy-focused literacy teacher requires making moral commitments to students and developing professional competencies that fuse literacy, language, and equity studies. Recognizing that educators can be overwhelmed trying to match the realities they face daily with the theory behind good practice, Connecting Equity, Literacy, and Language packs a lot of big ideas into one readable, concise book that is perfect for use in literacy methods courses. The text includes definitions and examples of equity concepts, relatable teacher vignettes, and “Pause and Reflect” boxes to encourage reflection and classroom conversation. Book Features: Examines the central problems of students’ disconnection with school, spirit murdering, and the teacher education gap.Looks at inequities that have become normalized in classrooms and schools through standardized testing, literacy teaching routines and structures, and deficit-laced language about students and families.Discusses literacies and languages as cultural practices and the need to be vigilant about the linguistic violence that occurs when students’ languages are delegitimized.Describes critically and culturally centered teaching frameworks.Provides vivid examples of advocacy-focused teaching.

Digital and Media Literacy
Digital and Media Literacy

Author: Renee Hobbs

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2011-07-12

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1412981581

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Leading authority on media literacy education shows secondary teachers how to incorporate media literacy into the curriculum, teach 21st-century skills, and select meaningful texts.

Connecting Content and Language for English Language Learners
Connecting Content and Language for English Language Learners

Author: Eugenia Mora-Flores

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials

Published: 2011-04-01

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 142580800X

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Bridge the gap between content and language and put research into practice to instruct English language learners with strategies that meet their needs in language development and literacy.

Bridging Literacy and Equity
Bridging Literacy and Equity

Author: Althier M. Lazar

Publisher: Teachers College Press

Published: 2012-06-29

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 0807753475

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Extraordinary K–12 teachers show us what social equity literacy teaching looks like and how it advances children's achievement. Chapters identify six key dimensions of social equity teaching that can help teachers see their students' potential and create conditions that will support their literacy development. Serving students well depends on understanding relationships between race, class, culture, and literacy; the complexity and significance of culture; and the culturally situated nature of literacy. It also requires knowledge of culturally responsive practices, such as collaborating with and learning from caregivers, using cultural referents, enacting critical and transformative literacy practices, and seeing the capacities of English Language Learners and children who speak African American Language.

Widening the Lens
Widening the Lens

Author: Deborah Vriend Van Duinen

Publisher: Teachers College Press

Published: 2024

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 0807769029

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"The book is for preservice secondary teachers across all content areas and for beginning teachers who may not yet have much experience working in secondary classrooms. Connected to adolescent literacy, the authors encourage a "widened lens" approach that considers varied perspectives and research findings when engaging in various and often competing initiatives, issues, pedagogies, and strategies"--

Pose, Wobble, Flow
Pose, Wobble, Flow

Author: Antero Garcia

Publisher: Teachers College Press

Published: 2024

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 0807769347

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"This resource offers six effective teaching stances or "poses" that teachers can use to meet the needs of all students in today's challenging sociopolitical climate"--

Teaching Climate Change to Children
Teaching Climate Change to Children

Author: Rebecca Woodard

Publisher: Teachers College Press

Published: 2024

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 0807769789

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"Replete with classroom examples, this book demonstrates that young children (pre-K-6) are capable of learning about climate change; that climate change and social justice are inextricable from each other; and that literacy instruction is well-suited to this work. The authors take an emotionally affirming stance and examine the potential of incorporating arts-based methods"--

Educating African Immigrant Youth
Educating African Immigrant Youth

Author: Vaughn W. M. Watson

Publisher: Teachers College Press

Published: 2024

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0807769800

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"Black African immigrant youth and young adults from countries south of the Sahara, among the most rapidly growing immigrant groups in the US given immigration, resettlement, and asylum programs, have long demonstrated varied racial, ethnic, gendered, cultural, linguistic, religious, and transnational identities in their diverse schooling and education practices. Moreover, African immigrant youth enacting complex, embodied practices within and across varied schooling and educational contexts, and at the interplay of language, literacy, and civic learning and action taking, complicate urgent questions of which students may engage civically in schools and communities, and how they may do so. Thus, transformative education research to support diverse schooling, education, and civic engagement experiences for African immigrant and refugee students will increasingly depend on enacting generative research frameworks, teaching approaches, and innovative methodologies. Such research and teaching hold possibilities for assisting and preparing researchers, teacher educators, teachers, and community-based educators to identify key schooling, education and civic engagement practices associated with student's varied identities, and / or taking up research approaches and learning contexts that affirm and extend the identified practices"--