Collaboration and Capacity Building to Transform Evaluations of Text Complexity

This manuscript focuses on the collaboration among state level librarian, English language arts, and literacy leaders surrounding text selection, evaluation, and diverse voices in curriculum, including the continued need for a focus on diverse children’s and young adult literature, teachers and librarians working together for text selection purposes, including representation and diversity and critical literacy considerations in the evaluation of text complexity, the examination of young adult literature and creator/s of these texts, and cultivating spaces for students to see themselves and others in what they read, with permission to ask critical questions.