English Language Arts/ Administration
We Teach English in Times of Perpetual Crisis: The Long (and Tedious) History of Reading Crisis
Secondary English language arts teachers need to reclaim the complex and true stories of literacy as a resistance to the “science of reading” movement and new reading legislation across the US.
Columns: Teaching and Composing Today: The Power of Listening: Honoring Our Indigenous Writers in the Classroom
While conducting a writing conference with her niece for a university assignment Monique Warena discovered the most important tool for empowering young Indigenous writers is to listen.
Speaking My Mind: Navigating Controversy in Education through Community
This article explores Arts in Action a project that drew criticism and became a subject of controversy due to allegations of violations of state laws related to teaching certain concepts (such as critical race theory) and indoctrinating students.
“I Balance It Dangerously”: How Educators Resist Censorship through the Project LIT Community
Educators across the United States have found ways to resist censorship and attacks on diverse texts through an affinity space called Project LIT.
Columns: Black Youth Futures: “This Might Not Be So Bad”: Building Trust and Community with Black Girl Writers
An educator reflects on her experiences with a girls’ writing group and how she created with its members a powerful space of shared ownership.
Cosmic Perspectives: Scalar Projects and Worldmaking Literacies
A teacher explores the concepts of scale and perspective with his students as they consider what it means to share the planet with others while imagining more hopeful and just worlds.