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Departments: Alternative Format: “Because He Was Fat”: The Role of the Early Childhood Educator in Addressing Fat Phobia with Young Children
This piece examines a missed opportunity for dialogue after a classroom incident while unpacking different ways to talk about fat phobia with young children.
“‘Together’ Means I Am Not the Only One”: Educators Reclaiming Interdependence in Early Literacy through Narratives of Struggle
Through narrative analysis the authors explore the role of struggle in a teacher inquiry group and explain how they collectively reclaimed interdependence with young children in classrooms.
Departments: Children’s Literature Reviews: Normalize, Problematize, Galvanize: Becoming More Human by Interrogating Struggles in Community with Texts
In this column the author features children’s books that facilitate conversation and inquiry that develop students’ understanding of mistakes and coping mechanisms for struggle.
Departments: Responsive Teaching in Action: Reflections on Normalizing Collective Struggle: Insights from Disability Studies
In this column we draw lessons from disability studies that hold promise for informing the difficult work of teaching and learning in tumultuous times.
Departments: Research and Policy: Struggles That Should Never Be Normalized: Politics, Policy, and the Prohibition of Thought
This essay explores the politics of white backlash and the laws enacted across the United States that seek to censor books and discussions surrounding issues of race racism and gender in elementary classrooms.
Collective Reflection to Resist Demoralization: Exploring Bilingual Teachers’ Narrative Learning Experiences
This article explores the potential of narrative inquiry in collective spaces as a means to support educators in resisting demoralization in increasingly complex teaching contexts.
Departments: From Language Arts to Learning Communities: Considerations for Cultivating Struggle-Brave, Interdependent Literacy Learning
Building learning communities open to strengthening connections through exploration of struggle can offer students avenues to bring their whole selves to their learning.
Departments: Alternative Format: Struggle Is a Gift: Gaining Perspective through Dialogue in a Seventh-Grade ELA Class
A student’s candid comment leads a teacher to consider the limits of her own perspective and the possibilities of dialogue to widen one’s worldview.
Departments: Alternative Format: Will Neurodivergent Teachers and Students Ever Unmask?
Disabled people are part of every school community. Masking and ableism prohibit disabled and neurodivergent folks from showing up as their true authentic and whole selves.
Departments: Alternative Format: Letter to Myself Amid the Ferguson Uprising
An educator reflects on her work teaching during the Ferguson Uprising sharing advice with her past self.
Backyard Birds: A Project to Integrate Science, English, Visual Literacy, and Art
This article examines a cross-curricular project that focused on backyards birds integrating science English and art in a fifth-grade class.
“What did you learn?” Emergent Bilingual Students Write Their Understandings about Sinking and Floating
Leveraging translanguaging and novel engineering this article examines how first-grade emergent bilingual students engaged in expansive literacy practices throughout the engineering design process.
The 2022 Notable Children’s Books in the English Language Arts
The 2022 Notable Books in the English Language Arts are of enduring quality inviting readers to deeply engage with language in expansive and varied ways.