English Language Arts/ Elementary
Crafting a Sense of Response-ability: Examining Children’s Calls to Climate Action across Three Coastal Communities
Guided by a critical literacies orientation this multi-sited case study emphasizes the devastating and poignant climate questions children grapple with through closely examining children’s illustrations.
Perspectives on Practice: Infusing Literacy and the Arts to Learn History: Advancing Pedagogical Pursuits toward Justice and Freedom
Visual arts can broaden the curriculum enhance learning in literacy and history and provide opportunities to reflect on and critique our contemporary society.
Perspectives on Practice: “Then it will be new”: Integrating Imagination and Future-Oriented Thinking into Collage and Early Childhood Teacher Education around the Arts
This paper considers a collage activity in an arts education course as an inherently future-oriented activity that can stimulate young children’s imagination and creativity.
Perspectives on Practice: Unlocking Potential: Empowering Students with Disabilities by Using the Arts to Further Their Learning Experiences
As evidenced in an exploratory case study drawing on the arts is one beneficial avenue for students with disabilities to engage in and develop content area understanding.
Responding to Literature through Arts-Based Pedagogies: Exploring Hope, Empathy, Imagination, and Liberation
This article explores how arts-based pedagogies give insight into the lives and dreams of students who experience detainment and incarceration.
Children’s Literature: Cultural Appreciation in Children’s Literature: Exploring (Mis)Conceptions in Picturebooks through Drama-in-Education
In this column I briefly explore the practice of drama in educational settings through children’s literature books. Through role-playing activities learners delve into the intricacies of cultural representation and the potential for inadvertent cultural appropriation. The narrative provides insights into nurturing cultural appreciation and critical thinking skills among learners while navigating the complexities of character interpretation. Central to this approach is the selection of culturally resonant books and the involvement of parents and community members creating a rich supportive learning environment that boosts literacy and language learning outcomes and builds confidence and community engagement.
Writing Matters: Dreaming of un Mejor Futuro: Learning about Critical Multimodal Practices for Sobrevivencia
Lessons are shared from Latine families and children who have used critical multimodal practices to cultivate literacies that sustain identities histories and everyday lives.
Indigenous and Transnational Latinx Children Writing with the Arts: A Placemaking-Justice Pedagogy
This study explored the creative processes and stories constructed by Indigenous and transnational Latinx bilingual/multilingual children in an afterschool writing program.
From “Todo sobre Mí” to “All about We”: Reading Children’s Visual Texts as Sights and Scenes of Critical Data Literacies
Braiding together theoretical perspectives from critical literacy studies data literacy and visual cultures this article describes how two young children’s textual compositions functioned as sites of rhetorical invention through the playful production and circulation of critical data literacies.
Awards: Making Classroom Connections through Discovery: Presenting the NCTE 2024 Notable Poetry Books and Verse Novels
By the NCTE Excellence in Children’s Poetry Award Committee
Awards: Creating Loving Spaces in Literacy: NCTE’s 2024 Outstanding Elementary Educator in the English Language Arts Award
This interview highlights Dr. Angie Zapata’s journey as an educator as well as her humanistic vision for how picturebooks can be powerful entry points for language literacy learning criticality and joy.
Perspectives on Practice: They’re Not Too Young: Anti-bias Dialogue with Early Childhood Students and Families
This paper outlines an early childhood curriculum designed to partner with families in authentic and meaningful ways around supporting students’ access to abstract anti-bias concepts.
Perspectives on Practice: Dismantling Muros Using Critical Texts and Topics
Using a critical bilingual lens two educators explored the topics of immigration and language use in a middle school classroom using the novel Efrén Divided.