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Lifting up Talk as a Crucial Practice in the Writing Classroom
The work of three secondary English teachers illustrates the power and risks of centering talk as a practice in writing classrooms.
Columns: Teaching in a Time of Censorship: Fostering a Culture of Reading to Reduce Fear and Build Community
This month’s column shares how one teacher reflected on the root causes of the parental scrutiny of her book choices and chose a path of communication and community building.
Who Does English? Learning from Youth and Professional Literarian Communities
Two teacher educators explore how youth and literary professionals engage in the creation of new literary knowledge as a form of social justice.
Columns: Telescopes: Possibilities in Yal: The Hoop Dreamcatcher
Byron Graves discusses using his real life as inspiration for writing and how he hopes to see his debut novel Rez Ball centered in classrooms with adolescents.
Columns: The Future is Now: Conscious Classroom Choices: From TikTok Hot Spots to Mindful Social Connections
What does it mean to offer students a “seat at the table” in our English language arts classrooms now that our seats are back in closer proximity following the COVID emergency? Lisa Alexander reminds us of crucial ways to reflect on conscious classroom choices in relation to technology as we seek to strengthen classroom interactions.
Columns: Intersectional Lgbtqia+ Identities: “See All the Pieces”: Photovoice as a Means to Explore Intersectionality
The author considers how photovoice a visual research methodology might support intersectional classroom discussions of LGBTQIA+ topics.
Speaking My Mind: Rethinking a Correct and Proper English
Teachers can make language more equitable by paying attention to the words they use to describe English.
Experience to Analysis: Activating the Personal to foster Literary Analysis
Meaningful connections to literature do not have to come at the expense of rigorous literary analysis skills; both are vital to student engagement and learning.
ChatGPT: The Co-teacher We need?
This article explores artificial intelligence and its academic uses and challenges when incorporated into a high school writing curriculum.
High School Matters: The Abolitionist Journey: Paths to Freedom for Black and Brown Students in the ELA Classroom
The authors provide a brief overview of a continuum of abolitionist work to help readers understand the journey toward educational freedom for Black and Brown students including information about how the continuum can be used in the English classroom.
Columns: Reimagining Research: Redesigning Research: Iterations of Youth Participatory Action Research in School
An educator considers the value of an iterative design process for enacting and sustaining a youth participatory action research program in a public high school.
More Than Surviving: Secondary Trauma in English Language Arts
Using methods of storytelling to share and make sense of their experience with trauma in English language arts classrooms the authors imagine healthier ways of coming into relationship with the traumatic conditions produced in schools.
Columns: Critical Approaches to Literature: January 6 and Julius Caesar: Engaging Sociopolitical Events through Dialogic Teaching
In this essay the author discusses how Julius Caesar can inspire dialogue around controversial challenging topics such as the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.
From Language Arts to Learning Communities: Seeing the Bigger Picture with Multimodal Texts
Exploring the intersections of critical literacies and visual literacies to increase opportunities for deepening comprehension across multimodal texts.