by Christian Z. Goering, Ph.D., NBCT Anyone with a pulse probably heard the bastardization of the term Critical Race Theory over the past year. In the midst of a fall 2020 semester in which I was discussing how to become anti-racist educators with a group …
Literacy to What End…for Students and Teachers of Color…because Academically, Systemically, and Structurally We Still are Not Saved!? By Tiffany M. Nyachae, Ph.D. When I left the classroom in June of 2013, I found refuge in creating out-of-school spaces for young people to use literacy …
Read Aloud! You’re Never Too Old for Storytime (or to Become an Expert Oral Reader) by Kate Sjostrom When Glynis was in high school…her sophomore English teacher…read short stories to the class… [He] read the stories because he loved them and he believed the students …
I have recently had the joy of attending a back-to-school open house at a rural high school in the southeastern United States. Normally when I write something like that, years of teaching secondary school worm their way into the tone of my writing and the …
Introduction – The Unbearable Traumas of COVID Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the first days of a new school year arrived for many with a sense of optimism, hope, and excitement about all the good things to come. School is such a central part of …
Combatting Dreams Deferred in English Language Arts by Dr. Stephanie Toliver In his timeless poem, “Harlem,” Langston Hughes asked, “What happens to a dream deferred?” It was a predictive question, one that asked society to reckon with the institutionally upheld racial injustices experienced by Black …
Social Emotional Learning, Young Adult Literature, and Mental Health in the High School English Classroom by Kia Jane Richmond, Ph.D. John Green, beloved author of young adult novels such as The Fault in Our Stars and Turtles All the Way Down, says that “all fiction …
Writing Real to Reel for Teens: Transforming the English Classroom with Dramatic Writing By Aaron Levy, MFA, PhD There has never been a better time to be a content creator for film and television. With over 200 streaming outlets in existence in 2021 and growing, …
Chea Parton is a farm-girl, former rural high school English teacher, and current assistant professor of instruction at The University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests include representations of the rural in young adult literature, film, and other pop culture texts; rural outmigrant teacher …
Through the (Contemporary) Looking Glass, and What Teachers Found There by Nina Schoonover, North Carolina State University “Where should I go?” -Alice “That depends on where you want to end up” -The Cheshire Cat Cameras allow us to adventure through the looking glass as we …