It’s the holidays! During this season, every high school English teacher asks themselves, “How can I fit it all into my curriculum?” Being tasked with reading, writing, speaking, listening, among other skills, English teachers have 180 days to figure out how to best serve all …
This winter-spring, the OSU Writing Project is offering an online professional development and would like to invite you, even if you are not in Oklahoma, to register for this online experience. Here is the description: For pre-service, inservice, & veteran teachers who love reading and …
by Johnny Allred, Ph.D. In my third year as a high school English teacher, my school purchased a few carts of Chromebooks to be shared across the school. If any teachers wanted to use them, we had to reserve the Chromebooks in advance, track down …
by Destiny Dungey, Anastasia Gustafson, Molly Snyder, and Sarah Hochstetler Why do you write? Who do you write for? These questions are central to the inquiry work we take up as emerging and practicing teachers of diverse writers in a secondary ELA methods course. We …
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 …