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 …
Community, Agency, and Voice: Creating Authentic Writing Opportunities By Celebrating The National Day On Writing
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 …
Teaching English Language Arts Endorses and Requires a Curriculum based on Critical Race Theory
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…by Tiffany M Nyachae
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
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 …
A Short Note on Open Houses by Jim Hill
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 …
Using Storytelling for Trauma-Informed Pedagogy and Ethical ELA During COVID and Beyond by Leslie Burns
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
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 …
Mental Health in the High School English Classroom by Kia Jane Richmond
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
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, …