Thank you for your interest in our sessions at the Oklahoma Council of Teachers of English, @oklacte, #okcte. There were many great sessions this year with the keynote by Dr. Antero Garcia. Below are materials from the sessions I presented and co-presented. Please be mindful of citing these sources if you use or share them, and please reach out if you’d like to talk about how to ethically and meaningfully make adjustments in your classes to be more inclusive in curriculum and practices.
Book Groups as Shared Inquiry: Voices of Readers, Characters, and Authors with Sarah Donovan
When we use book groups regularly in our classrooms, we not only witness students sharing their reading experiences, we witness humanity listening, responding, questioning, and making meaning. Personal reading is inquiry, and book discussions embody shared inquiry into texts but also the reader. How is my reading impacted by others? When or should I adjust my thinking and being in order to better relate, communicate, understand? The voices of readers, characters, and authors reverberate in a book group; a dynamic, live and lived experience that shapes experiences with books and people.
Build Your Stack, OKCTE Sectional Coordinators with
Rebecca Weber, Tessie Curran, Dani Nagel & Sarah Donovan
Get tips for building your classroom library and working with your school librarian. Find out which titles are getting students reading, and walk away with a few books to start building your stack.
LGBTQ-Inclusive Literature in the K-12 Classroom with S. Adam Crawley & Sarah Donovan
After briefly sharing research about youth experiences in K-12 schools and why inclusive teaching matters, the presenters will describe various representations in LGBTQ-inclusive children’s and young adult literature. The presenters will book talk favorite texts, provide a scaffolded framework for how educators might include such texts in their classrooms, and dialogue with attendees about questions and possibilities for inclusive teaching in varied school contexts. Via a shared spirited inquiry, the presenters hope attendees will take-away a plethora of book titles and teaching practices to use and build upon in their continued creating and sustaining of inclusive classrooms across grade levels.
- Booklist: This list is categorized according to the letters of LGTBQ+ YA literature, but it is incomplete and fails to show intersectionality though many of these books do.
- Criteria for Selecting YA Literature
- Slides