Table of Contents

Summers 2015 / 2016

This issue of the Philadelphia Writing Project Journal features selections from Summer Institute participants and other practitioners sharing their commitment towards professional growth through everything from unit plans to poems. Kindergarten to high school and beyond, these teacher voices add a context for inquiry into teaching and learning that continue to enrich the lives of the students they serve.

Photographs courtesy of George Schreuder, ELL Invitational Summer Institute, 2014.

Reflections on the Classroom

Home Codes: What Are We Leaving Out?

Joselli Deans

Poetry Class Curriculum Overview

Katie Burrows

Teaching Today

Lisa Hantman

Language and Identity

Power, Gender, and Profanity 粗口

Lisa Yau

The Mishpacha

Rachel Frankford

Where Did the Mummy's Eyes Go?

Erica Koplove

Poetry

"Places are People"

Dawa Yolmo

Intolerable

Kelesha Richardson

Invasion

Valmer Lord

Untitled Poem

Sophie Skoke