May 25: Articulating Your Why & Asset Pedagogies

Session Evaluation

Intellectual Tradition and Legacy

Framework: Asset Pedagogies as defined by Dr. Francesca López

Think and Make Meaning: As you read these frameworks, consider:

• What is the core argument or idea that each author advances? What need or gap does she seek to address in the research?

• What implications for practice in schools does this research have?

• In what ways are the frameworks resonant or dissonant with one another? What practices are overlapping? Distinct?

Read: Asset Pedagogies in Latino Youth Identity and Achievement - Nurturing Confianza by Francesca A. López - Introduction, Chapters 4-6

Think and Make Meaning: After grappling with the frameworks themselves, read or watch the examples provided of those ideas in action and consider:

• • To what extent and in what ways is this an example of the framework (Culture of Achievement or Asset Pedagogies)?

  • What beliefs and/or practices contributed to the example?

  • Which indicators are evident in the example?

Examples of Asset Pedagogies

Read: Asset Pedagogies in Latino Youth Identity and Achievement - Nurturing Confianza

• Ch 7 - Decolonizing Chican@ Studies to Rehumanize Xican@ Youth through Indigenous Pedagogies

• Ch 8 - A Counter Narrative: A Pedagogy of Love Through Critical Race Theory

• Ch 9 - Culturally Responsive Practices in K-5 Classrooms

• Ch 10 - On Becoming Human in White Skin

• Ch 11 - Chicanismo and Carnalismo: An Asset-Based Curriculum and Pedagogy

Watch: Precious Knowledge