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Episode Description: Annemarie speaks with literacy advocate and sage, Carol Jago, about creating communities of readers, disciplinary literacy, the importance of teaching argument, and building robust libraries. We hope you'll agree, you'll concur, that the counsel we received from Carol shall endure.
Bio: Carol Jago taught middle and high school English for 32 years in Santa Monica, CA, was elected as president of the National Council of Teachers of English, and now serves on the National Assessment Governing Board. You can visit Carol Jago's website at www.CarolJago.com to learn more about her.
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Ode to Carol Jago
by Kate Jackson
Welcome to our next episode
For this intro, we’ve drafted an ode
Over winter break, the muse sang -
to read more and write more, and to life, this poem sprang-
to celebrate, the brilliant ,Carol Jago, who inspires
Her book recs and insights consistently alight our fire
30 plus years as a teacher,
Literacy advocate and potent preacher-
of poetry, close reading, and visual texts.
She is also an editor, diretor, and past NCTE prez
Her message to us all…
To grow readers, spread the word
To build empathy, our emotions stir
provide graphic novels and visuals to captivate
Students’ thinking we shall activate
To model what we espouse
Students see us read for pleasure and this allows-
a gift of words and lifelong learning,
new thoughts and ideas sprouting and churning
To point out what students have done well
Luxuriate in poetry, savor, and dwell
Titles of texts she will curate and endorse
Our Amazon carts are now full of course!
Give kids access to wondrous reads
fill your classrooms with robust libraries
But , alas, our acclaim is not finished with this short verse,
Carol and Annemarie in this podcast proceed to converse
With this next edchat chapter,
we questioned this literacy master
and we hope you’ll agree, you’ll concur
That the counsel we receive from Carol, shall endure.
As promised, wise words from this sage
Every stakeholder, we must engage
The occasion requires we do not hesitate
Tomorrow, this week, this month we shall elevate
the literate lives of future generations
Our progress is based on these foundations
Our democracy demands high levels of literacy
Of which preserving, we press our listeners most ardently
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Click HERE for the Google Doc to Team/PLC Discussion Prompts for this episode.
Team/PLC Discussion
Season 2, Episode 8: Carol Jago, Literacy for Life (18:00)
https://soundcloud.com/user-876337005/season-2-episode-8-carol-jago-literacy-for-life
Listen to the episode, featuring Carol Jago, as a team or listen individually before your next team meeting.
Select questions from the options below or create your own questions for group discussion.
Discussion Questions
- After listening to Carol Jago’s episode, what is worth talking about?
- How might your team promote the love of books, texts, and reading in your classrooms and at your site?
- Does your school site have a culture of reading? What might be the impact on all students’ achievement when a school site has a strong culture of reading?
- How might you model more of your reading life with students?
- Carol describes how in most schools, the burden of responsibility of teaching writing is still on the shoulders of the English teachers. She then cites Kelly Gallagher’s article, “The Writing Journey” describing what's happened in a district that has embraced a school wide disciplinary literacy and writing across the curriculum program.
- At the elementary level, in what ways might you integrate literacy instruction into the content areas of math, history, science, art etc?
- At the secondary level, do students write and read in all classes? How might content area teachers integrate literacy into their classes?
- What does it mean to read and write like an artist? a scientist? a mathematician? an artist? etc? How can we as teachers support the disciplinary literacy of all learners?
- In what ways do you help students build stamina for complex texts?
- To what extent do your students see, hear, and learn about multiple points of view and then provide opportunities to state their own and respond to others’ opinions/arguments?
- Carol says “Democracy demands argument”. What does she mean by this? How might you give students practice participating in democratic processes?
- How do you integrate real world issues into your curriculum? How might you provide opportunities for students to find solutions to real world problems?
Classroom Libraries:
- Does your classroom library contain books and texts that interest all students sitting in your class right now?
- What are your students’ current interests? Do you have non-fiction books that match their interests?
- What is your students’ ideal classroom library?
- Books can be expensive. What are different ways you might build a more robust classroom library without spending more than you want to?
Click HERE to Read Educational Leadership "For the Love of Books "by Carol Jago
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