Tuesday, July 16 [Day 2]

What are our literacy routes/roots?


9:00 - 9:15

Review reactions sheets from day 1


9:15 - 9:30

Morning Reading: Overview of the Freedom Schools, 1964


9:30 - 10:20

More Thinking Routines and Primary Sources: Education and Self-Determination, Education and Assimilation


10:20 - 11:00

"Where I'm From"


11:00 - 12:00

Journal Groups


12:00 - 1:00

Lunch


1:00 - 2:00

Sharing of Literacy Artifacts


2:00 - 3:00

Reading Response Groups and Debrief


3:00 - 3:30

Reflections and Wrap-up

  1. Complete reaction sheet
  2. Consider posting reflections to TPS Teachers Network
  3. Consider revising/rewriting "Theory of Teaching and Learning" / autobiography of teaching, which is due on Monday
  4. Readings
    • Review Wineburg (2016)
    • Alim & Paris (2017)
    • Ball (1999) or Sylvester (1994)
    • From Teaching for Black Lives (2018) and bring book tomorrow
      • Sokolower, J. (2018). Space for young Black women. In D. Watson, J. Hagopian, & W. Au (Eds.), Teaching for Black Lives (pp. 51-57). Milwaukee, WI: Rethinking Schools.

Goals

  • Use Library of Congress tools to analyze primary sources
  • Reflect on education as empowering and as process of assimilation by considering historical examples and texts
  • Reflect on our other stories, including our literacy roots and routes

Readings

  • Christensen, L. (2001). Where I’m from: Inviting students’ lives into the classroom. In B. Bigelow, B. Harvey, S. Karp, & L. Miller (Eds.), Rethinking our classrooms: Teaching for equity and justice, vol. 2 (pp. 6-10).
    • Optional: Christensen, L. (2018). Raised by women. In D. Watson, J. Hagopian, & W. Au. (Eds.), Teaching for Black Lives (pp. 310-318). Milwaukee, WI: Rethinking Schools.
  • Campano, G. (2007). “We are strong and sturdy in the heart”: Redefining accountability. In Immigrant students and literacy: Reading, writing and remembering (pp. 45-51). New York: Teacher College Press.
  • Delpit, L. (2006). Lessons from teachers. Journal of Teacher Education, 57, 220-231.
  • Lake, R. (1990). An Indian father's plea. Teacher Magazine, 2(1), 48-53.