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For teachers:

• Collaboration with educators in other content areas, classrooms, communities, etc.

• Conversations about self & society, including racial, gendered, and transnational identities

• Curriculuar opportunities for active and meaningful engagement with a text

• Representation of ancestral identities that predate colonization of the America

For students:

• The opportunity to show yourself - in your writing and art - in the way you want to be seen

• A safe yet brave space for having other adolescents respond to how they present themselves

• Alternative literacies- approaching narrative construction through images and dialogue for students who may feel restricted by the typical essay structure

• An encouragement of bilingual representation in text; students will celebrate the the multitudes they contain and represent

• Students have the opportunity to connect with other students from different schools, encouraging socialization and a creative dissemination of ideas

Materials to inspire your own codex project:

• Instructions for students