Description
Book SynopsisDrawing on frameworks of teacher research and critical literacy, this volume documents the experiences of educators in New Mexico who participate in Teaching Out Loud - an intergenerational, professional development program that focuses on the creation and implementation of imaginative, critical curriculum with historically marginalized students.
Table of Contents
- Foreword
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Gerald CampanoAcknowledgments
- PART I: Teacher Inquiry in Contentious Times
- Introduction
- Katherine Crawford-Garrett
- 1. Setting the Stage—The Foundations of Teaching Out Loud
- Katherine Crawford-Garrett
- 2. Professional Development in Contentious Times: The Origins and Practices of Teaching Out Loud
- Damon R. Carbajal, Katherine Crawford-Garrett, and Kahlil Simpson
- 3. Educational Challenges and Opportunities in New Mexico
- Katherine Crawford-Garrett, Damon R. Carbajal, Amanda Y. Short, and Kahlil Simpson
- PART II: Translating Critical, Creative Work to Virtual Spaces: Stories From the Classroom
- 4. Promoting and Documenting the Importance of Play in a Kindergarten Classroom
- Linnea Holden
- 5. Creating Conditions for Kindness in a Second-Grade Classroom
- Kristen Heighberger-Ortiz
- 6. Confronting Race, Identity, and Social Emotional Learning in a Fourth-Grade Classroom
- Amanda Y. Short
- 7. Imagining Joy: Toward Abolition in the Middle School Classroom
- Kahlil Simpson
- 8. A Radical Space for Growth, Equity, and the Re-humanization of Educators
- Damon R. Carbajal
- PART III: Conceptualizing Key Tenets of Critical Teacher Inquiry
- 9. Moving Forward: Conceptual Tools and Promising Pedagogies for Teacher Inquiry and Practice
- Katherine Crawford-Garrett and Kahlil Simpson
- Endnotes
- Index
- About the Editors
- About the Contributors
