Description
Book SynopsisLearn how to enact curricular, pedagogical, and policy shifts that nourish students’ linguistic repertoires, redefine teaching and learning as reciprocal endeavours, promote student-to-student interactions that help newcomers feel less isolated, and create opportunities for students to experiment with language.
Table of Contents
- Contents
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Foreword Ofelia García ix
- Acknowledgments xiii
- 1. Braving Up: The Journey Begins With Questions 1
- Why This Book? 2
- What Does It Mean To Be Brave? 3
- What Does It Mean To Be Proficient? 5
- Who Are We? 8
- What Can We Learn Together? 9
- If I Were to Change the World, by Gurpreet Mangat 10
- Part I: Foundations
- 2. The Ground on Which We Stand: Conceptual Foundations for Braving Up 12
- The Power of Languaging 12
- Braving Up: Stretching Our Practice 13
- From Language to Languaging: Adopting a Heteroglossic Ideology 14
- Challenging Linguistic Dominance 17
- Centering Culturally and Linguistically Sustaining Pedagogy 20
- 3. "This Is How School Should Be!": Learning from the Language Explorers 23
- Day One: How it Begins 26
- The Months Before: When It Really Begins 27
- Getting Ready: Building Our Foundation 28
- Experiential Pedagogy as Professional Learning 30
- Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing: From Teacher to Team 31
- If I Were to Change the World, by Gea Lopez 37
- Part II: Radically Inclusive Pedagogies
- 4. Who Are You? Exploring Identity and Community in the Classroom 40
- Breaking the Silence 41
- Nourishing Brave, Heteroglossic Classrooms 42
- Braving Up by Sharing Who You Are 43
- Inviting Students In 48
- Exploring Identity: Who Are You? 49
- 5. Who Are We? Crossing Borders With Arts-Based and Plurilingual Pedagogies 58
- Embracing Our Borderlands 58
- Crossing Borders with Children's and Young Adult Literature 61
- Exploring Identity with Arts-Based Pedagogy 62
- Pushing Beyond Words with Picture Books 67
- Using Children's and Young Adult Literature as a Springboard 69
- 6. Can You Hear Me? Amplifying Student Voice Within and Beyond the Classroom 74
- Students' Voices Teach Us Who They Are 76
- Amplifying Student Voices in the Classroom and the School Community 79
- Learning With and From Students 82
- 7. And Then We Had to Pivot: Bringing Culturally and Linguistically Sustaining Teaching Online 88
- Humanizing Online Learning 91
- Breaking the Silence: Engaging Students and Building Community 93
- If I Were to Change the World, by Mac Arjey Caisip 106
- Part III: Stretching Beyond the Classroom
- 8. Redefining Success: Comunidad, Confianza, and Complexity 108
- Redefining Success 108
- Experimenting with Languaging and Syntactic Complexity 111
- Comunidad, Confianza, and Complexity 114
- Developing Heteroglossic Proficiency 118
- Empowerment and Agency 118
- 9. Blossoming From Roots to Trees: Supporting, Sustaining, and Advocating for Radically Inclusive Teaching 122
- with Renae Bryant
- Know Your Context 123
- Find Common Ground 125
- Engage Key Stakeholders 127
- Establish a Programmatic Identity and Build Capacity 129
- Plan for Sustainability 133
- If You Were to Change the World: Next Steps in Radically Inclusive Teaching 136
- Notes 137
- References 140
- Index 152
- About the Authors 161
- Additional readings and professional learning resources on the companion website at tcpress.com/dover-resources
