This popular textbook introduces prospective and practicing English teachers to current
methods of teaching literature in middle and high school classrooms. It underscores the …

Frederic W. Ness Book Award, American Association of Colleges and Universities A Forbes
Best Higher Education Book “A practical guide to more effective and engaged college …

The study examines how a white elementary educator used discursive practices I refer to as
“race talk moves” to support students' racial literacy during whole-class read-alouds. This …

Critical conversations take on heightened importance with current tensions about issues
involving race, income inequality, sexual orientation, and gender identity, both locally and …

Discussions about texts can offer valuable opportunities for critical conversations about
power and privilege. While we know such conversations are important to have in school …

Facilitating critical conversations includes helping students unpack dominant ideologies,
interrupting stereotypes, creating a context for marginalized voices, and strategizing ways for …

Disrupting the canon of Eurocentric literature often used as a whole-class novel study in the
secondary English Language Arts (ELA) curriculum is needed in order to push back against …

In this study, I sought to understand how kindergarten through second grade teachers
critically analyzed familiar picturebooks in terms of the identities, perspectives, and …

This study explores the use of critical conversations in a field-based practicum setting to
develop dispositions toward, and understandings of, equitable teaching practices. To date …

The article introduces and defines a theory of Culturally Digitized Pedagogy (CDP), an
extension of asset pedagogies, namely culturally relevant and culturally sustaining …