Key Reading
Pitts, J. (2020, May 15). Teaching as activism, teaching as care. Learning for Justice. https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/teaching-as-activism-teaching-as-care
Key Readings
Muhammad, G. E. (2020). Cultivating genius: An equity framework for culturally and historically responsive literacy. Scholastic. [Chapters 1-3]
Delpit, L. (2006). Lessons from teachers. Journal of Teacher Education, 57, 220-231.
Style, E. J. (2014). Curriculum as encounter: Selves and shelves. English Journal, 103(5), 67-74.
Additional Readings
Rivera-Amezola, R. (2020). Preservation and education: Teacher Inquiry and the “family and community stories” project. Language Arts, 97(5),324-329.
Haddix, M. M. (2018). What's radical about youth writing? Seeing and honoring youth writers and their literacies. Voices from the Middle, 25(3), 8-12.
Key Readings
Muhammad, G. E. (2020). Cultivating genius: An equity framework for culturally and historically responsive literacy. Scholastic. [Chapter 5]
Lytle, S. L. (2008). At last: Practitioner inquiry and the practice of teaching: Some thoughts on "Better." Research in the Teaching of English, 42(3), 373-379.
Lytle, S., Portnoy, P., Waff, D., & Buckley, M. (2009). Teacher research in urban Philadelphia: Twenty years working within, against, and beyond the system. Educational Action Research, 17(1): 23-42.
Cochran-Smith, M. & Lytle, S. (2009). Inquiry as stance: Ways forward. In Inquiry as stance: Practitioner research for the next generation (pp. 118-166). Teachers College Press.
Additional Readings
Ballenger, C. (2009). Introduction. In Puzzling moments, teachable moments: Practicing teacher research in urban classrooms (1-9). Teachers College Press.
Wineburg, S. (2016). Why historical thinking is not about history. History News, 71(2), 13-16.
Key Readings
Muhammad, G. E. (2020). Cultivating genius: An equity framework for culturally and historically responsive literacy. Scholastic. [Chapter 6]
Baldwin, J. (1963). A talk to teachers. The Saturday Review, 39(42-44, 60).
Vasquez, M. (2017). Writing to disrupt inequities. In Critical literacy across the K-6 curriculum (pp. 37-51). Routledge.
Sealey-Ruiz, Y. (2021). Racial literacy: A policy research brief. James R. Squire Office, National Council of Teachers of English.
Additional Readings
Muhammad, G. E. (2015). "Inducing colored sisters of other places to imitate their example": Connecting historic literary societies to a contemporary writing group. English Education, 47(3), 276-299.
Ladson-Billings, G. (1992). Reading between the lines and beyond the pages: A culturally relevant approach to literacy teaching. Theory into Practice, 31(4), 313-318.
Skantz-Hodgson, L. & Jones, J. (2015). Why argumentative writing is important to teach. Middle Web.
Key Readings
Muhammad, G. E. (2020). Cultivating genius: An equity framework for culturally and historically responsive literacy. Scholastic. [Chapter 4]
Nieto, S. (2003). Teaching as autobiography. In What keeps teachers going? (pp. 22-36). Teachers College Press.
Garcia, A., & O'Donnell-Allen, C. (2015). Introduction: What it means to pose, wobble, and flow. In Pose, wobble, flow: A culturally proactive approach to literacy instruction (pp. 1-15). Teachers College Press.
Additional Readings
McGrew, S., Ortega, T., Breakstone, J., & Wineburg, S. (2017). The challenge that's bigger than fake news. American Educator, 41(3), 4-9.
Ferlazzo, L., Vogelsinger, B., Parnaby, G., & Wilson, T. J. (2023, January 3). ChatGPT: Teachers weigh in on how to manage the new AI chatbot. Education Week. https://www-edweek-org.proxy.library.upenn.edu/teaching-learning/opinion-chatgpt-teachers-weigh-in-on-how-to-manage-the-new-ai-chatbot/2023/01
Hannah-Jones, N. (2023). Episode 1: Democracy. The 1619 Project. Hulu. https://www.hulu.com/series/the-1619-project-7ba3407a-299c-4a10-8310-bbcdd6ab4653
Key Readings
Muhammad, G. E. (2023). Unearthing joy: A guide to culturally and historically responsive teaching and learning. Scholastic. [Chapter 2]
Christensen, L. (2009). Introduction. In Teaching for joy and justice: Re-imagining the language arts classroom (pp. 1-13). Rethinking Schools.
Cunningham, K. E., & Enriquez, G. (2022). Planning for Book Joy: Reconceptualizing Power in Literacy Instruction. Language Arts, 99(3), 192-194.
Griffin, A. A., Crawford, A., Bentum, B., Reed, S., Winikur, G., Monea, B., Rosser, B., Thomas, E. E., & Stornaiuolo, A. (2023). Towards a jazz pedagogy: Learning with and from jazz greats and great educators. Excellence and Equity in Education, 1-14.
Additional Readings
Muhammad, G. (2023) Cultivating Genius and Joy with Gholdy Muhammad. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAagnmjz-NQ
Rosser, B. (2023) Written literacies & joy, episode inspired by the work of Dr. Gholdy Muhammad. AERA Writing and Literacies SIG. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-R4xP8Ti6U
Ginwright, S. (2018). The future of healing: Shifting from trauma informed care to healing centered engagement. Medium.
Key Readings
Muhammad, G. E. (2020). Cultivating genius: An equity framework for culturally and historically responsive literacy. Scholastic. [Chapters 7-8]
Graff, G., & Birkenstein. (2021). They say, I say: The moves that matter in academic writing. 5th ed. W. W. Norton.
Harris, J. (2017). Introduction. In Rewriting: How to do things with texts (pp. 1-13). University Press of Colorado.
Additional Readings
Bain, R. B. (2006). Rounding up unusual suspects: Facing the authority hidden in the history classroom. Teachers College Record, 108(10), 2080-2114.
Barton, K. C., & Levstik, L. S. (2004). Why don’t more history teachers engage students in interpretation? Social Education, 67(6): 358–361.
Key Readings
Muhammad, G. E. (2023). Unearthing joy: A guide to culturally and historically responsive teaching and learning. Scholastic. [Chapter 1]
Cochran-Smith, M. & Lytle, S. L. (1999). Relationships of knowledge and practice: Teacher learning in communities. In A. Iran-Nejad & P. D. Pearson (Eds.), Review of Research in Education, 24 (pp. 249-305). American Educational Research Association.
Himley, M., Strieb, L., Carini, P., Kanevsky, R., & Wice, B. (Eds.) (2011). The child: Descriptive review of children’s works. In The prospect’s descriptive processes: The child, the art of teaching, and the classroom and school, Revised edition (pp. 27 - 42). Prospect Center.
Additional Readings
Smith, C. (2020). How culturally responsive lessons teach critical thinking. Learning for Justice, 64, 51-54.
Jefries, H., & Thomas, E. E. (2019). Teaching slavery through children’s literature — Part 1, Season 2, Episode 5 [Audio podcast]. Learning for Justice. https://www.learningforjustice.org/podcasts/teaching-hard-history/american-slavery/teaching-slavery-through-childrens-literature-part-1
Key Readings
Muhammad, G. E. (2023). Unearthing joy: A guide to culturally and historically responsive teaching and learning. Scholastic. [Chapters 3-4]
Tolliver, S. (2021). I dream of Afrofutures. University of Colorado Boulder Ed Talks. YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxtxWDHdnuU
Spaulding, E. C., Adams, J., Dunn, D. C., & Love, B. L. (2021). Freedom dreaming antiracist pedagogy dreams. Language Arts, 99(1), 8-18.
The Literacy Futurisms Collective-in-the-Making. (2021). “We believe in collective magic”: Honoring the past to reclaim the future(s) of literacy research. Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 70(1), 428-447.
Additional Readings
Givens, J. R. (2021). Introduction: Blackness and the art of teaching. In Fugitive pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the art of Black teaching. Harvard University Press.
Emdin, C., (2014). Teach teachers how to create magic. TED. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3ddtbeduoo
File, N. (2023, February 9). "As Black girls, we have to maintain a sisterhood": How a literacy project encourages girls to love themselves. The Philadelphia Inquirer. https://www.inquirer.com/news/black-girl-literacies-project-penn-bell-hooks-education-20230209.html
Key Readings
Muhammad, G. E. (2023). Unearthing joy: A guide to culturally and historically responsive teaching and learning. Scholastic. [Chapters 5-7].
Garcia & Mirra. (2021). Writing toward justice: Youth speculative civic literacies in online policy discourse. Urban Education, 56(4), 640–669.
Additional Readings
Lieberman, A., & Friedrich, L. (2010). Epilogue. In How teachers become leaders (pp. 95-102). Teachers College Press.
Black Lives Matter at School: Philadelphia Edition. (2021). Haymarket Books. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkN_kOrgjSg