Day 7

9:30 - 9:45

Welcome and Reviewing Reflections

• Here's a document we can use for Parking Lot questions, setting up Special Interest Groups (SIGs), and sharing resources.

• Review Day 6 Reflections.

9:45 - 10:15

Writing into the Day

• Use the Four A’s Text Protocol to write with and respond to Cochran-Smith & Lytle (1999).

10:15 - 11: 30

Planning for the Upcoming School Year with the 5 Pursuits

• In Cultivating Genius and Unearthing Joy, Gholdy Muhammad offered us 5 pursuits to work with: Identities, Skills, Intellect, Criticality, and Joy.

• Muhammad studied Black literacy societies in the United States and recognized that their learning communities often embraced these 5 pursuits.

• View examples of 5 pursuits in planning and add your own.

• Use an Appreciative Inquiry protocol to write affirmative comments on Post-its for each poster in a gallery walk.

11:30 - 12:15

Journal Groups

12:15 - 1:00

Lunch and Reading

1:00 - 1:30

Reading Groups

• Re-introduce today's focus question: What roles do literacies play in the face of great inequity?

• With your group, check in about a protocol and discuss how the readings help us address this question.

• We encourage you to especially focus on Cultivating Genius, Unearthing Joy, and Pose, Wobble, and Flow.

1:30 - 2:10

Searching for Historical Primary Sources

• In the video this morning, Gholdy Muhammad shared examples of historical primary sources that she layered into example units.

• Here are some places you might start your searching:

  • Library of Congress

    • Teacher Page

    • Teacher Blog

    • Primary Source Sets

    • Library of Congress: Ask a Librarian

    • TPS Teachers Network

  • Maps

    • WPCH: Maps and Atlases

    • Library of Congress: Philadelphia Maps

    • Phillyhistory.org: Maps

    • Digital Public Library of America: Philadelphia Maps

  • Photographs

    • Library of Congress: Philadelphia Photos

    • Phillyhistory.org: Photos

    • Digital Public Library of America

  • Newspapers

    • Library of Congress: Chronicling America

    • Library of Congress: Chronicling America: Pennsylvania Newspapers

    • Free Library of Philadelphia: Historical Black American Newspapers

  • Oral Histories

    • Library of Congress: John Elliott Churchville oral history interview

    • Goin' North: Oral Histories

    • Temple University Libraries: Special Collections Oral Histories Repository

• The Colored Conventions Project 

2:10 - 2: 30

Revising Claims

• As we support students in crafting arguments, we should encourage them to take into account other perspectives and incorporate them into their claim writing.

• Let's write some more nuanced claims about what we should do about facial recognition technologies in our community.

2:30 - 3:00

Closing

• Reaction Sheet

• Prepare Readings for Day 8:

  • • 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.