Tag: writing

• Literacy Instruction: From ‘Best Practices’ to Centering Student Voices

  I am thinking about the intersections of literacy instruction and learning that centers the voices of Black students. I know that even as I am thinking about this, and sharing my own thoughts and questions, that I have been indoctrinated with racist tendencies that I have subconsciously absorbed: 10 Ways Good White People Can Help […]

  Deborah McCallum

  August 3, 2020

  Literacy

  #BlackLivesMatter, Black students, Equity, reading, social justice, Student Voice, writing

• Helping kids to find their Writing Superpower: by Allison Tait

  

  The following is a guest post by Allison Tait, Author of The Mapmaker Chronicles     As an author who’s regularly asked to visit schools for talks and workshops, I have one main question for educators: Who am I talking to? I find that the candidates for small group workshops tend to be made up of […]

  Deborah McCallum

  October 11, 2016

  Big Ideas in Education

  Allison Tait, education, The Mapmaker Chronicles, writing, Writing Superpowers