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Of the many things I learned co-presenting w/@teachkate was how we approach planning from different starting pts. Kate, master of rdg workshop, starts w/skills, then texts, then essential ?s. Meanwhile, I start w/essential ?s, texts, then skills. #TheEdCollabGathering #7
Of the many things I learned co-presenting w/@teachkate was how we approach planning from different starting pts. Kate, master of rdg workshop, starts w/skills, then texts, then essential ?s. Meanwhile, I start w/essential ?s, texts, then skills. #TheEdCollabGathering #7
But no matter where we start—whether we start with the skills kids will need to apply to new texts independently or the essential questions they can wrestle and grapple with—what is NOT a starting or ending point is the text.
#TheEdCollabGathering #7
#TheEdCollabGathering #7
We should stop treating texts & the "canon" as if they are fixed.
How often do we start & end w/the "text": reducing literature to content to be consumed v. a means to invite Ss to develop skills & grapple with big, important questions? #DisruptTexts #TheEdCollabGathering #7
How often do we start & end w/the "text": reducing literature to content to be consumed v. a means to invite Ss to develop skills & grapple with big, important questions? #DisruptTexts #TheEdCollabGathering #7
This isn't to say that text selection isn't important. It's critical, of course, to offer diverse and inclusive voices to all Ss — which is exactly why text selection and the canon must also be dynamic. But our teaching has to be about something bigger than this text or that.
We #DisruptTexts in order to disrupt thinking, dismantle systemic inequities, and rebuild new understandings. Diverse and inclusive texts are means to that end. Know your why. #TheEdCollabGathering #7
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