Many important societal problems are neither simple nor easily solved; they are wicked problems. A wicked problem is a social or cultural challenge that involves many social systems and groups, has unpredictable outcomes, and defies typical problem-solving techniques. Wicked problem is a phrase originally used in social planning to describe a problem that is difficult […]
Read more "Wicked Problems"Literacy in the Disciplines, 6-12 (LiD) is pleased to announce our next after-school Webinar Series session. Traversing, Transforming, Transcending, and Transgressing wicked problems in the classroom. Many critical societal problems are neither simple nor easily solved; they are wicked problems (Zellner & Campbell, 2015). A wicked problem is a social or cultural challenge that involves […]
Read more "Webinar: Transdisciplinarity as a Gateway to Critical Literacy"Literacy in the Disciplines, 6-12 (LiD) is pleased to announce our next after-school Webinar Series session. What does Critical Literacy have to do with my Teaching? Learning through a critical literacy lens encourages students to take steps toward identifying potential solutions to current, real-world problems (Vasquez et al., 2019). They can do this when educators […]
Read more "Webinar: What does Critical Literacy have to do with my Teaching?"Literacy in the Disciplines, 6-12 (LiD) is pleased to announce our next after-school Webinar Series session. Tensions and Supports Between Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Pedagogy and Disciplinary Literacy. What are Culturally Relevant and Sustaining Pedagogies? What is Disciplinary Literacy? Understanding Ourselves, Our Curriculum, and Our Students. Building Students’ Cultural Competence in Disciplinary Literacy: How Can We Do […]
Read more "Webinar: Tensions & Supports Between Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Pedagogy & Disciplinary Literacy"Literacy in the Disciplines, 6-12 (LiD) is pleased to announce our next after-school Webinar Series session. Providing Access to Content Area Learning for Students with Disabilities. When you think about instruction in the content areas, do you automatically think that all students have the opportunity to engage in this type of learning? Can students beyond […]
Read more "Webinar: Providing Access to Content Area Learning for Students with Disabilities"Literacy in the Disciplines, 6-12 (LiD) is pleased to announce our next after-school Webinar Series session. But I Want to Teach What I’m Really Teaching: Supporting Literacy and Content-Area Learning This webinar will include activities and discussions intended to help educators understand some of the ways that literacy differs across disciplines. The focus of the […]
Read more "Webinar: Supporting Literacy and Content-Area Learning"As a future educator and a current student, I find poetry an amazing outlet for students to express themselves. I, personally, use poetry to release these great big emotions I feel. In my high school, we had a lot of mental health concerns in our student body with little to no action. I was a […]
Read more "Why is poetry important in the classroom?"This piece is written and submitted by Dr. Angela M. Cozart. I have to admit, I hated poetry when I was in school. I hated having to figure out what an author was saying. Why couldn’t they just come out and say what they wanted us to see and hear? I remember reading ‘The Windhover’ […]
Read more "Like painters, writers can stir the mind"The #WalkMyWorld project started as a community focus on poetry and multimodal exploration; it then developed into a community of inquiry. Participants explored the experiences of others by responding to and authoring multimodal poetry. In #WalkMyWorld, educators and students created a social space of engagement to explore civic uses of social media. This exploration served […]
Read more "Use digital spaces and poetry to share a walk in your world"Literacy in the Disciplines, 6-12 (LiD) is pleased to announce our third after-school Webinar Series session. The slide deck and video of the session is available below. Talk, Text, Content & Context: Using Poetry & Multimodal Exploration to Develop a Community of Inquiry This webinar will share guidance from a research-tested way to embed literacy […]
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