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. 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 […]

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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. 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 […]

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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. 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 […]

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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. 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 […]

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Webinar: Developing a community of inquiry focused on poetry and multimodal exploration

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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Webinar: Using Diverse Picture Books to Craft Critical Middle and Secondary Classrooms

Literacy in the Disciplines, 6-12 (LiD) is pleased to announce our first after-school Webinar Series session.A Picture[book]’s Worth a Thousand Words: Using Diverse Picture Books to Craft Critical Middle and Secondary Classrooms. Through juxtaposing images and text, picture books have the unique power to facilitate critical reading and critical literacy for students of all grade […]

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