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Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy and the Classroom Library

Lexington Hendricks, a South Carolina High School teacher, shares how you can ensure that your classroom libraries are accessible and culturally sustaining.

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Lotería: The Reimagining

James Campbell, a South Carolina High School Spanish teacher, shares how his students questioned an element of culture and re-imagined a highly recognizable piece of Mexican culture.

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Seeing Themselves in the Text: Exploring How Critical Literacy Aids in Student’s Examining Their Position in the Spaces They Occupy

Mr. Steven Jernigan, a South Carolina English Language Arts teacher, explores how pairing YA novels with the literature curriculum creates a more culturally sustaining and responsive classroom.

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What’s in a Name?

Antoinetta J. Rogers, a South Carolina High School English teacher, explores the impact of using the correct pronunciation of student names as a culturally responsive practice.

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Truth Finding in Young Adult Literature

Kim Ferrari, a South Carolina High School English teacher, shares the way young adult literature, by Black authors, can provide a window into the experiences Black students face and how YA literature can be used by white teachers in their quest to learn more about their students and become allies.

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Listening Beyond the Accent: Valuing the Emergent Bilingual Students in our Schools

Elizabeth McCauley McDonald, a South Carolina assistant principal, encourages teachers to hear beyond their emergent bilingual students’ accents, if one exists, and embrace student language and culture as knowledge wells to promote student growth.

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Breaking the Mold: Using Digital Literacy Outside the Traditional Classroom

Hannah Kottraba, a SC teacher, discusses how she used digital literacy to increase student and parent engagement and participation in an instructional unit.

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Quaranteaching: We’re Not In Kansas Anymore

Scott Buhr, a South Carolina teacher, shares his experiences transitioning to eLearning and the way in which being a digital native has shaped the way he implements new literacies in the classroom.

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Do I Really Have To Read and Write?

SC teacher Elinor Lister provides ways that teachers can create engaging and meaningful ways for teachers across content areas to implement reading and writing in the classroom.

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The Trauma of Social Distancing

Mr. Jason McCauley shares the collective frustration as a result of social distancing faced by educators at all levels during the Coronavirus pandemic.

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