This book offers educators actionable models for creating responsive, affirming learning environments that cultivate student agency, joy, and commitment to social transformation.
These essays show how pre-K–12 educators enact culturally sustaining literacy pedagogies (CSLP)—drawing on students’ cultural and linguistic knowledge to foster identity, critical consciousness, and academic skills.
Each chapter features a practitioner coauthor and highlights concrete classroom strategies that challenge whiteness and center the experiences of communities of Color. The authors also provide a practical discussion of how each teaching practice can be levelled across the grades, and what it might look like when used with different age groups. Topics range from family and community literacies to critical language practices and multimodal assessment.
With many user-friendly tools, Making Student Voices Matter is a valuable resource for inservice professional learning, teacher preparation programs, and equity-centered coaching.
Book Features:
This is Book 49 in the Language and Literacy Series Series. See all Language and Literacy Series books here.
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