Description
This book explores notions of justice-oriented literacy coaching and offers a way of being in the world with young people, teachers, and communities that centers transformative coaching, teaching, and learning. It is intended to disrupt the traditional and historical positioning of literacy coaches in schools today. Through the lens of social justice and liberatory education, Sailors and Manning begin a dialogue with literacy coaches to help them reconsider their own roles and positions as agents of change in schools.
Using vignettes and stories to illustrate potential paths into emancipatory literacy learning environments, the authors present literacy as a socially-situated act of meaning-making. Accessible and inviting, this book provides pragmatic tools for literacy leaders to embody social justice, to grapple with big social concepts, to imagine possibilities, and to stimulate creative thinking with the teachers at their schools and with the students in their classrooms.
Intended for literacy coaches in grades K-6 and graduate students in literacy education, this book includes a wealth of resources and examples from real-world contexts, as well as spaces for the reader to interact and engage with the text through journaling and self-reflection.
Author: Misty Sailors, Logan Manning
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 11/14/2019
Pages: 136
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.46lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.32d
ISBN13: 9780367111755
ISBN10: 0367111756
BISAC Categories:
- Education | Schools | Levels | Elementary
- Education | Teaching | Subjects | Language Arts
About the Author
Misty Sailors is Professor of Language and Literacy and Chair of the Department of Teacher Education and Administration at the University of North Texas, USA.
Logan Manning is a secondary school leader in Oakland, CA, USA.
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