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Sharing successes and challenges through teaching while becoming a (hopefully) published author.

Social Justice Symposium: The Stations and Logistics (Ideas to share your own learning!)

Social Justice Symposium: The Stations and Logistics (Ideas to share your own learning!)

The Social Justice Symposium is done and I am exhausted! In this post I run down some of the logistics running a day of sharing learning with the school community. The learning was deep and it represented many different learning opportunities. I am so grateful for my class and all of the people who helped us succeed.

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Banned Books: Exploring Representation in Literature

Banned Books: Exploring Representation in Literature

Kids literatures is being banned at an alarming rate, which limits access to diversity and #ownvoice authors. This post explores a banned books lesson that I designed for my class. It moves from input to co-creation to transformation in the understanding of book banning with my class. I also reflect on personal experiences in diversity in literature and questions you can ask yourself about literature you have used in your own classroom.

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