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Current Events and Podcasting

Sample Unit

At its center, this unit asks students to build upon their media literacy and critically look at multimedia texts that engage them in world events. Students apply their understanding of a critical lens to a specific current event by analyzing systems of power and perspective. Although the formal academic performance goals are a write-up and ongoing podcast, students are encouraged to engage their communities in their findings by formulating a call to action.

Teaching Approaches

Approaches to Bilingual Education

 

Utilizing both sheltered and home language instruction can dramatically impact a student's development of English language proficiency. Here is a detailed approach for a bilingual intervention for a short story unit.

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Lesson Plans: Addressing Hate and Criticality

 

Analyzing literature with a critical lens is a vehicle for self-reflection and social commentary. This lesson sequence gets students to reflect on social justice practices, connect back to their community and build a critical analysis of a text.

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Approaches to Literacy Through Social Justice Pedagogy

Developing student schemas by engaging with different types of literature that are representative of a diverse community empowers learning to take place beyond the four walls of the classroom.

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CULTIVATING CONSISTENT SOCIAL JUSTICE PRACTICES IN EDUCATION

Master's Thesis 
ROOTED IN LEARNING
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