Develop a teacher network or grow an existing one to support new teachers, reduce teacher isolation, increase retention rates, enhance professional practice, and nurture teacher leaders.
Develop a teacher network or grow an existing one to support new teachers, reduce teacher isolation, increase retention rates, enhance professional pr...
This beautifully written book argues that educators need to understand the social worlds and complex literacy practices of African-American males in order to pay the increasing educational debt we owe all youth and break the school-to-prison pipeline. Moving portraits from the lives of six friends bring to life the structural characteristics and qualities of meaning-making practices, particularly practices that reveal the political tensions of defining who gets to be literate and who does not.
Key chapters on language, literacy, race, and masculinity examine how the literacies,...
This beautifully written book argues that educators need to understand the social worlds and complex literacy practices of African-American males in o...