Culturally Sustaining Literacy Pedagogies

Susan Chambers Cantrell is a professor of literacy at the University of Kentucky. Doris Walker-Dalhouse is professor of literacy in the College of Education at Marquette University and professor emerita of literacy at the Minnesota State University. Althier M. Lazar is professor of education at Saint Joseph's University.

Contents Acknowledgments ?vii Introduction: Culturally Sustaining Literacy Pedagogy: From Relevance to Permanence ?1 Althier M. Lazar, Doris Walker-Dalhouse, and Susan Chambers Cantrell Part I: Models of CSLP in Elementary Classrooms 1. ?Writing Their Stories: Using Culturally Sustaining Multimodal Composing Practices to Transform Writer's Workshop ?19 Olivia Murphy, Jennifer D. Turner, and Chrystine Cooper Mitchell 2. ?Learning From Alina: Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy Within an Elementary Reading Intervention Context ?33 Kelly K. Wissman Part II: Models of CSLP in Classrooms for Adolescents and Youth 3. ?Disciplinary Literacy and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies: Tensions and Potentials ?53 Britnie Delinger Kane and Rachelle S. Savitz 4. ?Making Arij Chaj N en Tres Idiomas: A Middle School Language Arts Lesson ?75 Sarah N. Newcomer and Kathleen M. Cowin 5. ?Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies: Amplifying Youth Critical Consciousness in Classrooms ?95 Aimee Hendrix-Soto, Erica Holyoke, Heather Dunham, and Melissa Mosley Wetzel Part III: Considerations, Practices, and Taking Action for CSLP 6. ?Collective Diamond Mining: Using Collaborative Curriculum Excavation to Embrace the Educator's Responsibility Toward Culturally Sustaining Literacy Pedagogy ?123 Kelli A. Rushek and Ethan Seylar 7. ?Five Frames: A Multicultural Curricular Approach to Culturally Sustaining Literacy Practices ?141 Susan V. Bennett, AnnMarie Alberton Gunn, Alexandra Panos, Steven M. Hart, and Jenifer Jasinski Schneider 8. ?Enacting Culturally Sustaining Literacy Practices: Toward More Socially Just Teaching ?159 Susan Chambers Cantrell, Doris Walker-Dalhouse, and Althier M. Lazar References ?171 Index ?185 About the Editors and Contributors ?196

"This book is essential to the campaign for social justice. It is an indispensable resource for any literacy educator who aspires to incorporate culturally sustaining practices in their practice." -Teachers College Record