Hello everyone! I had Colby Sharp on the podcast back in 2017, and we talked about sharing our stories as educators. Years later, Colby has released new books, podcasts, and so much more, as he spreads the good news of literacy and books with his audience.
Last week, we spent our time talking about classroom libraries, how Covid changed Colby’s perception on what’s important, and how proximity to books and having multiple access points to literature is key to building independent readers.
This week, we continue talking about the importance of proximity to books, but also discuss librarians, what it means when people say schools aren’t teaching kids to read, and why it’s important to foster reading joy in children.
This episode is sponsored by Heinemann—the leading publisher of professional books and resources for educators—and their professional book, Textured Teaching: A Framework for Culturally Sustaining Practices by Lorena Escoto Germán.
With Culturally Sustaining Practice as its foundation, Textured Teaching helps secondary teachers stop wondering and guessing how to implement teaching and learning that leads to social justice. Lorena Germán shares her framework for creating a classroom environment that is highly rigorous and engaging, and that reflects the core traits of Textured Teaching: student-driven and community-centered, interdisciplinary, experiential, and flexible. The actionable strategies Lorena uses to bring Textured Teaching values to life illuminate what is possible when we welcome all types of texts, all types of voices, and all forms of expression into the classroom.
Learn more about how to become a culturally sustaining educator. Visit Heinemann.com to download a sample from Textured Teaching.
