Culturally Responsive Literacy Culturally Responsive Literacy Academy 1: Academy 1:

Literacy for What?Literacy for What?

IntroductionsIntroductions

Facilitator and Sponsors

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Leadership Academies

Roles

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Warm up Activity 40 minutes

Lecturette 1: Politics and Literacy 20 minutes

Activity 2: Literacy Assumptions in Standardized Testing 60 minutes

Break 10 minutes

Lecturette 2: Literacy for What? 15 minutes

Activity 3: CR Literacy Action Steps 60 minutes

Outcomes Review 10 minutes

Academy OutcomesAcademy Outcomes

Lecturette 1:Lecturette 1:Politics & LiteracyPolitics & Literacy

Literacy…Literacy…

• Ability to read and write. (American Heritage Dictionary)

• Use of language to construct personal and public worlds and to achieve full participation in society. (NCTE)

• "Literacy is the ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate and compute, using printed and written materials associated with varying contexts. Literacy involves a continuum of learning to enable an individual to achieve his or her goals, to develop his or her knowledge and potential, and to participate fully in the wider society." (UNESCO)

““Old Deluder Satan Act”Old Deluder Satan Act”

“It being one chief point of the old deluder, Satan, to keep men from knowledge of the Scriptures…It is therefore ordered that every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord has increased them by the number of fifty householders, shall forthwith appoint one within this town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read…”

http://personal.pitnet.net/primarysources/deluder.html

Common Themes Common Themes throughout Historythroughout History

• Legal battles over whose notions of knowledge, truth and values are considered legitimate

• Denial of access to literacy as a controlling means of certain groups

• Assessment of literacy using philosophically narrow and biased viewpoints.

Lecturette 2Lecturette 2

““Literacy for what?”Literacy for what?”

Literacy ModelsLiteracy Models

Teacher Perspective: Culturally Responsive Literacy Instruction Is…

*Contributions

*Additive

Moving towards Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: Banks’s Model

*Transformative

*Social Action

Shifting towards Culturally Responsive Literacy: Changing Definitions

Contributions

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Transformative

Social Action

Shifting Literacy Shifting Literacy Definition Definition

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Shifting Purpose of Shifting Purpose of LiteracyLiteracy

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Shifting Literature & Shifting Literature & Text Text

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Shifting Literacy Shifting Literacy Instruction Instruction

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Quality Literacy Quality Literacy Instruction Instruction

• Occurs in meaningful contexts

• Actively engages students in meaning construction

• Requires teachers to have a repertoire of instructional strategies

• Entails dynamic and changing conceptions of the roles of teachers and students in instructional encounters