ulturally Responsive Literacy Academy 1:
Literacyy for What?
Introductions
Facilitator and Sponsors
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Leadership Academies
Roles
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genda
Warm up Activity
ecturette 1:
1 Politics
P li i andd Literacy
Li
40 minutes
20 minutes
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ctivity 2: Literacy Assumptions in Standardized Testing 60 minutes
reakk
10 minutes
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ecturette 2: Literacy for What?
15 minutes
ctivity
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3 CR Literacy
Li
Action
A i Steps
S
60 minutes
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utcomes Review
10 minutes
cademy Outcomes
efine literacy
xplore the relationship between politics of literacy &
arningg
xamine the question “Literacy for what?” through a
ulturally responsive lens
efine culturally responsive literacy
nderstand keyy shifts needed to move towards a more
ulturally responsive literacy model
Lecturette 1:
Politics & Literacyy
Literacy…
Ability to read and write. (American Heritage Dictionary)
Use of language to construct personal and public worlds
nd to
t achieve
hi
full
f ll participation
p rti ip ti n in society.
i t (NCTE)
Literacy is the ability to identify, understand, interpret,
reate, communicate and compute, using printed and
written materials associated with varying contexts. Literacy
nvolves
l a continuum
ti
off learning
l r i to
t enable
bl an individual
i di id l
o achieve his or her goals, to develop his or her
nowledge and potential, and to participate fully in the
“Old Deluder Satan Act”
“It beingg one chieff point
p
off the old deluder,, Satan,, to keepp 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…
read ”
http://personal.pitnet.net/primarysources/deluder.html
Common Themes
throughout 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.
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Lecturette 2
Literacy for what?”
iteracy Models
Autonomous
Formal
Skill Based
B d
Ideological
• Critical
Social
Practice
Culturally
Responsive
• Multiple
Literacies
Validating
Comprehensive
Empowering
Student
Perspective:
Culturally
Responsive
Literacy Is…
Transformative
Multidimensional
Empowering
eacher Perspective:
l
ll R
i Li
i IIs…
ulturally
Responsive
Literacy IInstruction
ving towards Culturally Responsive Pedagogy:
nks’s Model
*Contributions
C
ib i
*Additive
*Transformative
*Social Action
ifting towards Culturally Responsive
iteracy: Changing Definitions
Contributions
Additive
Transformative
Social Action
Literacy
Reading
R
di the
h
Word
R
Rewriting
ii
the World
Purpose
Vocational
Aspirations
Liberating
Tool
Literature
& Text
Canon
Multiple
Voices
Transmission
Transaction
hifting
g Literacyy Definition
Literacy
Contributions
Additive
Transformative
Social Action
Reading the
Word
Rewriting
the World
hifting Purpose of Literacy
Purpose
Contributions
Additive
Transformative
Social Action
Vocational
Aspirations
Liberating
Tool
hifting Literature & Text
Literature
& Text
Contributions
Additive
Transformative
Social Action
Canon
Multiple
Voices
hifting Literacy Instruction
Instruction
Contributions
Additive
Transformative
Social Action
Transmission
Transaction
uality Literacy Instruction
• Occurs in meaningful
g contexts
• Actively engages students in meaning construction
• R
Requires
i teachers
h to h
have a repertoire
i off iinstructional
i l
strategies
• E
Entails
t il dynamic
d
i andd changing
h i conceptions
pti
off the
th roles
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of teachers and students in instructional encounters