AVReading Newsletter June Cultures of Anti-Racism
Though my focus for this year’s newsletters have been on classroom strategies, I have decided to end the year by addressing the recent events of our community and how we can be more mindful and intentional in teaching critical literacy with our students. As Brazilian educator and philosopher Paulo Friere writes in Pedagogy of the Oppressed , it is not enough just to teach our students to read words, sentences, and books. We must teach them to read the world. This month’s newsletter will focus on how we can better commit to doing this within our classrooms. To start with, teaching our students to read the world assumes that we, as teachers, are learning alongside them. It is important that we are acknowledging the ways we have been socialized into racist assumptions and beliefs that have influenced the way we see other people. We are reading. We are ref...