This workshop will present frameworks and instructional strategies for literacy engagement for secondary (7-12) students, especially ELLs. Research on exemplary literacy practices, including approaches developed and implemented in the Hudson Valley, demonstrates that students benefit from opportunities to use language critically, in multiple contexts, in different modalities (reading, writing, listening and speaking), and through the lenses of their culture and identity and those of others. Therefore, this hands-on workshop will:

1) explore critical and culturally responsive literacy frameworks
2) examine instructional practices that promote cross-cultural understanding and critical discussions among students, while empowering them to take transformative civic action

Concepts, themes, and theories in this workshop include culture and acculturation, identity texts, racial literacy, and critically informed civic engagement as presented in the works of James Banks, Gloria Ladson-Billings, Jim Cummins and James Baldwin, among others.

Course Start Date: Friday, May 29, 2020
Course End Date: Monday, June 15, 2020

You may complete this course at your own pace, during times that best serve your schedule. Feel free to stop at any time and resume at any time, keeping in mind all course activities must be completed by the course end date of June 15, 2020.

Participants MUST be enrolled by Wednesday, May 27, 2020.

Course access information will be shared to your MLP email address within 24 hours of the course start date.

Cost: Free

For questions regarding this activity, please contact the HV RBERN.

To register for this workshop please click here.