{"product_id":"adventurous-thinking-fostering-students-rights-to-read-and-write-in-secondary-ela-classrooms-paperback","title":"Adventurous Thinking: Fostering Students' Rights to Read and Write in Secondary Ela Classrooms - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMollie V. Blackburn\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDrawing from the work of high school teachers across the country, \u003ci\u003eAdventurous Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e illustrates how advocating for students' rights to read and write can be revolutionary work.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOurs is a conflicted time: the #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo movements, for instance, run parallel with increasingly hostile attitudes toward immigrants and prescriptive K-12 curricula, including calls to censor texts. Teachers who fight to give their students the tools and opportunities to read about and write on topics of their choice and express ideas that may be controversial are, in editor Mollie V. Blackburn's words, \"revolutionary artists, and their teaching is revolutionary art.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe teacher chapters focus on high school English language arts classes that engaged with topics such as immigration, linguistic diversity, religious diversity, the #BlackLivesMatter movement, interrogating privilege, LGBTQ people, and people with physical disabilities and mental illness. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing these accounts is an interview with Angie Thomas, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Hate U Give\u003c\/i\u003e, and an essay by Millie Davis, former director of NCTE's Intellectual Freedom Center. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe closing essay reflects on provocative curriculum and pedagogy, criticality, community, and connections, as they get taken up in the book and might get taken up in the classrooms of readers. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book is grounded in foundational principles from NCTE's position statements \"The Students' Right to Read\" and \"NCTE Beliefs about the Students' Right to Write\" that underlie these contributors' practices, principles that add up to one committed declaration: \u003cb\u003eLiteracy is every student's right\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout Principles in Practice\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBooks in the Principles in Practice imprint offer teachers concrete illustrations of effective classroom practices based in NCTE research briefs and policy statements.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach book discusses the research on a specific topic, links the research to an NCTE brief or policy statement, and then demonstrates how those principles come alive in practice: by showcasing actual classroom practices that demonstrate the policies in action; by talking about research in practical, teacher-friendly language; and by offering teachers possibilities for rethinking their own practices in light of the ideas presented in the books.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 123\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 9.2 x 7.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 22, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757780828448,"sku":"9780814100714","price":45.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/6a2e20396afdf7ba8711081401cfeba5.webp?v=1780111586","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/adventurous-thinking-fostering-students-rights-to-read-and-write-in-secondary-ela-classrooms-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}