Culturally Sustaining Literacy Pedagogies

Susan Chambers Cantrell is a professor of literacy at the University of Kentucky. Doris Walker-Dalhouse is professor of literacy in the College of Education at Marquette University and professor emerita of literacy at the Minnesota State University. Althier M. Lazar is professor of education at Saint Joseph's University.

• ContentsAcknowledgments  viiIntroduction: Culturally Sustaining Literacy Pedagogy: From Relevance to Permanence  1Althier M. Lazar, Doris Walker-Dalhouse, and Susan Chambers CantrellPart I: Models of CSLP in Elementary Classrooms1.  Writing Their Stories: Using Culturally Sustaining Multimodal Composing Practices to Transform Writer's Workshop  19Olivia Murphy, Jennifer D. Turner, and Chrystine Cooper Mitchell2.  Learning From Alina: Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy Within an Elementary Reading Intervention Context  33Kelly K. WissmanPart II: Models of CSLP in Classrooms for Adolescents and Youth3.  Disciplinary Literacy and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies: Tensions and Potentials  53Britnie Delinger Kane and Rachelle S. Savitz4.  Making Arij Chaj N en Tres Idiomas: A Middle School Language Arts Lesson  75Sarah N. Newcomer and Kathleen M. Cowin5.  Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies: Amplifying Youth Critical Consciousness in Classrooms  95Aimee Hendrix-Soto, Erica Holyoke, Heather Dunham, and Melissa Mosley WetzelPart III: Considerations, Practices, and Taking Action for CSLP6.  Collective Diamond Mining: Using Collaborative Curriculum Excavation to Embrace the Educator's Responsibility Toward Culturally Sustaining Literacy Pedagogy  123Kelli A. Rushek and Ethan Seylar7.  Five Frames: A Multicultural Curricular Approach to Culturally Sustaining Literacy Practices  141Susan V. Bennett, AnnMarie Alberton Gunn, Alexandra Panos, Steven M. Hart, and Jenifer Jasinski Schneider8.  Enacting Culturally Sustaining Literacy Practices: Toward More Socially Just Teaching  159Susan Chambers Cantrell, Doris Walker-Dalhouse, and Althier M. LazarReferences  171Index  185About the Editors and Contributors  196

"This book is essential to the campaign for social justice. It is an indispensable resource for any literacy educator who aspires to incorporate culturally sustaining practices in their practice."—Teachers College Record