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Envisioned as a story, a guide, a resource, and an aesthetic experience, this book features the work of a multigenerational collective of K-12 educators, students, and teaching artists seeking educational justice. This multivocal approach illustrates how bringing together arts-infused writing pedagogies, with the visionary and intellectual force of freedom dreaming, can create more luminous and socially transformative educational spaces. Through vivid vignettes, compelling first-person narratives, mixed media artwork, and detailed lesson plans, readers will experience schools as places of joy, belonging, and justice. As an act of radical hope during the turmoil and trauma of post-pandemic times, this book invites readers to draw on the principles of freedom dreaming and abolitionist teaching to imagine and enact arts-infused writing pedagogies across a multitude of settings. Authors offer guidance for teachers, teacher educators, and professional development leaders wishing to take up this work in their own contexts.Book Features:Provides detailed guidelines and principles for enacting arts-infused writing pedagogies, adaptable to a range of contexts.Showcases original artwork by K-12 students and educators, many in full color.Includes insights on teaching writing and engaging in inquiry-based professional learning from a local site of the National Writing Project.Highlights the role of teaching artists in enhancing teacher and student learning.Illuminates the potential of a/r/tography, affect, and wonder in qualitative inquiry.Contains visually arresting and narratively powerful contributions from students as young as 6 years old to teachers nearing retirement, as well as professional artists and novelists.
Kelly K. Wissman is director of the Capital District Writing Project and an associate professor in the Department of Literacy Teaching and Learning within the University at Albany School of Education.
ContentsForeword Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz ixAcknowledgments xiiiPart I. Sketching Dreamscapes of Possibilities: Creating Art and Community in the Freedom Dreaming for Educational Justice Project1. "The Quality of Light": An Introduction to Freedom Dreaming for Educational Justice 3Kelly K. Wissman2. Freedom Dreaming With Arts-Infused Writing Pedagogies: Ten Engagements 20Kelly K. Wissman3. Seeing Students in Relation to Possibility: Imperatives for Freedom Dreaming in English Language Arts 45Christina Pepe4. Becoming a Beloved Community of Diverse Educators and Mental Health Professionals: Lessons From Freedom Dreaming for Educational Justice in Intergenerational Arts-Based Inquiries 57Tammy Ellis-Robinson and Cheryl L. Dozier5. Visions of Liberation: A Thematic Analysis of the Education Freedom Dreams 72Kelly K. Wissman, Vanessia Wilkins, and Hanum TyagitaPart II: Dreaming Together: Visions and Voices of Teachers, Students, and Teaching ArtistsKelly K. Wissman6. We Are Dreaming of . . . Manifesting New Educational Worlds in Dialogue Between Students and Teachers 1017. We Are Dreaming of . . . Enlivening School Communities With Teaching Artists 1278. We Are Dreaming of . . . Creating School Communities of Joy, Care, and Belonging 1449. We Are Dreaming of . . . Fostering New Ways of Seeing and Being 15610. We Are Dreaming of . . . Honoring the Ancestors 166Epilogue: Why Freedom Dream? 174Leah Werther, Amy Salamone, Matt Pinchinat, Christina Pepe, and Kelly K. WissmanAfterword Linda Christensen 182Index 184About the Editor and Contributors 189