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Let’s Give Them Something to Talk (And Act!) About: Privilege,...
Join our exploration of how two middle-school teachers established trust in their classrooms to set...
Join the Marginal Syllabus for Social Reading in a Time...
Join other educators in four synchronous social reading opportunities—or annotation "flash mobs"—with a focus on...
LEARN Marginal Syllabus (March)—“Untold Stories”: Cultivating Consequential Writing with a...
Learn about one teacher's pedagogical approach to literacy, writing, and metaphor that can help others...
LEARN Marginal Syllabus (February)—Praisesongs of Place: Youth Envisioning Space and...
Our February reading for the 2019-20 Literacy, Equity + Remarkable Notes = LEARN Marginal Syllabus...
LEARN Marginal Syllabus (January)—Revising Resistance: A Step Toward Student-Centered Activism
Our January reading describes how one teacher helped students design their own learning, study issues...
LEARN Marginal Syllabus 2019-20 (December)—Miles Morales: Spider-Man and Reimagining the...
Our December text for Marginal Syllabus examines how a book, Miles Morales: Spider-Man, by Jason...
LEARN Marginal Syllabus 2019-20 (November)—Whiteness is a White Problem: Whiteness...
The first reading for our 2019-20 Marginal Syllabus employs racial storytelling as a means to...
Why Annotate? LEARN: Marginal Syllabus 2019-2020
Marginal Syllabus 2019-2020 invites everyone interested in equity to read and annotate online texts with...
LEARN WITH MARGINAL SYLLABUS (June)—Even Cinderella Is White: (Re)Centering Black...
The authors of our June reading call out the oppressive ways our society depicts Black...
LEARN with Marginal Syllabus (May)—“We Are Not Dirt”: Freirean Counternarratives...
This month we spotlight youth participatory action research and the way youth writing became a...
LEARN with Marginal Syllabus (April): Cultivating Urban Literacies on Chicago’s...
Our April reading for Marginal Syllabus spotlights a middle school teacher’s approach to teaching through...
LEARN with Marginal Syllabus (March)—Critical Indigenous Literacies: Selecting and Using...
For March, our Marginal Syllabus reading casts a light on the ways in which books...
LEARN with Marginal Syllabus (February): When School Is Not Enough:...
Our February Marginal Syllabus reading critiques narratives of failure associated with literacy and literacy education...
LEARN with Marginal Syllabus (January): Generative Principles for Professional Learning...
Explore the experiences of three secondary English teachers who sought opportunities to support teaching for...
LEARN with Marginal Syllabus (November): Electing to Heal
The 2018-19 Marginal Syllabus is set to begin! November’s conversation will focus on ways educators...
Writing Our Civic Futures: The 2017-18 Marginal Syllabus Recap
Joe Dillon summarizes the eight texts, author partnerships, and annotation conversations that comprise “Writing Our...
Writing Our Civic Futures (May): Civic Engagement with Project-Based Learning...
The final Marginal Syllabus annotation of the school year takes on Steven Zemelman's From Inquiry...
Writing Our Civic Futures (April): Educating Youth for Online Civic...
April's Marginal Syllabus reading tackles online civic dialogue, conceptualizing five stages of opportunity for students...
Writing Our Civic Futures (March): Mainstream Media, Pedagogies of Healing,...
March's conversation explores how Black youth use social media as counterspaces and how critical media...
Writing Our Civic Futures (February): Educating for Democracy in a...
This month, Writing Our Civic Futures explores research about the impact of media literacy education...
Writing Our Civic Futures (January): Defining Political Equality
In October, we launched Writing Our Civic Futures, a collaboration of the National Writing Project...
Writing Our Civic Futures (December): Bringing Students’ Lives to the...
Our December edition of Writing Our Civic Futures, our annotation collaboration with Marginal Syllabus, explores...
Writing Our Civic Futures (November): Reimagining Civic Participation
Last month we kicked off Writing Our Civic Futures, a collaboration of the National Writing...
Writing Our Civic Futures (October): Youth Voice and Participation
Our collaborative annotation project, Writing Our Civic Futures, is underway with a conversation about youth...
