Over November break, I started reading Disciplinary Literacy in Action: How to Create and Sustain a School-Wide Culture of Deep Reading, Writing, and Thinking, by ReLeah Cossett Lent and Marsha McCracken Voigt. I couldn’t put the book down! In this post I want to begin to synthesize the book by discussing one of the themes I found across the chapters, Equity. Continue reading “Disciplinary Literacy and Equity”
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Know Your Why, Your Purpose
This week I had an opportunity to re-watch a clip of Simon Sinek’s The Golden Circle. But this time it was followed by Michael Jr.’s Know Your Why, which I have seen several times. Pairing these two videos together was impactful! We watched them at our school’s first professional learning session on equity and identity. This first session begins a year long focus on equity, which I know will expand beyond one year, because anti-racist work is never done. It is a journey. In this blog I want to say more about the impact of the work on “Why.”