...Katie Sciurba; Devanshi Unadkat Purpose The purpose of this study is to demonstrate how picturebooks (and other texts) can serve as invitations to critical conversations about the impact of social class, and race, on young people’s experiences inside, and outside of, school spaces. Design...

... Literature Race Critical thinking English and media Student identity At a conference in the summer of 2023, I sat on a panel discussing the construction of fatness within young adult speculative fiction. As an opening, I asked participants whether they could think of a story they read growing up...

...). Apprehensive and authorized teachers feared to talk or teach about race without authorization from leadership or pre-existing curriculum; incidental and ill-informed teachers held only sporadic conversations about race; and sustained and strategic teachers wove race into curriculum by leveraging students...

... (Turner, 2023). Rooted in Critical Race Theory, Black feminism and legal studies (Crenshaw, 1991 ; Collins, 2015), intersectionality explains how Black girls and women experience racism and sexism as interlocking and intermeshing systems of oppression based on their membership in two socially...

... she had spent in the classroom at the time, in the attention she gave to each child. Race English language arts Classroom discourse Urban education Culturally sustaining pedagogy Linguistic diversity The benefits and essential importance of asset-based pedagogical approaches...

...Annie Daly Purpose There is a pressing need to teach students how to talk critically about race to understand the personal and political implications of racism in the contemporary US society. Classroom race talk, however, often includes moments of discomfort or confusion as teachers and students...

...Lauren Leigh Kelly Purpose This qualitative research study examines classroom observations and transcripts, teacher and student interviews and student writing to investigate how white English teachers can cultivate students’ critical literacies regarding race and oppression through classroom...

... The paper relies on critical race theory (CRT) and critical whiteness studies (CWS), as well as auto-ethnographic and storytelling methods to examine how black in-service teachers working with a black teacher educator and white pre-service teachers working with a white teacher educator enacted strategies...