... Rebecca Woodard rwoodard@uic.edu Sustainability Elementary education Social justice Environmental Urban education Children’s literature Currently, over half of the world’s 4.4 billion people live in cities. By 2050, the urban population is expected to more than double, with an estimated...

... race technology theory, which is a theorization of blackness as a technology and a critique of algorithmic anti-blackness as the organizing logic of schools and AI systems. Critical literacy Urban education Critical race theory Technology and literacy Artificial intelligence education...

... discourse Urban education Culturally sustaining pedagogy Linguistic diversity The benefits and essential importance of asset-based pedagogical approaches as a component of establishing equity-driven learning environments have long been argued (Ladson-Billings, 1995b ; Moll, 1992 ; Bartolome, 1994...

... Critical literacy Urban education Culturally relevant pedagogy The teachers that I’ve had I feel like they do care about race but it’s like, it’s not their main, it doesn’t affect them so like even though they do care they kinda don’t care cause their life, they're kinda like privileged so like I’m...

... Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Blackness Literacy and identity Black English outer spaces Antiblackness Urban education Out-of-school Justin: When you think of the word Black or when you hear that word, what comes to mind? Like, what do you just think about...

... rights only Narrative inquiry Urban education Critical pedagogy Teacher narrative Culturally sustaining pedagogy Critical literacy pedagogies acknowledge socio-political realities, disrupt norms and historicized positioning, interrogate multiple viewpoints and inspire action (Lewison...

... the “academic” objectives of Common Core and the socio-cultural objectives of culturally relevant pedagogy is an either/or proposition. English language arts English teaching Teaching writing Literacy teaching Hip-hop pedagogy Urban education In Writing in Rhythm: Spoken Word Poetry...