Uncommon Core: Student Innovation as a Resource for Reform

Session Type: Workshop

Abstract

Un-Common Core: Student Innovation As Resource for Reform

In this workshop, panelists demonstrate dialogic pedagogies that tune educators in to the frequencies African-American youth use in their daily literacy practices, an underdeveloped resource for policy reform. Activating these requires incorporating Black youth's voices and myriad strategies, including using school-based literacy practices in the out of school spaces, bringing fashion-based literacy practices to school, and bringing rapping and rhyming habits of youth culture into the formal schooling spaces as a means of invigorating policy reform (Kirkland, 2011). Using the 6th to 8th grade ELA Common Core Standards as one example, the presenters frame findings from student-centered research projects as sites of possible collaboration between youth and policy-makers.

Sub Unit

• Division K - Teaching and Teacher Education / Section 10: Teaching and Teacher Education Policy (teacher certification, alternative routes to licensure, institutional accreditation) and Research

Cosponsor

• SIG-Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research

Chair

• Ashley Newby, Michigan State University

Participants

• Carleen Carey, Michigan State University

• Sherrae M. Hayes, Michigan State University