Culturally Sustaining Early Literacy Teaching: Research on New Approaches, Practices, and Strategies

• In Event: 66.089 - Sheraton Roundtable Session 13 - Grand Centre
  In Roundtable Session: 66.089-8 - Race and Culture in Teaching and Learning

Abstract

This presentation will share classroom stories of culturally sustaining teaching in early childhood classrooms highlighting the work of teacher-teacher educator dyads (two-person teams) who participated in the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)’s Professional Dyads and Culturally Relevant Teaching (PDCRT) project from 2013-2015. The purpose of the presentation is to take the audience deeply into the process and impact of developing and implementing culturally sustaining literacy teaching, supported by teacher-teacher educator teams in pre-K through grade three classrooms.

Authors

• Kindel Turner Nash, University of Maryland - Baltimore County

• Bilal Polson, Northern Parkway School

• Crystal Polite Glover, Winthrop University

• Julia Maria Lopez-Robertson, University of South Carolina

• Chinyere Ngozi Harris, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Alicia Arce-Boardman, Northern Parkway Elementary

• Mary Jade Haney, Horrell Hill Elementary School

• Patricia Inez Piña