During February, the month of the African American Read-In, we continue our theme of spotlighting connections with thoughtful Â¥·ïÌìÌà texts.

by Lynsey Burkins and Franki Sibberson
Learn how to set up preK-grade 6 classrooms that support student agency, independence, and choice.

by James Joshua Coleman, Autumn A. Griffin, and Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
The authors spotlight how teachers and students can use digital tools and technologies to reread, rewrite, and restory YA literature.

by Dywanna E. Smith
Smith offers culturally sustaining pedagogies for ELA middle level classrooms that help students address and counteract discrimination, colorism, sizism, and body shaming.

by Lamar L. Johnson
Johnson’s visionary and much-needed book is a call for the transformation of English education to embrace rather than reject Blackness.
 by April Baker-Bell
Bringing together theory, research, and practice to dismantle anti-Black linguistic racism and white linguistic supremacy, this book provides ethnographic snapshots of how Black students navigate and negotiate their linguistic and racial identities across multiple contexts.
by Thomas Crisp, Suzanne M. Knezek, and Roberta Price Gardner (eds.)
This edited volume brings together ongoing professional conversations about diverse children’s books and the role and function of nonfiction and informational text in K–8 classrooms.

 by Nathaniel Bryan
Drawing on Black Critical Theory and Black Male Studies, and applying portraiture methodology, Bryan explores experiences of Black boys and their male teachers in ways that affirm their humanity and acknowledge the consequences of existing in a white supremacist system.
by Kindel Turner Nash, Crystal Polite Glover, and Bilal Polson (eds.)
This book shares the stories of four teacher-teacher dyads who worked together across university-school contexts to study, generate, and evaluate culturally relevant and sustaining literacy practices in early childhood classrooms across the country.
 by Valerie Kinloch, Emily A. Nemeth, Tamara T. Butler, and Grace D. Player
The authors share their story of working with students, teachers, teacher educators, families, community members, and union leaders to create transformative practices within and beyond public school classrooms.

by Ayanna F. Brown (ed.)
With this collection of original essays, editor Ayanna F. Brown helps to push the field of racial literacy into new directions, to avoid niceties and other pitfalls, to get to the heart of racial understanding, to better respond to the needs of our students and society.
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