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When a Union Army recruiter for the state of New York dangles an enlistment bonus of US$600 in front of Louis Nolette to fight in the American Civil War, it is more than he can resist, even though his mother, Marie, insists that this is “their fight, not ours” (p. 9). Louis and Marie are […]

It was from a personal juncture of social consciousness and a necessity to heal that we put together a theatrical show where we were the protagonists and the stories shared were our own. On stage we became more human than ever to others by baring naked memories of pain, rejection, love, and hope with a […]

The extensive literature on preservice teachers and content area literacy offers a compelling account for preservice teachers’ resistance to literacy approaches that weaves together at least three major strands. One strand argues that the structures of traditional content instruction resist content area literacy approaches (Alger, 2007; Moje, 2006; O’Brien et al., 1995). For instance, many […]

Literacy even narrowly construed as reading and writing—is central to learning science and mathematics, and teachers of science and mathematics can better teach their students if they understand literacy’s role in learning (Moje, 2007; Yore, Bisanz, & Hand, 2003). Recent scholarship has emphasized the need to build more powerful connections between literacy approaches and disciplinary […]

The day following the staff meeting, we met with the LLT. The agenda for the day was the development of an instructional intervention that could be taken school wide. Armed with every content literacy or “strategy” book the group could find, we set out to determine the ways in which teachers would engage students in […]