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<br /> LITERACY TODAY<br /> March/April 2021<br /> Volume 38, Issue 5<br /> Culture<br /> in the<br /> Classroom<br /> · Gloria Ladson-Billings<br /> on culturally relevant<br /> pedagogy<br /> · Centering students and<br /> fighting injustice with<br /> literacy<br /> · Facilitating brave<br /> conversations in the<br /> classroom<br /> WHAT'S HOT IN LITERACY<br /> The most critical topics for shaping the<br /> future of literacy education<br /> DOWNLOAD THE 2020 REPORT:<br /> literacyworldwide.org/whatshot<br /> ontents<br /> 2 EDITOR'S NOTE<br /> 4 LIT BITS<br /> 6 ILA UPDATE<br /> LITERACY LEADERSHIP<br /> 8 Moving Beyond Barriers: Focusing on<br /> Equity and Eliminating a Deficit Mind-Set<br /> in Literacy Instruction<br /> 10 School Librarians as Literacy Partners:<br /> 20<br /> Taking Action on the Wha<a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=1"> LITERACY TODAY March/April 2021 Volume 38, Issue</a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 2" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=2"> WHAT'S HOT IN LITERACY The most cr</a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 3" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=3"> ontents 2 EDITOR'S NOTE 4 LIT BITS </a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=4"> EDITOR'S NOTE Colleen Patrice Clark Managing Edi</a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=5"> ILA DIGITAL EVENTS Online Learning. Online Resour</a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=6"> LIT BITS Little Free Library Reaches Every Contin</a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=7"> Last Call for ILA Awards & Grants ILA Awards & G</a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=8"> ILA UPDATE Confronting Conflicts and Divisive</a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=9"> as in his book, Not Light, But Fire: How to Lead </a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 10" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=10"> LITERACY LEADERSHIP Victoria J. Risko (victoria.</a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 11" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=11"> make sense of their experiences as they share, re</a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=12"> LITERACY LEADERSHIP Judi Moreillon (info @storyt</a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=13"> provide weekly or monthly storytimes for preschoo</a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=14"> LITERACY LEADERSHIP Diane Lapp (lapp@sdsu .edu),</a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 15" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=15"> the New Jersey Literacy Association. Jill Eisenbe</a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 16" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=16"> literacy instruction. To gain this, their teacher</a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 17" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=17"> SETTING THE TONE In response to our final quest</a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 18" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=18"> RESEARCH INTO PRACTICE ChristianEhret (christian</a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 19" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=19"> matter. It helps young people make sense of thing</a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 20" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=20"> Ultimately, it is the visceral, felt, sensed part</a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 21" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=21"> Teaching During 2020? </a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 22" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=22"> FEATURE </a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 23" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=23"> I READ YOU, BUT DO YOU READ ME? Culturally res</a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 24" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=24"> Ray Bradbury, why not pair it with a science fict</a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 25" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=25"> Ready to subscribe to an ILA Journal? Subscriptio</a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 26" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=26"> FEATURE </a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 27" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=27"> AN OPPORTUNITY FOR CHANGE Groundbreaking scholar </a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 28" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=28"> you change the phrase to “culturally relevant tea</a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 29" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=29"> those who are decision makers and problem solvers</a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 30" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=30"> FEATURE </a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 31" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=31"> TOOLS TO FIGHT INJUSTICE Eight opportunity-center</a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 32" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=32"> This book provides insight into the history of ra</a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 33" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=33"> videos and images of unarmed folx with dark skin </a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 34" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=34"> FEATURE WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU SAY? Engag</a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 35" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=35"> fundamentals of our democracy. </a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 36" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=36"> unravel the racist threads that weave the fabric </a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 37" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=37"> PD RESOURCES FOR LITERACY EDUCATORS Use ILA's </a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 38" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=38"> THE ENGAGING CLASSROOM Leigh E. Rohde (lrohde @s</a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 39" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=39"> the letter j makes an /h/ sound.” “Like me!” Juli</a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 40" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=40"> THE ENGAGING CLASSROOM Nenah Howard (howardn2@cs</a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 41" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=41"> People naturally know how to tell stories, and th</a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 42" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=42"> THE ENGAGING CLASSROOM Melissa Brooks-Yip (mbrook</a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 43" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=43"> When we say “diverse books,” we mean b</a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 44" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=44"> THE ENGAGING CLASSROOM Wideline Seraphin (wsraph</a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 45" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=45"> talents and interests as writers and to prepare f</a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 46" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=46"> THE ENGAGING CLASSROOM Karis Jones (kmj385@nyu .</a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 47" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=47"> Urging an expansive definition of text Anti-racis</a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 48" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=48"> As a culmination of our semester's work</a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 49" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=49"> from Guilford Press NEW EDITION—A Major Revision</a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 50" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=50"> THE ILA NETWORK Thea Yurkewecz-Stellato (yurkewe</a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 51" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=51"> We believe the move to online professional develo</a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 52" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=52"> EVENTS MARCH 2021 9 Culturally Relevant and Re</a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 53" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=53"> DO YOU WANT TO... ƒ Get more involved in the lite</a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 54" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=54"> MEMBER SPOTLIGHT news & notes Edwards Receives LR</a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 55" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=55"> social scene MEMBER SPOTLIGHT Self-Care Now a y</a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 56" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=56"> MEMBER reflections </a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 57" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=57"> 30 Under 30 ILA's 30 Under 30 program recognizes:</a> <a title="Literacy Today March/April 2021 page 58" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b46eaa78?page=58"> NEW! ILA's Instructional Practices Collection </a>