by Gholdy Muhammad
In Cultivating Genius, Dr. Gholdy Muhammad presents a four-layered equity framework-one that is grounded in history and restores excellence in literacy education. Muhammad's Historically Responsive Literacy Framework is essential for all students, especially youth of color, who traditionally have been marginalized in learning standards, school policies, and classroom practices. The framework promotes four learning goals-or pursuits:
• Identity development; defining self; making sense of one's values and beliefs
• Skill development; developing proficiencies through reading and writing meaningful content
• Intellectual development; gaining knowledge and becoming smarter
• Criticality; developing the ability to read texts to understand power, authority, and oppression
When these four learning pursuits are taught together-through the Historically Responsive Literacy Framework- all students receive profound opportunities for personal, intellectual, and academic success. Muhammad provides probing, self-reflective questions for teachers and students and bibliographies of culturally responsive text and sample lesson plans across grades and content areas.
Product details
Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.
ISBN13: 9781338594898
Language: English
Paperback: 176 pages
Grades: K - 8
About the Author
Gholdy Muhammad, Associate Professor of Language & Literacy at Georgia State University. She also serves as the director of the GSU Urban Literacy Collaborative & Clinic. Her scholarship has appeared in leading educational journals and books.