Pose, Wobble, Flow – A Liberatory Approach to Literacy Learning in All Classrooms by Garcia, Antero; O`donnell–allen, Cindy; Christensen, Linda;

Short description:

Presents an exciting, liberatory framework for disrupting the pervasive myth that there is one set of surefire, culturally neutral best practices. In this new edition, the authors update and expand their pedagogical model to support lifelong success for teachers of all subject areas and grade levels.

Long description:

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Pose, Wobble, Flow presents an exciting, liberatory framework for disrupting the pervasive myth that there is one set of surefire, culturally neutral best practices. In this new edition, the authors update and expand their pedagogical model to support lifelong success for teachers of all subject areas and grade levels. Providing six different teaching stances or ""poses"" that teachers can use to meet the needs of all students, this popular resource offers guidance for teaching and learning in today's challenging sociopolitical climate. The authors describe how teachers can expect to ""wobble"" as they adapt instruction to the needs of their students, while also incorporating new insights about their own positionality and preconceptions of teaching. Readers are encouraged to recognize this flexibility as a positive process or ""flow"" that can be used to address challenges and adopt ambitious teaching strategies like those depicted in this book. Each chapter highlights a particular pose, describes how to work through common wobbles, incorporates teacher voices, and provides discussion activities for collective teacher inquiry.

Book Features:

• A structure for career-long growth for K-12 teachers of all subject areas, including ways to adapt pedagogy from one year to the next.
• A process of growing as an educator that questions existing inequities in schooling and society and frames teaching around a commitment to changing them.
• Six poses that are standards-aligned, critical, and expand the possibilities of what takes place in school.
• Guidelines for creating original poses beyond the scope of the book, discussion questions for courses, and resources for classroom teachers.

Table of Contents:

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• Contents (Tentative)

  Foreword

  Introduction: What It Means to Pose, Wobble, and Flow

• The Pose, Wobble, Flow Framework: What It Is and How to Use It
• What Does It Mean to Pose?
• What Does It Mean to Wobble?
• What Is Flow?
• Moving From Pose to Wobble to Flow: Two Examples of a P/W/F Cycle
• Working Within the System
• Working the System
• Looking Ahead
• Provocations
• Connections

  1. Leaning Toward Praxis: What It Means to Embrace a Liberatory Pedagogy

• Teaching for Liberation
• What Do We Mean When We Call For Liberation?
• Why Teaching for Liberation Is Non-Negotiable in Today's World
• What Does It Look Like to Pose, Wobble, Flow Around Liberatory Pedagogy?: An Example From Our Own Practice
• What Does It Look Like to Pose, Wobble, Flow Around Liberatory Pedagogy Within Your Classroom?
• What Does It Look Like to Pose, Wobble, Flow Around Liberatory Pedagogy Beyond the Classroom?
• Conclusion
• Provocations
• Connections

  2. In Praise Of ""Not-Knowing"": What It Means to Be a Vulnerable Learner

• The Pay-Off of Being a Vulnerable Learner
• Vulnerable Learning, Vulnerable Teaching
• Embracing the Practice of ""Bypassing"": Challenging Limiting Constraints Through Innovative Curriculum Design
• Building Your Stamina for Equity Work and Teaching for Trauma Resiliency
• Provocations
• Connections

  3. Literacy as Civic Action: What It Means to Teach for Social Change

• Rethinking Civics
• Understanding the Why and How of Civics in Every Content Area
• Developing Activities and Assignments to Cultivate Students' Critical Consciousness
• Establishing a Participatory Culture of Civic Writing
• Doing Civics
• Addressing Power and Positionality
• Tackling Controversy When You Don't Have Tenure
• Conclusion
• Provocations
• Connections

  4. Embracing Your Inner Writer: What It Means to Teach as a Writer

• Assuming the Pose of Teacher as Writer
• Establishing a Practice of Writing
• Why Assuming a Writer Pose Matters for Educational Equity
• Power in Numbers
• Conclusion: So, You're a Writer. Now What?
• Provocations
• Connections

  5. Rethinking Reading: What It Means to Curate the Curriculum

• Defining Text and the Act of Reading Today
• What's in Your Bookroom? Teaching Beyond a Fixed Canon
• Helping Students Become Curators of Texts Themselves: The Role of Student Choice in Reading
• Accessing Critical Texts: Anxiety and Frustration
• Reading Passionately
• Conclusion
• Provocations
• Connections

  6. Classroom Spaces, Cultures, and Possibilities: What It Means to Be a Designer of Learning

• Excavating a Space That Is Meaningful for All
• Designing for Delight
• Technology Mediates Space
• Space, Morale, and Morality
• Spilling Democratic Possibilities: Culture Beyond the Classroom
• Conclusion: Space Is Not the Final Frontier
• Provocations
• Connections

  Conclusion What Does it Look Like?

• Pose/Wobble/Flow as Politics
• Striving for the Unattainable

  References

  Appendix A. Pose, Wobble, Flow Template and Assignment

• The Pose, Wobble, Flow Assignment

  Appendix B: Summary of Poses

  Appendix C: Pose, Wobble, Flow Template

  Index

  About the Authors