A01=Bronwyn Clare LaMay
A01=Bronwyn LaMay
adolescent identity formation
adolescent literacy engagement
Author_Bronwyn Clare LaMay
Author_Bronwyn LaMay
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Category=YPCA
charter schools
education reform initiatives
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school improvement initiatives
secondary writing instruction
standardized testing
teaching at-risk youth
teaching narrative revision
urban education pedagogy
Product details
- ISBN 9780807758083
- Weight: 235g
- Dimensions: 152 x 226mm
- Publication Date: 02 Sep 2016
- Publisher: Teachers' College Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this inspirational book, LaMay shows readers how to transform classrooms and schools into places where youth can explore the intersection between literacy and their lives. This book is the culmination of a literacy curriculum that the author and her high school students wrote dialogically, beginning with their attempt to define love. Through real-life classroom examples, they demonstrate how an innovative curriculum that intertwines personal and academic engagement can create space for students to explore their identities, connect to literary texts, and develop agency as writers and thinkers. In this important contribution to literacy educators, the author shows how personal narratives can help students rebuild their fractured relationships with school and envision writing and academic achievement as playing a role in their futures.
Book Features:
Book Features:
- Evidence of how students’ social-emotional and academic growth may intertwine in the interest of school engagement.
- A re-conceptualization of the complex layers of the personal narrative genre and its role in the pedagogy of academic writing.
- A reinterpretation of the transformational role of revision in students’ academic and life texts.
- Examples of writing and interview data that illustrate the diversity of student responses.
Bronwyn Clare LaMay is currently a high school English teacher at Impact Academy of Arts and Technology, Envision Schools, in Hayward, CA. In addition to her K–12 work, she has taught pre- and inservice teachers at University of San Francisco, Mills College, Stanford University, UC Santa Cruz, and UC Berkeley.
