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It doesn’t matter how many stories with diverse characters you bring into your classroom if all of those stories portray the same narrative. #WLBookAudit #teach4ic
Yes. We want to diversify our book shelves, but if our attempts only introduce students to a single story, we may be doing more harm than good.
“The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.” -Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I had a really interesting professional disagreement yesterday with some of our colleagues on here, but it's buried deep within the comments of a thread.
I'm going to reopen it here for visibility and further discussion. A 🧵 on equity within CI.
I'm going to reopen it here for visibility and further discussion. A 🧵 on equity within CI.
The question this conversation has me considering is if Comprehensible Input (CI) approaches to teaching are *inherently* equitable.
This idea is not limited to yesterday's convo, but I've seen it in other tweets, in blogs, in FB groups -- sometimes framed as "social justice issue" or "inherently aligned with culturally sustaining pedagogies".
But is it really inherently more equitable?
But is it really inherently more equitable?
I was inspired by this graphic to start tracking the books I read and use in my Spanish classroom. I want to invite other World Language teachers to join me! I'll be using the hashtag #WLBookAudit to share what I learn. #langchat
Here's a thread of what I've done so far.
Here's a thread of what I've done so far.
First, if you haven't read the article that accompanies the infographic, I highly recommend it. But one important update is this version uses broken mirrors to "illustrate the continued misrepresentation of the underrepresented communities"
Knowing how often underrepresented communities are misrepresented in literature, I make a conscious effort to include as many books #ownvoices authors as I can find. In WL circles we often call these #authres, although that term can be problematic(that's for another convo though)
