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Announcing the 2018-19 #MarginalSyllabus!
8 months of conversation
3 organizational partners: @writingproject @ncte @hypothes_is
19 partner authors!
Join "Literacy, Equity + Remarkable Notes = LEARN"
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What's the #MarginalSyllabus? Since 2016, this project has convened and sustained convos with educators about equity in education through open & collaborative web annotation. You can learn more about the Marginal Syllabus, previous syllabi & research at marginalsyllab.us /2
And what's "marginal" about the #MarginalSyllabus? We partner with authors whose writing is contrary to dominant education norms, we read & annotate in the margins of online texts, and we discuss educational equity using open-source tech that's marginal to commercial edtech /3
The 2016-17 #MarginalSyllabus featured texts and convos about the intersection of equity & edtech, or "techquity" marginalsyllab.us/conversations/… Last year's syllabus explored the theme "Writing our Civic Futures" marginalsyllab.us/the-2017-2018-… And this year... /4
The 2018-19 #MarginalSyllabus is hosted by @writingproject's @innovates_ed & features 8 texts from 5 different @ncte publications! Our theme is "Literacy, Equity + Remarkable Notes = LEARN" & all year we'll discuss the intersection of literacy & equity educatorinnovator.org/learn-with-col… /5
We are very thankful to the 19 (!) partner authors who agreed to have their scholarship openly annotated during the 2018-19 #MarginalSyllabus so that educators can read consequential lit and participate in needed convos about ed equity topics. Our calendar & partner authors... /6
The Oct/Nov #MarginalSyllabus conversation discusses "Electing to Heal: Trauma, Healing & Politics in Classrooms" by @anterobot & @lifeasstory. We'll post the text next Mon 10/29, a webinar with Antero goes live Tues 10/30 & we'll have related activities at #NCTE18 in Houston! /7
The December #MarginalSyllabus conversation will annotate & discuss the article "What’s Radical about Youth Writing?: Seeing and Honoring Youth Writers and Their Literacies" by @MarcelleHaddix Preview this convo & the full syllabus docs.google.com/document/d/1Jh… /8
The Jan19 #MarginalSyllabus convo will annotate & discuss "Generative Principles for Professional Learning for Equity-Oriented Urban English Teachers" by Allison Skerrett, Amber Warrington & Thea Williamson. Preview this convo & the full syllabus docs.google.com/document/d/1Jh… /9
The February #MarginalSyllabus conversation will annotate & discuss the article "When School Is Not Enough: Understanding the Lives & Literacies of Black Youth" by @ValerieKinloch, Tanja Burkhard & Carlotta Penn. Preview this convo & the full syllabus docs.google.com/document/d/1Jh… /10
The March #MarginalSyllabus conversation will annotate & discuss the article "Critical Indigenous Literacies: Selecting and Using Children’s Books about Indigenous Peoples" by @debreese. Preview this convo & the full syllabus docs.google.com/document/d/1Jh… /11
The April #MarginalSyllabus convo will annotate & discuss "Cultivating Urban Literacies on Chicago’s South Side through a Pedagogy of Spatial Justice" by Andrea Vaughan, @beccawoodard, @nathancphillips & Kara Taylor. Preview convo & the full syllabus docs.google.com/document/d/1Jh… /12
The May #MarginalSyllabus conversation will annotate & discuss the text "'We Are Not Dirt': Freirean Counternarratives & Rhetorical Literacies for Student Voice in Schooling" by Everardo Pedraza & @escribescribe. Preview this convo & the full syllabus docs.google.com/document/d/1Jh… /13
And the June #MarginalSyllabus conversation will annotate & discuss "Even Cinderella Is White: (Re)Centering Black Girls’ Voices as Literacies of Resistance" by Jemimah Young, Marquita Foster & Dorothy Hines. Preview this convo & the full syllabus docs.google.com/document/d/1Jh… /14
Want to connect with someone from the #MarginalSyllabus team? We'll be at two conferences this fall, first #EDU18 in Denver next week and then at #NCTE18 in Houston next month. Follow our hashtag and marginalsyllab.us for presentation and workshop details! /15
Also #MarginalSyllabus researchers are studying how educators collaborate & learn together via open annotation. Read research summaries from #CLS2018 remikalir.com/projects/margi… & #OpenEd18 remikalir.com/presentations/… plus all our publications & presentations: marginalsyllab.us/research/publi… /16
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