Educational Curators
"We can't consider which texts to teach without also considering the students in our classroom who are reading them" (Garcia & O'Donnell-Allen, 92) Chapter 5 highlights the importance of teachers acting as curators in order to provide culturally proactive reading options to students from diverse backgrounds. Key components of teachers as curators: · disrupting traditional curriculum · fostering students' choice in reading · pushing students to work past challenges that arise when reading · mirroring your own passion for reading to shine through your role as an educator. As we’ve discussed at length throughout this program , teachers must provide their students with culturally sustaining lessons and reading opportunities that reflect their community. If we are assembling a list of “just right” books for our students, what kind of message do we want those books to reflect? We must take an activ