Equity Literacy: A Framework for Selecting Authentic Literature in PK-12 Education
Date: Tuesday, March 1, 2022
Time: 4:00-5:30 PM HST
Venue: Online via Zoom
Cost: $45 per person
“Equity Literacy is the cultivation of the skills and consciousness that enable us to recognize, respond to, and redress conditions that deny some students access to educational and other opportunities enjoyed by their peers” (Gorski, 2014). In this workshop you will learn how to apply Gorski’s equity literacy framework to increase academic excellence through the use of authentic literature. Facilitated by Dr. Marguerite W. Penick, you will see how equity literacy can be an imperative curricular framework, which educators can use to infuse diverse and multiple perspectives into PK-12 school curriculum, especially in traditionally marginalized PK-12 students. Specifically, the workshop will focus on the application of equity literacy to selecting PK-12 literature. You will be introduced to sample trade books, which are organized into seven strands and areas for supporting curriculum development: race, social class, culture, global perspectives, power and privilege, gender/sexuality, and intersectionality.
About the Presenter:
Dr. Marguerite W. Penick received her PhD from the University of Iowa in Curriculum and Instruction. Prior to attending graduate school she worked as a High School teacher in an urban school in Kansas City, Kansas. Dr. Penick currently serves as Chair of Educational Leadership and Policy at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. Her work centers on issues of power, privilege and oppression in relationship to issues of curriculum with a special emphasis on the incorporation of quality literature in K-12 classrooms. She appears in the movie “Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible” by the World Trust Organization. Her most recent work includes a joint article on creating safe spaces for discussing white privilege with pre-service teachers and she is an editor of Everyday White People Confronting Racial and Social Injustice:15 Stories, The SAGE Sourcebook of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement,The Guide for White Women who Teach Black Boys, and Teaching Beautiful Brilliant Black Girls.