SPECIAL ISSUES


ABOUT THE SPECIAL ISSUES SERIES Teachers and students across the country are grappling with several important issues. Almost daily, we hear from educators who are looking for practical and engaging approaches to racial literacy,


critical media literacy, and trauma-informed teaching. NCTE is responding to these needs with our new Special Issues series designed to directly address these pressing topics in K–12 and college classrooms today. Edited by expert practitioners in the field, the first volumes offer a carefully curated collection of articles from across all of NCTE’s journals in one easy-to-reference book. Each article has been enhanced with teaching tips to help immediately implement these approaches in classrooms. The second group of volumes features newly written contributions.


GRADES K–12


Special Issues, Volume 2: Critical Media Literacy


Bringing Critical Media Literacy into ELA Classrooms William Kist and Mary T. Christel, editors


Winner of a 2024 Divergent Publication Award for Excellence in Literacy in a Digital Age Research


During a time of increased book banning and censoring, of scrutiny of the word


critical, and even calls for surveillance of K–12 teachers, the burgeoning field of critical media literacy is more important than ever. These new challenges demonstrate the importance of teaching media literacy to address some of the most pressing needs of our youth. This second volume devoted to critical media literacy picks up where the first volume left off, as it continues the work of defining this important area of focus and looks for practical and innovative ways to bring these important topics into ELA classrooms. Editors William Kist and Mary T. Christel have curated and edited a wide range of original essays by leading educators in the field, focusing on pedagogical directions of critical media literacy, integrating it into reading, writing, and interdisciplinary instruction, and new ways of teaching about and with media.


139 pp. | 2022 | ISBN 9780814144961 $23.96 member/$29.99 nonmember ebook: ISBN 9780814144992


GRADES K–12


Special Issues, Volume 2: Trauma-Informed Teaching


Toward Responsive, Humanizing Classrooms Elizabeth Dutro and Bre Pacheco, editors


Teachers and students alike begin their day as humans, and they must all end their day as humans. Experiences of pain, sorrow, loss, fear, disruption, and systemic and institutional oppression are an inevitable presence in schools. Editors Elizabeth Dutro and Bre Pacheco have edited this collection of original essays with the belief that trauma-informed teaching, with all


of the complex layers that term contains, can and must be harnessed to propel movements toward equity and justice in English language arts classrooms. Authors in this volume share stories from life and literature that aptly show the power and possibility of ELA classrooms for enacting the deepest hopes that fuel the year-to-year, day-to-day, moment-to-moment enactment of humanizing, healing teaching.


146 pp. | 2022 | ISBN 9780814145036 | $23.96 member/$29.99 nonmember | ebook: ISBN 9780814145111


GRADES K–COLLEGE


Special Issues, Volume 2: Racial Literacy


Sociopolitical and Sociocultural Contexts for Youth Ayanna F. Brown, editor


This volume questions what constitutes literacy in a society organized by race as an inquiry to deepen the significance for why K–20 learners must develop knowledges that


support their abilities to process and ultimately transform racism. With this collection of original essays, editor Ayanna F. Brown helps to push the field of racial literacy into new directions, to avoid niceties and other pitfalls, to get to the heart of racial understanding, to better respond to the needs of our students and society. This volume brings forth emerging scholars who seek to respond to the sociopolitical and sociohistorical aspects of racial literacy as it relates to youth. The scholarship grapples with how educators at every level think through racial literacy in their work and within their experiences. Each contribution adds depth to the question of agency and illuminates why racial literacy work extends social justice efforts to become a call for a culture of teaching and learning that recenters liberation as an active pursuit.


114 pp. | 2022 | ISBN 9780814145005 $23.96 member/$29.99 nonmember ebook: ISBN 9780814145029


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Special Issues, Volume 1: Critical Media Literacy Bringing Lives to Texts Tom Liam Lynch, editor


178 pp. | 2021 | K–College | ISBN 9780814144893 $23.96 member/$29.99 nonmember ebook: ISBN 9780814100103


Special Issues, Volume 1: Trauma-Informed Teaching Cultivating Healing-Centered ELA Classrooms Sakeena Everett, editor


183 pp. | 2021 | K–College | ISBN 9780814144947 $23.96 member/$29.99 nonmember ebook: ISBN 9780814100127


Special Issues, Volume 1: Racial Literacy Implications for Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Policy Detra Price-Dennis, editor


171 pp. | 2021 | K–College | ISBN 9780814144923 $23.96 member/$29.99 nonmember ebook: ISBN 9780814100110


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