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An ongoing phenomenon in the affluent Oak Valley School District [all names are pseudonyms] is the situation of working class African American students who cross the boundary from Detroit in the quest for educational parity. The desire for African American families to enroll their children is not necessarily based on the desire to integrate, but […]

Code-switching pedagogies call for employing students’ home language to facilitate appropriate nonstandard and standard contexts for writing and speaking (Adger et al., 1999; Bakhtin, 1986; Delpit & Dowdy, 2002; Wheeler & Swords, 2006). Traditionally, teachers have regarded Standard English as correct while nonstandard features are deemed as errors that warrant correction. Carrie Secret, a noted […]

1.Creating Space for Collaboration Margo DelliCarpini and Amanda N. Gulla Collaboration between ESL and English teachers is an idea that has periodically been discussed in this column. While school administrators and teacher educators have generally called for interdisciplinary teacher collaboration, the question of what form these collaborative efforts can or should take remains unanswered for […]

Collaboration is defined as people working together. In education, we can add that collaboration includes working together to have a positive effect on student learning. Teacher collaboration can take on a variety of forms and might best be viewed as a continuum of activities ranging from informal and unstructured to highly formal and structured. At […]

At the end of reading Angels in America, Miguel told the class that he most connected to the character Roy Cohn. When I asked why, he said, “Power.” In the play—and in real life—Roy is centered on issues of power, and this student wanted that same type of recognition. However, associating oneself with a character […]