Reading and Writing Resources-

for Now and Always

#DISRUPTEXTS exists to "develop and aid teachers committed to anti-racist/anti-bias teaching pedagogy and practices."

Core principles are:

1. Continuously interrogate our own biases and how they inform our thinking;

2. Center Black, Indigenous, and voices of color in literature;

3. Apply a critical literacy lens to our teaching practices;

4. Work in community with other anti-racist educators, especially Black, Indigenous, and other educators of color.

See the #DISRUPTTEXTS Learning Guides for resources on teaching with eight texts that align to these principles.

Also see #DISRUPTTEXTS in Michigan for a personal teaching story from a teacher at Carman-Ainsworth in Flint on disrupting texts in her classroom.

20 Types of Learning Journals that Help Students Think

TeachThought offers these journal ideas to promote writing for learning with students. These journals are done for the purpose of learning, not to demonstrate learning.

A few options for journals and prompts with a focus on writing to learn include:

Question- for a focus on inquiry

Metacognitive- for a focus on thinking about thinking

Change-for connecting learning for personal and social change

Read the entire article for details on these and more journals and remember, some writers prefer to use hardcopy notebooks and pencils or pens (especially when doodling to learn), and some prefer to type. Here's a digital writing notebook template you can make a copy of and share for those choosing to go digital.