Summer 2021 Reading
No matter your plans this summer, these booklists and ideas for educators and kids will serve your needs with novels, non-fiction, and professional development. Read to learn, advance your knowledge and action in social justice, escape, or find adventure.
Check your local library for summer reading programs:
Summer Literacy Learning for Kids
Summer Learning
Self Guided Book Studies @ WISD
This summer, read these educator titles at your own pace with the self guided book studies. Content will be posted in late July for self guided study and online discussion with others.
Then, we'll have one synchronous live meeting in August for each book.
Books will be provided for Washtenaw County educators
Register HERE for all
Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy
by Dr. Gholdy Muhammad
Forged by Reading: The Power of a Literate Life by Kylene Beers and Robert Probst
The Write Thing: Kwame Alexander Engages Students in Writing Workshop, (and you can too!) A Must Have Resource for Teaching Writing in grades K-12 , by Kwame Alexander
Responsive Teaching Coalition CountyWide Opening Day!
August 23
Join us for an amazing professional learning session with Dr. Bettina Love and Dr. Christopher Emdin, as they offer keynote addresses on how educators can achieve educational equity by centering students, families, and the community.
Dr. Bettina L. Love is an award-winning author and the Athletic Association Endowed Professor at the University of Georgia. Her writing, research, teaching, and educational advocacy work meet at the intersection of education reform, anti-racism, carceral studies, abolition, and Black joy. The aim of her scholarship is twofold: firstly, to advance how the field of education understands and critiques the systemic and structural racism of public education within the U.S.; and secondly, to advocate for abolitionist approaches in the field of education that seek new possibilities for educational justice.
Dr. Christopher Emdin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Science and Technology at Teachers College, Columbia University; where he also serves as Director of the Science Education program and Associate Director of the Institute for Urban and Minority Education. He is the author of the award winning book, Urban Science Education for the Hip-hop Generation and the New York Times bestseller For White Folks Who Teach In the Hood and the Rest of Ya’ll too.
FREE for WISD educators- register HERE
You’ve heard the buzz about diverse books, but what does that mean? How and why do you use these books in the classroom? Join instructional coaches and teachers from Washtenaw County to learn the multiple purposes diverse texts can serve and how to honor student identities through text.
Register HERE
A limited number of books will be raffled off during the session.
WASHTENAW Educators Only. Limited to 30.
Register HERE
A limited number of books will be raffled off during the session.
WASHTENAW Educators Only. Limited to 30.
State Provided Professional Learning
Disciplinary Literacy- Offered to Secondary Educators by the Disciplinary Literacy Taskforce
