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Professional Development: Educating ALL Students for Academic Success
By Sophie Degener, Elizabeth Bramley, Adelfio Garcia, and Ivy Sitkoski
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Introductory Paragraph: To help you reflect on instructional practices during this past school year and to think ahead to making new pedagogical decisions for the upcoming academic period, we present four options for teacher educators to read in your lounge chair, possibly while holding a cool summer drink and conversing with a colleague or two about pedagogy, literacy components, content areas, and, why not?, redesigning your philosophy about education for multilingual students. Ivy Sitkoski revives the well-known pair of Language and Literacy with a twist: going beyond decoding, a strong yet valuable source of evidence-based citations that promises to enlighten elementary teachers beyond the decoding-based approach and to step into the use of language to develop literacy; Elizabeth Bramley’s reading suggestion focuses on expanding the disciplinary literacy basic idea of reading, writing, speaking, and listening to start thinking, and with that in mind, consider the value of students’ cultural and linguistic assets in the co-collaboration and creation of a learning community in every classroom; Sophie Degener refreshes the idea of relationships between families and schools—her suggested reading choice prompts educators to reflect on their own assumptions and biases about families and caregiver collaborations; and Adelfio Garcia’s suggestion prompts educators to reflect on the programming of multilingual students, advocating for stronger, well-grounded, evidence-based programming that accounts for each student’s cultural and linguistic uniqueness. Summer is the best time to sit back, enjoy the weather, read an excellent book, and have conversations with colleagues. Please do not forget the cool summer drinks and suntan lotion. Cheers!
DOI: https://doi.org/10.33600/IRCJ.54.3.2026.48
Page Numbers: 48-52
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