Educate for Action

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On this page, you will find resources from Jody’s book, Facilitating Youth-led Book Clubs as Transformative and Inclusive Spaces for Youth. Use this website as a guide to help you implement book clubs in your own educational setting. Each chapter is hyperlinked below. For each chapter, you will find teacher and student-facing resources mentioned in the book, as well as recommended books and articles for further reading.

To purchase recommended books as well as young adult literature for book clubs, Jody recommends shopping from independent, Black-owned bookstores versus corporate booksellers like Amazon. For a list of Black-owned bookstores to purchase books from, click here. You can also use bookshop.org to directly support your bookstore of choice.

Books/Articles to Read

• “Cross-pollinating culturally sustaining pedagogy and universal design for learning: Toward an inclusive pedagogy that accounts for dis/ability” (Waitoller & Thorius, 2016)

• Cultivating genius: An equity framework for culturally and historically responsive literacy (Muhammad, 2020)

• Culturally and linguistically responsive teaching and learning (Hollie, 2017)

• “Culturally relevant pedagogy 2.0: A.K.A. the remix” (Ladson-Billings, 2014)

• Culturally responsive teaching and the brain (Hammond, 2014)

• Culturally sustaining pedagogies: Teaching and learning for justice in a changing world (Paris & Alim, 2017)

• Equity-centered trauma-informed education (Venet, 2021)

• “Mirrors, windows, and sliding glass doors” (Bishop, 1990)

• “Note to educators: Hope required when growing roses in concrete” (Duncan-Andrade, 2009)

• Textured teaching: A framework for culturally sustaining practices (German, 2021)

• “The future of healing: Shifting from trauma-informed care to healing centered engagement” (Ginwright, 2018)

• We want to do more than survive: Abolitionist teaching and the pursuit of educational freedom (Love, 2020)

Resources to Support Book Clubs

• “100 best YA books of all time” (Time Magazine, 2021)

• Jody’s research articles about book clubs

• Reflective planning template

Other Books about Book Clubs

• Breathing new life into book clubs: A practice guide for teachers (Cherry-Paul & Johansen, 2019)

• Join the club! Bringing book clubs into middle schools (Czerwinski, 2013)

• Literature circles: Voice and choice in book clubs & reading groups (Daniels, 2001)

• The book club companion: Fostering strategic readers in the secondary classroom (O'Donnell-Allen, 2006)

• The teen-centered book club: Readers into leaders (Kunzel & Hardesty, 2006)

Books/Articles to Read

• Mental illness in young adult literature (Richmond, 2018)

• “(Mis)understanding culture: Literacy through lived experience” (Saldaña, 2020)

• “Oral reading: Practices and purposes in secondary classrooms” (Frankel & Brooks, 2018)

• “Reconsidering the hypothetical adolescent in evaluating and teaching young adult literature” (Sulzer & Thein, 2016)

• Teaching YA lit through differentiated instruction (Groenke & Scherff, 2011)

• “When SEL is used as another form of policing” (Kaler-Jones, 2020)

Free/Discounted Digital Texts & Audiobooks

• AudioFile Magazine Audiobooks

• BookBub

• NewsELA

• The Bluford Series

Information for Integration of Social Justice in Classrooms

• Learning for Justice

• NEA EdJustice

Resources to Support Book Clubs

• Anchor charts

• Book club daily schedule

• Book club promotional flyer

• Life map sample

• Peer feedback on fishbowl discussion organizer

• Speed meeting activity note-catcher

• Student profile

• Sultana’s starbooks cafe - Book tasting organizer + template

Diverse YAL Sites

• Booktoss

• Latinx in Kid Lit

• Reading While White

• Rich in Color: Reading & Reviewing Diverse YA Books

• Social Justice Books

• The Conscious Kid

• We Need Diverse Books

Book Club Funding Source

• Donors Choose

Books/Articles to Read

• “Community-based equity audits: A practical approach for educational leaders to support equitable community-school improvements” (Green, 2017)

• “Emancipatory pedagogy in practice: Aims, principles and curriculum orientation” (Nouri & Sajjadi, 2014)

• “Ending curriculum violence” (Jones, 2020)

• “How trauma-informed are we really?” (Gorski, 2020)

• “If we aren’t addressing racism, we aren’t addressing trauma” (Simmons, 2020)

• “The equity audit as the core of leading increasingly diverse schools and districts” in Leadership for Increasingly Diverse Schools (Capper & Young, 2015)

• “Trauma-informed teaching strategies” (Minahan, 2019)

• Using equity audits to create equitable and excellent schools (Skrla, McKenzie, & Scheurich, 2009)

Resources to Support Book Clubs

• Book pass activity

• Book club goals for reading and schedule sheet

• Equity audit walkthrough checklist

• Identity wheels | Google Docs | Google Slides

• Reading conference protocol

• Sample wall charts (What we’re reading & reading strategy)

Community Building & Discussion Resources

• Cult of pedagogy icebreakers that rock (Gonzalez, 2015)

• Morningside Center community building games

• New Visions for Public Schools literacy routines

• School Reform Initiative discussion protocols

• Theatre of the pppressed games (MacDonald & Rachel, 2000)

Books/Articles to Read

• Free voluntary reading (Krashen, 2011) and other articles by Stephen Krashen

• "Problematizing literature circles as forums for discussion of multicultural and political texts" (Thein et al., 2011)

• “Queer (v.) pedagogy” (Shlasko, 2006)

• Reading instruction that works: The case for balanced teaching (Pressley & Allington, 2014)

• “To read or not to read: A question of national consequence” (National Endowment for the Arts, 2007)

Resources to Support Book Clubs

• Book club celebrations and jigsaws note-catcher

• Book club role sheets

• Book club tracker (Formative assessment)

• Independent reading bookmark and more samples

• Independent reading conference log

• Questioning mini-lesson

• Questions/prompts for book club journals

• Responding without judgment mini-lesson

Books/Articles to Read

• “Centering Black girls’ literacies: A review of literature on the multiple ways of knowing of Black girls” (Muhammad & Haddix, 2016)

• Educating for empathy (Mirra, 2018)

• Falling in love with close reading: Lessons for analyzing texts — and life (Lehman & Roberts, 2013)

• Healing the soul wound: Trauma-informed counseling for Indigenous communities, 2nd edition (Duran, 2019)

• Hope and healing in urban education: How urban activists and teachers are reclaiming matters of the heart (Ginwright, 2015)

• Leave no child behind: Preparing today’s youth for tomorrow’s world (Comer, 2005)

• “Social emotional learning for social emotional justice” (Strong & McMain, 2020)

• Teaching reading to Black adolescent males: Closing the achievement gap (Tatum, 2005)

• Teaching with the heart in mind: A complete educator’s guide to social emotional learning (Perez, 2021)

• Teaching word meanings (Stahl & Nagy, 2006)

• “Transformative social and emotional learning (SEL): Toward SEL in service of educational equity and excellence” (Jagers, Rivas-Drake & Williams, 2019)

• “What content-area teachers should know about adolescent literacy” (National Institute for Literary, 2007)

• “Why we can’t afford whitewashed social-emotional learning” (Simmons, 2019)

Resources to Support Book Clubs

• Making connections mini-lesson

• Making inferences mini-lesson

• Science fiction/fantasy YAL that center social justice issues

• Strategies and sample questions for combining literacy development with emotional & identity-based engagements

Social-Emotional Learning Resources

• Abolitionist Teaching Network

• CASEL.org

• EdTrust.org Report (2020): “Social, emotional, and academic development through an equity lens”

Explicit Literacy Instruction Resources

• All about adolescent literacy: Explicit comprehension strategy instruction guide and research-based strategy bank

• NCTE’s ReadWriteThink’s Classroom Resources

• Understood: What is explicit instruction? (Greene)

Books/Articles to Read

• “Amplifying academic talk: High-quality discussions in the language of comfort” (Metz, 2020)

• Classroom talk for social change: Critical conversations in English language arts (Schieble, Vetter, & Martin, 2020)

• “Explicitly teaching listening in the ELA curriculum: Why and how” (Alford, 2020)

• Finding joy in teaching students of diverse backgrounds: Culturally responsive and socially just practices in U.S. classrooms (Nieto, 2013)

• “From assets to agents of change: Social justice, organizing, and youth development” (Ginwright & James, 2002)

• “How to tame a wild tongue” in Borderlands/La Frontera (Anzaldúa, 1987)

• “Let’s talk: Guide to facilitating critical conversations with students” (Learning for Justice, 2019)

• Linguistic justice: Black language, literacy, identity, and pedagogy (Baker-Bell, 2020)

• Not light but fire: How to lead meaningful race conversations in the classroom (Kay, 2018)

• "Wounded healing: Forming a storytelling community in hip-hop lit” (Hill, 2009)

Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) Resources

• Becoming critical researchers: Literacy and empowerment for urban youth (Morrell, 2004)

• “Collaborative inquiry: Youth, social action, and critical qualitative research” (Caraballo & Lyiscott, 2018)

• Doing youth participatory action research (Mirra, Garcia, & Morrell, 2016)

• “Reinvigorating multicultural education through youth participatory action research” (Irizarry, 2009)

• Revolutionizing education: Youth participatory action research in motion (Cammarota & Fine, 2008)

• University of California, Berkeley: YPAR Hub

• “YPAR and critical epistemologies: Rethinking education research” (Caraballo et al., 2017)

Resources to Support Book Clubs

• Critical listening exercise

• Four types of listening activity

• Resources for talking to white students about racism

• Resources for teaching critical theories

• Sample books for book clubs to cultivate social-emotional learning

• Texts about youth activists

• Texts to support emergent bi/multilingual learners

Critical Literacy Resources

• “Critical book clubs: Reimagining literature reading and response” (Jocius & Shealy, 2018)

• “Critical literacy: Foundational notes” (Luke, 2012)

• “Critical literacy in action: Difference as a force for positive change” (Janks, 2020)

• “Critical literature pedagogy: Teaching canonical literature for critical literacy” (Borsheim-Black, Macaluso, & Petrone, 2014)

• Literacy: Reading the world and the word (Freire & Macedo, 1987)

• “Reading the (heteronormative) world: Critical literacy and LGBTQ+ book clubs” (Meixner & Scupp, 2020)

• “Teaching about language, power, and text: A review of classroom practices that support critical literacy” (Behrman, 2006)

• “Unsettling the ‘white savior’ narrative: Reading Huck Finn through a critical race theory/critical whiteness studies lens” (Dyches & Thomas, 2020)

Books/Articles to Read

• “Blogging about books” (Stewart-Mitchell, 2020)

• Book Chapter: “Bridging islands to build a continent: Harnessing the power of digital book clubs during the COVID-19 pandemic” (Polleck & Smith, 2021)

• Dismantling contemporary deficit thinking: Educational thought and practice (Valencia, 2010)

• “In Philadelphia, teacher book groups are the engine of change” (Riley & Cohen, 2017)

• “Student-led conferences: Resources for educators” (Cronin, 2016)

Resources to Support Book Clubs

• Sample letter and survey for families

• Sample student inventory