Joy, Criticality, and Transformation: Leveraging Family Literacy Projects to Broaden Elementary Teachers’ Perspectives of Home Literacy Practices

For decades, schools and teachers have embraced the importance of productive home-school partnerships as key pathways to children’s school success but for many children home and school experiences remain largely disconnected. A family literacy project (FLP) that embeds joy and criticality has great potential to broaden elementary teachers’ perspectives of home literacy practices and how they connect out-of-school experiences to classroom literacy instruction. This talk will focus on a qualitative study that employed a multiple-case design that examined teachers’ and caregivers’ efforts to bridge home and school literacies as they simultaneously engaged in an after-school family literacy program. Findings of this study position FLPs as a tool to engage deeply with families, honor the racial, linguistic, and cultural diversity of students, and support connections between home and school that strengthen literacy development

When 10:45 am to 12:00 pm on Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Location Wheelock, Room 423, 2 Silber Way / zoom