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Hearing Each Voice is a podcast that examines when teaching writing can be harmful to students, acknowledges that adopting new approaches to teaching are not easy, and attempts to help instructors find some practical changes that can be incorporated in the classroom. The first episode of Hearing Each Voice addresses why an antiracist writing pedagogy is necessary. The second episode explores how these new approaches to teaching writing can transform an individual’s classroom and an institution. The third episode takes a single assignment from a general education music class and re-shapes it ...

The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop is a call to create healthy, sustainable, and empowering classroom communities. Award-winning educator Felicia Rose Chavez exposes the invisible politics of power and privilege that have silenced writers of color for far too long. It's more urgent than ever that we consciously work against traditions of dominance in the classroom, but what specific actions can we take to achieve authentically inclusive communities? The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop is a clear, compelling guidebook on a necessary step forward.

The current curricular emphasis on analytical writing can make it feel risky to teach creative writing in ELA classrooms. But the opportunity to write fiction in school opens many doors for young people: doors the author argues are critical to the development of our students, our education system, and even our democracy. This book will delight English teachers weary of focusing relentlessly on argument and information writing.