IT WAS A SHORT, BUSY SUMMER…
The following lists of texts represent what consumed my summer and caused a temporary BLOG hiatus. My summer was spent engaged in graduate work for my Ed.S., teaching a pre-service education course, and facilitating a collaborative inquiry cadre focused on digital literacy. Limited opportunities for weekend road trips allowed me to enjoy a few examples of the best of young adult literature. When all was said and done, I spent relatively little time focused on literacy instruction specifically but still strengthen my resolve around the systemic (local, state, and national) need to advocate for our CLD students (and their teachers) in urban education. My focus will always be literacy, but literacy instruction involves much more than skills. We must provide all students with relevant, rigorous, and empowering learning experiences that incorporate resources present in the unique knowledge and experiences of each child. You may see that as a common thread in many of the resources listed below. These are not all of the texts I read this summer; here I seek to share resources I found most impactful to my thinking as a parent, an educator and an instructional leader.
Culturally Responsive/Sustaining Pedagogies
Culture in School Learning: Revealing the Deep Meaning, 3rd Edition
Etta R. Hollins (c) 2015
Culturally Responsive Teaching: Theory, Research, and Practice
Geneva Gay (c) 2010
Culturally Responsive Teaching & the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement & Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students
Zaretta Hammond (c) 2015
Building Racial and Cultural Competence in the Classroom: Strategies from Urban Educators
Karen Manheim Teel & Jennifer E. Obidah (c) 2008
Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies: Teaching and Learning for Justice in a Changing World
Django Paris & H. Samy Alim (Eds.) (c) 2017
Literacy Topics Across the Curriculum
Developing Readers in the Academic Disciplines
Doug Buehl (c) 2011 – New Edition Released 2017
Literacy in the Disciplines: A Teachers Guide for Grades 6-12
Thomas DeVere Wolsey & Diane Lapp (c) 2017
Collaborative Coaching for Disciplinary Literacy Strategies to Support Teachers 6-12
L. Elish-Piper, S.K. L’Allier, M. Manderino, P. Di Domenico (c) 2016
Collaborative Inquiry for Educators 
Jenni Donohoo (c) 2013
Connected Reading: Teaching Adolescent Readers in a Digital World
Kristen Hawley Turner & Troy Hicks (c) 2015
Young Adult Literature
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Benjamin Alire Saenz (c) 2012
The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas (c) 2017
Everything I Never Told You
Celeste Ng (c) 2014
Echo
Pam Munoz Ryan (c) 2015
I am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World
Malala Yousafzai with Patricia McCormick (c) 2014
March: Book Three
John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, & Nate Powell (c) 2016
SOME Still on the Book Pile (Or in Process)
For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood…and the Rest of Y’all Too
Christopher Emdin (c) 2016
Collective Efficacy: How Educators’ Beliefs Impact Student Learning
Jenni Donohoo (c) 2017
Developing Readers in the Academic Disciplines
Doug Buehl (c) 2017
Everything, Everything 
Nicola Yoon (c) 2017
American Street
Ibi Zoboi (c) 2017
What summer reading impacted your practice as a teacher or your functioning as a citizen? I can add those to the pending list. Have a great school year!