Walking the Talk: Promoting Middle School Philosophy by Embracing Student Voices

This practitioner perspective responds to recent scholarship calling for reinvigorating middle level education by suggesting that the purposeful inclusion of student voices in collaborative learning activities can help educators champion the academic and social growth of early adolescents. The recent practicum experience of a preservice candidate who prioritized the voices of her students illustrates the promotion of democratic education, innovation, and social justice in middle level education

Toward Diversity in Texts: Using Global Literature to Cultivate Critical Perspectives

Abstract Literature study in the 21st Century should be characterized by the inclusion of global texts that afford diverse students the opportunity to engage in their literacy development through and alongside authors, characters, and storylines that represent their own linguistic and cultural traditions. In this narrative analysis, I reflect on the importance of equity-driven literature study from my perspective as a teacher educator at a Hispanic-Serving Institution in the Southwestern United States. Following an introduction to the political and institutional contexts surrounding text selection in schools and a brief review of the literature, I situate myself and my students as striving to ensure that adolescents see themselves reflected in the texts they read. I then document the pedagogical moves made by preservice teachers to introduce global literature into school curriculum, both as primary works and as supplemental bridge texts. I argue that offering multicultural literature with critical literacy components is a culturally responsive choice that invites students from all backgrounds to participate in the academic community

Encounter and counter: Critical media literacy in teacher education

This practitioner article describes the recent implementation of critical media literacy (CML) activities in secondary teacher education at a large university in the Southwestern United States. Preservice teachers in a content area literacy course analyzed a variety of media coverage of events that occurred near their university. Using an analytical framework for approaching texts, images, and messages, preservice teachers practiced critical exploration of media sources and motivations while articulating hidden figures of power and authority behind the dissemination of content for public consumption. Highlighting the pursuit of independent media and the cultivation of intellectual self-defense, this “Voices from the Field” article shares curricular artifacts, along with student responses to media and reflections on their developing pedagogies, to show how future teachers developed CML skills in their preservice coursework

The expanded tomato fruit volatile landscape

[EN] The present review aims to synthesize our present knowledge about the mechanisms implied in the biosynthesis of volatile compounds in the ripe tomato fruit, which have a key role in tomato flavour. The difficulties in identifiying not only genes or genomic regions but also individual target compounds for plant breeding are addressed. Ample variability in the levels of almost any volatile compound exists, not only in the populations derived from interspecific crosses but also in heirloom varieties and even in commercial hybrids. Quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for all tomato aroma volatiles have been identified in collections derived from both intraspecific and interspecific crosses with different wild tomato species and they (i) fail to co-localize with structural genes in the volatile biosynthetic pathways and (ii) reveal very little coincidence in the genomic regions characterized, indicating that there is ample opportunity to reinforce the levels of the volatiles of interest. 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Technology and Literary Analysis: Exploring New Literacies in Secondary English

The high school English classroom is a complex space of literacy practices and communicative interaction. Teachers and students engage in literature study in ways that are dialogic and multifaceted. The navigation of both print and digital texts along with the constructive operations surrounding those texts including the textual operations conducted as part of critical analysis offers a setting thick with meaning-making and rich with ideas and action. Using the Youth Lens framework for literature studies with young adults, in conjunction with a New Literacies Studies perspective that emphasizes literacy as a series of social practices made possible by the social and cultural contexts that shape the texts and textual actions created by social beings as members of communities, this dissertation examines technology-based literary analysis in a high school English classroom. The purpose of this ethnographic study was to understand the sociocultural literacy operations constructed and functioning in a secondary English classroom. Specifically, the central research question was, “how do different technologies facilitate different types of literary analysis for high school English students?” The qualitative approach of ethnography was implemented in order to explore understand how technology integration affected the analysis of literature and to describe the new literacy community within the classroom setting. Findings show that new, innovative analyses of literature are possible when a proper curricular and pedagogical alignment has been made by teachers and learners that includes essential unit questions, overarching course goals of student understanding, implementation of conducive technology, and complimentary literacy practices

Faculty Perceptions of Course Redesign

Purpose: TO UNDERSTAND THE PERCEPTIONS OF COMMUNITY COLLEGE FACULTY SURROUNDING THE TOPIC OF COURSE REDESIG

Toward a Trauma-Informed Campus: Reflections on Fostering Student Success through San Juan College’s Trauma Literacy Project

During its Fall 2020 semester, San Juan College instituted a trauma literacy project (TLP) in response to the disproportionate effect that the COVID-19 pandemic had on its student population, 32% of whom identify as Native American. The purpose of the TLP was to infuse equity and student support throughout the programming, which consisted of professional development events aimed at increasing trauma awareness on campus as well as a trauma literacy designation pathway for instructors. Participants in the TLP reported better understanding of how to support students through trauma-informed practices. Although there was substantial participation in the programming, several steps need to be taken to catalyze an institutional cultural shift regarding trauma and equity issues moving forward