Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategy is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help designed to shape the futures we want to live. Change is constant. The world is in a continual state of flux. It is a stream of ever-mutating, emergent patterns. Rather than steel ourselves against such change, this book invites us to feel, map, assess, and learn from the swirling patterns around us in order to better understand and influence them as they happen. This is a resolutely materialist spirituality based equally on science and science fiction, a visionary incantation to transform that which ultimately transforms us.

Emdin argues that being ratchetdemic, or both ratchet and academic (like having rap battles about science, for example), can empower students to embrace themselves, their backgrounds, and their education as parts of a whole, not disparate identities. This means celebrating protest, disrupting the status quo, and reclaiming the genius of youth in the classroom.

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Description to come, based on individual reports.

Description to come, based on individual reports.

In Cultivating Genius, Dr. Gholdy Muhammad presents a four-layered equity framework-one that is grounded in history and restores excellence in literacy education. Muhammad's Historically Responsive Literacy Framework is essential for all students, especially youth of color, who traditionally have been marginalized in learning standards, school policies, and classroom practices. The framework promotes four learning goals-or pursuits: Identity development; defining self; making sense of one's values and beliefs Skill development; developing proficiencies through reading and writing meaningful content Intellectual development; gaining knowledge and becoming smarter Criticality; developing the ability to read texts to understand power, authority, and oppression When these four learning pursuits are taught together-through the Historically Responsive Literacy Framework- all students receive profound opportunities for personal, intellectual, and academic success. Muhammad provides probing, self-reflective questions for both teachers and students as well as bibliographies of culturally responsive text and sample lesson plans across grades and content areas.

A foundational aspect of this work was the development of the CEAR Lesson and Unit Plan Templates. Fellows met weekly for several months, studied the work of critical educational scholars, and engaged in professional development with organizations committed to anti-racist education. From these meetings, Fellows developed a template to create the CEAR curriculum.

A foundational aspect of this work was the development of the CEAR Education Project Principles and Practices. Fellows met weekly for several months, studied the work of critical educational scholars, and engaged in professional development with organizations committed to anti-racist education. From these meetings, Fellows developed a set of principles and practices that were used to guide the curriculum design.

A foundational aspect of this work was the development of the CEAR Lesson and Unit Plan Templates. Fellows met weekly for several months, studied the work of critical educational scholars, and engaged in professional development with organizations committed to anti-racist education. From these meetings, Fellows developed a template to create the CEAR curriculum.