Lorena Germán shares her framework for creating a classroom environment that is highly rigorous and engaging, and that reflects the core traits of Textured Teaching: student-driven and community-centered, interdisciplinary, experiential, and flexible. With Culturally Sustaining Practice as its foundation, Textured Teaching helps secondary teachers stop wondering and guessing how to implement teaching and learning that leads to social justice. This episode is sponsored by Heinemann-the leading publisher of professional books and resources for educators-and their professional book, Textured Teaching: A Framework for Culturally Sustaining Practices by Lorena Escoto Germán. As an educator, trauma survivor, and author, Ashley brings her unique perspective to this topic and challenges us to look at the complexity of, not just book bans, but the human beings being affected by them most.kids. But why now? What caused the massive uproar? Why are certain books being attacked and others not? What does this tell us about our values in education and American society? To discuss these ideas and much more, I have brought on Ashley Hope Pérez, author of Out of Darkness-a book being targeted across the United States despite it being an award winning novel.

Authors of celebrated books are now being demonized, and more and more parents and special interest groups are raining their voices about books in schools. Hello everyone! It seems like any time you scroll through the news around education these days there are new reports of another book being banned.

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