Introduction
by Amanda VandeHei-Carter, Nayelee Villanueva, and Christine Clark
Part I: Literacy and Language Arts Education in the Community
Chapter 1: Understanding Water as Social, Political, and Natural: An Example of Transformative Multicultural Literacy Teaching and Learning
by Jeannette Driscoll Alarcón, Benjamin Francisco, Dara Nix-Stevenson, and Laura Shelton
Chapter 2: Curation as a Literacy Practice: Bringing a Critical Lens to Traditional Field Trip Spaces
by Amy Tondreau and Laurie Rabinowitz
Chapter 3: Place-Based Literacies for a Multicultural World: A Framework for Literacy and Language Arts Curriculum Transformation in Rural Communities
by Vicki Sherbert, Eileen Montalvo Wertzberger, and Ernestina Wiafe
Part II: Literacy and Language Arts Education in the Classroom
Chapter 4: The Question Matters Most: Using Student-Generated Inquiry Questions to Promote Student Agency and Curiosity in Texts in Classes of Diverse Learners
by Merida Lang and Molly Sherman
Chapter 5: Using Text Sets to Support the Development of Biliteracy in “English-only” Elementary Classrooms
by Rhianna Henry, Aja E. LaDuke, and Alexandra Porrata
Chapter 6: Backwards Design and Reading Complexity Circles
by Kristen R. Strom
Chapter 7: Toward a Critical Translanguaging Pedagogy: An AsianCrit Perspective
by Sharon Chang and Yaojia Qu
Chapter 8: Creating Culturally Relevant Classroom Libraries Using Children’s Voices
by Socorro García-Alvarado
Part III: Literacy and Language Arts Education and Sense of Belonging
Chapter 9: Disrupting Whiteness in Classroom Libraries: Using the Windows and Mirrors Metaphor in Teacher Education
by Alisun Thompson and Judith A. Scott
Chapter 10: Inviting Decolonizing Analysis through Primary Sources: Constructing an Ethnic Studies Unit for Language Learners on the History of Segregation in California Schools
by Tricia Gallagher-Geurtsen
Chapter 11: “My Heaviest Verse’ll Move a Mountain:” Hip Hop-Based Writing Instruction in the High School English Language Arts Classroom
by Melody Andrews and Brittany Goldsby
Chapter 12: Transformative Assessment: Ungrading
by Nayelee Villanueva, Christine Beaudry, and Amanda VandeHei-Carter
Coda
by Amanda VandeHei-Carter, Nayelee Villanueva, and Christine Clark