Spring 2017: OWP Director Linda Christensen and OWP Writing Coach Recently Published
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Critical Literacy and Our Students’ Lives
by Linda Christensen, OWP Director
By focusing on the passions and skills her students already had, Linda Christensen was able to create a sancocho (thick stew)-style curriculum with a basic process that helps students see their experiences in the context of the larger world.
Standing with Standing Rock: A Role Play on the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL)
by Ursula Wolfe-Rocca, OWP Teacher Consultant
An Oregon high school social studies teacher centers Standing Rock Sioux history and leadership in a unit on resistance to DAPL. “Here [is] a fascinating and important story—a story that literally cannot be told without recognizing Native peoples as full participants in their own, and U.S., history.”
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