April 12, 2017

Spring 2017: OWP Director Linda Christensen and OWP Writing Coach Recently Published

Two local educators are featured in this Spring’s issue of Rethinking Schools magazine.

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.”