Textured Teaching

A Framework for Culturally Sustaining Practices

De: Lorena Escoto Germán

Narrado por: Lorena Escoto Germán

“Be prepared to be embraced with words, images, stories, examples, experiences, and a love for teaching in community with young people toward social and cultural justice.” (Django Paris)

As middle and high school teachers, we know that students begin to develop racial identities and ideologies as early as preschool. By the time they reach us, there is much socializing and learning that needs to be undone. Textured teaching is a way to seamlessly embed the social justice work that is needed to undo; to begin to make things right.

With Culturally Sustaining Practice as its foundation, Textured Teaching helps secondary teachers in any school setting stop wondering and guessing how to implement teaching and learning that leads to social justice. Lorena 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, community centered, interdisciplinary, experiential, and flexible.

Throughout the book, Lorena shares lesson design strategies that build traditional literacy skills while supporting students in developing their social justice skills at the same time. The actionable strategies Lorena uses to bring Textured Teaching values to life illuminate what is possible when we welcome all types of texts, all types of voices, and all forms of expression into the classroom.

©2021 Lorena Escoto Germán (P)2021 Heinemann

INCREDIBLE

This is absolutely essential. It is so gracious and filled with love while being brilliant and incisive. Every educator, admin and human should read this. The reading by the author is so easy to listen to.

Fantastic, actionable tips and tools aimed at culturally responsive teaching

Wow! If I don’t get around to fully reviewing this, it is not for any lack on the part of Textured Teaching. This book offers so much in the way of actionable advice, tools, and techniques, all aimed at more equitable and culturally responsive teaching

Textured Teaching

Appreciate learning about a teaching journey with many connections to my own. I own both the text & now audio recording. Many points to return to, love that the audio was read by the author herself. The journals do something more for the reading experience. Shout out to the All of the Above family which is how I learned of Lorena Germán's work in education. Thankful to have a resource I can point fellow educators to as well. So much to revisit, quote & apply.

Almost Everything I Ever Wanted

As a youth, I was one of only a handful of racial minority students at my elementary and middle school. The school, as a whole, was incredibly racist on average and somewhat tolerant of “others” on a good day. Now, I am an educator and when I saw this books I was convinced the message was just for me! This book really is an insightful and helpful read.

Escoto Germán is an ELA teacher so all of her examples are geared towards ELA classrooms. I believe that much of this material can also be adapted to fit other subjects - particularly Social Studies - and it would have been lovely to hear her point out ways in which that could be done. I can see, though, how this would have made the book a much larger endeavor.

I was also a little disappointed by where the books ended. Towards the end, I really felt like the book was just getting really started or perhaps had caught its second wind and then it just…stopped. I feel there was much more to explore, to question, and to reimagine. However, I can see the possibility that Escoto Germán intentionally ended there not for a lack of want or resources but, perhaps, to nudge you to start that work yourself. So while I wish there had been more, I can’t say this is a true shortcoming of the book.

I listened to it, I read it on Kindle, I have recommended it to colleagues of different minority communities and, of course, to white colleagues as well. It’s not the whole conversation but it is a wonderful starter.