Engage and Empower - by Mary Amanda Stewart & Christina Salazar & Victor Antonio Lozada (Paperback)

About the Book

Book Synopsis

This edited book provides ready-to-use engaging curriculum units for an integrated approach to teaching English language arts and U.S. history in grades 4-12.

Review Quotes

For social studies educators, it's past time to reconsider whose lives are given space in the histories, geographies, civics, and economics we teach in our classrooms. In each chapter of Engage and Empower: Expanding the Curriculum for Justice and Activism, teacher-researchers draw from their lived experiences to provide a curriculum that unapologetically centers students who've been pushed to the margins. This book is a starter kit for emancipatory educators.

When you are ready, the beautiful work awaits you...Fill yourself with inspiration, tune out the noise, and remember that you and your students are powerful and unstoppable.

With this text, educators and literacy professionals now have a roadmap to follow when preparing justice-oriented lessons for children in grades 4-12 classrooms. The authors of this text do an amazing job of making abstract concepts related to social justice into practical, inquiry-based instruction.

About the Author

Mary Amanda (Mandy) Stewart is Associate Professor of Literacy at Texas Woman's University and the co-author of But Does This Work English Learners? A Guide for ELA Teachers, Grades 6-12.

Christina Salazar is school librarian, former high school teacher, and doctoral student at Texas Woman's University.

Christina Thomas is a teachers and doctoral student at Texas Woman's University.

Victor Antonio Lozada is a music educator and doctoral candidate at Texas Woman's University