Overview As a White educator, my commitment to disrupting oppressive education practices must be as internal as it is external. I must recognize my own biases and take responsibility for how my actions perpetuate racist systems. Educating myself about how my White identity shapes my worldviews is an important part of that process. In the …
In the below paper, I describe a reading comprehension observation, evaluation, and analysis I performed to develop strategies to help a student reading below grade-level better access, comprehend, and perform higher-order thinking activities on course texts. The student I worked with had previously progressed out of ESL programming, but the tactics I outline are appropriate …