Literacy Landscapes

Thais Miller is a writer, educator, editor, and doctoral candidate. In this episode, we discuss the creative writing process, the challenges of revision and feedback, and the teaching of writing. For more information about Thais, you can visit her website at https://thaismiller.wordpress.com/

Janny Perez is a Colombian-American multilingual parenting mom, founder of Mi Legasi, podcast host of The Latina Mom Legacy, and bilingual parenting educator. Jenny recently published “Nobody Told Me This About Raising a Bilingual Child,” which can be found at the following link . Janny Perez Website: milegasi.com Instagram & FB @milegasi Link to Janny's podcast: The Latina Mom Legacy Link...

In this episode, Johanna interviews Dr. Adam Tramantano about his new book, Consider the Volley: How We Make Sense of Things. You can access his book on Amazon at this link . You can also learn more about Adam, and his artwork, at his website https://tramantano.com/ You can also access the article Adam references, Constructing a Pedagogy of Apparentness, at the following link.

In this brief episode, I discuss my "Why" as Simon Sinek would say, for why literacy matters to me. I'm excited about future episodes I'm planning, including: The connection between mathematics and literature, the importance of print rich environments in early literacy practices, interviewing Dr. Adam Tramantano about his newly released book, and planning a series on bilingual ed...

This episode is near and dear to my heart. I had the pleasure and honor of speaking about the Yiddish language, history, literature, and culture with two accomplished experts in the field. There are some powerful insights in this episode about how language shapes us. We explore the specific aspects of the Yiddish language, including the complexity of language through concise and highly nuanced lan...

Dr. Anthony Branker is an adjunct professor of jazz studies at Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts where his teaching responsibilities include graduate and undergraduate courses in jazz historiography, composition & arranging, theory, improvisation, directing the Avant Garde Ensemble and Jazz Lab Big Band, and serving as a university supervisor for pre-service music education stu...

This episode explores chronic health conditions, including CSID and Crohn's disease (IBD) through two different perspectives: comedy and fitness! Comedian Antonia Lassar @antonialastar and fitness professional Aliz David @thechronicallyfitcoach share incredible insights into their own journey, and how they use their individual platforms to educate and entertain. As the host, I open up about my own...

In this episode, Social Studies educator, author, and podcaster David Sherrin discusses engagement and assessment strategies in the social studies classroom and shares innovative and meaningful ways to help students communicate their understanding through a variety of modalities. For more information, visit  https://www.davidsherrin.com/  Link to Authentic Assessment in Social Studies: A...

Naomi Vladeck discusses the ways in which we use internal language to create and manage “threats” to our creativity, and ways to overcome those limiting thoughts and how creativity is the literacy of what really can't be said. We so often talk about understanding how words are constructed in various spaces. But is it possible that there are inexplicable literacies? What are the literacies we bring...

Dr. Paula Washington is an accomplished musician and educator. In this episode, learn more about the neuroscience of music performance and communication. Dr. Washington shares details about her compelling dissertation. References: Washington, P. S. (1993). An electroencephalographic study of musical performance: Imagined versus actual playing and solo versus chamber playing . New York University.

On Literacy Landscapes, we re-examine literacy theory and watch it in action today. We'll give you an inside look into the classroom and take you outside to where play and practice meet.