Closing the Opportunity Gap: Promoting Access and Equity through Literacy
Workshop 2: Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy
This second Center for Reading Recovery and Literacy Collaborative's workshop will feature Gholnecsar (Gholdy) Muhammad. Gholdy is a leader who strives to shape the national conversation for educating youth that have been underserved. Currently an associate professor of Language and Literacy at Georgia State University, she serves as the director of the Urban Literacy Collaborative and Clinic. Her career also includes having served as a school district curriculum director responsible for K-12 literacy instruction, assessments, and professional development, and as a reading, language arts, and social studies middle school teacher.
She has received numerous national awards and is the author of the best-selling book, Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy.
This workshop, offered either on-campus or virtually, is appropriate for PreK-10 classroom teachers, interventionists and specialists; literacy coaches and teacher leaders; and district and school leaders.
More information, pricing, and registration for Gholdy Muhammad workshop. Attendees will earn 6 professional development hours for participating in this workshop.
Workshop 3 will be part of the Summer Literacy Institute. Learn more and register for the Summer Literacy Institute and presenter Liz Kleinrock.