University at Albany - SUNY - Department of Literacy Teaching and Learning

08/01/2024

I’m delighted to share a new e-publication co-created by a multigenerational collective of K-12 teachers, teaching artists, university partners, and K-12 students. Within my capacity as Director of the Capital District Writing Project, I had the honor of forming the Freedom Dreaming for Educational Justice collective. In this book, we share our education freedom dreams – our visions of a more free and more equitable educational system and of a more free and more just world. We also share the tools and resources that inspired us and that we hope will inspire others to bring freedom dreaming into their own settings. The e-publication is full of arresting art and beautiful writing by this multigenerational collective (and all proceeds go to support our young writers workshops!).

We Are Dreaming of Freedom: Picturebook + Teaching Guide showcases the art and writing of a multigenerational collective of teachers, students, and future teachers dreaming new educational possibilities into existence.

07/12/2024

We continued our celebration with Capital District Writing Project high school writers dazzling us with their brilliance, poise, and heart. https://sites.google.com/view/discoveringyourvoice23

05/02/2024

Dr. Stephanie Affinito, with the University at Albany's EAP program, is offering a live workshop for educators on the power of growing a restorative reading practice this summer.

It's on May 14 at 12pm EST on Zoom. Sign up here!

04/08/2024

The AERA conference is coming soon and our ELTL department is well-represented. Here's a quick look at one session:

Dr, Kelly Wissman will be co-presenting with two graduate students, Hanum Tyagita (Literacy) and Vanessia Wilkins (ETAP) on April 11.

Their session is titled: Using My Own Face as a Frame: Visions of Racial Justice in the Freedom Dreaming Artwork Created by K-12 Students and Teachers.

Are you heading to AERA?

04/08/2024

Join Dr. Peter Johnston on April 17th at Skidmore College!

Children arrive in school with a range of personalities, competencies and experiences with literacy, language and life. A major challenge is ensuring that the least experienced and those with the greatest challenges, enthusiastically participate in the literate learning community with a sense of competence, belonging and positive literate identities. Solving this problem is easier if we recognize the significance of student engagement, treat literacy and learning as social as much as cognitive practices, recognize that literate learning is closely linked to social and emotional development, and take seriously the fact that the teacher is not the only source of learning in the classroom.

See below!

04/04/2024

Join Stephanie Affinito for a conversation on the power of restorative reading and writing with AATLAS next week!

Click below for more information.

https://albany.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYvfu2qpzsvEtGrhm4-gE_AHywSaVpj0qFN #/registration

01/17/2024

Welcome to the Spring semester! Classes officially begin today both on-campus and online. Here's to a wonderful semester filled with connection and literacy learning!