Re-Building Your Textual Lineage

What we teach and how we teach reading is under fire from multiple fronts these days. This retreat will provide a safe space for us as teachers to reconnect with our own experience as readers, to reconnect with our why for teaching reading, and to reflect on the texts and authors who have shaped us and how we show up in our world and in our classrooms. The inspiration for this reading and writing retreat is two fold: (1) Alfred Tatum’s book Reading for Their Life: (Re) Building the Textual Lineage of African American Adolescent Males and (2) the spiritual practice of lectio divina, or holy reading.

Over the course of three weeks, we will use writing and listening to one another as tools to help us remember and reexamine our personal canon of texts that have shaped us, our beliefs, and our aspirations. We will consciously reflect on our lineage through the lenses of our different identities, especially our racial identity, bringing awareness to where our own biases shape our textual history. And, we will explore new texts that we want to include in our lineage moving forward to help us stretch our perspective of ourselves and of our world.

Together, let’s each create an inspiring, transformative reading ritual and reading list for the new year that will nurture and re-ignite our love for reading.

Three 90 minute sessions, 7-8:30 PM EST

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Cost: $75