Topic: Textured Teaching

Our political and social influences build our point of view and lead to bias. Examine your positionality and teaching context in this excerpt from Textured Teaching.

Lorena Germán emphasizes the need to recognize and act on the long-standing injustices infused in our schools and curricula.

Lorena Germán discusses the racial silence in stories as a bias we need to address, and invites us to interrogate our imaginations.

Heinemann Podcast Commuter Series: Making the Work in Your Class Relevant

After living and teaching through a pandemic for over two years, we all need time to process and release in a collective manner. Where do we start?

Lorena, Carla, and Luz join the podcast to talk about the many ways in which their work overlaps, and uncover new ways of honoring students’ rich linguistic lives.

Heinemann authors are exemplary educators eager to support the practice of other teachers. Allow yourself the enjoyment and benefits of being read to -- by them.

Today on the podcast we have a sample from Textured Teaching: A Framework for Culturally Sustaining Practices, read by author Lorena Germán.

Lorena and Towanda talk about teaching that goes beyond just student centered, and is both student driven and community centered.

Heinemann is pleased to announce the latest addition to our growing line of audiobooks, Textured Teaching: A Framework for Culturally Sustaining Practices by Lorena Escoto Germán.

An activity which builds classroom community and raises social consciousness around the unique history of the land on which our schools reside.

Lorena shares her framework for creating a classroom environment that is highly rigorous and engaging, and that reflects the core traits of Textured Teaching.

Author Lorena Escoto Germán in conversation with veteran educator and writer José Luis Vilson as they discuss and celebrate the launch of Lorena’s new book, Textured Teaching: A Framework for Culturally Sustaining Practices.

Textured Teaching is not linear, but cyclical. At the core of Textured Teaching is a culturally sustaining pedagogy, and out of that flows the values of social justice teaching.