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=Professional Development = 

This page was created in order to share books related to your profession. We have our very own Bess Altwerger and Steve Mogge among our featured authors.

 =__ Grant Money Available! __ =  The Alumni Association offers several grants, awards, and scholarships to current students, alumni, and faculty.  One is the __Professional Development Grant__ of up to $1000 towards professional development for TU alumni. Since many of our graduate students are also TU undergraduate alumni, they could be eligible for this award.   They also award the __Community Grant__, which is open for students, faculty, staff and alumni to apply for up to $1000 towards a community service project and/or activity. In the past, students have received the award for work they were doing on class projects or community service projects as part of a TU organization. TU faculty have also won the grant in the past.  For more information and applications, go to: http://www.towson.edu/alumni/awards/index.asp and/or contact Jennifer Pawlo-Johnstone, Director of Alumni Services at 410.704.2234, or https://tiger.towson.edu/openwebmail2/cgi-bin/openwebmail/openwebmail-send.pl?sessionid = =

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Confronting Intolerance: Critical, Responsive Literacy Instruction with Adult Immigrants Author: Stephen Mogge Confronting Intolerance: Critical, Responsive Literacy Instruction with Adult Immigrants captures the experience of adult immigrants who are improving their English literacy while confronting an intolerant political culture. It examines recent immigration policy and the anti-immigrant fervor that has gripped the United States and describes the perseverance and struggles of immigrant students to pursue their goals through literacy education. The book offers a powerful and vivid example of critical pedagogy blended with sociocultural perspectives of literacy education in an effort to raise student consciousness and alter the political culture. Confronting Intolerances is an ethnographic, teacher research narrative that describes a year in the life of the author’s classroom with adult Latino immigrants, mostly Mexican, in a Chicago, Illinois (USA) settlement house. Specific focus is given to immigrant students’ response to reading material that was selected to meet individual ambitions but was also selected to meet the concerns and anxieties that surfaced in response to the intolerant climate. The book describes students’ engagement with narrative and informational reading and displays the students’ evolving perspectives on politics, economics, culture, and race as these relate to Latino immigrants in the United States. Through extensive classroom dialogue and descriptions of students engaged in political activities, the book explores the students’ emerging sense of what it means to become “American” amidst an immigrant backlash. It takes the reader through a year in a settlement house classroom, and reveals the hopes, dreams, and struggles of immigrants who continue to pursue America’s promises—those realized and those broken. https://www.sensepublishers.com/product_info.php?products_id=627&osCsid=5f9b0fe4df740366b22622a75f8159a9

= = =Rereading Fluency: Process, Practice, and Policy (Paperback)= by [|Bess Altwerger] (Author), [|Nancy Jordan] (Author), [|Nancy Rankie Shelton] (Author)

Amazon.com review by reader by Vickie Bockenkamp, Educational Consultant: Rereading Fluency: Process, Practice, and Policy is a solid look at the research behind the parameters of the No Child Left Behind Act and a must read for anyone who is interested in what is currently happening to our public education system. Stop blaming the teachers and take a good look at the research behind what teachers and administrators are required to do to meet national education standards. This book is a real eye-opener!

Coiro,J., Knobel,M., Lankshear,C., & Leu,D. (2008). //Handbook of research on new literacies.// New York, New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates