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Creating Connectional and Critical Curriculum, A Sample Chapter from Family Dialogue Journals
Publication: Family Dialogue Journals: School-Home Partnerships That Support Student Learning
Date: March 5, 2015
Summary: In this chapter the authors discuss what they have learned from families and how family funds of knowledge became central to their curriculum, creating what they call a "connectional curriculum"—practices that link classroom learning with families and communities.
Family Dialogue Journals: School-Home Partnerships That Support Student Learning
(Teachers College Press and National Writing Project, February 2015)
Excerpt from Chapter
Journals allow students, parents, and teachers to engage actively as they question and reason together. Inquiry has the power to transform a list of learning objectives into powerful topics of discussion and negotiation. As we participated in a more inquiry-based approach in our classrooms, we found that because students are learning and understanding at a deeper level as they engage with the journals and their family members, there is actually enough time to fit it all in. More importantly, our students retained the knowledge much better because of the active role they played in questioning,inquiring, and learning."
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