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Feature Videos
1st Annual Northwest Conference on Teaching for Social Justice
The Power Of Language In School
Keynote Speaker: Linda Christensen
Using stories and examples from her 30 years as an inner city classroom teacher in Portland, Ore., Linda Christensen will explore how she engages students in a critical study about the power of language.
She shows how she grounds her curriculum in students' language and lives, teaches students to pose essential questions about language and society, and encourages them to reflect on ways to make a difference in the world. Christensen shows concretely how we can value our students' diverse cultures while giving them access to the language and tools of power.
Linda Christensen taught high school language arts in Portland, Ore. for thirty years and is now the Director of the Oregon Writing Project at Lewis & Clark College. She is the author of Reading, Writing, and Rising Up: Teaching About Social Justice and the Power of the Written Word, and co-editor of Rethinking School Reform: Views from the Classroom, and Rethinking Our Classrooms: Teaching for Equity and Justice. She is on the editorial board of Rethinking Schools magazine. Her latest book, Teaching for Joy and Justice will be published in the spring of 2009.
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