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James E. Warren; Staci Hammer; Tiffany Stokes; Sarah Endsley; Elizabeth Kuhns – English in Texas, 2024
The 2017 TEKS revision, the 2023 STAAR redesign, and the 2024 TCTELA conference theme call on literacy professionals to "forge the future of literacy" in Texas. Specifically, the future demands that we more fully integrate reading and writing instruction and that we help students develop a deeper understanding of author's purpose and…
Descriptors: Literacy, Futures (of Society), Reading Instruction, Writing Instruction
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Stewart, Mary Amanda – English in Texas, 2016
The unique challenges (and promises) teachers encounter today can be informed by the past. What literacy and language education mean for Mary Stewart, assistant professor of bilingual and English as a Second Language (ESL) education at Texas Woman's University, is a product of what it has meant for educators like her grandmother and mother. In…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Second Language Instruction, English Instruction, English Teachers
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Gold, David – College Composition and Communication, 2003
This essay examines the pedagogical practices of the poet, civil rights activist, and teacher Melvin B. Tolson who taught at Wiley College from 1923 to 1947. Tolson's complex classroom style, which mixed elements of classical, African American, and current-traditional rhetoric, produced a pedagogy that was at once conservative, progressive, and…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Rhetoric, Activism, Social Action