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Teaching
Equity-Conscious Literacy:
A Framework for Design and Implementation
By Jaguanana Lathan and Julie Goldman
Literacy is more than reading and writing. It shapes how students communicate, make meaning, develop knowledge, and engage with the world.
Teaching Equity-Conscious Literacy offers educators a practical framework for creating rigorous, responsive, and meaningful literacy learning across content areas.
A Framework for Powerful Literacy Learning
At the center of the Equity-Conscious Language and Literacy Framework is culturally and linguistically responsive instruction, connected to four domains:
Building for Belonging — Creating learning environments where students feel seen, valued, connected, and capable.
Connecting Community Learning — Connecting learning to students’ families, communities, cultures, experiences, and the world beyond the classroom.
Cultivating Reflective Practice — Using reflection, evidence, inquiry, and feedback to strengthen teaching and respond to student learning.
Teaching for Mastery — Building the knowledge, skills, confidence, and agency students need to become powerful readers, writers, thinkers, and communicators.
From Framework to Practice
The book brings together research, practical tools, reflection, and examples to help educators move from ideas to action across classrooms, schools, and systems.
Bring the Work to Your School or System
Bring Teaching Equity-Conscious Literacy to life through professional learning and customized support for schools and systems.
Meet the Authors
Jaguanana “Jag” Lathan and Julie Goldman bring decades of experience as teachers, leaders, coaches, curriculum designers, and facilitators. Together, their work focuses on strengthening literacy teaching, learning, and leadership across classrooms, schools, and systems.
Dr. Jaguanana Lathan, Ed.D
Julie Goldman, Ed.D
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