Laura B. Turchi is a teacher, educator, and author specializing in English Language Arts. She is clinical professor in English at Arizona State University, where she is the curriculum director for “RaceB4Race: Sustaining, Building, Innovating.” She also codirects The Shakespeare and Social Justice project funded by the Department of Education’s Assistance in Arts Education fund at the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles. She is coauthor of Teaching Shakespeare with Purpose: A Student-Centered Approach and author of Teaching Shakespeare with Interactive Editions.

• Introduction (by Laura B. Turchi)1. Building Community in an Anti-Racist Shakespeare Classroom (by Mary Jannel Metzger)2. Infusing Race and Other Identity Markers in Secondary-Classroom Study of Shakespeare: A Framework for Design of K–12 / Teacher Education Instruction (by Steven Z. Athanases, Julia G. Houk, Sergio L. Sanches, and Ofir L. Calahan)3. Teaching Shakespeare Here and Now, For Real: Lessons from the Folger Shakespeare Library and from Folger Classrooms (by Noelle Cammon, Peggy O’Brien, and Corinne Viglietta)4. Yes, We Can: Decentering Shakespeare in Our Classrooms (by Marilyn J. Halperin)5. Building Community on a Foundation of Shakespeare: Two Teaching Artists in Conversation (by Chris Anthony and Peter Howard)6. An Honest Tale (by Kristine Wilber)7. Empowered on the Road to Empowering: A Latina English Teacher’s Reflection on Teaching Shakespeare (by Melina Lesus)8. Many Stories at Once: On Teaching Shakespeare Within a Framework of Polyphonic Discomfort (by Sasha A. J. Maseelall)9. ReVerse: Poetry in the Shakespeare Classroom (by Kathryn Vomero Santos and Jesus Montaño)10. Using Caste to Talk about Difference (by Current Ann Christensen)11. Casting and the Classroom: Introducing Students to the Semiotics of Race in Performance (by Ofir L. Cahalan)12. Exploring Race and Gender through Selected Excerpts from Shakespeare: Spiraling Upward from the Elementary Grades (by Sergio L. Sanchez and Jaclynn Kiikvee)13. “Where do you go and how do you come back?”: An Exploration of Socially Constructed Knowing through Multimodal Transmediation (by Julia G. Houk)14. Talking Back to the Bard through Words, Visuals, Gestures, and Sounds: Multimodal Assignments that Honor Students’ Voices and Cultures (by Wendy R. Williams)

Laura B. Turchi is a teacher, educator, and author specializing in English Language Arts. She is clinical professor in English at Arizona State University, where she is the curriculum director for “RaceB4Race: Sustaining, Building, Innovating.” She also codirects The Shakespeare and Social Justice project funded by the Department of Education’s Assistance in Arts Education fund at the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles. She is coauthor of Teaching Shakespeare with Purpose: A Student-Centered Approach and author of Teaching Shakespeare with Interactive Editions.

• Introduction (by Laura B. Turchi)1. Building Community in an Anti-Racist Shakespeare Classroom (by Mary Jannel Metzger)2. Infusing Race and Other Identity Markers in Secondary-Classroom Study of Shakespeare: A Framework for Design of K–12 / Teacher Education Instruction (by Steven Z. Athanases, Julia G. Houk, Sergio L. Sanches, and Ofir L. Calahan)3. Teaching Shakespeare Here and Now, For Real: Lessons from the Folger Shakespeare Library and from Folger Classrooms (by Noelle Cammon, Peggy O’Brien, and Corinne Viglietta)4. Yes, We Can: Decentering Shakespeare in Our Classrooms (by Marilyn J. Halperin)5. Building Community on a Foundation of Shakespeare: Two Teaching Artists in Conversation (by Chris Anthony and Peter Howard)6. An Honest Tale (by Kristine Wilber)7. Empowered on the Road to Empowering: A Latina English Teacher’s Reflection on Teaching Shakespeare (by Melina Lesus)8. Many Stories at Once: On Teaching Shakespeare Within a Framework of Polyphonic Discomfort (by Sasha A. J. Maseelall)9. ReVerse: Poetry in the Shakespeare Classroom (by Kathryn Vomero Santos and Jesus Montaño)10. Using Caste to Talk about Difference (by Current Ann Christensen)11. Casting and the Classroom: Introducing Students to the Semiotics of Race in Performance (by Ofir L. Cahalan)12. Exploring Race and Gender through Selected Excerpts from Shakespeare: Spiraling Upward from the Elementary Grades (by Sergio L. Sanchez and Jaclynn Kiikvee)13. “Where do you go and how do you come back?”: An Exploration of Socially Constructed Knowing through Multimodal Transmediation (by Julia G. Houk)14. Talking Back to the Bard through Words, Visuals, Gestures, and Sounds: Multimodal Assignments that Honor Students’ Voices and Cultures (by Wendy R. Williams)

Laura B. Turchi is a teacher, educator, and author specializing in English Language Arts. She is clinical professor in English at Arizona State University, where she is the curriculum director for “RaceB4Race: Sustaining, Building, Innovating.” She also codirects The Shakespeare and Social Justice project funded by the Department of Education’s Assistance in Arts Education fund at the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles. She is coauthor of Teaching Shakespeare with Purpose: A Student-Centered Approach and author of Teaching Shakespeare with Interactive Editions.

• Introduction (by Laura B. Turchi)1. Building Community in an Anti-Racist Shakespeare Classroom (by Mary Jannel Metzger)2. Infusing Race and Other Identity Markers in Secondary-Classroom Study of Shakespeare: A Framework for Design of K–12 / Teacher Education Instruction (by Steven Z. Athanases, Julia G. Houk, Sergio L. Sanches, and Ofir L. Calahan)3. Teaching Shakespeare Here and Now, For Real: Lessons from the Folger Shakespeare Library and from Folger Classrooms (by Noelle Cammon, Peggy O’Brien, and Corinne Viglietta)4. Yes, We Can: Decentering Shakespeare in Our Classrooms (by Marilyn J. Halperin)5. Building Community on a Foundation of Shakespeare: Two Teaching Artists in Conversation (by Chris Anthony and Peter Howard)6. An Honest Tale (by Kristine Wilber)7. Empowered on the Road to Empowering: A Latina English Teacher’s Reflection on Teaching Shakespeare (by Melina Lesus)8. Many Stories at Once: On Teaching Shakespeare Within a Framework of Polyphonic Discomfort (by Sasha A. J. Maseelall)9. ReVerse: Poetry in the Shakespeare Classroom (by Kathryn Vomero Santos and Jesus Montaño)10. Using Caste to Talk about Difference (by Current Ann Christensen)11. Casting and the Classroom: Introducing Students to the Semiotics of Race in Performance (by Ofir L. Cahalan)12. Exploring Race and Gender through Selected Excerpts from Shakespeare: Spiraling Upward from the Elementary Grades (by Sergio L. Sanchez and Jaclynn Kiikvee)13. “Where do you go and how do you come back?”: An Exploration of Socially Constructed Knowing through Multimodal Transmediation (by Julia G. Houk)14. Talking Back to the Bard through Words, Visuals, Gestures, and Sounds: Multimodal Assignments that Honor Students’ Voices and Cultures (by Wendy R. Williams)