Collaborating to Support All Learners in English, Social Studies, and Humanities

Faye Brownlie’s (she/her/hers) goal is to build capacity with teachers, co-planning and co-teaching, providing seminars, workshops, and keynote presentations in Canada, the United States, Europe, and Asia. Passionate about including and supporting all learners, her work focuses on literacy, teaching for thinking, assessment, and inclusion. She has co-authored many books for teachers, including It’s All About Thinking series for Portage & Main Press and most recently, a 2nd edition of Grand Conversations Thoughtful Responses. Faye believes, ‘We know enough, collectively, to teach all our students to read, and more importantly, to create readers who not only can read but want to read."Leyton Schnellert, PhD, (he/his/him) is an associate professor in UBC’s Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy and Eleanor Rix Professor in Rural Teacher Education. He focuses on how teachers and teaching and learners and learning can mindfully embrace student diversity and inclusive education. Dr. Schnellert is the Pedagogy and Participation research cluster lead in UBC’s Institute for Community Engaged Research, inclusive education research lead in the Canadian Institute for Inclusion and Citizenship, and co-chair of BC’s Rural Education Advisory. His community-based collaborative work contributes a counter argument to top-down approaches that operate from deficit models, instead drawing from communities’ funds of knowledge to build participatory, place-conscious, and culturally responsive practices. Leyton works and learns on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Sinixt who were declared extinct by Canada’s government in 1956 and stands in solidarity with the Sinixt in their reclamation efforts.Leyton has been a middle and secondary years classroom teacher and a learning resource teacher for grades K–12. His books, films, and research articles are widely referenced locally, nationally, and globally.

• Introduction xi Chapter 1 Meeting the Needs of All Learners 1 Chapter 2 Working Together As a School 13 Chapter 3 Assessment that Supports Learning 23 Chapter 4 Frameworks and Approaches to Support Diverse Learners 41 Chapter 5 Starting the Year with Significance 55 Chapter 6 Inquiry and Thematic Teaching 77 Chapter 7 Memoir Writing 99 Chapter 8 Inquiry: Aboriginal Peoples of Canada 119 Chapter 9 Inquiry and Oral Language 155 Chapter 10 Engaging Critically with Text 177 Chapter 11 Problem Solving in Geography 197 Chapter 12 Online Literature Circles: Students and Teachers Learning Together 225 Professional References 243 Student Resources 249 Chapter by Chapter Index 253