Gholdy Muhammad centers joy as critical aspect of her equity framework previously shared in Cultivating Genius. Dr. Muhammad shows how joy enhances our efforts to cultivate identity, skills, intellect, and criticality for all learners, offering a powerful purpose to learn and contribute to the world around them. Muhammad encourages educators to view joy as a crucial and serious facet of their learners’ experiences and opportunities. Joy is more than playful learning – it is the space where learners make sense of who they are, strengthen their capacity as problem solvers, knowledge seekers, empathic and curious individuals.
Book Club conversations will explore this thinking through the unique opportunities that Literacy offers us across a dynamic curriculum. To foster school-based conversations, we encourage teams of two or more intermediate teachers. We can provide a maximum of 3 copies of the resource per school team.
