Cultivating Genius

An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy

By: Gholdy Muhammad

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins

Publisher's summary

In Cultivating Genius, Dr. Gholdy E. Muhammad presents a four-layered equity framework—one that is grounded in history and restores excellence in literacy education. This framework, which she names "Historically Responsive Literacy", was derived from the study of literacy development within 19th-century Black literacy societies. The framework is essential and universal for all students, especially youth of color, who traditionally have been marginalized in learning standards, school policies, and classroom practices. The equity framework will help educators teach and lead toward the following learning goals or pursuits:

• Identity development—helping youth to make sense of themselves and others
• Skill development—developing proficiencies across the academic disciplines
• Intellectual development—gaining knowledge and becoming smarter
• Criticality—learning and developing the ability to read texts (including print and social contexts) to understand power, equity, and anti-oppression

When these four learning pursuits are taught together through the Historically Responsive Literacy framework, all students receive profound opportunities for personal, intellectual, and academic success. Muhammad provides probing, self-reflective questions for teachers, leaders, and teacher educators as well as sample culturally and historically responsive sample plans and text sets across grades and content areas.

In this audiobook, Muhammad presents practical approaches to cultivate the genius in students and within teachers. This brand-new audio edition of Cultivating Genius is skillfully read by multiple award-winning narrator Adenrele Ojo.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2019 Gholdy Muhammad (P)2022 Echo Point Books and Media, LLC

What student, teachers, and teacher prep needs

This book is a must read for teacher educators, teachers, and administrators. Powerful, transformative implications for K-12 and higher education.

Cultivating Genius Speaks Life to Educators

We need critical transformation in education. Dr. Muhammad writes this book with love, intellect, positivity, balance, and urgency. Urgency for educators to practice pursuits that are connected to skills, identity and love. I respect her knowledge and her expertise and I am thankful to my professor for having me to read such a great book!

Repetition

Informative so much has changed in 150 to 200 years
I really do think that education has changed. And in the inner cities it is the responsibility of the leaders of those communities to make sure that those students are educated
That the needs monies and computers and books needed to make sure the teachers are highly trained and motivated to teach the students in a safe environment.
Also to constantly educate themselves about history and change

Interesting but Not impressive

Although I appreciated much of the history presented, I was not impressed with the lesson plans. The author assumes that all students could access her curriculum, not considering all types of learners. A little to broad, not including latest research on the science of reading.