Two faculty in the Dr. Jo Watts Williams School of Education recently presented at the North Carolina Reading Associate Annual Conference in Winston Salem.
At the North Carolina Reading Associate (NCRA) Annual Conference in Winston Salem, Allison Keill, director of the Curriculum Resources Center and associate librarian, and Lisa Buchanan, associate professor of education, shared how teachers in grades 4-8 can center Indigenous perspectives using a book club model.
Their presentation focused on the use of the historical novel “Indian No More” by authors Charlene Willing McManis (Umpqua, Confederate Tribes of Grand Ronde) and Traci Sorell (Cherokee) to study the forced removal of Native people during the Indian Relocation Act. The pair used “Indian No More” with local educators during their multi-year book club series with educators in Alamance Burlington Schools.
Since 2021, Keill and Buchanan have facilitated 4 virtual book clubs with 100+ educators from across the state.
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