Whole Language Teaching, Whole-Hearted Practice

Abstract

Taylor and Gennifer Otinsky. Monica and Gennifer engage in a conversation about their histories, backgrounds, roads to teaching, and becoming whole language educators. The collaboration between Monica (a teacher educator) and Gennifer (a sixth-grade teacher) highlights how social justice and whole language cannot be accomplished in isolation. The collaboration began by co-teaching a personal memoir unit in Gennifer’s classroom with Monica’s pre-service teachers. Following this