Cathy Fleischer is a Professor of English Education and Writing
Studies at Eastern Michigan University, where she co-directs the
Eastern Michigan Writing Project and serves as Faculty Associate
for the Office of Campus and Community Writing. She has taught
courses, led workshops, and written widely about teacher advocacy
for the past decade. Her other scholarship focuses on community
literacy, teacher research, and writing teacher education.
Antero Garcia is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School
of Education at Stanford University and Vice President of the
National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). Prior to completing
his PhD, Antero was an English teacher at a public high school in
South Central Los Angeles. His research explores the possibilities
of speculative imagination and healing in educational research.
Based on his research, Antero co-designed the Critical Design and
Gaming School—a public high school in Los Angeles. Antero is
the recipient of the Arthur Applebee Award for Excellence
in Research on Literacy (with Nicole Mirra), Literacy Research
Association, 2021; Early Career Achievement Award, Literacy
Research Association, 2018; Jan Hawkins Award for Early Career
Contributions to Humanistic Research and Scholarship in Learning
Technologies, AERA, 2018; National Academy of Education/Spencer
Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2015. He has authored or
edited more than a dozen books about the possibilities of
literacies, play, and civics in transforming schooling in America,
including Civics for the World to Come: Committing to
Democracy in Every Classroom (W. W. Notron, 2023); Everyday
Advocacy: Teachers Who Change the Literacy Narrative (W. W.
Norton, 2020); and a co-author (with Nicole Mirra and Ernest
Morrell) of Doing Youth Participatory Action Research:
Transforming Inquiry with Researchers, Educators, and
Students (Routledge, 2015).
Everyday Advocacy builds upon decades of teacher research and
knowledge from leaders in the field. This volume is timely and a
welcome addition to conversations about teaching in our current
environment of societal redefinition and change.--Ebony Elizabeth
Thomas, Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania, and author
of The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter
to The Hunger Games
Everyday Advocacy functions not merely as a textbook, but also as a
guidebook for empowering teachers to own their platforms for
advocacy that could change the face of education as we know it.
Fleischer and Garcia go beyond offering refreshing solutions and
ideas as they map out the exact steps to take, points of contact to
create, and the ways to keep literacy advocacy work relevant and
sustainable. This text provides answers to questions that teachers
possibly did not even know that they should ask.-- "Teachers
College Record"
Everyday Advocacy is a usable, practical guide to help teachers and
teacher educators think about approaches to extend their critical
thinking about traditional pedagogies to include advocacy for all
children, particularly historically marginalized students.--Tonya
B. Perry, PhD, Professor and Executive Director of GEAR UP Alabama
and Red Mountain Writing Project
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