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Predicated on a belief in the power of play in the secondary classroom, Literacy Unbound seeks to unbind traditional approaches to the teaching of reading, writing, listening and speaking, troubling the divide between critical and creative thinking, demonstrating that intellectual rigor ultimately requires both.
Literacy Unbound reinvigorates students and teachers through project-based, collaborative curricula developed around challenging texts, increasing student engagement and building classroom community in the process. |
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As a professional development program of the Center for the Professional Education of Teachers at Teachers College, Columbia University, Literacy Unbound brings teachers together as creative collaborators to re-imagine reading, writing, listening, and speaking through multiple modalities.
Our approach integrates reading, writing and discussion with artistic experimentation through drama, music, dance, film, and visual art. With the help of guest teaching artists, teachers step into reading and writing through improvisational sound and movement, experimenting with the layering of mode and medium, the interplay between physical and digital space and the remixing of text on text. Through our work, we hope to challenge the traditional divide between the creative and the critical, the extra curricular and the curricular. While many arts integration organizations work only with students, we believe that by positioning this work as teacher education, we can create enduring practices with sustainable impact. |
See Literacy Unbound in action
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Brian Veprek, lead facilitator of the 2018 Summer Institute, talks through the process of the 2018 Literacy Unbound Institute, where players created an immersive performance based on Upton Sinclair's The Jungle.
The Literacy Unbound 2017 Summer Institute: remixing Heart of Darkness
Dr. Adele Bruni Ashley gives an overview of the Literacy Unbound pedagogy and experience during the 2017 Summer Institute
Jennine Willet takes her experiences as a co-director of Third Rail Projects and leads a workshop on immersive theater experiences at the 2017 Summer Institute
Donna Costello encourages students to use movement to delve into literature for an entirely new artistic experience during the Literacy Unbound's study of The Heart of Darkness in Teachers College's Smith Learning Theater
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Brian Veprek, one of the lead facilitators of the 2017 Summer Institute, helps bring together teachers and students to create an original piece of performance art based on a novel. For the first time this past summer 2017, Literacy Unbound took place in Teachers College's Learning Theater, a versatile learning space where nothing, from the walls to the lighting, is fixed.
Award-winning quintuple threat Lisa Strum shows students unconventional ways to harness their creativity during the Literacy Unbound summer institute at the Smith Learning Theater
Christine Slingerland, a longtime teacher in NYC, brought her teaching experience to the 2017 Summer Institute held in the Teachers College Learning Theater, where she led a workshop in music and vocalization
The 2014 Summer Institute comes to life as players remix Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
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