Speaking Topics
- Analytical, critical, descriptive, and persuasive processes of adolescent writing and invention (academic, creative, technical)
- Scribal habits and identities of both teachers and adolescents
- The scribe studio in authentic, everyday situations (prewriting, writing, rewriting)
- Writing as invitation to create, become, and belong
- Honoring and valuing students’ cultures, expressions, and languages
- Designing scribe-led curriculum and planning for the scribe studio model
Speaker Profile
R. Joseph Rodríguez is a secondary language arts teacher at William Charles Akins Early College High School in Austin, Texas. He is the author of numerous books including Youth Scribes:
Teaching a Love of Writing; Enacting Adolescent Literacies across Communities: Latino/a Scribes and Their Rites; Teaching Culturally Sustaining and Inclusive Young Adult Literature: Critical Perspectives and Conversations; and, This Is Our Summons Now: Poems.
Joseph is a former editor of NCTE’s English Journal, founder of the literacy initiative Libre con Libros, and a reader of banned and challenged books.
Grades: 6–12
