Episode 155 | ELA Isn’t Dead. We Just Forgot What It Could Be.
ELA isn’t dead.
It just needs to be revived, reimagined, and remembered differently.
In this episode of Our Classroom, Roberto Germán reflects on why imagination, joy, speculative thinking, and culturally relevant literacy practices matter now more than ever in ELA classrooms.
This conversation explores:
How ELA became overly compliance-driven
Why imagination is rigorous academic work
The role of Black scholarship in literacy education
Why students need more than test prep
How literature can help students envision a better world
What it means to create classrooms rooted in possibility…
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