A community for teachers, readers, writers, and neighbors.
Who We Are
A literary and literacy community for teachers, readers, writers, and neighbors.
Through community events, design labs, and literary salons, we work to advance the art of teaching literature, provide students with an equitable literacy and literary education.
The CIE Lab Goes to SXSWEDU.
We’ll be hosting our workshop Zora & AP Lit.: Designing a Culturally Intentional Canon at this year’s SXSWEDU. The workshop centers Their Eyes Were Watching God and the CIE Framework as a means to develop an AP aligned lesson.
A Culturally Intentional Education
An interdisciplinary approach to teaching high school English. To be culturally intentional is to approach the art of teaching literature as a craft through continuous reflective inquiry, deliberate curricular design, and sustainable academic rigor.
CIE Tenets
Self as Source
The teacher practices continuous reflective inquiry to understand themselves as English teachers and their relationships to the literature and students they teach.
Meaning as Method
Curriculum design includes deliberate canon selection, artistic and socio - political context, and explicit literacy instruction
Dialogue as Practice
Communal learning through spoken intellect, memory, and storytelling.
