Cultivating Equity Literacy in Schools and Communities: Stories to Redefine School Quality

This book draws on research in community-based literacy, geospatial literacy, family literacy, and ethnography to examine complex dynamics of school choice and decision-making, and how literacy plays a role in increasing equity in schools and communities. Cultivating Equity Literacy in Schools and Communities begins by introducing the topics and intersections of school equity, advocacy, and place-based literacy, and describes the unique methodology of Multigenerational Collaborative Ethnography that is used in the book to understand schools’ material, social, and reputational change over time.Chapter 3 examines case studies of elementary schools across the Hillsdale Public Schools (HPS) district, highlighting two schools at opposite ends of the socio-economic spectrum.The following five chapters offer perspectives and counterstories from families, educators, and children about school choice in their communities, and show how literacy (for children, families, and educators) is an essent