reading schedule + how this is going to work

At the bottom of this post, you’ll see the schedule for our online book club. With the exception of the 6/18 reading, everything else is from Working toward Equity, the purple book you got at the orientation. On your assigned Monday, you’ll be responsible for writing the lead post that will guide our discussion of the chapter at hand. I recommend that it’s not super-long, just enough to get us commenting.

So what should you say in your post? If you scroll several entries down this blog, you’ll find a post called “Welcome.” In that post, I offer a few prompts to get you started, but you’re smart people, and I KNOW you have something to say that will get us thinking and talking.

If you’re on the commenting end of things, just visit the blog enough during the week to make at least one comment before we move on to the next article. After a while, I’m trusting that we’ll learn how to have a “conversation” via comments. At least that’s what generally happens on other active blogs I’ve visited. So here’s the schedule:

4/16 – Cindy – Ch. 3 from The Book Club Companion

4/23 – Stacey - “Building on Success” (pp. 43-57)

4/30 – Renee – “An East Oakland Odyssey” (pp. 69-91)

5/7 – Jackie – “Taking Tests” (pp. 93-100)

5/14 – Natalie – “Inquiry for Equity” (pp. 11-20)

5/21 – Sherry – “Introduction” + “Developing a Culture of Inquiry for Equity” (pp. 125-143)

5/28 – NO BOOK CLUB

6/4 – Jason C. – “A Practical Practice” (pp. 145-157)

6/11 – Steph – “Partners in Inquiry” (pp. 159-174)

6/18 – Rebecca – “How Colleagues Change Colleagues’ Minds” (English Journal article – Cindy will e-mail this)