Presented are three short stories describing the ways a community of Native youth, families, and educators in an urban Indigenous education program collectively generated three Native feminist texts--a T-shirt design for a youth group, a design embedded into the floor of a Native Youth Center, and the walls of the center. This article illustrates…

Although some educators commonly assume that the way to improve the writing of urban students is to provide "more structure," Nancy G. Patterson and Renee Speed argue that this approach can instead be detrimental. In too many cases, structure characterizes control and colonization rather than the freedom for teachers to structure their curricula…

Traces the history of the author's evolution into a successful teacher of English in an urban setting. (DD)

Teachers of remedial urban students must make them aware that they create their own valid order and meaning through language. (DD)

Three high school teachers describe how they changed their approaches to the teaching of composition. (DD)

Shows how the advantages of ghetto living may be used in teaching communication and composition. (DD)

Describes a high school elective course. (DD)

Applied mainly to low achievers, the writing and reading program formulated by this teacher was based on a personal approach aimed toward inculcating the habit of thinking. (MM)

Describes a fifteen-week elective course for juniors. (DD)

A Five-Point Program for teaching English in the inner city... based on the real needs of the Black ghetto student. (Author)

Describes teaching "Useful Grammar" to inner-city middle school children in Jackson, Mississippi. Discusses key elements of Useful Grammar: identifying and focusing on grammatical structures; relying on knowledge already possessed; inventing more memorable nomenclature; devising lesson plans and hands-on activities; and having students practice…

Discusses the four-week summer Memphis (Tennessee) Urban Writing Institute, during which a furor erupted over the dilemma of grading. Provide a number of approaches to grading students' writing, including minimalist grading, cassette grading, collaborative grading, and portfolio grading. Suggests that teachers consider the grading dilemma and…

Discusses a teacher's difficulties in using reader response approaches to engage her students at an urban alternative high school. Examines their resistances to discussion and personal response. Offers a few approaches the teacher has been trying, with some success, to overcome these resistances. (TB)