When Jessica [Kerley] Gaeckle was working on her Independent Study during student teaching she probably didn’t imagine it would be published two years later. Her article, “How to kill a chicken: Valuing local knowledge in a second grade ESL/sheltered classroom” will be published in the May 2012 issue of Talking Points. This journal is published by WLU, the Whole Language Umbrell
a, a conference of NCTE. Talking Points helps promote literacy research and the use of whole language instruction in classrooms. It provides a forum for parents, classroom teachers, and researchers to reflect about literacy and learning.
Congratulations to Jessica, our first Urban Education graduate. She makes us proud every day as a teacher and now she is extending her impact by sharing her scholarship.