October 17, 2021
Episode 33

What is the literacy of our lives?

Featuring: Brent Saccucci, Teacher, Ph.D. Candidate

Featured Guests

The 21st century demands an updated definition of literacy and an expansion of our understanding of what constitutes a “text.” For instance, how might we read and write our relationships? Our institutions? Our own thoughts? On the episode, we explore the relationship between social-emotional learning and lower-case “l” literacy.

Show Notes:

  • 5:15Unpacking Brent’s doctoral research.
  • 10:00Exploring expansive and worthwhile knowledge.
  • 14:30Capital “L” Literacy versus lower-case “l” literacy.
  • 16:30Relationship between literacy and SEL.
  • 18:30The literacy of professionalism and the impact on our identity.
  • 27:15Queering education by giving students power.
  • 29:45Learning as the ability to choose, make meaning, and build relationships.
  • 31:30Teaching the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe.
  • 35:20Epistemological and cognitive equity.

Significant Quotes:

“How can I queer, decolonize, and disrupt curriculum?”

Brent Saccucci
7:45

“Literacy in the social-emotional sense means that we have an attunement to the social and emotional codes at work in the hidden curriculum of our lives.”

Brent Saccucci
17:50

“If I’m not able to swear, you’re not able to cry, then we are not cultivating education, we are performing schooling.”

Brent Saccucci
18:50

“If we were to have more conversations aligned with our pedagogical spirit, I wonder how purposeful our teaching would become?”

Brent Saccucci
30:00
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