Read Outside Your Bubble

Learn how to foster student engagement, cultivate empathy, and encourage a love of reading by bringing diverse literature into the classroom.

Using an instructional coaching framework, Read Outside Your Bubble introduces teachers to a new mindset for helping students develop literacy and become lifelong readers. By building an accessible and inclusive literacy curriculum, you can pique students' interest in the world outside their "bubbles". "Bubbles" are identity markers of race, religion, orientation, and socio-economic status.

In this book, instructional coach and parent Nita Creekmore takes a conversational and research-backed approach to introducing her L.E.A.P framework, which guides you through the process of crafting your curriculum. You'll also learn how to develop lesson plans that increase compassion, cultivate empathy, and encourage a love of reading and history.

• Follow the research-backed L.E.A.P. framework to choose diverse reading selections for K-12 classrooms.
• Learn step-by-step techniques for creating an inclusive curriculum that engages students in literacy.
• Help turn students into lifelong learners by encouraging them to think beyond their own circumstances and think critically about the world around them.
• Teach students how to compare and contrast themes and ideas across content areas.

The primary audience is teachers, curriculum coaches, curriculum specialists, instructional coaches, and homeschooling parents who will appreciate the practical, future-minded approach in Read Outside Your Bubble. This book brings diversity into classrooms in a way that will prepare students to participate in the creation of a more inclusive world.