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About the Author
Jie Park is an Associate Professor of Education and director of the Community, Youth, and Education Studies program at Clark University. A former high school teacher, she uses community-engaged, participatory methodologies to conduct collaborative research with teachers and multilingual youth. She is a recipient of the prestigious Spencer Foundation/National Academy of Education Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, and the Fulbright Scholar Award. Her work has been published in Anthropology and Education Quarterly, the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, English Education, and the International Journal of Multicultural Education. She is also the author of Educating Emergent Bilingual Youth in High School: The Promise of Critical Language Pedagogy (2023), and co-editor of Towards a Community of Antiracist Praxis in Higher Education (2025). Mark Hauber is the Program Director of the Center for the Art of Translation's education program, Poetry Inside Out. He was the 2025 short term fellow at the University of Iowa's Center for Translation & Global Literacy and is a faculty member of the Center's Summer Institute.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Foreword Chapter One Poetry Inside Out as Critical Literacy and Translanguaging Pedagogy Jie Y. Park Chapter Two Pedagogical Considerations: Frequently Asked Questions about PIO Jie Y. Park and Mark Hauber Chapter Three Mapping Creative Inquiry: Accordion Books and the PIO Teaching Fellowship Todd Elkin Chapter Four The "People in the Room": The Heart of PIO and Language Education Lisa Wong Chapter Five Cultivating Metalinguistic Awareness and Creativity: Poetry Inside Out in a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Elementary School Janel Janiczek Smith and Robyn Ovrick Chapter Six Translation as Creative Resistance: Reframing Middle School English Language Arts through Multilingual Pedagogy Yaxha Ruvein Chapter Seven Bringing Democratic Principles to Action: Cultivating Voice and Agency Lori Simpson Chapter Eight "Cracking the Code": Building Methods of Assessing Student Learning in PIO Susan Minnicks Chapter Nine Learning from Productive Struggle: A New Teacher's Reflections from "Translating" a Translanguaging Curriculum Carmela Martinez Chapter Ten Teachers as Transformative Intellectuals: Teacher Praxis and the PIO Fellowship Jie Y. Park Afterword About the Authors Index NOTE: Table of Contents subject to change up until publication date.