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Common Sense - Literacy

Universality, in terms of our wiki, entails providing students with standards for learning, but it is too much to assume that there can be one way to express the needs and rights of every student, everywhere. We fully understand the limits and issues with such a statement, but do not seek to alienate or under-represent anybody, group, class, or otherwise. Rather we seek the unification of students worldwide under a banner of rights that attempt to cover the most basic of rights beyond basic human rights. We seek only for the universal emboldening of knowledge through education.

What is Literacy:
 * Literacy is much more then the ability to read and write. Literacy is the use of materials such as digital information, texts, and videos into the learning and comprehension of life lessons.


 * The importance of literacy in the classroom should not only be for students to learn to read but rather that students learn to think. Literacy skill embolden students to have an active role in their own education and become empowered citizens of their community as well as the world. By instilling students with literacy skills and practices we as educators make an active decision to better the educations of our students. Literacy skills serve to cement abstract ideas as well as create meaning making in course materials. When students can understand and connect with course concepts they become more active learners and enjoy the education process. As future educators it is our duty to provide a literacy skills to our students to ensure that they receive the most out of their education. By denying students these literacy skills educators in turn deny students a challenging and rewarding future.

//"Every young person in the United States has a constitutional right to education (see Brown v. Board of Education, 1954). Yet that student's education is meaningless if it does not actually increase the student's ability to use his or her intelligence to make sense of and engage with the world."// 10

This is a declaration to protect the literacy rights of all students. We state these rights as an assertion not only to the students who possess them but also to the educators whose duty it is to protect these rights.These rights serve to improve the educational experiences of students so that they can enjoy and excel in the educational community.

Students have the right to education without discrimination

Students have the right to innovation

Students have the right to motivation and meaning making in the classroom

Students have the right to racial and ethnic identity

Students have the right to succeed

To cement these rights from theory to reality we have included best practices and examples as to how to implement these rights in a classroom setting.

How to create a more engaging classroom

How to Help your students make meaning out of their learning!

How to keep your students motivated!



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