Great Panel including Ethnic Studies at CCCC Atlanta

Punishing Writing/Writing as Punishment 

(Aja Martinez and I with Speaker Curtis Acosta)

At the 2011 CCCC in Atlanta, University of Arizona PhD students/authors/activists presented on the importance of presenting literacy to students as a discipline rather than a punishment that doesn't match the offense. Curtis Acosta, above, a teacher at Tucson High School targeted by the HB 2281 anti-Ethnic Studies law, spoke on the framework of his literature class, asking students to reflect on themselves and culture to better understand the world around them.
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Kathryn Ortiz heads the UA Reads Project through the University of Arizona bookstore.

Cathy Amanti is one of the authors of Funds of Knowledge, highlighting cultural practices of Latin@ families in Tucson that can be transferred over into classroom strategies.













According to the panel description:

 Punishing Writing/Writing as Punishment. It is an ironic fact that schools are contexts where writing is both highly valued and punished. When literacy is used as a discipline event, schools are often blind to the literacy aspects of unofficial and non-sanctioned student writing. The fact that some literacy [ More ]

Participant	Affiliation	Speech Title (if known)
Carlos Salinas, PhD (Chair)	University of Texas El Paso
Cathy Amanti (Speaker 1)	University of Arizona	Punishing Writing/Writing as Punishment
Kathryn Ortiz (Speaker 2)	University of Arizona	Case Studies of the Long Term Consequences of Using Writing as Punishment
Curtis Acosta (Speaker 3)	University of Arizona	Rewarding writers: Liberating and empowering Chican@ youth through prose