See the #G2Great chat Wakelet artifact with Nawal Qarooni HERE
By Mary Howard
On 3/28/24, we were honored to welcome our good friend Nawal Qarooni to our #G2Great chat for a social media style discussion of her exquisite new book, Nourishing Caregiver Collaborations: Elevating Home Experiences and Classroom Practices for Collective Care (2024, Routledge) It was such an honor to engage in this video conversation with Nawal. She lives and breathes this book quote below and extends her thinking in such a beautiful way in the video.
VIDEO DISCUSSION (CLICK ON the link to the left to watch the video)
NAWAL BIO
Nawal Qarooni is an instructional leader, writer and adjunct professor who supports a holistic approach to literacy instruction education spaces across the country. Drawing on her work as an inquiry-based leader and as a mother, Nawal’s pedagogy is centered in the rich and authentic learning all families gift their children every day. She is the author of Nourishing Caregiver Collaborations: Exalting Home Experiences and Classroom Practices for Collective Care. She was a longtime classroom teacher in both Brooklyn and Chicago, and formerly a newspaper journalist. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan, Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Journalism, and Brooklyn College. She serves on the Library of Congress Literacy Awards Advisory Board, which funds powerful literacy programming in the world, and Reese Witherspoon’s LitUp committee to select historically marginalized voices for publication. Learn more or connect via @nqarooni on Instagram and Threads, @NQCLiteracy on X, or her website at NQCLiteracy.org
REFERENCES
Nourishing Caregiver Collaborations: Exalting Home Experiences and Classroom Practices for Collective Care (Routledge.) Also available from Amazon
Read an excerpt from her book via KQED on creating community maps as inclusive practice here.
Listen to the feature on the Cult of Pedagogy Podcast here!
Nawal Qarooni’s website nqcliteracy.org
Olivia Wahl Schoolutions asks Nawal Qarooni one important question: “What’s a great first step to nourishing caregiver collaborations?
Olivia Wahl Schoolutions full interview with Nawal Qarooni
