Scholars@Duke
Jennifer Mann

Selected Publications

Amplifying Youth Voices through Critical Literacy and Positive Youth Development The Potential of University-Community Partnerships

Book · July 17, 2024 This book explores the transformative power of critical literacy in fostering youth engagement through university-community partnerships. ... Cite

Professional Learning for ESL Teachers: A Randomized Controlled Trial to Examine the Impact on Instruction, Collaboration, and Cultural Wealth

Journal Article Education Sciences · July 1, 2024 Using a randomized controlled trial, we examined the impact of a teacher professional learning (PL) program on English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers’ use of evidence-based instructional strategies for multilingual learners, collaboration with classro ... Full text Cite

Writing with Dignity Among Youth in Urban Communities: Using Mentor Texts as a Reflective Tool for Transformation

Journal Article Urban Education · June 1, 2024 This article describes a three-year qualitative study on how youth of color in one community-based organization, Durham Community Youth, used the mentor text, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “What’s your life’s blueprint?” speech, as a reflective tool to tran ... Full text Open Access Cite

“We Tell Our Story”: The Power of Critical Literacy with Refugee-Background Students

Journal Article The Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas · January 2, 2024 Full text Cite

Displaced

Journal Article VUE (Voices in Urban Education) · February 24, 2023 Full text Cite

(Re)Active Praxis: The Possibilities of Community-Based Partnerships for English Language Arts Preservice Teacher Education

Other English Education · January 1, 2023 In this article, we reflect on the potential of involving preservice teachers in pedagogical experiences with community-based organizations to cultivate all students’ genius and criticality (Muhammad, 2020). Drawing on our (re)active praxis as teac ... Full text Cite

Voicing vulnerability: Narratives of healing among culturally diverse adolescent girls in a community-based organization

Chapter · November 29, 2021 This volume brings together leading scholars in their fields who offer much needed and wide-ranging perspectives on the intersections of genders, cultures, and literacies. ... Cite

Understanding myself through my student's eyes

Other Oregon English Journal · 2021 Cite

It just feels different

Other Journal of Language and Literacy Education · 2021 Link to item Cite