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Jeanette Burdette
Critical Literacy is exposing students to different types of literature and having them begin to understand various viewpoints and cultures. This is important because this will help children to see the world through different lenses and be more understanding of others.

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Ronni Farrell
Critical Literacy is using literature to teach students about the world we live in so that they can have a better understanding of others. It may be teaching them how to be more understanding of the views and opinions of others or just having empathy for their peers. It is important of our kids to know how to have different backgrounds and opinions and still be able to have honest conversations in a civil way.

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Tammy Erro
Critical Literacy is the ability to think about various perspectives and social  issues as it is addressed in literature. Thinking, in particularly critical thinking, is ultimately what we want kids to be able to do in order to problem solve and get along with the world.

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Critical literacy is having students understand multiple viewpoints and perspectives. Literature can help students relate to and understand those different from themselves. 

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Critical literacy is having students understand multiple viewpoints and perspectives. Literature can help students relate to and understand those different from themselves. 

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Regan Sinkuler
Critical literacy to me is thinking about how are things connected in the real world, thinking of those text to world, text to self, text others connections. It is important for children to become aware of this so that they have eyes into other viewpoints/shoes.

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Karen Harris
Critical literacy is how students see a piece of literature through another perspective, another experience, difference of sociopolitical issues, and how it relates to different cultures in the world. It is important for students to see how different the world is than what we see and live in every day.   It causes students to use critical thinking when analyzing a piece of literature.

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Rachel Grabski
Critical literacy is having our students looking at a text through multiple viewpoints as it relates to social issues. Critical literacy requires students to think beyond what the text states and looking at the issues presented through a different set of eyes. I think it is important for students to become aware of various issues that face our society as it will help them become empathetic to others.

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Teresa Swiger
Critical literacy is sharing texts with students that cause them to think about the world around them. It gives them an opening to discuss critical issues and to expand their thinking on different issues. It is important for students to become aware of different ideas and ways of thinking. It is way too easy to not accept or like issues we do not know or understand.

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Beth Tally
Critical Literacy is a text that addresses serious social issues, but told in a format that is friendly for children. Telling a story is comforting, no matter the topic, so it is a great way to get children to understand the issue. Critical Literacy is important for our children because they need to be educated about social issues in a nonbiased environment where they feel safe and able to talk about their side of the issue.

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Critical literacy is a way to help students begin to ask questions and think more in-depth about books they read. Teachers are able to guide students to think critically about what the author is trying to say to readers and students are able to have meaningful discussions about topics that may be heavy, but that need to be thought about and talked about with one another. I think it is also important to note that critical literacy provides students with the tools to begin thinking about their own opinions and rationales for those opinions as well as other people’s opinions and how everyone’s thinking matters.

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Christie Evatt
Critical literacy involves students reading or listening to texts that cause them to see another's point of view. It causes students to consider what others different than them experience. It can result in students becoming more active in their communities. They examine certain events that occurred in the past through a different perspective.
It is important for children to be able think critically and be able to consider opinions other than their own. It is also important for the students to have compassion for others.

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Linda Jenny
Critical literacy to me is trying to get children to imagine standing in someone else's shoes, trying to see someone else's viewpoint.  Children should be able to discuss how the "see" things from the other person's viewpoint. Classes are encouraged to have discussions on race, class, and social injustices.

I think it is important because it encourages empathy and understanding of others feelings and reasons for their actions.

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Robbie Kane
Critical literacy is using reading and writing to discuss world issues.  Through the various readings and writings children are able to see the world through the eyes of another and hopefully learn how to be empathetic, compassionate and more understanding of others and the world around them.

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Lisa Searight
Critical literacy includes using texts that cause us to take a hard look at the world with our students.  Using texts that help ask hard questions and have those difficult conversations through the lens of a good book.  Critical literacy includes disrupting the commonplace (or seeing things from another angle) interrogating multiple perspectives (or being able to question the various perspectives portrayed in the text) focusing on sociopolitical issues, and taking a stand toward social justice.  I think everyone should be aware that there is always more than one point of view and learning empathy for others is powerful.  Can they read a text about a child who is not accepted and identify and be compassionate in their discussions?  I think that critical literacy is important to students in as much as it teaches them to be a compassionate, empathetic person, which is something they may not get at home.