“We Are Dreaming of Freedom”: Picturebook + Teaching Guide

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Written By Ash Good

I collaborated with the Freedom Dreaming for Educational Justice Project to design We Are Dreaming of Freedom: Picturebook + Teaching Guide. The downloadable e-publication showcases the art and writing of a multigenerational collective of teachers, students, and future teachers dreaming new educational possibilities into existence.

We Are Dreaming of Freedom: Picturebook + Teaching Guide

AVAILABLE AS DIGITAL DOWNLOAD FROM THE UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY

E-Publication | 59 pages | June 2024
Published by the Freedom Dreaming for Educational Justice Project

ABOUT THE PICTUREBOOK + TEACHING GUIDE

We Are Dreaming of Freedom: Picturebook + Teaching Guide showcases the art and writing of a multigenerational collective of teachers, students, and future teachers dreaming new educational possibilities into existence.

Across this book, members of the Freedom Dreaming for Educational Justice collective share our education freedom dreams – our visions of a more free and more equitable educational system and of a more free and more just world. We also share with you the tools and resources that inspired us and that we hope will inspire you to bring freedom dreaming into your own setting.

In this e-publication we offer:

A picturebook for dreamers of all ages featuring the creative writings and artwork of students, teachers, and future teachers
Easily downloadable and print-ready lesson plans containing clear guidelines for bringing freedom dreaming into your educational setting, including:
—descriptions of the power of arts-infused writing pedagogies to inspire writing, create community, and unleash the imagination
—ideas for integrating the visual arts into learning contexts with modest investments of time and resources
—perspectives from poets, artists, and scholars
—full-color artwork by students, teachers, and future teachers

All proceeds from We Are Dreaming of Freedom: Picturebook + Teaching Guide will go to support the ongoing work of the Capital District Writing Project. As a site of the National Writing Project, we are dedicated to creating opportunities for educators and young people to experience writing as purposeful, joyful, and socially transformative.

Supported by a University at Albany grant, the Freedom Dreaming for Educational Justice project brought together members of the Capital District Writing Project, a network of preK-college educators dedicated to the teaching of writing as a socially and personally transformative practice and the Touhey Family Fellows/Beloved Community Fellows, a vibrant and vital mentoring programming for undergraduate and graduate students of color entering the teaching and mental health professions.

Ash Good

⚡️⚡️PLAY👉SACRED⚡️⚡️ 💫free 🌈queer 🎯curator ◼️designer ⭕️editor 🌊poet 🔮priestess 🌱plantwhisperer

This space is where I free myself to meaning-make in my own aesthetic to document and unpack concepts, experiments and experiences that are important to me. Read more about my praxis here. For brand curation and book design click over to ashgood.design. For ritual, movement, meditation, writing circles, toys and pop-up experiences to play with your intuition, visit highpriestesses.com. If you’d like to know more, my full bio is here.

http://www.ashgood.com/

“We Are Dreaming of Freedom”: Picturebook + Teaching Guide

A picturebook for dreamers of all ages featuring the creative writings and artwork of students, teachers, and future teachers

Easily downloadable and print-ready lesson plans containing clear guidelines for bringing freedom dreaming into your educational setting, including:

—descriptions of the power of arts-infused writing pedagogies to inspire writing, create community, and unleash the imagination

—ideas for integrating the visual arts into learning contexts with modest investments of time and resources

—perspectives from poets, artists, and scholars

—full-color artwork by students, teachers, and future teachers

ash good is the author of us clumsy gods (What Books Press, 2022) & four previous writing collections. Their poetry has been nominated for Best of the Net & appears in Faultline, Cimarron Review, 45th Parallel, Chautauqua, Bird Coat Quarterly, Voicemail Poems & others.

They are co-founding editor of First Matter Press, a nonprofit writer collective based in Portland, OR.

As a creative director & designer, ash collaborates on publishing projects with small presses, journals, literary organizations, universities & independent authors.

“We Are Dreaming of Freedom”: Picturebook + Teaching Guide

A picturebook for dreamers of all ages featuring the creative writings and artwork of students, teachers, and future teachers

Easily downloadable and print-ready lesson plans containing clear guidelines for bringing freedom dreaming into your educational setting, including:

—descriptions of the power of arts-infused writing pedagogies to inspire writing, create community, and unleash the imagination

—ideas for integrating the visual arts into learning contexts with modest investments of time and resources

—perspectives from poets, artists, and scholars

—full-color artwork by students, teachers, and future teachers

3 poems in Pile Press Issue 08

ash good is the author of us clumsy gods (What Books Press, 2022) & four previous writing collections. Their poetry has been nominated for Best of the Net & appears in Faultline, Cimarron Review, 45th Parallel, Chautauqua, Bird Coat Quarterly, Voicemail Poems & others.

They are co-founding editor of First Matter Press, a nonprofit writer collective based in Portland, OR.

As a creative director & designer, ash collaborates on publishing projects with small presses, journals, literary organizations, universities & independent authors.