“ELA teachers—now more than ever—are faced with awful decisions in the current context of teaching: Should they do what is best for their students or what will allow them to keep working with students? Dyches, Sams, and Boyd emphatically say, “Both” and I agree the way forward in ELA instruction is to be subversive, to be acutely aware of the dominant discourses and work constantly to help students write themselves into the discussions, texts, and narratives of their multi-faceted and complex lives. These editors and authors provide just what the profession needs at just the right time.”

Christian Z. Goering, Ph.D., University of Arkansas, Professor, English Education, Chair, English Language Arts Teacher Education

“How else to abandon the status quo of generations of inequitable schooling than through subversion? By giving voice to silenced topics, advocating for crafty, alternative assessments, and showcasing the ways these changes ignite their students into lovers of language and advocates in the world, teachers in this book dignify and insist upon the ethics of subversion in the English classroom.”

Sophia Tatiana Sarigianides, Ph.D., Professor & Coordinator of English Education, Westfield State University

“Acts of Resistance: Subversive Teaching in the English Language Arts Classroom is timely, thoughtful, and important. Now, more than ever, we need subversive English language arts teachers—public intellectuals and professionals who deeply understand their discipline and know how to use that disciplinary knowledge to engage students in critical, transformative learning. Together, the narratives featured in this book offer a complex, compelling, and accessible picture of what it means to be subversive and to enact change”

Amanda Haertling Thein, Ph.D., University of Iowa, Associate Provost for Graduate and Professional Education and Dean of the Graduate College, Professor

“The portraits in this collection highlight teachers, curriculum, and pedagogy that enact subversive teaching—a critical stance in classrooms that promotes opportunity for all students. Situated within our current era of external mandates that are increasingly aimed at standardizing instruction, this text pushes the field to consider what possibilities exist for generative action and agency in ELA classrooms today.”

Heidi Hallman, Ph.D., University of Kansas, Chair, Department of Curriculum and Teaching, Professor