In today’s episode host Matt Sroka chats with Dr. Jody Polleck about how teachers can utilize book clubs to foster academic and emotional literacies as well as promote student agency. This conversation centers around her article for The Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy titled: Using culturally sustaining science fiction book clubs to address agency and academic and emotional literacies with Dutch neurodiverse youth.Dr. Jody Polleck is a professor in literacy at Hunter College--CUNY (City University of New York). She also continues to teach adolescents through the CUNY College Now Program. Jody began her work with youth in 1994 as an outreach counselor, and since 1998, has been teaching adolescent literacies within urban contexts across the disciplines. Her research focuses on culturally sustaining literacy instruction and culturally-affirming and healing-centered social-emotional learning. Jody was a 2019 Fulbright scholar and has been published in over 25 academic and practice-based journals; her first book entitled Facilitating Youth-led Book Clubs as Transformative and Inclusive Spaces was released by Teachers College Press in 2022.Resources:Using culturally sustaining science fiction book clubs to address agency and academic and emotional literacies with Dutch neurodiverse youth.Facilitating Youth-Led Book Clubs as Transformative and Inclusive SpacesEducate for Action

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