{"id":20267,"date":"2025-08-25T12:40:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T18:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/?p=20267"},"modified":"2025-08-26T13:10:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T19:10:55","slug":"new-book-by-kara-viesca-and-nancy-commins-former-sehd-colleagues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/2025\/08\/25\/new-book-by-kara-viesca-and-nancy-commins-former-sehd-colleagues\/","title":{"rendered":"New Book by Kara Viesca and Nancy Commins, Former SEHD Colleagues"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Nancy and Kara are excited to announce that they have just published a book together. They began the project 10 years ago when they were still closely connected with our school.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Viesca, K.M. &amp; Commins, N.L. (2025)\u00a0<i>Humanizing pedagogies with multilingual learners: Transforming teaching in the content areas<\/i>. Routledge.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Here are a few more details:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Humanizing-Pedagogies-with-Multilingual-Learners-Transforming-Teaching-in-the-Content-Areas\/MitchellViesca-LCommins\/p\/book\/978103267018\"><b><u>Click here to view the book on the website<\/u><\/b><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><i>Humanizing Pedagogies with Multilingual Learners<\/i>\u201d is a love letter to teachers, students, families, and communities.\u00a0\u00a0<b>All<\/b>\u00a0students should be able to be and become the best most desired versions of themselves in our classrooms.\u00a0 The authors advocate for teaching and learning that is relational, organic, real, and meaningful.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They created a road map for pre- and in-service teachers to develop what Betina Love calls their \u201cnorth star\u201d to guide their work. And, they provide tools to help educators on their personal learning journeys so they can develop their own \u201cnorth stars\u201d in authentic ways.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They focus on the knowledge and skills that all teachers need in three key areas: context, orientations, and pedagogy, as well as an approach to problem solving.\u00a0 In addition, they encourage teachers to grow through complexity thinking and critical reflection at the intrapersonal, interpersonal, and systemic levels.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The book is organized in a three-part cycle where readers can\u00a0<b>Explore<\/b>\u00a0information,\u00a0<b>Make It Work<\/b>\u00a0in their own settings, and\u00a0<b>Share<\/b>\u00a0their learnings with others.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>More about the authors:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Kara Mitchell Viesca<\/b>, professor of Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, focuses her scholarship on advancing equity in the policy and practice of educator development, particularly for teachers of multilingual learners.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Nancy L. Commins<\/b>, clinical professor emeritus at the University of Colorado Denver, has focused her decades of teaching, scholarship, and service to connecting theory to practice and creating educational environments that build on and expand the cognitive, linguistic, and cultural assets that all children \u2013 especially multilingual learners \u2013 bring with them.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nancy and Kara are excited to announce that they have just published a book together. They began the project 10 years ago when they were still closely connected with our school. Viesca, K.M. &amp; Commins, N.L. (2025)\u00a0Humanizing pedagogies with multilingual learners: Transforming teaching in the content areas. Routledge. Here are a few more details: Click [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4,312],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-house","category-news","category-publication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20268,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20267\/revisions\/20268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}