Name: Curating with Care: Visual Text Selection as a Culturally Responsive Literacy Practice
Start: 2026-10-08T09:30:00-0400
End: 2026-10-08T10:00:00-0400

Curating with Care: Visual Text Selection as a Culturally Responsive Literacy Practice

Thursday October 8, 2026 9:30am - 10:00am EDT

Circular Church

What does it mean to choose a book for a group of students you are still learning to know? This presentation examines text selection as a visual literacy practice, one that requires educators to read images, illustrations, and visual narratives not only for aesthetic quality but for whose identities, experiences, and ways of knowing they center or erase. Drawing on work with the Literacy Community Initiative (LCI) at NC State University, a program serving immigrant and refugee youth, we share a framework for curating picturebooks and mentor texts with intention and equity at the forefront. The framework integrates six criteria including mirrors, windows, and doors (Bishop, 1990); authorship and illustrator diversity; trauma-informed resonance (Dutro, 2019); linguistic and cultural affirmation; community alignment; and pedagogical fit, grounded in culturally sustaining pedagogy (Paris & Alim, 2014) and positive youth development (Lee, Picart & Mann, 2025).
We argue that text selection is never neutral. The images we bring into a learning space communicate to students who belongs in the story and, by extension, who belongs in the room. This session invites participants to examine their own text selection practices and consider how visual curation can become an act of care, community-building, and justice.

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Amber Moore

Doctoral student, North Carolina State University

Amber L. Moore is a doctoral candidate in Teacher Education and Learning Sciences, with a concentration in Literacy and English Language Arts, at North Carolina State University. Her research sits at the intersection of visual methodologies, embodied literacies, and alternative literacy... Read More →

Haleema Khalil

Doctoral Candidate, North Carolina State University

Haleema Khalil is a doctoral candidate in Teacher Education and Learning Sciences at North Carolina State University, where she is advised by Dr. Jackie Relyea. She holds a master's degree from Vanderbilt University and brings a transnational perspective to her scholarship, having... Read More →

Thursday October 8, 2026 9:30am - 10:00am EDT
Circular Church

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