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Emergent Literacy Course 

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Start Here

Welcome to the course! This learning experience is designed to help you explore inclusive education through a blend of practical strategies and powerful storytelling. Before diving into the course content, your first step is to choose the story that will guide your learning.

 

About This Course

This course supports you in creating communities of welcome where every learner can belong, participate, and flourish. Rooted in Catholic identity and lived experience, it invites you to imagine access and inclusion through the eyes of dignity, hospitality, and shared humanity. While you will deepen your understanding through thoughtful learning interludes, everything begins with the stories of students and educators learning to make room for one another.

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Each course is anchored in a set of narrative case studies—realistic, practice-based stories that illuminate inclusive strategies in action. These stories will help you reflect, connect, and see how the course concepts apply in real school contexts.

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Choose Your Story

Each story features:

  • A Prologue to set the scene

  • Four Chapters that trace growth, tension, and change

  • An Epilogue to reflect on learning and impact

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Choose one story to follow throughout the course. Pick the one that most closely matches your role, context, or interests. This story will provide a consistent lens as you move through the learning interludes and activities.

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Not sure which to choose? No problem. You can always return to this page to explore other stories. Many learners choose to follow more than one story to see how inclusive practices come to life in different settings.

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What Happens Next?

Once you’ve chosen your story:

  • If you're learning independently, head to the Course Content section and begin with Learning Interlude 1.

  • If you're learning with a facilitator, they’ll guide you through the journey using the facilitation materials provided.

 

You're ready to begin. Scroll down to explore the stories and pick the one that will guide your path through the course.

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A Seat at the Table

A story of a teacher learning to build a classroom where belonging becomes possible for a quiet, overlooked student named Mateo..

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  • Prologue - Prologue ( ðŸ“– Read | 🎧 Listen | 🎬 Watch )

  • Chapter 1 - Inclusion and Belonging ( 📖 Read | 🎧 Listen | 🎬 Watch )

  • Chapter 2 - Hospitality as Daily Practice ( 📖 Read | 🎧 Listen | 🎬 Watch )

  • Chapter 3 - Supporting Voice and Agency ( 📖 Read | 🎧 Listen | 🎬 Watch )

  • Chapter 4 - Communal Belonging ( 📖 Read | 🎧 Listen | 🎬 Watch )

  • Epilogue - Communion Made Visible ( 📖 Read | 🎧 Listen | 🎬 Watch )

The Family at the Edges

A story of a school learning to welcome a family who has long felt pushed to the margins.

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  • Prologue - Prologue ( ðŸ“– Read | 🎧 Listen | 🎬 Watch )

  • Chapter 1 - System Not Conveying Belonging ( ðŸ“– Read | 🎧 Listen | 🎬 Watch )

  • Chapter 2 - Welcome that Changes Everything ( ðŸ“– Read | 🎧 Listen | 🎬 Watch )

  • Chapter 3 - Making Participation Accessible ( ðŸ“– Read | 🎧 Listen | 🎬 Watch )

  • Chapter 4 - Building Systems of Belonging ( ðŸ“– Read | 🎧 Listen | 🎬 Watch )

  • Epilogue - A Community of Communion ( ðŸ“– Read | 🎧 Listen | 🎬 Watch )

The Chaplain’s Lens

A story of seeing behaviour through a Eucharistic understanding of belonging.

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  • Prologue - Prologue ( ðŸ“– Read | 🎧 Listen | 🎬 Watch )

  • Chapter 1 - Seeing the Exclusion Clearly ( ðŸ“– Read | 🎧 Listen | 🎬 Watch )

  • Chapter 2 - Shift in Understanding Behaviour ( ðŸ“– Read | 🎧 Listen | 🎬 Watch )

  • Chapter 3 -Supporting Isaiah's Participation ( ðŸ“– Read | 🎧 Listen | 🎬 Watch )

  • Chapter 4 - Reworking Routines and Culture ( ðŸ“– Read | 🎧 Listen | 🎬 Watch )

  • Epilogue - A Place at the Table ( ðŸ“– Read | 🎧 Listen | 🎬 Watch )

The Classroom That Rebuilt Itself

A Grade 9 Religious Education class moves from cliques to communion.

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  • Prologue - Prologue ( ðŸ“– Read | 🎧 Listen | 🎬 Watch )

  • Chapter 1 - The Anatomy of Silent Exclusion ( ðŸ“– Read | 🎧 Listen | 🎬 Watch )

  • Chapter 2 - Building A Culture of Welcome ( ðŸ“– Read | 🎧 Listen | 🎬 Watch )

  • Chapter 3 - Rebuilding Lessons for Agency ( ðŸ“– Read | 🎧 Listen | 🎬 Watch )

  • Chapter 4 - Cooperative Learning ( ðŸ“– Read | 🎧 Listen | 🎬 Watch )

  • Epilogue - A Community of Communion ( ðŸ“– Read | 🎧 Listen | 🎬 Watch )

The Student Who Changed the System

A story of system transformation sparked by one student, Jamir.

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  • Prologue - Prologue ( ðŸ“– Read | 🎧 Listen | 🎬 Watch )

  • Chapter 1 - When Systems Fall Short ( ðŸ“– Read | 🎧 Listen | 🎬 Watch )

  • Chapter 2 - Listening at the Margins ( ðŸ“– Read | 🎧 Listen | 🎬 Watch )

  • Chapter 3 - Making Participation Accessible ( ðŸ“– Read | 🎧 Listen | 🎬 Watch )

  • Chapter 4 - Rebuilding School Systems ( ðŸ“– Read | 🎧 Listen | 🎬 Watch )

  • Epilogue - A School Transformed ( ðŸ“– Read | 🎧 Listen | 🎬 Watch )

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