Source: American Consortium for Equality in Education

An equity-focused teacher explains how comics help her navigate difficult conversations about social justice and identity with young students.

As a teacher, media librarian, and leader of my school’s Equity and Culturally Relevant Education (CRE) Team, I’m always on the lookout for student activities that bring my varied roles together. Recently, I began asking students to create comics to explore issues of identity, equity, and social justice.

I didn’t intend to bring comics into my classroom. I began using a comic creation tool, Pixton, as a means for my students to storyboard prior to coding for a ScratchJr activity. Once students got to work on their storyboards, however, they were so engaged that I decided to forgo the ScratchJr plan and have them flesh the story out more. Since then, I’ve come to see comic creation as a powerful classroom tool that helps students connect with their own identity and helps me understand their perspectives more deeply.

Here’s how it works.

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