The Journal of Literacy Innovation's Article of the Year Award (AYA) is designed to provide special recognition to the most outstanding article JLI publishes each year. No special application is required--all articles published by JLI are reviewed by judges and considered for the award.
The AYA is awarded each year after the publication of that year's fall issue.
2023 Article of the Year: "The Magic of Insider Autores y Escritores: Youth Story Tellers as Authors in a Rural Mexican Community-Based Summer Program" by Dr. Steve Daniel Przymus & Dr. Michael Faggella-Luby
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2022 Article of the Year: "Youth-Led Research for Social Action: A Community Collaborates” by Mary Frances (Molly) Buckley-Marudas, Cleveland State University, Charles Ellenbogen, Campus International School, Cleveland, OH, and Rachel Oscar, Campus District, Cleveland, OH
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2021 Article of the Year: "Putting Black Boys’ Literacies First: Collective Curriculum Development for the Lives & Literacies of Black Boys" by Bianca Nightengale-Lee, Florida Atlantic University, Paul Massy, Florida Atlantic University, and Brian Knowles, Palm Beach County School District
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2020 Article of the Year: "A Place for Reading: Leveraging Mentor Texts with Middle Grade Rural Writers" by Rachelle Kuehl, Virginia Tech
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2019 Article of the Year: "Ecological literacy in teacher preparation: Urgency, affect, & agency" by Bernadette Musetti, Loyola Marymount University
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2018 Article of the Year: "Countering the Peter Effect: Blogging and talking about children's literature in teacher education classes" by Victoria B. Fantozzi, Manhattanville College and Katie Egan Cunningham, Manhattanville College
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2017 Article of the Year: "Documenting literacy histories, values, and practices: The HUMN Project" by Jason Chew Kit Tham, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
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2016 Article of the Year: “’These fragments I have shored against my ruins’: Intertextuality in the Dialogical Secondary Classroom” by Jennifer Jackson Whitley, The University of Georgia
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