Angelo J. Letizia Books

Set against the harsh winters of the Northeastern United States, this collection explores themes of existence and the search for meaning amid bleakness. Letizia confronts the challenges of life, reflecting on the instinctual drive to build, love, create, and learn, even when meaning feels elusive. The poems capture the struggle against oblivion, highlighting the resilience of the human spirit in the face of adversity and the necessity of recording one’s efforts.

Utilizing graphic novels in the social studies classroom offers a powerful approach to teaching citizenship, enabling students to engage with complex contemporary issues such as history, gender, race, and social justice. The author illustrates how these visual narratives foster multimodal literacy and empower students to explore diverse topics through a multidisciplinary lens. By incorporating personal and student examples, along with practical exercises, the book provides educators with innovative strategies to cultivate critical thinking and meaningful discourse on citizenship in today's society.

This book presents educators with research-based strategies to promote civic education in their classrooms. Going beyond theory and measures of achievement, these methods focus on information location, evaluation and activation, dialogue in the classroom, understandings of discourse in popular culture and policymaking, and understanding the role of STEM disciplines in democracy. The author also furthers considerations of how the political process can provide meaning and new visions of justice in a globalized world, and advance student leadership and academic writing in the information age. As the world faces unprecedented levels of poverty, wealth disparity, environmental destruction, and ethical questions regarding biotechnology, the United States needs knowledgeable citizens to effectively deal with these issues. Letizia provides teachers and teacher educators with the needed methods to foster these types of democratic considerations.