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Gainer, J. S., & Valdez-Gainer, N. (2025). Vamos al otro lado: Critical race content analysis of Chicanx children’s literature. Perspectives and Provocations Journal of the Early Childhood Education Assembly, 14, 1–22.

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Valdez-Gainer, N. (n.d.). Celebrating Our Families and Communities through Cuentos: NCTE’s 2025 Outstanding Elementary Educator in the English Language Arts Award. Language Arts Journal.

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Valdez-Gainer, N. (2023). Be in Coalition to See Humanity: NCTE’s 2023 Outstanding Elementary Educators in the English Language Arts Award. Language Arts, 101(2), 143-146.

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Kinard, T. A., Gainer, J. S., Valdez-Gainer, N., Long, S., & Volk, D. (2021). Interrogating the “Gold Standard”: Play-Based Early Childhood Education and Perpetuating White Supremacy. Theory into Practice. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/00405841.2021.1911587

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Valdez-Gainer, N., & Gainer, J. S. (2020). Everyday stories for everyday people: Communal responsibility and Nepantla literacies in early childhood education. Urban Educaation, 55(6), 911–936. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042085919892043

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Acevedo-Aquino, M. V., Bowles, D., Eisenberg, J., Elliott, Z., Gainer, J. S., & Valdez-Gainer, N. (2020). Reflections on the #OwnVoices movement. Journal of Children’s Literature, 46(2), 27–35.

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Gainer, J. S., & Valdez-Gainer, N. (2017). Re-visioning through storytelling and story acting in a second-grade classroom. Language Arts, 95(2).

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Gainer, J., Zapata, A., & Valdez-Gainer, N. (2013). Re-storying nuestro barrio: Mentoring children’s picture book writing with Latino/a children’s literature. In Diversity in youth literature: Opening doors through reading.

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Nancy Valdez-Gainer

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