multicultural education

"Rooted in examples from their own and others' classrooms, the authors offer discipline-specific practices for implementing antiracist literature instruction in White-dominant schools. Each chapter explores a key dimension of antiracist literature teaching and learning, including designing literature-based units that emphasize racial literacy, selecting literature that highlights voices of color, analyzing Whiteness in canonical literature, examining texts through a critical race lens, managing challenges of race talk, and designing formative assessments for racial literacy and identity growth"--Provided by publisher.

"This book provides practical help for undoing the deficit perspective that is frequently applied to Latinx bilingual students. This deficit perspective limits educators from getting to know bilingual learners and has lasting effects on children's self-concept, socio-emotional growth and academic development. Schooling impacts how societal norms are reproduced, contested or reimagined, and the lessons, along with the pedagogical framework that we present in this book, can create that opportunity to fully embrace the ways we can connect with our students and have an impact beyond the classroom. This book offers lessons with a decolonized bilingual sustaining pedagogy approach: a culturally sustaining topic having to do with language practices, literacies, and power texts that show different ways we engage with language practices translanguaging (using all of one's linguistic repertoire, this includes different features of named languages such as Spanish and English) as the way bilingual students communicate, the way we teach, and the way we strive for social justice"--Provided by publisher.

"Provides . . . guidance to educators and others on what can be done to support boys and young men of color . . . Jackson outlines strategies and practices that can be helpful in counteracting the negative trends and altering the life trajectories of young Black and Latino males"--Foreword.

"Strategies to help teachers examine their own educational spaces, start the school year in culturally relevent ways, build reciprocal relationships with families and communities, and teach within standards and testing mandates while challenging unjust systems"--Amazon.

Provides an introduction to languages from around the world and asks readers to spot differences in illustrations.

Reveals how--and why--disadvantaged students struggle at elite colleges, and explains what schools can do differently if these students are to thrive.

Matthew Kay outlines how to have productive dialogues about race in the classroom. He presents practical strategies for engaging with students, maintaining that schools are the best places for young people to discuss race.

" ... bring(s) together fourteen educators who use global children's literature to help students explore their own cultural identities. The book lays out why this kind of global curriculum is important and how to make space for it within district and state mandates. Built around a curriculum framework ... , the ideas and strategies in Teaching Globally will help teachers integrate a global focus into existing literacy and social studies curricula, evaluate global resources, guide students as they investigate cross-cultural issues, and create classroom activities with an intercultural perspective"--Amazon.com.

Offers librarians a manual for setting up bilingual programs for toddlers, preschoolers, and mixed-age and family groups to meet the needs of Latino communities. Includes resource materials.

Describes practical programs that young adult librarians, school librarians, and adult and young adult services staff can use to introduce children and young adults to a variety of cultures; providing specifics on scheduling, budgets, and age-group requirements; and detailing how to set up an event that focuses on a specific culture.