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my co-teacher and i made sure to put aside time to discuss WHY we're doing something or why we're choosing materials and what the impact we want to happen will be...then make time to listen to the kids discuss topics instead of bulldoze with our ideas.

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At my teaching academy, the school made students create flags from the country they were from and they put the flags around the school.

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Multiculturalism means during the holiday season, we talk about more than just Christmas, but also Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and other holidays that are important to students.

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Multiculturalism means being aware about, discussing and learning about differences in our sociopolitical /cultural contexts.

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Multiculturalism representation in my workplace looks like having the same book available in different languages so the story is accessible to students of various cultures and language abilities. Maybe one book is a picture book while another is an audiobook in Spanish.

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Multiculturalism is celebrating and uplifting diversity. It helps individuals feel included and represented in their schools, workplaces, and communities. I was a student teacher in a sixth grade ELA classroom, where the teacher chose novels and texts that represented the identities of the students in her classroom. - Leah Campano

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Multiculturalism representation in my school was illustrated in a dance performance by a group celebrating Padwa.

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At Clara Barton HS, where I did my field experience training, a Haitian community organization does cultural activities with the students and puts on an annual performance on Haitian flag day. Carl Biers

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Different stories from literature written by African American and Latino authors

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In my workplace, it's having assemblies for specific history months. Classes can sign up to participate. In my personal life, it means being able to learn about and from the experiences of different people.

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Multiculturalism is the reality and the future of our society. Many cultures coming together, and making new culture. In my place of work, it is celebrations of many different holidays, and units on different ethnic movements throughout history

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Multiculturalism should be more than one-off mentions of celebrating diversity. Multiculturalism is celebrating diversity year-round and incorporating knowledge and representation in all aspects of life.

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A previous workplace would publish a calendar of cultural and religious holidays to increase awareness and understanding of celebrations in the community.

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At my teaching academy, I saw a lot of examples of a surface level form of multicultural recognition (a culture day assembly, a focus on "great figures" like MLK or Malcolm X), but in the classes I observed, I didn't see much that genuinely broke through to deeper engagement with multiculturalism

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In my teaching academy for the olympics each class was given a country to do research on, and they created flags and made shirts. We all had a small ceremony in the school yard where each class represented their country

-Lizbeth

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Multiculturalism is a blending of cultures. An example of this is at my old school we did a multicultural lesson for the students where kids could bring things from their home countries and share what it means to them.

Camille

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An example of multicultural representation is how during the school year my 6th graders read different books about people from different parts of the world. They learned about different cultures.

Alexa R

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Multiculturalism representation in my place of work is having a "potluck" for students and teachers to taste a variety of different foods from different cultures.

Diana Bravo