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The Danger of a Single Story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (TED Talk)

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The Danger of a Single Story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (TED Talk)

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story | TED

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Royalty "Letter To Your Flag" | 2018 Youth Speaks Teen Poetry Slam

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Chafel, J.A., A.S. Flint, J. Hammel, & K.H. Pomeroy. 2007. Young children, social issues, and critical literacy: Stories of teachers and researchers. Young Children 62 (1): 73-81.

Cunningham, P. 2005. Struggling readers: "If they don't read much, how they ever gonna get good?" The Reading Teacher 59 (1): 88-90.

Harste, J.C. 2000. Supporting critical conversations in classrooms. In Adventuring with books: A booklist for pre-K-grade 6, 12th ed., ed. K.M. Pierce, 507-54. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English.

Pressley, M. 2006. Reading instruction that works: The case for balanced teaching, 3rd ed. New York: Guilford.

Simpson, A. 1996. Critical questions: Whose questions? The Reading Teacher 50 (2): 118-27.

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Using Read Alouds with Critical Literacy Literature in K-3 Classrooms

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Teacher read alouds are a vital part of literacy instruction in primary classrooms. Learn how to conduct read alouds that feature high-quality children's books which will prompt children to think and talk about social issues that impact their daily lives.

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Social Justice Mathematics Resources for K-12 Educators

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Teaching for Change and Rethinking Schools collaborate to bring people's history to the classroom.

A dedicated website to encourage and support teaching about Central American history.

The best selection of multicultural and social justice books for children, YA, and educators.

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Building social justice starting in the classroom.

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"I believe in the power of Facing History."

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The Zinn Education Project is my compass in a sea of corporate textbooks, packaged common core curriculum and standardized testing. My entire curriculum is based on lessons that can be found on the Zinn Education Project.

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From voter ID laws to voter-roll purges, gerrymandering to poll closures to the deadly in-person voting conditions during a pandemic, the right to vote is under attack and the stakes are high. It is critical that students learn about the fight for voting rights, past and present.

Nov. 30, 1924: Shirley Chisholm Born...

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I can UNDERSTAND pessimism, but I don't BELIEVE in it. It's not simply a matter of faith, but of historical EVIDENCE. Not overwhelming evidence, just enough to give HOPE, because for hope we don't need certainty, only POSSIBILITY.

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Zinn Education Project: Teaching People's History

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The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the teaching of people's history in middle and high school classrooms across the country. Based on the lens of history highlighted in Howard Zinn's best-selling book A People's History of the United States, the website offers free, downloadable lessons and articles organized by theme, time period, and reading level.

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Introducing: Nice White Parents (Published 2020)

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A new five-part series about building a better school system, and what gets in the way. New episodes of “Nice White Parents” are available here, brought to you by Serial Productions and The New York Times.

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You're not going to believe what I'm about to tell you (classroom-friendly version) - The Oatmeal

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This is a classroom-friendly (no cuss words) comic about the backfire effect.

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What if the Statue of Liberty was a Black woman?

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Nine American citizens describe their struggle to belong in a nation that both embraces and rejects them.

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Who is Bellen Woodard?

Bellen Woodard lives in Leesburg, VA with her parents and four brothers. When Bellen was eight-years-old, she had an experience that changed her life and changed the world. When Bellen was in third grade, she noticed that her classmates asked for the "skin color crayon" and that everyone automatically knew or assumed that was the peach color crayon. Bellen knew something was wrong with this. Using "skin color crayon" instead of the specific crayon color excludes Black and other people of color like her. After changing the language in her school, Bellen started the "More Than Peach Project," which includes crayons with various skin tones and complexions across the world. Bellen began by donating crayons to schools in her area and she still donates to groups around the country and the world. In 2022, she published a picture book about this experience.

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Bellen Woodard, Identity and "Crayon Activism"

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Bellen Woodard lives in Leesburg, VA with her parents and four brothers. When Bellen was eight-years-old, she had an experience that changed her life and changed the world. When Bellen was in third grade, she noticed that her classmates asked for the "skin color crayon" and that everyone automatically knew or assumed that was the peach color crayon.

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Use identity charts to help students consider the many factors that shape their own identity and that of groups, nations, and historical and literary figures.

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Use identity charts to help students consider the many factors that shape their own identity and that of groups, nations, and historical and literary figures.

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Liyla and the Shadows of War Review for Teachers | Common Sense Education

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Is Liyla and the Shadows of War good for learning? Use Common Sense Education’s reviews and learning ratings to find the best media and edtech resources for your classroom.

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Learning for Justice is a community education program of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) that centers civic and political action education for everyone.

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Teacher, researcher, and advocate for social justice in education, Sonia Nieto is Professor Emerita of Language, Literacy, and Culture, College of Education at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her teaching spanned early elementary through doctoral education and her research has focused on multicultural education, teacher education, literacy, and the education of students of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, with an emphasis on Latin@ students. The first edition of her classic text, Affirming Diversity: The Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education (1992), was selected for the Museum of Education Readers' Guide as "one of the 100 books that helped define the field of education in the 20th century." The author of 13 academic books and dozens of journal articles and book chapters, she was also the inaugual editor of the Language, Culture, and Teaching Series (Routledge), and is now the editor of Visions of Practice (Teachers College Press), a series that amplifies the experiences and research of practitioners, especially K-12 educators. Sonia Nieto has received dozens of awards for her scholarly work, teaching, activism, and advocacy, including 9 honorary doctorates. She was a 2021 Honoree of the Massachusetts Governor's Award for the Humanities from the state affiliate of the National Endowment in the Humanities. Other awards include the Lifelong Educator of the Year Award from the National Association for Bilingual Education (2022), the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Literacy Research Association (2019), the Distinguished Career Award and the Social Justice Award (in 2006 and 2008 respectively), from the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the James R. Squire Award for a scholar "who has had a transforming influence and made a lasting intellectual contribution to the profession" from the National Council of Teachers of English (2017), the Medal for Distinguished Service, the highest honor granted by Teachers College, Columbia University (2014), and, most recently, the 2023 Centro Trailblazer Award celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies [Centro] at Hunter College, among many others. In 2011, she was elected as a Fellow of AERA and a Laureate of Kappa Delta Pi Honorary Educational Society, and in 2015 to the National Academy of Education. In 2024 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2024 she also received the Lifetime Recognition Award from MABE, the Multistate Association for Bilingual Education, a regional educational organization of New England states. Besides her academic writing, Sonia has also turned her attention to memoir writing. In 2015, she published a memoir about her educational journey, Brooklyn Dreams: My Life in Public Education (Harvard Education Press) and she is currently working on an epistolary memoir based on the many letters that she and her late husband, poet and educator Angel Nieto Romero, wrote one another shortly after meeting on a train in Spain in 1966, and with whom she raised three remarkable daughters and shared the next 55 years of love and dedication to family and community.

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Language, Culture, and Teaching: Critical Perspectives (Language, Culture, and Teaching Series)

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Amazon.com: Language, Culture, and Teaching: Critical Perspectives (Language, Culture, and Teaching Series): 9780415999748: Nieto, Sonia: Books

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Four starred reviews and over ten best-of-year lists!* "Many readers will recognize themselves or their neighbors in these pages." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review

Winner of the Asian / Pacific American Award for Children's Literature! * "Many readers will recognize themselves or their neighbors in these pages." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review Mia Tang has a lot of secrets.Number 1: She lives in a motel, not a big house. Every day, while her immigrant parents clean the rooms, ten-year-old Mia manages the front desk of the Calivista Motel and tends to its guests.Number 2: Her parents hide immigrants. And if the mean motel owner, Mr. Yao, finds out they've been letting them stay in the empty rooms for free, the Tangs will be doomed.Number 3: She wants to be a writer. But how can she when her mom thinks she should stick to math because English is not her first language?It will take all of Mia's courage, kindness, and hard work to get through this year. Will she be able to hold on to her job, help the immigrants and guests, escape Mr. Yao, and go for her dreams?

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Front Desk (Front Desk #1) (Scholastic Gold)

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Front Desk (Front Desk #1) (Scholastic Gold) [Yang, Kelly] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Front Desk (Front Desk #1) (Scholastic Gold)

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More than 100 carefully selected lists of multicultural and social justice books for children, young adults, and educators. When you find a book at this site, please purchase it here. Our titles are linked to Bookshop. A portion of your book purchase helps sustain our work. New Releases Activism and Organizing Africa Afro-Latinx American Indians Arabs […]

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'White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack' and 'Some Notes for Facilitators' - National SEED Project

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White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack Downloadable PDF © 1989 Peggy McIntosh 'White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack' first appeared in P...

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Loss of Family Languages: Should Educators Be Concerned? on JSTOR

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Lily Wong Fillmore, Loss of Family Languages: Should Educators Be Concerned?, Theory Into Practice, Vol. 39, No. 4, Children and Languages at School (Autumn, 2000), pp. 203-210

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Accountable Book Clubs: Focused Discussions

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Classroom book clubs traditionally involve student-led discussions about books, but often teachers feel that these clubs need more direction and accountability. In this lesson, students in grades 7 and 8 form literature circle groups and read either Esperanza Rising or Becoming Naomi Leon by Pam Muñoz Ryan.