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Multiculturalism and Diversity

Scholastic offers lesson plans and ideas that attend to all students and all backgrounds in grades K-12. Along with a variety of articles and resources for educators.

Lesson: Holiday Stories

With Christmas around the corner, this lesson has is great expose students to different traditions around the world. It is described as story time with grandma but instead with the use of the internet, stories from around the world can be read aloud or listened to. Each of the stories on this activity shares different traditions according to religion or culture.

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Multiculturalism and Diversity | Scholastic

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Resources that foucs on the topic of multiculturalism and diversity. Includes professional articles and resources, lesson plans, and activities.

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The Education Alliance of Brown University offers this resource with emphasis on four specific components when teaching diverse learners.  This components are literacy, strategies, assessment, and policy.

Culturally Responsive Teaching
Positive Perspectives on Parents and Families
Brown University has created one of the greatest resources for teachers with English language learners. On this page, there are several links. Each link provides research summaries.  A link to understanding the challenges in each of the components with descriptions and suggestions for educators. This is accompanied by teacher resources that are organized in different grade spans. This is followed by a link to culturally responsive teaching. On this page, there is a full description of this theory along with links to each of the characteristics. With teachers applying these strategies to their lessons learners will have a lower effective filter and will participate in-class discussions and feel safe and confident to share.
This specific link of Culturally Responsive Teaching provides a description of this pedagogy. It has a link to each one of the seven characteristics with more information and resources for each. One of these characteristics is "Positive Perspectives on Parents and Families" which gives a deep understanding of how important it is for educators to keep communication with families. It gives the "what" "why" and "how" to do this.

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This collection holds materials from the Education Alliance at Brown University. The Education Alliance was a reform support organization committed to advancing equitable educational opportunities that prepare all student populations to succeed in the 21st century. From 1975-2021, the Alliance partnered with schools, districts and state departments of education to apply research findings in developing solutions to educational challenges. Its mission was to enhance learning for culturally and linguistically diverse students and focused on district and school improvement with special attention to underperformance and issues of equity and diversity. DOI: https://doi.org/10.26300/7eez-dz04

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This collection holds materials from the Education Alliance at Brown University. The Education Alliance was a reform support organization committed to advancing equitable educational opportunities that prepare all student populations to succeed in the 21st century. From 1975-2021, the Alliance partnered with schools, districts and state departments of education to apply research findings in developing solutions to educational challenges.

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Multicultural Pavilion Teachers Corner
Teacher's corner offers a plethora of resources for educators. Here educators can find activities, quizzes, songs, and even workshops.

Activity: Who I Am Poem
In this activity, learners are given the opportunity to share with their peers in a safe way who they are. The learning facilitator will create diverse groups to have all the learners share their poems with others. The only requirement is to begin each line of the poem with "I am".

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Multicultural Pavilion Teachers Corner - Equity and Social Justice Education Resources

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Multicultural education, equity, and social justice education resources.

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Awareness Activities
This specific page focuses on only activities. It is broken up into three sections: strategies and preparation, icebreakers, and introspective. Each activity is linked to a thorough lesson plan.

Guide for Setting Ground Rules:
For any educator, this is a non-negotiable lesson/activity. This activity allows educators to create procedures.  In order to be able to hold deep hard conversations with your learner's guidelines and do's and don'ts must be in place. On this activity, there is also an anchor list of rules that can aid any educator as support for a starting point. This activity will be the beginning of a safe culture and more integrity with values incorporated in the learning environment.

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EdChange - Equity, Anti-bias, & Diversity Activities & Exercises

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Multicultural, Anti-bias, & Diversity Activities & Exercises

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Classroom Resources
Learning for Justice offers a variety of resources for educators in need of ideas for teaching diversity.  They offer new media film kits, lesson plans, and paired text.

When searching for a lesson plan Learning for Justice offers an advanced filter that allows the educator to search for plans by four specific categories: grade level, social justice domain (they have four: identity, diversity, justice, and action), subject, and topic.

Lesson Plan: What is Family?
The layout of these lesson plans is phenomenal. The layout is as follows: Objective, essential questions, materials, vocabulary, overview, procedure, and an extension activity.
The purpose of this lesson is to create a safe space for learners to open up and speak about their families with pride. They also get to listen to others' stories and make connections. The learners get to do this in a creative way by using art and storytelling.

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From film kits and lesson plans to the building blocks of a customized Learning Plan-texts, student tasks and teaching strategies-our resources will help you bring relevance, rigor and social emotional learning into your classroom-all for FREE.

Not sure where to begin? Get to know our Social Justice Standards, anchor standards and age-appropriate learning outcomes divided into four domains-Identity, Diversity, Justice and Action. The Standards provide a common language and a road map for anti-bias education at every grade level.

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From film kits and lesson plans to the building blocks of a customized Learning Plan-texts, student tasks and teaching strategies-our resources will help you bring relevance, rigor and social emotional learning into your classroom-all for FREE.