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As a teacher of color, sometimes the only thing people want to talk about with me is race. So, I like to use this video to establish basic understanding. I have used in a class I teach, and it always sparks rich conversations. I love the Larry Ferlazzo channel. I think it offers multiple perspectives. It's important t understand that issues are more complex than a bumper sticker.

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This video teaches us how to be careful who we judge.  Sometimes, we just do not have enough information before we put labels on others. This video teaches us to "walk a mile in someone else's shoes" before we judge them.  I know there are many versions of this video out there, but I like this one.

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Too Quick To Judge (Touching Short-Film)

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Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain

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Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain

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Zaretta Hammond is an amazing scholar and author. This book is a great resource on how to be better teachers for our students! She teaches you to be more culturally responsive and makes you challenge your implicit biases and mindsets.

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Zaretta Hammond "Culturally Responsive Teaching" at the San Francisco Public Library

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Working with preschoolers and early elementary and in special education, our students often point out physical differences with each other.  We can use YouTube subscriptions with this population for story read-a-louds, songs and videos from diverse authors, featuring diverse characters to open brave discussion earlier about race, diversity, ability, gender identity and more. We can also use YouTube to educate and support the families we serve.  A new resource I have come across helps families, caregivers and teachers talk about race and "raise a brave generation."
Jill Hawks

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EmbraceRace! Raising a brave generation.

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This video (the whole thing is not available anymore on YouTube) is about the encounter and interactions of the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Indians. It is from the perspective of the Wapanoag led by Massasoit that is much different than what is taught, including the first Thanksgiving. My team and I use this to teach about Colonization.

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We Shall Remain, Episode 1 After The Mayflower Part 1

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I am also talking a class on Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain, and this was a video from one of our first weeks. Dena Simmons ode an excellent job talking about the ideas behind Impostor Syndrome, and trying to find identity and success as a person of color in a white-dominated society.

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How students of color confront impostor syndrome | Dena Simmons

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Edutopia: Using Foreign Language as a Bridge in the Classroom.

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Edutopia: Using Foreign Language as a Bridge in the Classroom.

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When we learn a language or even basic common phrases and popular songs/children's songs we are learning about diversity through empathy. Learning a different culture's language is learning an alternative perspective to our own. It's easy to make friends when you speak a bit of the mother tongue or have an awareness of some of the expressions and gestures.

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Using Foreign Language as a Bridge to Learning in the Classroom

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Along the same lines as the Sankofa Read alouds, I like to expose students to diversity through literature. Rebecca Knowles focuses on females in literature where most of the characters, even animals in books, are depicted by males.

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Rebecca Reads is a children's storytime series devoted to helping children learn about the world through books. As a nanny, Rebecca realized that the majorit...

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Reflection on diversity by a 9th grader.

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Reflection on diversity by a 9th grader.

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An amazing video to gain insight on segregation in education, from a child's perspective.

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Diverse Education for a student in the Education System | Elijah Jones | TEDxYouth@Wilmington

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I have not explored diversity on the internet much other than classes I have taken. I decided to explore sites that others were supporting and Suckceed stood out. I like edgy and getting students attention. This is a topic that is coming more and more into the life of all students and as a high school teacher I am becoming more and more aware of students and gender identification. So whether this is for me or I would find an opportunity to show this to students I am not sure. It is new for me and I am looking for ways of approaching the topic
as students walk into my classes.

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Toilets, bowties, gender and me | Audrey Mason-Hyde | TEDxAdelaide

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The Biography website has lots of short, informational and entertaining videos that illustrate the lives of influential people of different races and genders

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Biography highlights newsworthy personalities and events with compelling and surprising points-of-view, telling the true stories from some of the most accomplished non-fiction storytellers of our time.

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There are so many resources available on Youtube that can help address, celebrate and teach about diversity. At the elementary level I find that literature and picture books are a beautiful and effective way to teach about diverse people and cultures. I found that many of the books I’ve loved and read in the past have short films or video books on Youtube.

This channel (that I’m now subscribed to) Sankofa Read Aloud contains online childrens books that focus primarily on the stories of young African Americans. I also stumbled upon a wonderful videobook Same Difference by Calida Rawles that is a favorite addition to my new Kids: Diversity, Race & Inclusion Playlist.

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At Sankofa Read Aloud your child will encounter a variety of short stories written for them by amazing authors. It is my mission to be a resource for teachers, parents, students, and children in the online learning community as well as inside the classroom.

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I think I can definitely use YouTube to find videos that offer diverse perspectives in history, instead of just looking at history from the perspective of "a bunch of dead white guys."  I have been trying to offer more diversity in my history classroom and in hopes of students from other backgrounds can make connections to their cultures as well.  One video I've come across throughout bias training and diversity, is this Ted Talk called Flip It to Test It.  I try to keep it in the back of my mind as I go through teaching and my life in general.  It's so simple, but impactful.
~T. Kreps

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Are you biased? I am | Kristen Pressner | TEDxBasel

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One of my struggles with my high school students is that they do not see the relevance of math. However, math is a gatekeeper for a lot of college majors and a lot of technical careers. Often students will find that they need the math that they did not do in high school in order to pursue their chosen career.

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I shared this video in my intro. This is one of my fave videos right now. This is all about challenging the status quo and making the world better. How it is very hard and scary to put yourselves in this situation of pushing, of speaking up and of questioning, but that we can do it is and it is ok to be uncomfortable.

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Get comfortable with being uncomfortable | Luvvie Ajayi Jones | TED

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I thought this would be a great resource to use in my classroom to show that stereotypes do not have to be true. That students can make their own path and follow their own dreams.

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Battling Cultural Stereotypes | Sadie Ortiz | TEDxYouth@ParkCity

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I chose Dr. Melissa Crum's Ted Talk on the importance of teachers being aware of their language.  As she relates the interaction with two teachers, the wording of how they relate is so important, even though one of them sounds like a compliment.

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A Tale of Two Teachers | Melissa Crum | TEDxColumbusWomen

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In researching, I saw a pattern of the lack of role models as a barrier to representative cultures in math. I am sharing a video from mathematician Fern Hunt who helps girls with career guidance and advice.

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Mathematician: The Beauty of Mathematics - Fern Hunt Career Girls Role Model

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While taking The New Jim Crow book study I'm trying to educate myself to be more culturally aware. This podcast is pretty amazing!!

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Listen to ‘1619,’ a Podcast From The New York Times (Published 2020)

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An audio series on how slavery has transformed America, connecting past and present through the oldest form of storytelling.

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While a father is playing with his child he learns that his child is different, and floats. He becomes scared that because his child is different, it is not good, and begins to live in isolation. To overcome this issue, he packs rocks in his sons backpack so he can play outside. After an incident on the playground the father blows up at his child "because he wants him to be normal." The father finally realizes that his son just like all have are own unique and special gifts and to accept it. This video showcases how important it is understand that our differences make us each unique and that different is good.

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Disney+ Float SparkShort Explained  |  It's About Autism (The Fangirl Breakdown)

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I do the "What does a scientist look like?" activity with my students in the beginning of the year. They are asked to "draw a scientist." Many draw someone who looks like Einstein, and old white dude. We talk about what makes a scientists, and who scientists are, and why diversity in scientists is important.
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I was looking for a post on gender diversity in theatre but wasn't coming up with what I was specifically looking for in an educational setting. While I know this content is out there so to speak, I wasn't willing to dig through a lot of non-educational content to find it. We talk a lot about diversity in the theatre classroom for a variety of reasons. For example, the most recent issue was regarding our musical last year, The Music Man, where a scene depicts very ignorant anglo-saxons sexualizing and imitating Native Americans at their social gathering through costumes, song, and dance. While I understood the many points of view in this scene-- the white people not knowing what they were doing "because of the time period", the students who found this demoralizing to their culture and heritage, to the company that holds the rights to the show wanting to uphold the playwright's intentions, it is certainly a very complex issue. It is also not complex in this day and age. So, when looking up Diversity in Theatre this episode of a group of actors is what I found. I plan to delve into it more on this "break" from school that we have and digest it more and discover ways that I can use it in class.

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Diversity in Theater, Broadway and Media

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I subscribed to Suckceed because it seems to be a series of videos about some rather dark/sad things that kids have to deal with. I could see using some of these videos to raise awareness for my middle-schoolers, and maybe help some of them see that the issues they are facing are not new, nor do they need to face them alone. So often kids think that they are the only one who ever had whatever problem it is they are facing, and knowing they are not the only one can  really help. Sometimes, even in a very diverse school like where I teach, kids feel very alone based upon their ethnicity or background. Reminding kids (and teachers) to reach out can make such a big difference.

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Celebrating Diversity Beginning in Preschool

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Celebrating Diversity Beginning in Preschool

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This video shows footage of a few different preschool classrooms in California, and examples of the anti-bias curriculum they are implementing in their classrooms to discuss racial diversity. I have seen first hand in the preschool classroom the power of talking about our racial differences and especially similarities. Themes/studies such as "All About Me," that is often done at the beginning of the school year, opens up the door to discussions for the remainder of the school year. Preschool is able to provide a safe place for children to talk about the things they are noticing as many are in a group setting for the first time.

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Anti-bias lessons help preschoolers hold up a mirror to diversity

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Teaching Diversity in the Classroom - G. Medina

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Teaching Diversity in the Classroom - G. Medina

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This particular video shows the early onset of discrimination in our society.  You can see how far we have come and how we must continue to learn to accept our uniqueness and differences as norms rather than exclusions; and, it does so with only a song in the background. It is very powerful and a strong reminder and how as teachers we can help make the difference!

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This is a great video in helping build self esteem. Its main idea is to teach that everyone is special regardless of looks or talents. It teaches that we are equally special in the eyes of our creator and not to let what others think of you, bother you.

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I can use subscriptions for channels that have read aloud books that are culturally diverse and inclusive books.  For example Call Me Tree by Maya Christina Gonzalez https://youtu.be/5c2p5NzkrE0.  Another way to celebrate diversity is by showing videos of different holiday traditions.  These two things alone show that cultural differences are respected and valued in the classroom and thus inspire inclusiveness and acceptance.  Diversity can also be demonstrated by showing videos of girls doing science, and offering other voices in history that are not the dominant culture. In my experience when there is inclusiveness and acceptance in a learning environment, students feel safe and flourish. Videos themselves help with diversity because it is a different way to teach and reaches all students equitably.  They are good for all students. I subscribed to two videos for diversity and pasted the link and video below, though I don’t find them as powerful as Life of Privilege Explained in a $100 Race video.

https://youtu.be/e_Ne-J9oHTU

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Being Different is Beautiful by LittleSikhs.com (Diversity Video for Children, Kids, & Schools)

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I choose this video as it is from the perspective of a child. Diversity in the classroom and accepting differences is not just student/teacher but also student/student. Hearing this message from someone closer to the students age has impact for them.

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We Are All Different - and THAT'S AWESOME! | Cole Blakeway | TEDxWestVancouverED

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A very basic but realistic view of the importance of hiring and retaining Teachers of Color to the success of Students of Color. Each of us are victims to the biases and stereotypes that we have been exposed an subconsciously measure our students by those beliefs that we have heard or from one or two limited interactions with individuals outside of our race. Often a student's performance and end of the year placement is inadvertently predetermined, whether good or bad, by the words or actions of other individuals in past or media exposure. The presence and involvement of more Teachers of Color helps to create a positive learning environment for the students. This includes comfort level, mentorship, and belief and expectations of the student and their families. Knowledge of cultural standards and expectations can often alleviate conflict and negative interaction with students, parents, and teachers.
Malcolm Davis

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Why Teachers of Color Matter for Students of Color to Succeed

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This video is about embracing cultural diversity. There are thousands of ways to see diversity. It is not just languages and customs.

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Why cultural diversity matters | Michael Gavin | TEDxCSU

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The importance of diversity in STEM and how we can encourage persistence in STEM fields. The ideas that can come from diverse backgrounds can help with perspective and empathy.

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The Future of STEM Depends on Diversity | Nicole Cabrera Salazar | TEDxGeorgiaStateU

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A thoughtful talk on diversity through the lens of children's literature.  All kids should be able to find characters that look like them in children's books, while giving meaning to their heritage, not just their color.
Jill Weaver

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Missing Adventures: Diversity and Children's Literature | Brynn Welch | TEDxEHC

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This video is about an elementary school that brought in an artist to complete a mural within their school.  His job was to make a mural that represents diversity of the students.

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Wild Horse Elementary is home to a new mural that celebrates the school's diversity

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Although the year that this TED Talk was posted on You Tube is 2014, I am sad to say that I don't see all that much change in education 5 years later. It is our job to change this gap in ourselves and teach the mindshift to our children and our students. This is important, urgent work, what is holding us back?
Gwen Schulte

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The consciousness gap in education - an equity imperative | Dorinda Carter Andrews | TEDxLansingED

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A humorous mostly appropriate look at how Spanish is spoken differently in different places. The link or potentially embedded video depending on your needs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlK-neOypDM

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Many people speak Spanish... but we speak it in TOTALLY different ways. Dominicans don't sound anything like an Argentinians. Meanwhile, Chileans sound like they're speaking some sort of alien language. Thankfully, Joanna Hausmann is here to break it all down..

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This is one of my favorite Ted Talks that I show to my students and my colleagues. I love it because it shows how there are different versions of the English language, which are all effective ways to communicate. I teach a sheltered language economics class and I love to show this and discuss with students that they don't need to worry about how they are communicating, and that it doesn't need to be perfect. There are different definitions of what it means to be a perfect English speaker, I am more interested in what they are communicating. I want them to use language however they need to to communicate with other students and understand the material.

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Jamila Lyiscott: 3 ways to speak English

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Jamila Lyiscott is a "tri-tongued orator;" in her powerful spoken-word essay "Broken English," she celebrates - and challenges - the three distinct flavors of English she speaks with her friends, in the classroom and with her parents. As she explores the complicated history and present-day identity that each language represents, she unpacks what it means to be "articulate."

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Subscriptions give us the ability to compile different sources of video in one place. With this ability, we can purposefully subscribe to channels that feature a variety of cultures and abilities and ages.  We have to act with intention when we choose videos and try to choose videos that reflect the diversity in our own classrooms.  If I subscribe to math videos by mostly white males, my students might internally take that to mean being a white male is a prerequisite for being successful at math.

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This video from eL Seed is one of my favorites to show my High School students. He's French- Tunisian goes into areas of towns and places Arabic poetry on building facades. His poetry portrays messages of peace across the world. Artists have the ability to relay messages and communicate visually with such diverse groups of people. eL Seed pushes those boundaries by working in areas that have clear bias towards specific groups of people.

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TED.com, home of TED Talks, is a global initiative about ideas worth spreading via TEDx, the TED Prize, TED Books, TED Conferences, TED-Ed and more.

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So my post is more about the special education perspective.  To me it is more about seeing my students as individuals, rather than a label.  It is about giving them what they need as opposed to what everyone else gets.

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Verna Myers, like the Culture in the classroom article, asks us to stop ignoring out implicit bias. I like how she shares her personal bias, and gives us permission to admit that we all have biases.
"The problem is never that we saw color, it was what we did when we saw the color."
"Walk toward your discomfort"
Kate Varley

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Verna Myers: How to overcome our biases? Walk boldly toward them

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C.N. Adichie's "Danger of a Single Story

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C.N. Adichie's "Danger of a Single Story

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This is one of the most thought-provoking pieces to share with students. Adichie addresses the how our understandings of each other are limited by the "single" story.

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

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This video is about looking through a different lens as a teacher and how that can affect the way we teach our students. We might not even realize things we say or do that can affect our students learning.

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This video addresses Sandra Cisneros' passion in volunteering and community Activism,  and I am focusing mostly on the historic neighborhood bylaws over site that Sandra Cisneros addressed in her San Antonio neighborhood.  That section begins at 5:35.

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Multiculturalism in the Classroom - A. Mummert

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Multiculturalism in the Classroom - A. Mummert

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This video talks about how teachers have a responsibility to teach that other cultures exist and to have/show respect for those cultures. As our world becomes less and less isolated, thanks to technological advances, the responsibility within our classroom to foster inclusiveness will impact teaching. Using YouTube to help students (who might not have much exposure to other cultures) will definitely help spur discussions in respect for others.

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You can use subscriptions to address diversity in your classroom to integrate cultures and perspectives that aren't always present in the curriculum or resources we have in our classrooms.  Seeing perspectives, people, and cultures that represent yourself is an important component that can be missing from some classrooms or curriculums.  The resources listed here are great to help support expanding the resources we include! 

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You can use subscriptions to address diversity in your classroom to integrate cultures and perspectives that aren't always present in the curriculum or resources we have in our classrooms.  Seeing perspectives, people, and cultures that represent yourself is an important component that can be missing from some classrooms or curriculums.  The resources listed here are great to help support expanding the resources we include! 

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This short video shows that there is diversity in chemistry and can be used as a jumping off point to get thinking about the possibility of chemistry in their future.
-R. Plourde

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Differences – A short film on Diversity in the Chemical Engineering Profession

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Deaf | Marika Kovacs-Houlihan | TEDxUWMilwaukee

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Deaf | Marika Kovacs-Houlihan | TEDxUWMilwaukee

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As a Teacher of the Deaf I am always looking for resources to share with people unfamiliar with hearing loss. I think this video helps paint a picture of what some students with a hearing loss experience. It also shows people with a hearing loss are not defined by their audiogram or communication mode.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLBw9nYI_Ks

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Deaf ideology | Marika Kovacs-Houlihan | TEDxUWMilwaukee

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy35vmFuCk8&list=PLpVLulTB2edxzQqqha6r1Blk3bE3He0wc

This video gives educators many good ideas on how to create a culturally diverse classroom.  It includes language barriers with family involvement, books in other languages, socioeconomic diversity, acceptance of difference sexual orientation, religious beliefs and traditions, multiracial and ethnic diversity.

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After watching the video on Carrots, Eggs, & Coffee (fantastic!) I wanted to see more of what he had to offer.

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As a Severe Needs Special Education teacher. I am often looking for resources to share with general education classrooms about students that they might see if there class that have a wide range of disabilities. This is a video I might show to describe a student with Autism

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I love Sesame Street videos for their nonchalant approach to diversity. I love the fact that the kids in the video vary in so many ways - not just race. Each of them is special in ways that can't be seen on the surface.

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It is so sad that we in the United States have come so far from acceptance and understanding.

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A video about Diversity in the classroom and corresponding pictures.

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Recruiting women for science, technology, engineering and maths: Sheryl Sorby at TEDxFulbrightDublin

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Recruiting women for science, technology, engineering and maths: Sheryl Sorby at TEDxFulbrightDublin

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Ways to train girls to help success in engineering.

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Recruiting women for science, technology, engineering and maths: Sheryl Sorby at TEDxFulbrightDublin

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Dr. Melissa Crum is an artist, education consultant and diversity practitioner who works with many educators in urban schools. She worked to create an arts-based professional development series that helps educators think about how they are thinking about their diverse students.

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A Tale of Two Teachers | Melissa Crum | TEDxColumbusWomen

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Playing to Our Strengths: Neurodiversity & Education discusses how to get away from the deficit-model of thinking that is inherent in the current special education model.

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Playing to Our Strengths: Neurodiversity & Education | Christy Hutton | TEDxSantaCruz

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Race & Privilege: A Social Experiment | Regardless Of Race | CNA Insider

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Race & Privilege: A Social Experiment | Regardless Of Race | CNA Insider

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Fantastic video with "relevant" questions for the Race & Privilege experiment.
Donna Jamison

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Race & Privilege: A Social Experiment | Regardless Of Race | CNA Insider

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STARS Nashville (Students Taking A Right Stand)

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Cute song aimed at Kindergarteners to teach them about acceptance. H. Palumbo

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All About Acceptance (song for kids about accepting others)

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Clip about how Germany teaches it's students about the holocaust from Michael Moore's Where To Invade Next makes the implied point that Germany's educational system faces its ugly history much better than America.

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Michael Moore's 'Where to invade next?', Germany

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Being an Iranian-American helps me to teach my students an appreciation for cultures and diversity.

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Maz Jobrani: "Balancing Iranian and American: Life of an Immigrant Comedian" | Talks at Google

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This is a Tedx personal story of hope and inspiration - good for elementary students.
Maria Armijo-Turain

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Diversity and Inclusion: Lessons In Friendship and Love | Maryam Elassar | TEDxAmanaAcademy

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This is a children's book that address how to be accepting of a new friend, regardless of their appearance.  C Waibel

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https://youtu.be/HoEcLhzAn78
Megan Proctor

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This video discusses the diversity around the world. Is excellent when paired with "If the World Were A Village"

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What If Only 100 People Existed on Earth?

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This video discuss the importance of not only recognizing a student with a disability, but that they may also be from an ethnically diverse background.

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Black Violin is a violin duo whose mission is to shatter stereotypes about classical music, race, culture and orchestral instruments.

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T. Miles

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Produced by three-time Academy Award winning cinematographer, Emmanuel Lubezki, of Birdman, Gravity and The Revenant, the piece visually captures Emmanuel's personal interpretation of the difference between nice and kind through the eyes of volunteers from No More Deaths who leave jugs of water in the Sonoran Desert.

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Larry Ferlazzo creates "Best" lists for educators.

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You might want to see our book excerpt, Eight Ways to Use Video With English Language Learners I've written a guest post for Edutopia titled 5-Minute Film Festival: 8 Videos for ELL Classrooms. Check Out my related New York Times post The Best Fun Videos For English Language Learners In 2015 - So Far
Movies and television shows can be an effective tool for teaching and learning English (or, for that matter, any academic subject) if used strategically and not as a "babysitting" device.

I thought it might be useful to prepare a "The Best..." list resources that teachers might find useful related to using video in the ESL/EFL classroom. I've appreciated the suggestions that readers have offered and, even if they didn't make my list, I've the titles that they have recommended near the end of post.

Before I list specific movies or shows, I'll begin by some ideas, and sites, where you can get more recommendations on how to use video in the classroom.

I've hardly ever shown a video clip for more than ten minutes during one class period. There are many ways to use them, but I've primarily done so in two ways. One is just to show a clip connected to the theme we might be studying at the time, and then have students write what happened chronologically.

The other is a technique called "Back To The Screen" that I adapted from Zero Prep: Ready To Go Activities For The Language Classroom by Laurel Pollard and Natalie Hess. I pick a clip from a movie (the highway chase scene from one of the Matrix movies, for example. I then divide the class into pairs with one group facing the TV and the other with their back to it. Then, after turning off the sound, I begin playing the movie. The person who can see the screen tells the other person what is happening. Then, after awhile, I switch the groups around. Afterwards, the pairs need to write a chronological sequence of what happened, which we in class. Finally, everyone watches the clip, with sound, together. Students really enjoy activity.

Two excellent sites that offer countless other ideas about how to use videos in teaching and learning English are Ressources pour le College and The English Learner Movie Guide. The resources they offer are just too numerous to list here. In addition to teaching activities, you can get suggestions for which movies might work best for specific purposes.

You might also be interested in The Best Movie Scenes To Use For English-Language Development.

Now I'll list what I believe to be The Best Popular Movies/TV Shows For ESL/EFL (by the way, links usually are connected to Amazon). I'm doing ranking a bit differently from my past lists. All the ones I list I think are comparable in terms of usefulness in the classroom. However, there are two that I think are stand-outs. I'll save them for the end.

Here are my picks:

I like Brum , a little talking car that has all sorts of adventures. Younger and older students find it entertaining.

Animated Tales Of The World from HBO is an excellent series of folktales from throughout the world. I've used them to teach geography, history, and writing.

The Pink Panther series of movies have been great, specifically the parts where Peter Sellers fights his man-servant Cato. These hilarious slapstick scenes are wonderful times to teach vocabulary related to home. However, I offer recommendation with some hesitancy, since some could view it as perpetuating stereotypes and find it offensive. I'd be interested in hearing opinions on issue. Certainly, none of my students, who are mostly Asian, have felt that way. I've engaged students in kind of discussion everytime I've shown the movies.

Father Of The Bride with Steve Martin (and its sequel) provides some hilarious and teachable scenes about family, food, and home.

David Deubelbeiss, from EFL Classroom 2.0, and I agree that the movie Big is a great one. In fact, David is going to upload a bunch of classroom activities related to the movie on his site.

The Bear provides a lot of opportunities to discuss serious topics. It doesn't have a whole lot of dialogue, so it's very accessible to Beginning English Language Learners.

Globe Trekker has a ton of excellent travel videos. I've used them in all of my English, Geography, and History classes, and they're very accessible.

I'm ranking two collections of TV shows as the Top Two videos for teaching and learning ESL/EFL.

Number two is America's Funniest Home Videos. It has so many editions - family, pets, sports, animals - that you can find something to teach just about anything. They're already divided into short clips. My only caveat, though, is that a few of them seem cruel and/or disgusting to me. So I screen them before I use a clip in class.

My absolute favorite show to use is Mr. Bean - The Whole Bean. Mr. Bean is very accessible to even Beginning English Language Learners, and he is involved in so many situations that you can find a clip that will support whatever unit you're teaching. And he's so funny!

Readers made a number of other suggestions. I didn't include some of them in my list just because I haven't seen the shows.

Sebastian recommends Seinfield and Joey, specifically the episode called Joey and the ESL. I definitely want to see that - how often is an ESL class shown in a TV situation comedy?

EFL Geek recommends several movies, including An Inconvenient Truth, Almost Famous, and Stand By Me. For TV, he likes Lost, Corner Gas, Prison Break and Smallville. I did a quick and informal poll of my students, and they agreed that Smallville helped them with their English a lot.

I regularly use Connect With English, was video series that's designed to help students learn English and be engaging. It was one of the better ones of its type out there, but it's off-line now. I still thought readers might be interested in one page worksheet that we sometimes use, instead. Students have to make predictions based on the title of the episode, explain if their predictions were correct, write several questions about the episode that they ask a partner afterwards (who then writes the answers).

The Internet History Sourcebook Project is an extraordinary collection of history resources. I'm particularly impressed with their Modern History in the Movies, Ancient History in the Movies, and Medieval Movies. In those three collections, movies are categorized by era and described. It's a gold mine for any Social Studies teacher, and especially for those of us who teach English Language Learners. I use very short clips of movies, following by a writing/thinking prompt, all the time.

American History Film Resources also offers a good listing of film resources for different periods of American history.

Movieclips has thousands of short video clips from movies and they're not blocked by our content filter! And they're available without registering - except for clips that have "mature" content.

David Deubelbeiss at EFL Classroom 2.0 has given us all a gift by compiling his Top 100 Youtube videos for EFL. You might find The Best Ways To Access Educational YouTube Videos At School helpful to use with his list.

Using film and moving image to enrich ESOL teaching and learning is a very nice listing of different ways to use film with English Language Learners. It was written by Cormac Conway and Michaela Salmon.

David Deubelbeiss some nice resources and ideas in his post, Using Silent Video in the EFL Classroom.

I've always asked students to watch English movies or television programs as part of their weekly homework, but David Deubelbeiss writes much more thoughtfully about the idea in post on what he calls Extensive Watching.

WingClips has organized a huge number of short clips from movies thematically - perseverance, responsibility - and then lets you show them from the site or embed them elsewhere. Important caveats to keep in mind before checking it out are that it clearly comes from a religious, and Christian, perspective, so a number of the themes - adultery, for example, you probably just want to skip. In addition, it appears to have an exceptionally large number of war-related movie clips ("Machine Gun Preacher"?), but that might be a false impression. As in any website, you just have to pick and choose what's useful.

Inspire My Kids has short video clips and descriptions of people that are designed to inspire students.

Check out Twitter Chat summary from #ELTchat on using movies and videos in and out of class

A Neat Way To Use A Video In Class
Very Helpful Research On Using Photos & Videos In Lessons
I learned about the Miniscule video series from the great site, The Kid Should See . Here is how they described it:
A French-made collection of short stories, Minuscule is about the private lives of ants, snails, bees, caterpillars, wasps, spiders and other tiny creatures, all told without any speaking at all.
In some ways, they're like an animated Mr. Bean short - perfect for ELL's. They're engaging, brief, and provide plenty of opportunities for students to describe what they saw in writing and orally. You can find a bunch of them on YouTube. Here's one of them:

Of course, English Central may be the very best place on the Web for videos and ELL's.

In video, Dan Meyer demonstrates how the movie search engine Subzin could be very useful for teachers. I would strongly recommend you read his short, but elegant, post describing how he used it to create video. Subzin is a search engine for quotes in movies and series. For example, here's a page of results after I searched "asking questions" and I see some good candidates for The Best Videos Showing The Importance Of Asking Good Questions list. ESL/ELL teachers could find very handy when they're looking for clips to support thematic units like food, or specific grammar functions. Now, sit back and enjoy Dan's work (though, again, be sure to read his post about it, too):

David Deubelbeiss has come up some very useful student sheets to use with ELLs when showing videos

Lessons On Movies is a new site created by the incomparable Sean Banville. It's the latest addition to Sean's "empire" of free and helpful websites for English language learners and their teachers.

Learning English through a TV series is a helpful blog post.

Video In The Classroom is by David Deubelbeiss.

I think the old silent movies of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton are great for English Language Learners.

I remember when I first played a scene from a Chaplin film years ago, all the Hmong refugees in my class started yelling, "Charlie! Charlie!" His silent films were played a lot in refugee camps.

As with practically all videos, I never play a full one - just a scene, and typically one that ties into the thematic unit that we're studying at the time - home, work, etc., or if we're learning about history I can tie something into it. Since both Keaton and Chaplin made so many movies, there's usually a funny or action-packed scene that I can connect to anything I'm teaching.

Open Culture has a list of links to free online videos of both Chaplin and Keaton movies, though many are missing from their lists. You can just search YouTube, too.

I've embedded one Chaplin films that I use - is Gold Rush, which I've used when we're learning about history. If you have some favorites that you use, let me know what that are!

Also, just an aside, I usually show one of Chaplin's movies to my non-ELL classes during the year, too, just so they know about him. I have never had a student in my mainstream classes say they knew who he was prior to watching a clip I show.

Using Video in the Classroom is from ELT Experiences.

Vicki Hollet has published the 35th ELT Blog Carnival (formerly known as the ESL/EFL/ELL Blog Carnival) and it's a great one focusing on Teaching and Learning with Video.
"Simon's Cat" Videos Are Perfect For English Language Learners The New "Connect With English" Site Has Got To Be One Of This Year's Best New Sites For ELLs "What Is This Animal Thinking or Saying (If It Could Talk)?" Is A Fun Language Development Exercise An ESL Teacher's Good Friend -"America's Funniest Home Videos" - Turns 25
How to use film creatively in class: teaching tips and ideas is a chat (you can read the transcript at the bottom) at The Guardian.

How can film help you teach or learn English? is from The British Council.

Advantages of using film via @kierandonaghy #imageconf pic.twitter.com/2kKOsYnoIz

- paul braddock (@bcnpaul1) November 22, 2014

"Values.com" Has Some Very Good SEL-Related Video Clips
Kieran Donaghy has a great new blog called Film in Action.
"La Linea" Are Great Video Animations For English Language Learners
Video For All has a ton of resources about using video in language-teaching.

Using video content effectively in your EFL classroom is from the English Language Teaching Global Blog.

Using Silent Video In The ELT Classroom is from EFL Classroom 2.0.

Your 10 favourite dance scenes is a great video collection from The BBC. Students could watch and describe what they see.

Using Video In The Classroom - A Teacher's Handbook is from David Deubelbeiss.

Video For All is a European-funded site filled to the brim with ideas on how to use video in language-teaching.

It looks like an amazing resource.

Even better, Russell Stannard, who is the person who wrote about the site in his great email newsletter, has created a series of videos describing how to best use Video For All.
"Journeys In Film" Looks Like A Great Teaching Resource
Video for the English classroom is by James Keddie at the British Council.

How can film help you teach or learn English? is by Kieran Donaghy at the British Council.

Commercials in the classroom is from David Deubelbeiss

Download my video response sheet and some suggestions for post video activities. https://t.co/gALXU5rD3r

- David Deubelbeiss (@ddeubel) February 11, 2016

The Seven Best Film and Video Resource Sites is by Kieran Donaghy.

David Duebelbeiss has written two good posts: "Best" Videos for ELT Player and Video Lessons.

The Seven Best Short Films for ELT Students is from Kieran Donaghy.

The Seven Best Silent Short Films for Language Teaching is from Kieran Donaghy.

A Video Lesson Template is by TEFL Geek.

10 Creative Ways to Use Popular Movies in Fun ESL Lessons is from Fluent U.

The Seven Best Short Animated Films for the Language Classroom is from Kieran Donaghy.

How to get film-based lessons right is from The British Council.

David Deubelbeiss has made two hundred videos, along with accompanying hand-outs for ELLs, available for free.

Watch-Think-Write' and Other Proven Strategies for Using Video in the Classroom is from KQED.

The On The Same Page blog has a simple lesson to use with this great video. It's called Guess what is being advertised:

Learning English Voice Of America has seemed to up its video game recently. For years, their videos seemed to be designed by people who seemed to be competing to see who could make the process of learning English seem the most boring. However, they now have much more professionally produced videos.

Let's Learn English, I think, is the most intriguing feature in their new collection. It's an online video course with a story line and interactive quizzes for ELLs. It reminds me of Annenberg's Connect With English,

Five tips for using authentic video in the classroom is from The British Council and is pretty interesting.

8 Ways to Help Students Watch Video Critically (Instead of Zoning Out) is from We Are Teachers.

The Literacy Shed has lots of nice non-YouTube videos (so, unlikely to be blocked by school content filters) accessible to ELLs.

Here's a simple way to boost your learning from videos: "Prequestion" is from BPS Digest. Daniel Willingham writes about the same study.

Closed Captioning Gives Literacy a Boost is from Ed Week.

Teaching English With Authentic Video is from English Attack.

Viral Videos for Higher Level ELT has good videos and accompanying lessons.

VIDEOGLOSS: CHOCOLATE ROULADE provides an excellent lesson idea. It's from Svetlana Kandybovich.

WORDLESS VIDEOS FOR ELT is from Svetlana Kandybovich.

Download a free copy of "The image in English Language Teaching" from @TeachingEnglish website https://t.co/pZP1ZblBNQ @EFLMb #ImageInELT

- Kieran Donaghy (@kierandonaghy) October 29, 2017

"Let's Learn English" From VOA Looks Like A Nice Online Video Resource
I've used this video with my Beginning ELLs to teach both family and food. I use it with the strategy called "Back to the Screen":

THE YEAR'S BEST ACTORS IN A SERIES OF SHORT FRIGHTENING FILMS is from The New York Times.

Using Videos to 'Enhance Learning Experiences for Students' is the headline of one of my Education Week Teacher column. It shares useful ideas.

12 Ideas for Using Video in Class is from ELT Connect.

The British Council has what appears to be a relatively new feature called the Video Zone. It has videos and, importantly, accompanying interactive games.

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