Teaching Resources

Articles

The following articles could be used to spark a group discussion, or as food for thought for individual educators.

Why Teachers Should Assign More Contemporary Books and Fewer Classics, Carolina Ciucci, BookRiot
Why We Need Diverse Books, Mary Ellen Flannery, NeaToday
Scholars on Classic Books They Cherish or Never Read by Liz Mineo, The Harvard Gazette

“In 2015, children were about five times more likely to encounter a talking truck or dinosaur on the page than a Hispanic character."

-Mary Ellen Flannery, Why We Need More Diverse Books, NEA Today

Open Textbooks

OER (Open Educational Resource) Textbooks

The following textbooks are OERs, meaning that they are 100% free for you to access and distribute to students.

Culturally Responsive Composition by Andy Gurevich
An Introduction to Equity in the Classroom: A Short Guide to Equity in the Undergraduate Classroom by Aisha Wilks and E. Scherzinger
Inclusive Pedagogies by Christina Page, Jennifer Hardwick, and Seanna Takacs
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA) by Darla Benton Kearney

“...we must realize at the very outset we do not all come to the college writing process with the same backgrounds, the same skills, and the same access and opportunities. But with some awareness and careful planning, we can turn this situation largely into an opportunity for expansion and variety of expression, instead of a path filled with unnecessary roadblocks and unfair obstacles to student success."

- Andy Gurevich, Culturally Responsive Composition