Resources For Teachers
Learning for Justice website produced by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The classroom resources page offers several free resources for educators such as film kits, posters, lesson plans, and teaching strategies that they can use to bring relevance, rigor, and social-emotional learning into your classroom.
This blog is available on the Edutopia and has several useful articles for teachers that they can utilize to effectively engage students from diverse backgrounds. In addition to these articles, here are some other resources that will help educators develop inclusive learning environments and approach diverse ethnicity, race, gender equality, and bullying prevention during class.
This library is a web-based educational resource for families, schools, and communities that cover a range of topics on diversity, with a focus on creating equitable and inclusive learning classrooms. The culturally responsive teaching resource page presents great ideas, suggestions, and strategies for teaching culturally diverse students. You can also dig deeper into topics like school climate, assessment, peer supports, student engagement.
Scholastic compiled this collection of resources for teachers. Along with some engaging lesson plans, it also includes several articles that provide tips and strategies for teachers on how they can help children to build positive identities for themselves as well as accept, understand, and value other cultures too.
This article shows teachers how to bring rich cultural content material into their teaching and implement in their curriculum in a way that expands students' interest, knowledge, and respect for the people different from them. The article presents guidelines that instructors can use during the classroom activities as well as when observing cultural and religious holidays celebrations.
Read this Educational Leadership article on how to engage students from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds by first seeing them as capable learners.
In this article the author highlights the benefits of culturally responsive teaching and why it is important to implement in the classroom.
The authors of this Educational Leadership article suggest that schools use an equity literacy approach–that is, an approach to diversity or multiculturalism that relies more on teachers’ understandings of equity and inequity and of justice and injustice than on their understanding of this or that culture.