Every child is a cultural being with a unique history and rich cultural practices; a member of communities in and outside of school. Yet too many children spend their days inside classrooms where they rarely find their voices, values, and cultural practices reflected in curriculum materials, much less embraced and celebrated through instructional practices. Culturally relevant teaching is essential, now more than ever. If we want children to develop as successful learners, we must communicate that they belong in our classrooms. They need to see themselves, their cultures, their families, and their communities reflected in the materials and resources they find there. Culturally relevant teachers honor students' identities by positioning them at the center of teaching and learning. Each and every day, they make sure children and their families feel that they belong in school. They include multiple perspectives and points of view in the curriculum. In this book, four teachers who teach in richly diverse classrooms and have studied culturally relevant pedagogy for years with researcher Mariana Souto-Manning, share specific practices, strategies, and tools that make their teaching culturally relevant. Join the authors of No More Culturally Irrelevant Teaching and show your students that their lives do matter...in teaching, in learning, and in society.

No More Culturally Irrelevant Teaching (NOT THIS, BUT THAT)

Education & Teaching

Keene, Ellin Oliver

Souto-Manning, Mariana

Martell, Jessica

Lugo Llerena, Carmen I.

Salas Maguire, Abigail

Arce-Boardman, Alicia

Duke, Nell K.

Schools & Teaching

Heinemann

If teachers want to create positive change in the lives of their students, then they must first be able to create positive change in their own lives. This book describes a powerful professional development approach that merges the scholarship of critical pedagogy with the Theatre of the Oppressed. Participants “act up” in order to explore real-life scenarios and rehearse difficult conversations they are likely to have with colleagues, students, administrators, and parents. The authors have practiced the theatrical strategies presented here with pre- and in-service teachers in numerous contexts, including college courses, professional development seminars, and PreK–12 classrooms. They include step-by-step instructions and vivid photographs to help readers use these revolutionary theatre strategies in their own contexts for a truly unique learning experience.

Teachers Act Up! Creating Multicultural Learning Communities Through Theatre

Arts & Photography

Cahnmann-Taylor, Melisa

Performing Arts

Teachers' College Press

This unique book features an array of approaches, strategies, and tools for teaching multiculturally in the early years. The teachers and classrooms portrayed here provide young children with rich educational experiences that empower them to understand themselves in relation to others. You will see how amazing teachers engage in culturally responsive teaching that fosters educational equity while also meeting state and national standards (such as the Common Core State Standards). This engaging book is sprinkled with questions for reflection and implementation that encourage educators to start planning ways of enhancing their own teaching, making their early childhood setting a more equitable learning space. Book Features: <ul>
<li> Multicultural education in action, including the everyday issues and tensions experienced by children and their families.</li> <li> Powerful vignettes from diverse Head Start, preschool, kindergarten, 1st- and 2nd-grade classrooms throughout the United States.</li> <li> Sections on “Getting Started” and “Considering Obstacles and Exploring Possibilities.” </li> <li> A list of multicultural children’s books and resources for further reading.</li>
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Multicultural Teaching in the Early Childhood Classroom: Approaches, Strategies, and Tools, Preschool–2nd Grade (Early Childhood Education Series)

Reading, Writing, and Talk: Inclusive Teaching Strategies for Diverse Learners, K–2 (Language and Literacy Series)

This book introduces a variety of inclusive strategies for teaching language and literacy in kindergarten through 2nd grade. Readers are invited into classrooms where racially, culturally, and linguistically diverse children’s experiences, unique strengths, and expertise are supported and valued. Chapters focus on oral language, reading, and writing development and include diverse possibilities for culturally relevant and inclusive teaching. Featured teaching strategies foster academic success, cultural competence, and critical consciousness―leading students to read their worlds and question educational and societal inequities. Early childhood teachers will find this book invaluable as they consider effective ways to teach diverse children. The hands-on examples and strategies portrayed will help educators expand their thinking and repertoires regarding what is possible―and needed―in the language and literacy education curriculum. Unique in its focus on equitable, fully inclusive, and culturally relevant language and literacy teaching, this important book will help K–2 teachers (re)think and (re)conceptualize their own practices. Book Features: <ul>
<li> Showcases culturally relevant and inclusive ways of teaching reading and writing in the early childhood classroom.</li> <li> Uses vivid classroom examples to show how teachers and students build on diversities as strengths, fostering educational success.</li> <li> Includes the voices of teachers who employ theoretically informed and equitable language and literacy teaching practices in their own K–2 classrooms.</li>
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Pre-K Stories: Playing with Authorship and Integrating Curriculum in Early Childhood (Early Childhood Education Series)

Pre-K Stories offers a lively exploration of how one classroom community played with and collaboratively engaged in authorship. Through everyday stories, readers are invited to witness and engage with classroom practices that honor young children’s brilliance and build on their questions, interests, and strengths. Weaving together literacy, language arts, social studies, science, mathematics, and more, the authors illustrate how curriculum can be authentically and meaningfully integrated. They also offer a unique perspective on the development of language and literacy practices by framing children’s play narratives as the foundation from which rich curricula can grow. Pre-K Stories allows readers to experience the rich cadence of a classroom while also coming to understand important theories that undergird early childhood teaching and young children’s learning. Book Features: <ul>
<li>Rich descriptions and examples of 4-year-old children’s authoring and writing processes.</li> <li>Engaging narratives from the perspective of an early childhood teacher and students. </li> <li>A unique perspective on the development of language and literacy practices through children’s play. </li> <li>A view of young children as powerful and capable of coconstructing curriculum with teachers.</li> <li>A dynamic approach that has broad implications for literacy and integrative curriculum practices in early childhood.</li>
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Bentley, Dana Frantz

Reading, Writing, and Talk: Teaching for Equity and Justice in the Early Grades (Language and Literacy Series)

Álvarez, Benelly

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