Remember when you were in school, and you were given time to cuddle up with a book in a cozy corner of the classroom? Did the characters in those books look like you? For many of my students, the answer is no.
I am requesting books so we can build a classroom library with characters that look like them. Our classroom library is primarily composed of donated or second-hand literature, with diverse texts being the second thought. Educators are responsible for fostering inclusion, understanding, and advocacy for people of all different cultures, races, and abilities.
To raise students who have fewer biases and open minds it is essential to start exposing them to characters who look like them and also about cultures and races different from their own at a young age. The majority of texts in our current classroom library are from one point of view, making it impossible to be truly grow understanding and accepting of different viewpoints. In our special education classroom, we have students of different abilities, but none of our classroom texts include characters with disabilities. In the world around us, we have individuals being mistreated based on biases and inequalities engrained in the structure of our society.
Our classroom is asking you for your help so that we can start teaching students to support, understand, and speak up for one another when they see injustices.
My mission and vision is simple: provide books with greater diversity, different point of views, and themes of advocacy. My wish list contains texts that feature characters from different races and cultures in everyday situations, while some texts teach about differences in abilities, skin color, and culture. Other requested texts focus on teaching histories of different races and cultures. To tie together all of these components, I am also requesting books with themes of activism and advocacy.
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Remember when you were in school, and you were given time to cuddle up with a book in a cozy corner of the classroom? Did the characters in those books look like you? For many of my students, the answer is no.
I am requesting books so we can build a classroom library with characters that look like them. Our classroom library is primarily composed of donated or second-hand literature, with diverse texts being the second thought. Educators are responsible for fostering inclusion, understanding, and advocacy for people of all different cultures, races, and abilities.
To raise students who have fewer biases and open minds it is essential to start exposing them to characters who look like them and also about cultures and races different from their own at a young age. The majority of texts in our current classroom library are from one point of view, making it impossible to be truly grow understanding and accepting of different viewpoints. In our special education classroom, we have students of different abilities, but none of our classroom texts include characters with disabilities. In the world around us, we have individuals being mistreated based on biases and inequalities engrained in the structure of our society.
Our classroom is asking you for your help so that we can start teaching students to support, understand, and speak up for one another when they see injustices.
My mission and vision is simple: provide books with greater diversity, different point of views, and themes of advocacy. My wish list contains texts that feature characters from different races and cultures in everyday situations, while some texts teach about differences in abilities, skin color, and culture. Other requested texts focus on teaching histories of different races and cultures. To tie together all of these components, I am also requesting books with themes of activism and advocacy.
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