Research Help: King Curriculum Lab: Diversity and Best Teaching Practices

eBooks on Bias, Diversity and Best Teaching Practices

African American Male Students in PreK-12 Schools

Equity and Cultural Responsiveness in the Middle Grades

Anti-Racism Reading List

The Anti-Racism Reading List contains book titles on diversity and anti-racism available through Kinlaw Library.

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Diverse Children's Books

These sites and databases provide titles of diverse children's books to use in the classroom.

Anti-Defamation League
Provides lists of children's books that "address issues of identity, bias and bullying." The "featured books come with discussion guides for teachers and parents."
Diverse BookFinder
Provides "picture book titles featuring Black and Indigenous people and People of Color (BIPOC) is available to the public." Also, check out the "Highlighted Books" tab.
Here Wee Read
Has a list of diverse children's books.
Lab's Multicultural Children's Books
Here are some titles of multicultural children's books located in the King Curriculum Lab
NoveList
Has lists of multicultural children's books. Can also search for books on diversity and racism.
Social Justice Books
Contains "a guide for selecting anti-bias children's books" and "the best selection of multicultural and social justice books for children, YA, and educators."
TeachingBooks
Has book titles and resources on multiculturalism, diversity, and racism.
We Need Diverse Books
Provides a "list of sites that offer recommendations for diverse titles."

Articles on Racism

These articles address the negative effects of racism and the need for equity and inclusion.

By the Numbers: A Clarion Call for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion by John A. Murray
Discusses why schools should "respond to the racial strife swirling in America."
Disarming Racial Microgressions: Microintervention Strategies for Targets, White Allies, and Bystanders
"This article introduces a new strategic framework developed for addressing microaggressions that moves beyond coping and survival to concrete action steps and dialogues that targets, allies, and bystanders can perform (microinterventions)."
Reimagining the Imago Dei
"I encourage the CCCU family to consider commitments to diversity as essential to Christian higher education’s shared goal of (as the CCCU’s mission puts it) 'relating scholarship and service to biblical truth.' I suggest the creation narrative as a starting point for thinking through a theology of diversity."
The Sin of Racism by Timothy Keller
"Biblically, sin is anything that falls short of God’s will and glory, that violates his law and his character (1 John 3:4; Romans 3:23). There are at least four ways in which what we will be calling racism is a violation of God’s glory and therefore is a sin. It is sin."

Articles & Guides on Inclusive Teaching Practices

These articles and guides contain best practices for creating inclusive K-12 classrooms and schools.

Equity-Centered Capacity Building: Essential Approaches for Excellence & Sustainable School System Transformation
"In this article, we make a case for inclusive education as an education agenda for equity that redresses marginalization in several forms." Written by Elizabeth B. Kozleski, Professor & Chair, Special Education Department, University of Kansas, and Molly Baustien Siuty, CEEDAR Center, University of Florida, Doctoral Student, Department of Special Education, University of Kansas.
Forward Together: A School Leader’s Guide to Creating Inclusive Schools
Provides best practices for teaching students with disabilities. Created by the National Center for Learning Disabilities and the Understood organization.
How Racially Diverse Schools and Classrooms Can Benefit All Schools
The Century Foundation provides the article, “How Racially Diverse Schools and Classrooms Can Benefit All Schools.”
Inclusive Education: What It Means, Proven Strategies, and a Case Study
Written by Lilla Dale McManis, PhD and published by Resilient Educator
K-12 Inclusive Practices Guide
Discusses inclusive practices for students with disabilities. Created by the Virginia Department of Education.
The Opportunity Myth: What Students Can Show Us About How School Is Letting Them Down—and How to Fix It
"Far too many students graduate from high school still unprepared for the lives they want to lead. They enroll in college and land in remedial courses, or start jobs and discover they’re missing skills they need. We wanted to understand why.
"To do this, we followed nearly 4,000 students in five diverse school systems to learn more about their experiences. What we found was unnerving: classroom after classroom filled with A and B students whose big goals for their lives are slipping further away each day, unbeknownst to them and their families—not because they can’t master challenging material, but because they’re rarely given a real chance to try."
Speak Up at School: How to Respond to Everyday Prejudice Bias and Stereotypes by Teaching Tolerance
This guide is for "educators seeking advice about how to respond when someone—a student, a colleague, even a parent—uses biased language or stereotypes in school."

Articles & Guides on Culturally Responsive Teaching

These articles and guides contain resources on culturally responsive teaching.

Communicating Cross-Culturally: What Teachers Should Know
"This article looks at the need for teachers to be culturally responsive and competent as schools and classrooms become increasingly linguistically and culturally diverse. It highlights five points of cultural difference with which all teachers should be aware when teaching students of diverse backgrounds."
Culturally Responsive Teaching
Published by Collaboration for Effective Educator, Development, Accountability, and Reform Center.
Culturally Responsive Teaching: A Guide to Evidence-Based Practices for Teaching All Students Equitably
Published by Region X Equity Assistance Center at Education Northwest.
Emphasizing Equitable and Culturally Responsive Practices Toolkit
In this toolkit, Hanover Research and ULEAD explore strategies and resources that
current and aspiring school principals can utilize to meet the criteria outlined in
Strand 7: Equity and Cultural Responsiveness of the Utah State Standards for Educational Leadership.
Guidance on Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Remote Education: Centering Equity, Access, and Educational Justice
Article published by Metropolitan Center For Research on Equity
and the Transformation of Schools.
The Principal’s Guide to Building Culturally Responsive Schools
Published by the National Association of Elementary School Principals.
Transforming Our Public Schools: A Guide to Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education
This guide was created by Created by the
NYC Culturally Responsive Education Working Group and
the Education Justice Research and Organizing Collaborative
(EJ-ROC) at the NYU Metro Center.

Websites

These websites contain online teaching resources and professional development regarding diversity, racism, and inclusive practices.

Common Sense Education
Provides “social and cultural literacy resources for classrooms,” including videos, websites, articles, and handouts.
Education World
Contains articles and resources for teaching diversity. Use the following keywords to search for resources: multiculturalism, diversity, or inclusion.
Edutopia
Contains online resources to prepare teachers for diverse classrooms. Includes links to Teaching Tolerance, EdChange, Brown University, Teaching for Change, TeacherVision, Scholastic, and Inclusive Schools Network.
Learning for Justice
"From film kits and lesson plans to the building blocks of a customized Learning Plan—texts, student tasks and teaching strategies—our resources will help you bring relevance, rigor and social emotional learning into your classroom—all for FREE.
Not sure where to begin? Get to know our Social Justice Standards, anchor standards and age-appropriate learning outcomes divided into four domains—Identity, Diversity, Justice and Action. The Standards provide a common language and a road map for anti-bias education at every grade level."
Project Implicit
“It offers implicit association tests on its website that anyone can take anonymously to identify their own hidden biases. By making people aware of such biases, they are better able to identify their influences on their behavior. The project was started in 1998 by researchers from Harvard, the University of Washington and the University of Virginia.”
Resilient Educator
"We’ve gathered a range of resources to help educators create a culturally inclusive classroom, one that celebrates diversity and inclusion in education while encouraging students to spread the values of inclusion and cultural respect in their everyday lives."
Scaffolding Anti-Racism Resources
Contains anti-racism resources (i.e. activities, podcasts, videos, articles, and book titles).
Teaching For Change
Provides resources (i.e. K-12 lesson plans, teaching guides, readings, videos, etc.) for Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action.

Videos

These sites and databases contain videos on implicit bias, stereotypes, racism, diversity, and best practices in the classroom.

Colorin Colorado
Provides videos and webinars on teaching English Language Learners.
edWeb.net
Contains free webinars for K-12 teachers. Some of the webinars are on cultural literacy.
EverFi
Has webinars on cultural literacy for K-12 teachers.
Films on Demand
Provides videos on education and diversity.
Institute of Education Sciences
This webinar “explores how best to prepare educators to implement culturally responsive pedagogy.”
Learning for Justice
Has free webinars on diversity, bias, racism, equity and more. Must create an account.
PBS Learning Media
Contains videos on implicit bias, racism, diversity, inclusive teaching practices, and more. Most videos are for K-12 students, but some are for teachers.
Resources for Early Learning
"In this 45-minute, self-paced tutorial, you will explore best practices in honoring diversity. Three short videos will show seasoned educators using best practices in action."

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