Classroom Resources Collection

Diversity teaches tolerance and prepares children to navigate an increasingly multicultural future. This article talks about the importance of diversity and how schools are affected by lasting segregation. These schools are either diverse with lower standards academically or they are excellent academically but not diverse with their students.

This article explains basic rules and ideas that help include every person in the class. It talks about eight tips to use for the classroom which are dispell myths, let each student share, establish basic principals, address the challenges, talk about people we know with disabilities, highlight famous people, give disability awareness lessons and make a positive classroom community.

Strategies for engaging with your teen's school community. This article talks about how parental involvement can greatly affect their child's academics and their future.

Contributions from different countries have shaped the United States from the beginning. Your contributions can help shape it for the future. Here are some simple ways to create a cultural exchange. Even though this is explaining how you can share your culture, this is a good way to have your students share there culture as well.

The Name Jar by Yangsook Choi. “The new kid in school needs a new name! Or does she? Being the new kid in school is hard enough, but what about when nobody can pronounce your name?" This book teaches to include everyone of all cultures and to learn about each others differences as well. This is the perfect book to help teach about diversity and culture.

No matter what, everyone needs to talk about family. ESL students need to have the vocabulary and background to talk about their families as well. This helps students learn about their families and other family backgrounds as well. This can be beneficial for students to understand how all families can be different and how important family is.

A real-life story about a child with special needs making a lot of progress, even when school staff thought he couldn't. This article is an inspiring true story about how one teacher was able to make a big difference in a disabled students life and how just believing in a child will make a difference.

Check out the education section, as well as the DIY, crafts, photography, history, and food-and-drink sections of Pinterest for instructional inspiration.  Additionally, organizations maintain pinboards with helpful teaching ideas. This is a good way to incorporate linguistics in the classroom and this has many links to good activities for the classroom.

Same, Same But Different By: Jenny Sue Kostecki-ShawBook Recording. This is a good book to keep in the classroom because it can teach younger students that we are all the same but our culture can be a little different. This can create a diverse classroom and an understanding and curious environment.

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