Classroom Resources

This book follows a young girl as she visit families throughout her neighborhood. Each family is different, displaying a variety of diverse characters other than the standard, nuclear family. It has families from several races, single parents, LGBTQ parents, divorced parents, etc. This book displays several different cultures and family structures. It points out similarities and differences between these families that young children might not have otherwise noticed, and will help my students celebrate them.

This article shares strategies that one center uses to meaningfully engage all families—including multilingual families—in their school community. This can be helpful for teachers looking to be more inclusive with all of their students and their families.

I chose this video because it is a great example of an activity to teach privilege in the classroom. The video can be used as an example to show directly students and then participate in the activity, or for teachers to plan the activity. It will be beneficial to my future classroom as the activity gives a hands on experience that exemplifies privilege.

The Teaching Diverse Learners Website, is a resource dedicated to enhancing the capacity of teachers to work effectively and equitably with English language learners (ELLs). This Web site provides access to information -- publications, educational materials, and the work of experts in the field -- that promotes high achievement for ELLs.

The National Bullying Prevention Center has a list of resources on prevention, facts, alternatives and different types of bullying to create a world without bullying. These would be beneficial to parents to look out for warning signs and prepare themselves to educate their children on how to prevent and stop bullying.

This book was made to help kids understand what systemic racism is and how it’s built into laws, schools, stories, and other institutions in a way that collectively makes life much harder for people of color. This would be a great book to read aloud in my future classroom as introduction to diversity.

Jason meets his best friend Tae an African American for the first time. Over the years Jason developed friendships with people from different cultural backgrounds he called his diverse friends. This is a learning story for children about how to get along with others who are different from you. See how Jason cultivated their friendships and how their racial differences helped shape their future.

This guide provides a comprehensive overview of the challenges lower-income students face at all levels of their education, and solutions for parents, teachers, administrators, and students themselves. This article provides resources for teachers to ensure students from all social backgrounds receive equal access to education.

Suicide in elementary school–aged children is not well studied, despite a recent increase in the suicide rate among US black children. The objectives of this study were to describe characteristics and precipitating circumstances of suicide in elementary school–aged children relative to early adolescent decedents and identify potential within-group racial differences. This study can be beneficial in the classroom for teachers and parents to raise awareness of the major issue that suicide in youth has become.

As kids are developing their views of the world, they're learning what things each gender "can" explore. This book tells kids at a young age that no matter their gender they're free to explore all kinds of activities and interests—boys can love pink, girls can love trucks, and we'll all grow into our truest selves. This book will be a great teaching tool in the classroom for students to learn about gender equality.