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Our good friends at Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change have launched an outstanding website for teachers and students that promotes and supports the use of Howard Zinn’s best-selling book A People’s History of the United States. The site features over 75 free, downloadable teaching activities for middle and high school classrooms to bring a people’s history to the classroom. The site also lists hundreds of recommended books, films and websites. The teaching activities and resources are organized by theme, time period and grade level. This is the only collection of its kind for educators – print or online — in the country. Visit and bookmark the new Zinn Education Project: Teaching a People’s History.


 

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), in partnership with the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education, and Yad Vashem has revised “Echoes and Reflections”, their award-winning multi-media curriculum  website with extensive materials on the Holocaust.  The relaunch of the site coincides with Holocaust Education Week and the 71st anniversary of Kristallnacht on November 9-10. The redesigned site at
www.echoesandreflections.org has more user-friendly features and highlights
tools such as an interactive training map, where educators may learn about
upcoming trainings in their communities. The site also provides platforms
for direct engagement, from social-networking tools to news and updates on
the curriculum, its trainings and success stories.

Skipping Stones magazine is an international multicultural magazine for youth that encourages communication, cooperation, creativity and celebration of our cultural and environmental richness. Founded in 1988 by Arun Toke, it is published bimonthly during the school year. Winner of NAME’s Multicultural Publication Award–and many other literary awards– Skipping Stones magazine also accepts original artwork and writing in every language and from all ages for consideration.

Changing Demographics: Implications for Educators – New DVD in the Instructional Media Monarch Series by NAME Scholar, Philip Chinn. Ordering information is available on the NAME Store page.

Project Implicit – Project Implicit blends basic research and educational outreach in a virtual laboratory at which visitors can examine their own hidden biases. Project Implicit is the product of research by three scientists whose work produced a new approach to understanding of attitudes, biases, and stereotypes. The Project Implicit site (implicit.harvard.edu) has been functioning as a hands-on science museum exhibit, allowing web visitors to experience the manner in which human minds display the effects of stereotypic and prejudicial associations acquired from their socio-cultural environment.

Anti-Racism Bibliography – This is the beginning of a bibliography of anti-racist resources, particularly those that focus on dealing with racism and oppression in activist communities. From Radical Reference.

Best Evidence Website – from Johns Hopkins University. Web site summarizes scientific reviews of research on educational programs for grades K-12. Topics include Elementary Mathematics, Technology in Reading and Math, Reading for English Language Learners, Comprehensive School Reform, Education Service Providers, and a Schedule of Additional Reports.

The Diversity Dictionary – The Diversity Dictionary is intended to be used as an educational tool. There are many applicable definitions to these terms as well as numerous other terms which may not be represented here. This list was not designed to serve as an official Texas A&M University statement or definition.

Wordorigins – This site is devoted to the origins of words and phrases, or as a linguist would put it, to etymology. Etymology is the study of word origins. (It is not the study of insects; that is entomology.) Where words come from is a fascinating subject, full of folklore and historical lessons. Often, popular tales of a word’s origin arise. Sometimes these are true; more often they are not. While it often seems disappointing when a neat little tale turns out to be untrue, almost invariably the true origin is just as interesting.

emTech – Over 15,000 resources organized by topics for teachers, students, and parents. There is a special section for Multicultural Education

Cultural Resources Diversity Program
The National Park Service is dedicated to diversifying the cultural resources and historic preservation field through new programs and approaches.

Online Version of Multicultural Perspectives
Multicultural Perspectives – The Official Journal of the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME)
This publication promotes the philosophy of social justice, equity, and inclusion. It celebrates cultural and ethnic diversity as a national strength that enriches the fabric of society. The journal encourages a range of material from academic to personal perspectives; poetry and art; articles of an academic nature illuminating the discussion of cultural pluralism and inclusion; articles and position papers reflecting a variety of disciplines; and reviews of film, art, and music that address or embody multicultural forms. Members receive a free subscription to the print edition which comes out quarterly. 
A new ONLINE version is available. The electronic service will allow for searching all issues for authors, topics, etc. See an INDEX of Past Articles.

Equal Treatment, Equal Access: Raising Awareness about People with Disabilities and Their Struggle for Equal Rights
The 2004 Reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), and the more recently celebrated fifteenth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), together offer a special opportunity to underscore recent advances toward the full inclusion of people with disabilities into mainstream schools and society, and to remember the efforts of disability rights advocates to win these legislative victories. The Fall 2005 issue of Curriculum Connections promotes awareness of various forms of disability, challenges myths and stereotypes about people with disabilities and fosters an understanding of the historical legacy of bias and discrimination against people with disabilities that led to the rise of the disability rights movement.   More…
Available FREE at http://www.adl.org/education/curriculum_connections/cc_newsletter.htm

Anti Defamation League has prepared a list of resources for teachers and an annotated bibliography of children’s books that present the life of Rosa Parks accurately and within an appropriate historical context. http://www.adl.org/education.

The “December Dilemma” December Holiday Guidelines for Public Schools
Every December, public school students, parents, teachers and administrators face the difficult task of acknowledging the various religious and secular holiday traditions celebrated during that time of year. Teachers, administrators and parents should try to promote greater understanding and tolerance among students of different traditions by taking care to adhere to the requirements of the First Amendment.
The First Amendment guarantees freedom of religion to all Americans — including young schoolchildren — by prohibiting the government from endorsing or promoting any particular religious point of view. This prohibition has led courts to ban such plainly coercive religious activities in public schools as organized prayer and the teaching of creationism. The law is less clear regarding the limits on holiday celebrations in public schools, but a number of guidelines should be followed in order to ensure that our public schools can best celebrate the religious freedom upon which our nation was founded. From our friends at the ADL.

White Privilege Exercise
As far as I know this exercise was originally developed by Martin Cano as The Horatio Alger exercise. I learned this from him in 1990. Martin is/was an extraordinary educator and developer and I love him dearly. He died suddenly several years ago while doing this work. Now he prods us all to be real and be effective from a Great Beyond…. Maggie Finefrock, The Learning Project – Kansas City, Missouri  Source on web

Feminist Majority Foundation
Feminism n. the policy, practice or advocacy of political, economic, and social equality for women.
The Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF), which was founded in 1987, is a cutting edge organization dedicated to women’s equality, reproductive health, and non-violence. In all spheres, FMF utilizes research and action to empower women economically, socially, and politically. Our organization believes that feminists – both women and men, girls and boys – are the majority, but this majority must be empowered.

Featured NAME Scholar
NAME is fortunate to have among its members, many of the top scholars and educators in the field of multicultural education. Their profiles will be featured here on a rotating basis.

Philip C. Chinn is a Professor Emeritus in the Division of Special Education, California State University, Los Angeles.  He served as the Special Assistant to the Executive Director for Minority Concerns (now Diversity Affairs) at the Council for Exceptional Children from 1978-1984.  He also served as the Director of the California State University, Los Angeles Center for Multicultural Education until his retirement.  He is the co-author, with Donna M. Gollnick, of Multicultural Education in a Pluralistic Society, Merrill Publishing Company, (Seventh Edition, In Press). He has also co-authored two texts in special education, and numerous textbook chapters. Until his recent retirement, he served on the NCATE Board of Examiners, served as vice-president of the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME), and as a Commissioner on the California State Advisory Commission on Special Education.  He served as co-editor of Multicultural Perspectives, the journal of NAME 1997-2001. He is a recipient of the National Association for Bilingual Education President’s Award, and the American Association for Colleges of Teacher Education’s Advocate for Justice Award.  In 2002, National Association for Multicultural Education honored him by naming their Multicultural Book Award in his name.