Resources for Educators

Improving diversity awareness and promoting inclusion in schools are crucial to not only encourage harmony among students, but provide a welcoming and productive environment for students to learn, play and grow.

Please note that some resources were not developed by the Diversity Awareness Partnership; We have acknowledged the source by listing their name.

DIVERSITY STUDIES

Race: A Teacher's Guide for High School
American Anthropological Association
Funded by Ford Foundation and National Science Foundation
This resource is a public education effort designed to enhance understanding of race and human variation.

Home Visits: How Do They Affect Teachers' Beliefs About Teaching and Diversity?
By Miranda Lin
This article introduces strategies for teaching diversity and respect to sixth grade students.  The Lakota nation is featured in the article, but the model introduced may be adapted for other tribal cultures.

What Does Teacher Education Have to Do With Teaching? Implications for Diversity Studies
By H. Richard Miller IV
This article outlines the five cultural competencies that a teacher must have in order to effectively teach culturally diverse students. 

MULTI-MEDIA

Elementary School
Sesame Street: I Love My Hair
Recognizing and embracing ethnic differences among children.
1:57 min.

Middle School
Coming Soon!

High School
All of the Above Plus

A Girl Like Me
Reel Works Teen Filmmaking
Race and Internal Racism - Color is more than skin deep.
7:16 min

What would you do
ABC Network
Gender Roles and Middle School Students
8:56 min

Higher Education / Leadership
All of the Above Plus

Abolish the "N" Word
2009
A speech delivered by 11 year-old, Jonathan McCoy, about the human race removing the "N" word from their vocabulary.
5:25 min

ACTIVITIES

Elementary School

Get-To-Know-You BINGO
Allows participants to get to know each others’ cultural differences.

I Love My Family and Friends
This activity is designed to introduce young kids to diversity.

Middle School
All of the Above

 

High School
All of the Above Plus

Top 10 Myths About Homosexuality
The Diversity Awareness Partnership is not presenting the information in this resource as facts. The resource can be used to encourage dialogue around common misconceptions about homosexuality.

Higher Education / Leadership

Head Start Activity
To encourage participants to think about the different advantages/  
disadvantages that they have had in life, and how that has contributed to  their current position.

And to create dialogue around greater understanding of the circumstances from which individuals you work with, go to school with, etc. come from.

The Diversity Awareness Partnership is proud and excited to be your local short-cut to diversity resources and activities. The resources provided below are compiled/designed to be distributed to appropriate audiences in an effort to explore diversity and inclusion and foster an open environment for discussing complex and sensitive issues. Determining the appropriate use and complying with the above terms are at the facilitator's/user's discretion.

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