Kids Speak About Diversity

http://beaconnews.suntimes.com/news/15640462-418/what-students-want-high-schoolers-speak-on-diversity-in-their-schools.html

This is a really cool article that talks about how students feel about diversity in the classroom and what they want from teachers.

Diversity Guide Article

http://www.glencoe.com/sec/teachingtoday/subject/building_respect.phtml

This is a guide to teaching English to a diverse group of students. It gives strategies and tips to remember and ways to get everyone involved in understanding culture and diversity.

Multicultural Book Review

http://homepage.isomedia.com/~jmele/joe.html

This site has book reviews for books dealing with multicultural themes and authors. Teachers can easily find literature to teach to a diverse group of students using this website.

“I Am From” Poem Template

http://www.scholastic.com/content/collateral_resources/pdf/t/Target_I_am_from%20poem.pdf

This is a template for an “I am From” poem. These are poems students can write that ask them to talk about their backgrounds. Students need to be appreciated for their differences and encouraged to embrace those differences

Poetic Diversity Literary Magazine

http://www.poeticdiversity.org/main/index.php

This is a literary magazine from Los Angeles called Poetic Diversity. It has a bunch of poems by people of many different ages, sexes, races, etc. Their focus is on diversity. These would be cool for students to read and think about differences we might have based on where we come from.

Raised By Poetry

Building community is an essential part of having an effective and productive classroom. Below are a few resources for building community in the classroom

“Raised By” Poems are a way for students to get creative, and teach the rest of the class about their backgrounds. Students compose a poem that lists all the different things they were raised by.