Resources to examine our inherent bias, promote personal awareness, and help us build collections for our students that reflect themselves and the world around them.
While challenging the teacher as hero trope, We Got This shows how authentically listening to kids is the closest thing to a superpower that we have. What we hear can spark action that allows us to make powerful moves toward equity by broadening access to learning for all children. A lone teacher can't eliminate inequity, but Cornelius demonstrates that a lone teacher can confront the scholastic manifestations of racism, sexism, ableism, and classism with practical insights about lesson planning, classroom rules, using universal design to create relevant, accessible curriculum, and advocacy strategies for making classroom and schoolwide changes that expand access to opportunity to your students.
Through a snapshot of the diverse student populous, this book explores the impact of experiences of loss, grief, and trauma on a student's learning and success. Topics covered include poverty, obesity, incarceration, immigration, death, sexual exploitation, LGBTQIA+ issues, psychodrama, the expressive arts, resilience, and military students. The authors share the children's perspective, and through case studies they offer solutions and viable objectives.
Wondering what your library can do for your community's immigrant population? This book is replete with resources, tips, and suggestions providing valuable guidance to librarians who want to better serve this still-growing part of America's population. This up-to-date guide to developing and implementing a wide variety of services to immigrants and new Americans focuses on the practical steps of creating and promoting programs.
Featuring 500 diverse book recommendations covering a wide range of subjects, this preteen and teen reading guide is a "go-to resource for parents, students of young adult literature, teachers, and librarians" (School Library Journal).
As young people are diagnosed with anxiety and depression in increasing numbers, or dealing with other issues that can isolate them from family and friends -- such as bullying, learning disabilities, racism, or homophobia -- characters in books can help them feel less alone. And just as important, reading books that feature a diverse range of real-life topics helps generate openness, empathy, and compassion in all kids.
This book's model programs will help academic libraries offer approaches to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) that position these priorities as ongoing institutional and professional goals by sharing a variety of initiatives that possess clear goals, demonstrable outcomes, and reproducible strategies.
A diversity audit is an inventory of a collection designed to measure the amount of diversity within the collection. It is a tool used to analyze collection data to make ensure we include a wide variety of points of view, experiences and representations within a collection. Reflective practitioners realize, now more than ever, it is critical to intentionally, and even aggressively, be working to diversify our collections.
Before starting a diversity audit, it's important to analyze the information currently available and to develop a plan for collecting the information that's not. Begin by answering the following questions:
How well do you know your community? Gather as much recent statistical and anecdotal data about the community you serve as you can.
Begin assessing for gaps. Use surveys, polls or other anecdotal data to gather information about your collection. What do you think is missing?
With the Teaching Books Collection Analysis Toolkit you can
Custom Reading Lists: Build a booklist! Create an interactive display of your books, filled with resources and a List Analysis Report. Up to 200 titles.
Collection Analysis Reports: Analyze your collection! Generate a List Analysis Report that examines the composition of your collection.
Up to 10,000 titles.