Name: Using Picture Books to Promote Welcoming and Culturally Responsive Classrooms
Start: 2024-08-14T13:10:00-0400
End: 2024-08-14T14:10:00-0400

Wednesday August 14, 2024 1:10pm - 2:10pm EDT

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After conducting a diversity audit of texts in our curriculum and classroom libraries, we set out to find a range of books that could act as mirrors and windows for the students in our school. Join us in this session to learn about the text set we curated to represent our students’ journeys and experiences (mirrors) as well as ways we suggest incorporating them into cross-curricular lessons (windows). This session is book-ended with "I’m New Here" and "Someone New" and includes books that address topics of journey, adjustment, and identity. Recommendations on where to find books to build a welcoming and culturally responsive classroom or school library will be shared in addition to a list of texts presented in this session.

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