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147 Practical Tips For Teaching Diversity

Offers hands-on advice for improving diversity discussions all through the semester. This book is sure to help both you and your students expand your thinking and understanding, both inside and outside of the classroom.

by William Timpson, et al

Teaching Diversity

A collection of nineteen essays from… widely differing social and historical backgrounds, and minority voices …Well-rounded and inclusive… an invaluable aid to teachers and learners looking to broaden their outlook on this increasingly important subject.

by William M. Timpson (editor)

Kids Like Me: Voices of the Immigrant Experience

26 personal narratives celebrate the experience of young people making a new home in a strange community—finding common ground as they make new friends, learn a different language, and share their unique cultural identities… provides a personal backdrop to the important themes of cultures and customs, immigration and citizenship, and learning to appreciate differences…includes discussion questions, self-directed activities and research ideas for teachers and families that can be used in classrooms, clubs and community settings.  

by Judith M. Blohm, Terri Lapinksy

Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice; A Sourcebook

This book is a much needed resource that addresses the need to facilitate communication and understanding between members of diverse social groups. It provides a unified framework by which students can engage and critically analyze several forms of social oppression and discrimination

by Maurianne Adams (Editor), et al

Readings for Diversity and Social Justice...

Readings for Diversity and Social Justice: An Anthology on Racism, Sexism, Anti-Semitism, Heterosexism, Classism, and Ableism

The first reader to cover the scope of oppressions in America… contains a mix of short personal and theoretical essays as well as entries designed to challenge students to take action to end oppressive behavior and to affirm diversity and racial justice. Each thematic section is broken down into three divisions: Contexts; Personal Voices; and Next Steps and Action. The selections include over 90 essays from some of the foremost names in the field 

by Maurianne Adams, et al

Teaching/Learning Anti-Racism: A Developmental Approach

This volume is much more than a curriculum guide for implementing anti-racism education with adults. Here, the authors, one White and one African American, also share their experiences—the successes, the failures, the difficulties, and, most important, what they learned from their students…provides both a "how-to" and a conceptual framework to help teachers and trainers adapt anti-racism education for their programs

by Asa G. Hilliard III

Bullying Prevention Handbook...

Bullying Prevention Handbook: A Guide for Principals, Teachers, and Counselors

This handbook provides a comprehensive tool for understanding, preventing, and reducing the day-to-day teasing and harassment referred to as bullying. Effective teaching and counseling models include: A comprehensive, step-by-step bullying intervention model that can be implemented school, agency, or community-wide, Specific strategies that teachers, administrators, and counselors can use when working with bullies and their scapegoats, Assessment and evaluation tools for anti-bullying efforts…Focus: middle school.

by John H. Hoover, Ronald Oliver

Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls

The author, who visited 30 schools and talked to 300 girls, catalogues chilling and heartbreaking acts of aggression, including the silent treatment, note-passing, glaring, gossiping, ganging up, fashion police, and being nice in private/mean in public… she shows the toll that alternative aggression can take on girls' self-esteem… guides readers to nurture emotional honesty in girls and to discover a language for public discussions of bullying… offers innovative ideas for changing the dynamics of the classroom...

by Rachel Simmons

Bullying in Secondary Schools...

Bullying in Secondary Schools : What It Looks Like and How To Manage It

A practical guide to dealing with bullying in secondary schools. The authors present what we know about bullying, describe development issues for adolescence and discuss the social context of the school. They analyze key features of healthy and unhealthy schools, and set out a whole school approach to bullying and other social problems that arise in the secondary school. 

by Keith Sullivan, Mark Cleary etal

Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

"Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity

Anyone who's been to a high school or college has noted how students of the same race seem to stick together. Beverly Daniel Tatum has noticed it too, and she doesn't think it's so bad. As she explains in this provocative book,  these students are in the process of establishing and affirming their racial identity… free of negative stereotypes. The challenge to whites, on which she expounds, is to give up the privilege that their skin color affords and to work actively to combat injustice in society.

by Beverly Daniel Tatum

Why White Kids Love Hip Hop...

Why White Kids Love Hip Hop: Wangstas, Wiggers, Wannabes, and the New Reality of Race in America

Part of the appeal of hip-hop to alienated white youths is its use as a means of expression for the voiceless in America. The integration of telecommunications and consumer culture has resulted in the broadening of acceptance of hip-hop among whites… This area of common ground for black and white youth provides a space of interracial interaction that challenges the old status quo that he designates "old racial politics.

by Bakari Kitwana

Talk With Teens...

Talk With Teens About Feelings, Family, Relationships, and the Future: 50 Guided Discussions for School and Counseling Groups

Interesting and helpful book for people who work with teen groups or who would like to. It is written in an easy to read format, helpful to a layperson, counselor, or social worker. Great tips are given on setting up new groups and following through. Topics, questions and worksheets are helpful to those who are already doing groups and need something different. 

by Jean Sunde Peterson (Editor)

Talk With Teens About Self and Stress...

Talk With Teens About Self and Stress: 50 Guided Discussions for School and Counseling Groups

The discussions suggested within the book are helpful in leading pointed, educational sessions with teens and would be great for counselors and teachers alike… i.e. drugs and alcohol, depression, suicide and family upheavals as well as gun violence. 

by Jean Sunde Peterson

Diversity Consciousness...

Diversity Consciousness: Opening Our Minds to People, Cultures, and Opportunities, Second Edition

Provides a thoughtful, well-researched treatise on a wide range of diversity concepts and issues in everyday life. Presents a number of anecdotal situations to illustrate key diversity concepts. 

by Richard D. & Patricia L. Bucher

Teaching for Diversity

Important in any school/classroom. This book gives educators tools to use to be able to teach diversity and to teach students to deal positively with diversity

by Ricardo Garcia

Queer Kids: The Challenges and Promise...

Queer Kids: The Challenges and Promise for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youth

Owens teaches about, and advocates for, the concerns of gay teens. Observing the benign neglect of society at large in providing support and vital information for queer kids, Owens focuses on counselors, parents, and adolescents, discusses stereotypes and prejudices, and seeks to provide crucial information and viable solutions.” 

by Robert E. Owens

The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets

Chicago Magazine: “This tome by Chicago's Nobel Peace Prize winner is back in print. . . . As prescient and wise as it was . . . 1909.”

“… Addams argues for the importance of providing direction and focus--for example, through public recreation, practical education, and experiences in the arts--for the pent-up energies of young men and women. She takes a realistic view of their basic social and sexual drives and their disaffection and alienation in an industrial world.”

by Jane Addams, Allen F. Davis