Resources

Ten Take Away Tips for Teaching Critical Thinking 

Ideally, teaching kids how to think critically becomes an integral part of your approach, no matter what subject you teach. But if you're just getting started, here are some concrete ways you can begin leveraging your students' critical-thinking skills in the classroom and beyond. 
Team Building Exercises

Team building activities are a great opportunity to increase the success of the team, motivate participants and keep everyone a lot happier!

Encouraging Class Participation

Increase participation using these great suggestions!

The Multicultural Heroes Project

Great idea for your own classroom. Can be adapted to multiple grade levels and to fit your own classroom. The Multicultural Heroes project is a long-term, multidisciplinary, technology-supported project in which bilingual fifth-grade students at Frank Paul Elementary School in Salinas, California, are developing and producing a set of materials (videotapes and written texts) focusing on minority leaders-"Multicultural Heroes," both locally and at the state and national level.

American Indian/Indigenous Education 

Indiginous Education articles. 
 
Multi-Cultural Education

"Multicultural education relates to education and instruction designed for the cultures of several different races in an educational system. This approach to teaching and learning is based upon consensus building, respect, and fostering cultural pluralism within racial societies. Multicultural education acknowledges and incorporates positive racial idiosyncrasies into classroom atmospheres." `~EdChange Project by Paul Gorski 

Multi-Cultural Resource Guide 

"This guide to over 50 web sites was created to assist multicultural educators in locating educational resources on the Internet."

American Indian Youth Literature Book Awards 

"The First American Indian Library Association Native American Youth Services Literature Awards were selected and presented during the Joint Conference of Librarians of Color at Dallas Texas, Oct 11 through 15, 2006. Winners were chosen in three categories: picture book, middle school, and young adult."

BLACK IN TIME ONLINE RESOURCE CENTER FOR BLACK HISTORY & CULTURE 

From the Author:  "Please use this website as a source of information and inspiration.  It is my sincere hope that this will be a useful tool that  will help anyone interested in promoting and teaching Black History and Culture, more effectively. Encourage your family, friends and associates to visit, too. I've tried to create a virtual forum that will get you EXCITED ABOUT BLACK HISTORY and enable you to Channel That Excitement Into Positive Action That Will Enhance Your Life. In the words of Dr. Carter G. Woodson, "The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself.'"

High School Reading Ideas

 "Here’s a list of suggestions to help your struggling teen readers..."