• Multicultural Children's Literature Awards
  Arun Toké, Editor of Skipping Stones Magazine
  • PowerPoint
  • 2-pg list of 2010 awards (pdf)

CONCURRENT SESSION ONE

• Culture, Language and Math: Responding to Diverse Learners
  Bernd Ferner
  • PowerPoint
  
  
• Deep Roots: Civil Rights, Culturally Responsive Teaching and High School Youth
  Deborah Peterson, Jason Moore & Richard Brown
  • Handout (pdf)
  • Education Northwest Article (about incident that was the catalyst for the Deep Roots project) (pdf)
  
  
• There's More to It Than a Single Courageous Person: How Situational Analysis Opens the Possibilities
  Kena Avila-Foster & Cynthia Basye
• Handout (pdf)


• Unspoken Realities: White, Female Teachers Discuss Race, Students, and Achievement in the Context of Teaching in a Majority Black Elementary School
  Joy K. Williams
  • Summary of study results (pdf)
  • Recommended Books (pdf)
  
  
• Culturally Responsive Teaching for American Indian Students
  Cornel Pewewardy
  
  
• Using Critical Inquiry & Courageous Conversation to Learn from, Teach, & Reach Diverse Students and Families
  Keisha M. Edwards
  
  

CONCURRENT SESSION TWO

• Transformation to Excellence: Discussing Racism and Beyond
  Da Verne Bell & Leilani Nalua'i Russell
  
  
• Detour Spotting for White Anti-Racists in Education
  Julie McCann
  
  
• Micro-Aggressions: Making a Molehill Out of a Mountain
  Elaine Rector
  • Unmasking racial microaggressions (pdf)
  • Categories and relationships of racial microaggressions (chart) (pdf)
  • Save the last word for ME activity directions (pdf)
  
  
• The Brown Bag Lecture Series as a Co-Curricular Diversity Initiative
  Manuel Guerra & Taylor A. Marrow III
  
  
• Moving Beyond Whiteness in Multicultural Education
  Gennie Harris, Elyse Hansen, Heather Munyon & Tracie Rampone
  
  
• Achievement Gap or Rigor Gap? Looking at Evidence
  Patrick Burk
  • PowerPoint
  • Quality Education Model: Best Practices Panels' Composite Report (pdf)
  
  

CONCURRENT SESSION THREE

• Effective and Culturally Responsive! A Look Inside Classrooms of Teachers Who Closed Black-White Achievement Gaps
  Johnnie McKinley
  • Handout
  
  
• Social Justice through Ethnic Studies in K-12: From Culturally Relevant to Socially/Politically Relevant Curriculum and Teaching
  Richard Orozco
  
  
• Drama as Inquiry Program (DAIP): Comprehensive Instructional Strategies for Culturally Responsive Teaching in K- 12 Classrooms and Schools
  Gerald D. McGregor, Jr.
  • Handout
  
  
• Partnerships, Collaborations and Student Achievement: A View of NAACP Youth Initiatives Arbrella Luvert, Herb Pendleton & Back to School Parent
  Arbrella Luvert, Herb Pendleton & Back to School Parent
  
  
• You Did What? Legal and Ethical Reflections on Stories from the Front Lines of Teaching amidst Religious Diversity
  Jean Moule, Angela Freeman & Bonnie Morihara
  • Oregon repeals ban on teacher religious dress. Oregonian Article, April 1, 2010
  • Religion in the Public School Curriculum: Questions and Answers
  • Religious Holidays in the Public Schools: Questions and Answers
  • Religion in the Public Schools   May 2007 report from the PEW Forum on Religion and Public Life
  • A Teacher's Guide to Religion in the Public Schools
  • Finding Common Ground: A Guide to Religious Liberty in Public Schools
  
  
• Using Culture to Teach Content across the Curriculum
  Joyce Harris