NYSAIS Diversity ConferenceNYSAIS Diversity ConferenceAmy Bowllan’s Breakout Amy Bowllan’s Breakout

SessionSessionThere's Something for There's Something for

Everyone:Everyone: An Online Toolkit for Diversity An Online Toolkit for Diversity

LearnersLearnersApril 7, 2006April 7, 2006

NYSAIS Diversity ConferenceNYSAIS Diversity ConferenceAmy Bowllan’s Breakout Amy Bowllan’s Breakout

SessionSessionThere's Something for There's Something for

Everyone:Everyone: An Online Toolkit for Diversity An Online Toolkit for Diversity

LearnersLearnersApril 7, 2006April 7, 2006

Cathy Fink & Marcy MarxerNobody Else Like Me:

Celebrating the Diversity of

Children

Advertisers Are Doing It.

Magazines Are Doing It.

The Media Is Doing It

Photo courtesy of AP

Radio Is Doing It.

Schools Are Doing It. The issue of diversity in independent schools is often framed in terms of ethnicity. And that's important. But it can also lead to a bean-counting approach that ignores the larger discussion — issues of class and income that permeate our schools. This issue of Independent School looks at those issues.

(Winter 2006 — The Class Debate NAIS Independent School Magazine)

Or Are We?

The Media

Westin “discusses issues that should never be ‘taken lightly’ and race is at the forefront of the rundown.”

(From Av Westin’s Best Practices of Television Journalists)

Quotes on Diversity

When young children begin to recognize likenesses and differences, they often focus on differences and not the underlying sameness in people or objects. They sometimes think that being different means there is something wrong with them. Adults can help children see that there are human qualities that make all of us alike in many ways, even though we come in different shapes, sizes, colors and from different backgrounds.

-- Fred Rogers

Your Thoughts.

How can adults help children “see that there are human qualities that make all of us alike in many ways,

even though wecome in different shapes, sizes,

colors and from different backgrounds?”

It’s time for inventing new forms of learning. It’s time for addressing the entire learning environment in new ways. This is the only way in which we can get true diversity in the work place and in life.

--Seymour Papert

Your Thoughts.

Will “new learning” methods help with

diversity? Has the digital revolution played in

schools helped?

If you’ve had several children, or, like me, recently gone through the experience of being a grandparent--it’s wonderful how each one of them is different, does things in different ways, thinks differently. And then we’re going to channel them into a school that homogenizes them? And then we’re going to worry afterwards about how to free them from that homogenization and make them diverse again? It’s backwards. It’s the wrong approach.

--Seymour Papert

Online Activities For All Learners Of

Diversity

Diversity Activities and IceBreakers

http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/leader/diverse2.html

A Word About Differenceshttp://www.mcgruff.org/Grownups/differences.htm

Culture Webquest http://coe.west.asu.edu/students/stennille/st3/webquest.html

Implicit Association Test From Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/selectatest.jsp

Implicit Association Test (cont.)

Recommended Books On Diversity

Books With Classroom Activities On Diversity

By Dr. Deborah Byrnes By David Shiman

Dreamby Susan Bosak

http://www.tcpnow.com/books/dream.html

How To Be A Perfect Stranger

http://www.conexuspress.com/catalog/how_perfect_stranger_2vol.htm

Edited by Arthur J. Magida & Stuart M. Matlins

White Teachers / Diverse Classrooms

by Julie Landsman and Chance Lewis

Intercultural E-mail Classroom Connections

IECC is a free service to help teachers link with partners in other cultures and countries for email classroom pen-pal and other project exchanges.

See Worksheet for Guiding Questions

Quotes From Crayons

• “Even The Smallest Crayon Leaves A Mark.”

• “No Matter The Shape, No Matter The Size, People Are The Same It’s All In Our Eyes.”

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