Depending on the holiday, family traditions and beliefs, some students or staff may miss school or class to observe a holiday. Please refer to Policy 3122 and Policy 5409.Holidays may have an element of fasting and/or late-night events. We ask staff to make reasonable accommodations to support students and colleagues.We also ask staff and PTAs, includingcoaches/advisors to try to avoid high holidays for events and exams, whenever possible, in accordance with 2340 Policy – Religious-Related Activities and Practices.
For more information about celebrations, holidays, and dates, please see the Diversity Calendar curated by Cultures Connecting.
Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain | Zaretta Hammond
On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It | David Livingstone Smith
Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People | Mahzarin Banaji and Anthony Greenwald
Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope | bell hooks
Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope | bell hooks
Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope enriches our teaching and learning with a visionary work that combines critical thinking with narratives to extend conversations from classrooms to community. bell hooks theorizes from a perspective of positivity while writing about struggles with racism and white supremacy. In this book, we might learn more about how to end racism and create a beloved community.
Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People | Mahzarin Banaji and Anthony Greenwald
Explore the hidden biases that we all carry from a lifetime of experiences with age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, social class, sexuality, disability status, and nationality. This book engages us in a conversation about the extent to which social environments shape our identities, both consciously and unconsciously.
On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It | David Livingstone Smith
Smith brings us a guide to understanding and fighting dehumanization, a shift in how we view and operate in a community. Using psychology, history, and politics to explain dehumanization, the book explores why and how the human mind can think of others as less than human.
Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain | Zaretta Hammond
Culturally responsive pedagogy has shown great promise in meeting equitable outcomes among all students. Zaretta Hammond helps us understand how to design and implement data processing and learning relationships.
A Different Mirror: A History Of Multicultural America & A Different Mirror for Young People: A History of Multicultural America | Ronald Takaki
This new edition of A Different Mirror is a remarkable achievement that grapples with the raw truth of American history and examines the ultimate question of what it means to be an American.
It’s essential to both understand and teach that enslaved Africans fought for their own liberation. This link features resources on enslaved Africans’ work towards freedom. Texts, objectives from the Teaching Hard History framework are included.
The history of Asian American is deeply intertwined together with America’s own history, yet often forgotten or ignored within today’s classrooms and public discourse. Our online lesson plans here provide a tailored K–12 curriculum for educators to teach this rich history to students. These lessons are but just a brief snapshot into the long journey of Asian immigrants and their native–born children within America’s timeline—both dark and bright, from exclusion to acceptance. By showcasing the struggles and triumphs of Asian Americans over the course of two centuries, our lesson plans amplify the importance and voices of this growing, integral segment of the U.S. population in building the country into what it is today and can become tomorrow, together as Americans. It is important for all Americans, young and old, to join in on this learning experience.
Prince George’s Community College is excited to showcase our new Africana art collection, generously gifted by Bradley Gillian and his late wife, Dr. Lorraine Gillian.
The rich African American culture, struggles, and achievements come to life in this diverse 33-piece art collection featuring original ceramics, serigraphs, and lithographs from some of the most significant black artists from Africa and the U.S.
The Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) provided educators and students resources and information to positively impact schools and local communities.
Learning for Justice partners with communities and schools to provide up-to-date resources to educators who work with children. Resources inform internal identity work, supplement classroom materials, and increase access to inclusive materials.
Introducing topics often excluded in traditional texts, the Zinn Education Project offers a more accurate narrative of history, using multiple cultural perspectives. Zinn Ed has free resources for educators and parents to support teaching and learning for every age group and level.
Scene on Radio explores the human experience and American society through several different series. In season 2, the Seeing White series sets a historical and contemporary foundation from which to build a better understanding of our current social emphasis on equity, justice, and racial division.