Holding Nyla
A preschool teacher discusses the process of including a student with severe cerebral palsy.

Exploring Women's Rights
A first grade teacher explains how she gets her students to understand International Women's Day.

Fairness for First Graders
To build a basis for understanding social justice, a first grade teacher explains what she does.

Publishing in Second Grade
Local second grade teacher of low-income Spanish-speaking children gets her students to create books in a second grade standards-based classroom.

Girls, Worms and Body Image
A second grade teacher, surprised that her students are learning gendered body-image stereotypes so young, describes what she did.

Sweetcakes Town
An amazing description of a unit by a third-grade teacher in which he had his class create a classroom economy in order to examine economic problems and injustices in their community.

Exploring Child Labor with Young Students
An elementary teacher describes a unit she taught to help her students examine child labor.  She explains that young children can understand a lot more than people imagine.

Operation Bearlift
An elementary teacher describes how she used a social action project to build community in her classroom, and to replace intellectually vacuous community-building activities her school had been using.

Raising Children's Cultural Voices
A third-grade teacher describes how she teaches writing in a two-way bilingual classroom, in a standards-driven environment.

Mona: Mini-University
A fifth-grade teacher shows how she connects science with literature to develop a multicultural unit that is aimed toward college preparation.

Head of the Class
This article describes a Marva Collins school, which is oriented toward high academic success of inner-city students.

Planting Seeds of Solidarity
Fifth grade teacher Bob Peterson discusses how he uses stories to help his students examine globalization critically, without developing an "us versus them" mentality.

Multiple Measures of Student Achievement in an Interdisciplinary Unit on the Harlem Rennaisance
A fifth grade teacher developed a fascinating multimedia website showing how she developed and taught this unit.

Seventh Graders and Sexism
A new teacher, Lisa Espinosa, describes how she has her students analyze gender stereotypes in the media.

Math, Maps and Misrepresentation
Middle school teacher Eric Gutstein explains how he uses math to help students critique the construction of world maps.  If you find this unit interesting, click here for more of his math ideas.

Home-buying while Brown or Black.
Former middle school teacher discusses how he teaches mathematical power by having middle school students examine racism in home mortgage lending.

She’s for Real
An eighth grade teacher who is lesbian discusses the process of coming out to her students.

Bringing the Civil Rights Movement into the Classroom
A ninth grade teacher of predominantly African American students explains how he teaches about the Civil Rights movement.

Learning from Ladakh
High school social studies Bill Bigelow describes how he gets students to critique the idea that some civilizations are "primitive" and some are "developed."  Be sure to also follow the links in the column to the right of his article, called "The Case of Cultural Destruction" and Ladakh Situations, for more resources for this unit.

The Lives of Migrant Farmworkers
An 11th grade suburban history teacher describes how he worked to sensitize his mostly-white students to farmworkers in their communty.

Creating a Vision of Possibility
High school teacher Linda Christensen explains how she works to help her inner-city students to envision themselves going to college, and gets them to write a college-entrance essay.

Maybe I can Change that Too
A high school teacher describes how he got his students to challenge their racist beliefs

Constructing Urban High School English Students as Achievers
High school English teacher Joan Cone developed a marvelous multimedia website exploring how she developed a high-achieving English class in a de-tracked high school environment.

Integrals and Equity
AP math teacher describes how she raises awareness about equity issues through her math curriculum.

From Catastrophe to Celebration
In this multimedia website, a college music instructor shows how she transformed her classical music curriculum from a multicultural perspective, to make it relevant to students.

You said Sappho's a She!
A community college teacher describes how he uses poetry to challenge homophobia.

Diversity Requirements: The Teaching Experience and Impact on Students
Two faculty members at Iowa State University reflect on teaching African American Women, and Introduction to African American Studies; a link to the syllabi is provided. This site also provides links to other discussions of diversity in higher education, which are worth exploring.

Learning Interdisciplinarity
A faculty member at Youngstown State University put together an e-portfolio that examines student learning in an interdiscplinary English course that focuses on Working Class studies.

Teaching in Black and White
How a white and black college instructor teamed up in order to teach multicultural perspectives well

updated 10/24/08