PESB is committed to ensuring cultural responsiveness among our state’s educators and to closing the opportunity gap through effective and inclusive education that ensure all students succeed. Below are some tools and resources that a program or individual may use to support their learning within this critical area.
Teaching resources
Viewing resources
- The danger of a single story (TED talk)
- Speak your language campaign (lift up your multi-lingual students and families!)
- Building safe and inclusive schools for trans and gender-creative youth (YouTube video)
- “Every kid needs a champion” (Rita F. Pierson TED talk)
Reading resources
Social justice and equity in education
- Excellence through equity (Alan M Blankstein and Pedro Noguera)
- Literacy achievement and diversity (Kathryn Au)
- Between the world and me (Ta-Nehisi Coates)
- Multiplication is for white people (Lisa Delpit)
- Urban science education for the hip-hop generation (Christopher Emdin)
- For white folks who teach in the hood…and the rest of y’all too: reality pedagogy and urban education (Christopher Emdin)
- Black like me (John Howard Griffin)
- Teaching to transgress (bell hooks)
- The dream keepers (Gloria Ladson-Billings)
- Culture, literacy and learning (Carol Lee)
- The culturally proficient school: an implementation guide for school leaders (Randall B. Lindsey et. al.)
- The trouble with black boys: and other reflections on race, equity, and the future of public education (Pedro A. Noguera)
- Crucial conversations: tools for talking when stakes are high (Patterson, et. al)
- Hunger of memory: the education of Richard Rodriguez (Richard Rodriguez)
- Whistling vivaldi (Claude Steele)
- “Why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?”: a psychologist explains the development of racial identity (Beverly Daniel Tatum)
Perspectives on the past
- Bury my heart at wounded knee: an Indian history of the American West (Dee Brown)
- A people’s history of the United States (Howard Zinn)
