Beyond Heroes and Holidays : a Practical Guide To K-12 Multicultural, Anti-racist Education and Staff Development ((Rev)08 Edition)

An incredible, informative, collection of essays, articles, analysis, interviews, primary documents and interactive & interdisciplinary teaching aids on civil rights, movement building, and what it means for all of the inhabitants of the planet. With sections on Critical Literacy, The Arts, Mathematics, Technology, Science, Geography, Language, School-Wide Activities, Holidays and Heritage, Talking Back, Early Childhood, Readings and Teaching Aids. Packed into nearly 450 oversize pages are photographs, songs, statements, and work form the likes of such great writers, historians, and activists as Bill Bigelow, James Loewen, Peggy Mcintosh, Luis Rodirguez, Kai James, Clem Marshall, Marta Urquilla, Julie Bisson, the editors and dozens more. What a treasure trove. And what a vital (and useful) tool.

Deborah Menkart is the executive director of Teaching for Change, an organization dedicated to spreading social and economic justice by promoting equity focused teaching materials, providing professional development to teachers, and increasing parent engagement in schools through groundbreaking DC area programs.Margo Okazawa-Rey is Director of the Women's Leadership Institute and Visiting Professor of Women's Studies at Mills College in Oakland, California. She works in university, public school and community settings, addressing the issues of racism and other forms of oppression through activist scholarship, education and political organizing.Enid Lee began her career as a classroom teacher 35 years ago. Today she is an accomplished "front line teacher," teacher educator, researcher, writer, consultant, facilitator and speaker. She has taught in the Caribbean, Canada and the USA and has been involved in the professional development of teachers for two decades. She consults internationally on anti-racist, inclusionary and equitable education.

INTRODUCTION

SCHOOL STAFF, FAMILY AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

OVERVIEW

Educating for Equality: Forging a Shared Vision (Excerpt)

Affirmation, Solidarity and Critique: Moving Beyond Tolerance in Education

Educating for Critical Practice (Excerpt)

Anti-Racist Education: Pulling Together to Close the Gaps

LESSONS LEARNED

Teaching Whites about Racism (Excerpt)

White Racial Identity and Anti-Racist Education: A Catalyst for Change (Excerpt)The True Colors of the New Jim Toomey: Transformation, Integrity, Trust in Educating Teachers about Oppression (Excerpt)

ACTIVITIES FOR WORKSHOPS, COURSES AND INSTITUTES

Personal Cultural History Exercise (Excerpt)

De-Tracking the Tracking Dialogue (Excerpt)

Tracking Teacher Expectations and Student Outcomes (Excerpt)

Approaches to Multicultural Curriculum Reform (Excerpt)

What is the Bias Here?: Staff Development for Critical Literacy

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack (Excerpt)

White Privilege in Schools (Excerpt)

Developing Positive Racial Attitudes (Excerpt)

READINGS

Do You Know Where the Parents of Your Children Are? (Excerpt)

Why Do You Force Your Ways? (Excerpt)

Growing Up Gay (Excerpt)

Understanding the Needs of Youth: "Who [You Calling Violent?" (Excerpt)

a B.S. in education (poem)

When the Frame Becomes the Picture (Excerpt)

Dear High School Teacher (Excerpt)

Dear Principal (Excerpt)

What I've Learned About Undoing Racism (Excerpt)

Distancing Behaviors Often Used by White People (Excerpt)

"Every one of our teachers believed in us."

Butterflies (short story)

READING BETWEEN THE LINES: CRITICAL LITERACY

Lies My Textbook Told Me: Racism and Anti-Racism in U.S. History (Excerpt)

The Men (poem)

Bias in Children's Movies: Pocahontas (Excerpt)

So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs from Americans (poem)

Arab Stereotypes and American Educators (Excerpt)

Media Myths Contribute to Hunger in Africa (Excerpt)

Tips for Guiding Very Young Book Reviewers (Excerpt)

LANGUAGE

The Best of Both Worlds (Abstract)

Language Diversity and Learning (Excerpt)

Racism in the English Language (Excerpt)

Yuba City School (poem) (Excerpt)

Spelling and Social Justice (Excerpt)

Bilingual Education: Talking Points (Excerpt)

Linguistic Human Rights and Education (Excerpt)

LESSONS FOR THE CLASSROOM

EARLY CHILDHOOD

Activism and Preschool Children (Excerpt)

Redefining the Norm: Early Childhood Anti-Bias Strategies (Excerpt)

Photo Picture Cards: A Key Tool for the Anti-Bias Classroom (Excerpt)

SOCIAL STUDIES AND LANGUAGE ARTS

Students' Stories in Action Comics (Excerpt)

Para Teresa (poem)

Portrait Poems: Stepping into the World of Others

Mountains of Prejudice; Streams of Justice: The Cherokee/Seminole Removal Role Play (Excerpt)

The Institutionalization of Racism (Excerpt)

The Business of Drugs (Excerpt)

Violence, the KKK, and the Struggle for Equality

The Cost of an Election (Excerpt)

Exclusion — Chinese in 19th Century America (Excerpt)

Angel Island

Paradise and the Politics of Tourist Hawai'i (Excerpt)

MATHEMATICS

Exploring Economic Inequities (Excerpt)

Reading the World with Math: Goals for a Criticalmathematical Literacy Curriculum (Abstract)

The Algebra Project (Excerpt)

SCIENCE AND GEOGRAPHY

A Question of Biology: Are the Races Different? (Excerpt)

An Issues Approach to Chemistry

A Theme for Biology: Crop Diversity (Excerpt)

Getting the Lead Out

Environmental Racism and Native American Reservations (Excerpt)

THE ARTS

Taking a Stand: Student Led Drama and Dialogue (Excerpt)

Busting Ads with Art (Excerpt)

TECHNOLOGY

Global Learning Networks: Gaining Perspective on Our Lives with Distance (Excerpt)

On the Road to Cultural Bias: A Critique of the "The Oregon Trail" CD-ROM (Excerpt)

SCHOOL-WIDE ACTIVITIES

Cultural Clubs in Public Schools (Excerpt)

School Mascots (Excerpt)

Girl Power (Excerpt)

HOLIDAYS AND HERITAGE

Heritage Months and Celebrations: Some Considerations (Excerpt)

Happy Holidays? (Excerpt)

A Native Perspective on Thanksgiving (Excerpt)

Asian American (poem)

Activists for Social Change

La Llorana: Exploring Myth and Reality (Excerpt)

Where I'm From: Inviting Student Lives into the Classroom (Excerpt)

Negotiating Pitfalls and Possibilities: Presenting Folk Arts in the Schools (Excerpt)

On the Question of Race (poem)

TALKING BACK

Looking Through an Anti-Racist Lens (Excerpt)

Compassion and Improvisation: Learning to Stand Up for Others (Excerpt)

Black History is U.S. History (Excerpt)

Challenging Racism in the News (Excerpt)

Turn Children Away? There's No Way (Excerpt)

School's Out: California High School Students Protest Anti-Immigrant Legislation (Excerpt)

Philadelphia Students Protest Bus Fare Hike (Excerpt)

Voices from a School: (Excerpt)

GLOSSARY

INDEX