August 2024 Alpha Delta Kappa Collegiate Clubs Network
Alpha Delta Kappa Collegiate Clubs & Alumni Welcome to our monthly newsletter! We are here to provide you with some helpful tips, connections, and networking opportunities.
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Diversity in and out of the classroom will continue to grow, so it’s important to prepare our students to adapt to an evolving world and embrace those who are different from themselves. Culturally responsive teaching means using students’ actual customs, characteristics, experiences and perspectives to build better classroom instruction. Diverse children’s books can provide the building blocks for meaningful instruction and understanding. Publishers and curriculum designers actively include multicultural texts to represent voices that have been missing from mainstream children’s literature in the past. While this is a step in the right direction, it’s important to move beyond these surface-level explorations of cultural differences that often center on the majority population and further marginalize people and communities of color.
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