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If you are looking for great lesson plans and activities for your class check out this website. It offers activities and plans on diversity. October is Diversity Awareness Month so it would be a great time to use them!

This website is about schools with low socio-economic status and managing to beat the odds of having poor academic success.

This article explains the term "achievement gap" and how it relates to education. It also explains No Child Left Behind and the purpose behind closing the achievement gap in education.

This website is a great tool for educators and parents. It has great, useful tools for diversity within education and how to relate to bilingual students as well as academic success in all different types of school settings.

This article provides me an opportunity to ask: Is diversity education about teaching diversity or harnessing the unique skillsets of a diverse population to create synergistic education?

This article provides evidence for a "direct and explicit approach" to racial diversity education. The author demonstrates an enlightened approach that transcends the post-critical shift by allocating quantitative and qualitative data to their appropriate analytical application.

Although this research was designed for the workplace, the dynamics of interdependent collaboration are just as relevant in the classroom to achieve learning and social integration among diverse groups.

This article provides a foundational vision to provide the last attempt to socialize our young adults to move our culture into the next stage in American social development. This shift corresponds and perhaps correlates the intellectual shift toward a post-critical era; in which consideration for the observer or subject is taken into account along with the object of study.

I recently went through the Master Resiliency Trainer Course (MRT) and it's a very good course. We had to figure out what our character strengths were by taking the VIA (Values in action) survey. There is one on this link for kids. Imagine if you KNEW what your student strengths were. Imagine if they knew what their strengths were. Could this impact your teaching? Under questionnaires, take the VIA for yourself. Have your students take it. It could be useful.

Very interesting! I just might try this soon!

This would be so beneficial to high school students and even elementary and middle. I could see it really helping high school students to help in making career choices possibly. Thanks for sharing!

This is another page that has multiple resources. Like my previous posting, you can search diversity. It has printable pages that can be used as lessons within a classroom.

I use teacher vision too! Love it!

Numerous articles of how to encourage the resilience of children and families who face adversities.

This goes right along with what we learned in Chapter 4. Great find!!

This is a website where teachers buy, share, and sale their products. There are tons of free dowloads avaliable. This website also have common core materials that might be helpful.

I became aware of TPT sometime last year and fell in love. A great way for teachers to make some extra cash for all that hard work they put into creating resources. I also love the freebies on there!

This website invites the viewer to create a more diverse work setting within a newsroom. As you go through the levels you are also evaluated on your knowledge of cultures.

Extremely interesting! Thanks for sharing!

Now that is pretty neat! I'm not sure I could use it for my 2nd graders but seems great for middle and high schools.

Learning through videos in which we know that lots of students enjoy because they learn visually and by hearing. This has very informative videos in which I use often in my own classroom. Some videos even give lesson suggestions and materials. You need a login/password but it is free.

This is geared more towards middle/high school that my husband recommended. There is a tab for educators, students, and afterschool (home/parent use). Teachers can use this to teach and students can use it to get extra help on various economic topics through videos, interactive activities, etc. And it's free! No subscription needed! :)

I have used this site for several years to purchase cheap resources such as games and learning activities to use in the classroom. There are lots of various topics and ready made resources to purchase for very cheap prices. Go check it out!

Brain Pop is a website that our system has purchased for teacher, parent, and student use. It is great for instructional purposes in which you can find various topics of content and show short videos on this skill. There are activities to go along with the videos. Students really enjoy using this website in the classroom to learn and they have a login/password our system provides them to access this at home for extra practice or help with homework. It is diverse in the sense that there are four different brain pop websites: BrainPopJr (K-3 grades), BrainPop(4-8 grades), Spanish version of BrainPop, and one for for BrainPop ESL. Although it does require subscription, there are some free resources on this website and you can view enough to get a feel of what it provides.

Helpful hints that might indicate that a student is being bullied. Some helpful hints include 10 things you can do to eliminate bullying. This website is in spanish and english.

Information and ideas for promoting self esteem. This site can serve as a great resource for parents and teachers that might have a concern about their children. Developmental milestones can also be found on this website.

I also use PBSkids.org in my classroom to share "hip" videos. It is known as Design Squad.

The website Fighting for Democracy contains lessons showing student what role diversity has played in the development of democracy through an online exhibit.