Diversity, Equality, Cultural Competency
Edutopia is a comprehensive website and online community that increases knowledge, sharing, and adoption of what works in K-12 education. They emphasize core strategies: project-based learning, comprehensive assessment, integrated studies, social and emotional learning, educational leadership and teacher development, and technology integration.
Resources to promote equality and diversity in the classroom for teachers can be found here.
Here are some activities that are good for exploring prejudice and discrimination.
This is an online interactive game that challenges players to be diverse and understand diversity.
Lesson plans provided by Miami University that promote social justice and equality in the classroom.
The mission of the National Center for Cultural Competence is to increase the capacity of health care and mental health care programs to design, implement, and evaluate culturally and linguistically competent service delivery systems to address growing diversity, persistent disparities, and to promote health and mental health equity.
The importance of cultural competency and what it really means.
An article of the importance of out-of-school time cultural competence.
From the Oregon State Department of Education, this website provides a variety of resources about cultural competency.
The Safe Schools Coalition offers resources as a starting point for educators, parents/guardians and youth.
This blog entry on teachingdegree.org has information and resources about teaching equality in the classroom.