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Diversity Training and Development


This collection of books provides readers
with background information, research and practices
related to diversity and equity issues. Topics include
cultural identity and racial consciousness, cultural
patterns and culturally responsive teaching.
The books explore various obstacles to academic
success and offer models and strategies to overcome
the obstacles.

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- Teacher's
Mind Resources: Excellent resources for
articles related to teacher beliefs, values,
and expectations.
- THE
MID-ATLANTIC EQUITY CONSORTIUM: This site
will assist in creating learning environments
free of race, gender, class, ethnic and culture
biases so that students of all backgrounds
will have equal opportunities to flourish.
- Education
World: Diversity in Education: The Education
World Diversity Center aggregates the latest
content, articles, and resources to help educators
understand diversity issues in their schools
and lives.
- Tolerance.org:
Tolerance.org is a principal online destination
for people interested in dismantling bigotry
and creating, in hate's stead, communities that
value diversity.
- The RACE PROJECT
http://www.understandingrace.org/home.html
This site looks at race through three lenses: history, human variation, and lived experience. Looking through the eyes of history, science and lived experience, the RACE Project explains differences among people and reveals the reality – and unreality – of race. The story of race is complex and may challenge how we think about race and human variation, about the differences and similarities among people.
- Project Implicit
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/
Project Implicit blends basic research and educational outreach in a virtual laboratory at which visitors can examine their own hidden biases. Project Implicit is the product of research by three scientists whose work produced a new approach to understanding of attitudes, biases, and stereotypes.The Project Implicit site has been functioning as a hands-on science museum exhibit, allowing web visitors to experience the manner in which human minds display the effects of stereotypic and prejudicial associations acquired from their socio-cultural environment.
- The Education Trust
http://www2.edtrust.org/edtrust/dtm/
The Education Trust works for the high academic achievement of all students at all levels, pre-kindergarten through college, and forever closing the achievement gaps that separate low-income students and students of color from other youth. Our basic tenet is this — All children will learn at high levels when they are taught to high levels.
- NAME
http://www.nameorg.org/
NAME is an organization that brings together individuals and groups with an interest in multicultural education from all levels of education, different academic disciplines and from diverse educational institutions and occupations.
- Race: The Power of an Illusion
http://www.pbs.org/race/000_General/000_00-Home.htm
This site is an online companion to California Newsreels 3 part documentary about race in society,science and history.
- Rethinking Schools
http://www.rethinkingschools.org/
Founded in 1986 by activist teachers, Rethinking Schools is a nonprofit, independent publisher of educational materials. Rethinking Schools advocates the reform of elementary and secondary education, with a strong emphasis on issues of equity and social justice.
- Teaching For Change
http://www.teachingforchange.org/
Teaching for Change provides teachers and parents with the tools to transform schools into centers of justice where students learn to read, write and change the world.
- Association
for Supervision and Curriculum Development:
This is an all-purpose site with many resources
here related to research and current strategies
and technologies for staff development.

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