NYSAIS Diversity Conference Amy Bowllans Breakout Session Theres

NYSAIS Diversity Conference Amy Bowllan’s Breakout Session There's Something for Everyone: An Online Toolkit for Diversity Learners April 7, 2006

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer Nobody Else Like Me: Celebrating the Diversity of Children

Advertisers Are Doing It.

Magazines Are Doing It.

The Media Is Doing It Photo courtesy of AP

Radio Is Doing It.

Schools Are Doing It. The issue of diversity in independent schools is often framed in terms of ethnicity. And that's important. But it can also lead to a bean-counting approach that ignores the larger discussion — issues of class and income that permeate our schools. This issue of Independent School looks at those issues. (Winter 2006 — The Class Debate NAIS Independent School Magazine)

Or Are We?

The Media Westin “discusses issues that should never be ‘taken lightly’ and race is at the forefront of the rundown. ” (From Av Westin’s Best Practices of Television Journalists)

Quotes on Diversity

When young children begin to recognize likenesses and differences, they often focus on differences and not the underlying sameness in people or objects. They sometimes think that being different means there is something wrong with them. Adults can help children see that there are human qualities that make all of us alike in many ways, even though we come in different shapes, sizes, colors and from different backgrounds. -- Fred Rogers

Your Thoughts. How can adults help children “see that there are human qualities that make all of us alike in many ways, even though we come in different shapes, sizes, colors and from different backgrounds? ”

It’s time for inventing new forms of learning. It’s time for addressing the entire learning environment in new ways. This is the only way in which we can get true diversity in the work place and in life. --Seymour Papert

Your Thoughts. Will “new learning” methods help with diversity? Has the digital revolution played in schools helped?

If you’ve had several children, or, like me, recently gone through the experience of being a grandparent--it’s wonderful how each one of them is different, does things in different ways, thinks differently. And then we’re going to channel them into a school that homogenizes them? And then we’re going to worry afterwards about how to free them from that homogenization and make them diverse again? It’s backwards. It’s the wrong approach. --Seymour Papert

Online Activities For All Learners Of Diversity

Diversity Activities and Ice. Breakers http: //www. nwlink. com/~donclark/leader/diverse 2. html

A Word About Differences http: //www. mcgruff. org/Grownups/differences. htm

Culture Webquest http: //coe. west. asu. edu/students/stennille/st 3/webquest. html

Implicit Association Test From Blink by Malcolm Gladwell https: //implicit. harvard. edu/implicit/demo/selectatest. jsp

Implicit Association Test (cont. )

Recommended Books On Diversity

Books With Classroom Activities On Diversity By David Shiman By Dr. Deborah Byrnes

Dream by Susan Bosak http: //www. tcpnow. com/books/dream. html

How To Be A Perfect Stranger http: //www. conexuspress. com/catalog/how_perfect_st ranger_2 vol. htm Edited by Arthur J. Magida & Stuart M. Matlins

White Teachers / Diverse Classrooms by Julie Landsman and Chance Lewis

Intercultural E-mail Classroom Connections IECC is a free service to help teachers link with partners in other cultures and countries for email classroom pen-pal and other project exchanges.

See Worksheet for Guiding Questions

Quotes From Crayons • “Even The Smallest Crayon Leaves A Mark. ” • “No Matter The Shape, No Matter The Size, People Are The Same It’s All In Our Eyes. ”