Resources for Teachers

This collection of mostly free and web-based resources provides teachers with valuable professional development and classroom strategies for culturally responsive teaching and supporting diverse communities in the classroom.

Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching introduces, informs, and illuminates for a new generation the powerful lessons of the civil rights movement for our work today. It helps teachers serve as midwives for a more just and caring society.

Inclusive classrooms are classrooms in which instructors and students work together to create and sustain an environment in which everyone feels safe, supported, and encouraged to express her or his views and concerns. In these classrooms, the content is explicitly viewed from the multiple perspectives and varied experiences of a range of groups.

All instructors can take small steps to start building such learning environments from the start of a course, regardless of the modality.

Teaching neurodiversity as a culture, rather than autism as a disability.

Many teachers are poorly equipped to teach ethnically diverse student populations. Despite the growing numbers of culturally diverse students, some teacher education programs still hesitate to make multicultural education a focal point of their curriculum.