http://brandilholmes.edublogs.org/2008/03/03/evaluating-childrens-books-for-bias-stages-of-multicultural-school-transformation/ Just another Edublogs.org weblog Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:35:23 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 http://brandilholmes.edublogs.org/2008/03/03/evaluating-childrens-books-for-bias-stages-of-multicultural-school-transformation/comment-page-1/#comment-12 ctyson1 Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:32:38 +0000 http://brandilholmes.edublogs.org/2008/03/03/evaluating-childrens-books-for-bias-stages-of-multicultural-school-transformation/#comment-12 Youre right, Brandi, about our school's exclusion of anything celebrating Hispanic culture. I , too, thought the Black History assembly program was wonderful. It gave our students an opportunity to demonstrate talent that isn't normally seen at our school. We need to be careful that we don't make programs of that nature too exclusive. I'm glad the culture quilts garnered so much attention at our school, but I'm sad that they've already been forgotten. Our SES GSU cohort can keep pushing together. We can certainly start off the next school year with a cultural awareness. You know, "one small step for man . . . " Youre right, Brandi, about our school’s exclusion of anything celebrating Hispanic culture. I , too, thought the Black History assembly program was wonderful. It gave our students an opportunity to demonstrate talent that isn’t normally seen at our school. We need to be careful that we don’t make programs of that nature too exclusive. I’m glad the culture quilts garnered so much attention at our school, but I’m sad that they’ve already been forgotten. Our SES GSU cohort can keep pushing together. We can certainly start off the next school year with a cultural awareness. You know, “one small step for man . . . “

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