Teaching & Curriculum Development Resources
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Colorado Department of Education Equity Toolkit. This toolkit includes numerous resources to assist instructors to generate inclusive course content for teaching in multicultural classroom settings. Resources are divided into three sections: Engaging in Ongoing Self-Inquiry, Creating and Maintaining a Culturally Relevant Classroom Community, and Designing and Implementing an Inclusive Course.
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Cultural Humility and Equity by UCSF. Contains a compilation of web resources and a list of books for promoting equity and racial justice in the classroom and beyond.
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The Educator|Resource of the Month by the Council of Social Work Education Center for Diversity and Social & Economic Justice offers copious resources to develop creative pedagogical approaches to diversity and justice education. Educators can use the materials for developing assignments or a variety of teaching activities.
Trainings & Lesson Plans
- Conversations About Culture: Video and Lesson Plan produced in association with the UB School of Social Work's Institute on Sustainable Global Engagement. Includes videos, a list of readings, reflective exercises, self-assessment tools, and additional resources.
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Developing Cultural Competency Among School Staff (2014) is a six-session training module created by members of the Inquiry to Action Group Social Justice Educators on a Path of Cultural Relevancy. The training includes readings and activities that elicit meaningful discussions about culture, race, and language in academia.
Additional Cultural Humility Tools
- Beyond the Margins: Meeting the Needs of Underserved Students blog series by the American Council on Education (ACE) addresses barriers to equity and inclusion in higher education. Blog contents also deepen reader’s awareness of the diversity among underserved student populations. Blogs about the following student groups are included: indigenous, Latinx, international, first-generation, foster care, parent, system impacted, LGBTQ among others.
- Cultural Competency Toolkits created by the Multicultural Diversity and Inclusion (MDI) Network: Resources for understanding the specific values, norms, beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors associated with different cultural groups.
- Diversity Toolkit published by the National Education Association (NEA). Provides a brief overview, with tools and strategies, of each of the following facets of diversity: class and income, cultural competence, English language learners, gender, race and ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender identity, and social justice.
- Intercultural Competence Toolkit created by the University of Washington Bothell, Global Initiatives. Differentiates between cultural humility and cultural competence. Provides activities and resources to establish self-awareness.
Scholarship & Research
- Mendoza, N. S., Lechuga-Peña, S., Lopez, K., & Jackson, K. F. (2018). “Mi’jita, What for?” Exploring Bicultural Identity of Latina/Chicana Faculty and Implications for Supporting Latinx Students in Social Work. Affilia, 34( 2), 259-276.
- Tervalon, M., & Murray-Garcia, J. (1998). Cultural humility versus cultural competence: A critical distinction in defining physician training outcomes in multicultural education. Journal of health care for the poor and underserved, 9(2), 117-125.
- Yosso, T. J. (2005). Whose culture has capital? A critical race theory discussion of community cultural wealth. Race Ethnicity and Education, 8(1) 69-91.