My guest today is Roberto Germán, director of middle school and creator of the educational consulting group 'The Multicultural Classroom.'
In today's episode we explore:
- the differences between multiculturalism vs. a multicultural classroom vs. social justice
- Roberto's journey from an extremely poor and under-performing school in Lawrence, MA to one of the wealthiest private boarding schools in the nation and how that experience inspired the work he does now
- what a multicultural classroom experience looks like for the white teacher with a variety of ethnicities and races in their classroom
- what a multicultural classroom experiences looks like for the white teacher in a predominately white school
- how to celebrate and honor the different cultures of your classroom without patronizing or stereotyping those cultures
- resources for educators wanting do dive further into teaching in a multicultural classroom
RESOURCES
- The Multicultural Classroom blog
- The Anti-Racist Reading Teacher Instruction Workbook | Lorena Germán
- Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies | Django Paris
- Teaching Tolerance
- Facing History
- Embrace Race
- Montessori for Social Justice
- This Book is Anti-Racist | Tiffany Jewell
- Everyday Antiracism | Mica Pollock
- Courageous Conversations | The Pacific Group
CONNECT WITH ROBERTO GERMÁN
- The Multicultural Classroom
- Lorena Germán on Twitter | @nenagerman
- Lorena Germán on Instagram | @lorenagerman
CONNECT WITH THOM
- Twitter | @gibsonedu
- YouTube | /gibsonedu
- Instagram | @gibsoneducation
- Email | thom@thomgibson.com
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