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Picture Books about Diverse Family Structures
Every month, Montessori For All selects an anti-bias, anti-racist book for our teachers to read to their communities. First we select one for 3-6 year-olds, then one for 1st-3rd graders, and finally one for 4th-6th graders. Therefore, if you would like to subscribe to our monthly newsletter to receive links to book guides with discussion questions, vocabulary words, and extension activities to be used in the classroom or at home, you can sign up here. This month we are focusing on diverse family structures. Further, you can find books about peace/justice/empathy here or immigration and refugees here.
Picture Books about Diverse Family Structures: 3-6 year-olds
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White Supremacy Culture: How do we dismantle it?
The play illuminates white supremacy culture. It tasks each of us with thinking about the role that we play in upholding it or dismantling it. Last week I had the honor of watching Notes from the Field at the Zach Theatre. The play illuminates white supremacy culture and tasks each of us with thinking about the role that we play in upholding it or dismantling it.
Zach Theatre describes the work in this way:
… Read More“Incredibly timely and moving, Notes from the Field depicts the personal accounts of individuals caught in America’s school-to-prison pipeline as they navigate inequities in their communities. Based on interviews with over 250 people living and working
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The Most Destructive Pattern of Behavior of Our Time
This quote/concept by Dhakshy Sooriyakumaran hits right in the gut and is such a powerful lens through which I need to analyze my actions and choices.I strive to learn as much as I can about race, gender, class, and oppression, and yet it’s much, much harder to then translate those ideas into giving up space, power, platform, reputation, or position.We are urgently working to bring more diverse voices around the table within our organization, which I think is at least a step in the right direction toward addressing this pattern.
