Recent Posts Tagged With 'cultural sensitivity'

• Customer Service

  Posted on Monday June 8th, 2009 at 20:38 in school, observaciones, cultural sensitivity, quejas complaints, desilusiones

  (Here is what I wish I had overheard and seen in the main office this morning, when a young mother came to pick up her child from school.)Good Morning! How can I help you? (Smile...)You're here to sign your child out? May I ask the reason? (Nod pol...

• Bilingual Book Review - Super Cilantro Girl

  Posted on Wednesday May 27th, 2009 at 20:13 in books, bilingual, kids' books, libros para niños, cultural sensitivity

  Stop on over to Latin Baby Book Club for my review of Super Cilantro Girl – La Superniña del cilantro. It's a story about the fears of 1st generation children and overcoming obstacles.I use this book in my 4th grade bilingual classroom as a sprin...

• Diversity Book Review: China Boy

  Posted on Sunday February 8th, 2009 at 09:27 in books, cultural sensitivity, ells, diversity rocks book challenge

  I’ve finished reading China Boy, which I selected for the Diversity Rocks Reading Challenge. This autobiographical novel by Chinese-American Gus Lee caused me to tear up a couple of times. I recognized the experiences of immigrant children in Lee...

• Diversity Rocks! Reading Challenge

  Posted on Monday December 29th, 2008 at 21:42 in books, cultural sensitivity

  I love going in to the New Year with a plan. So I've signed up for the 2009 Diversity Rocks! Challenge. I'm committing to reading 12 books by authors of color; at least six of these will be children's and young adult books, and the others will be ad...

• Educating Ourselves About ELLs

  Posted on Sunday November 16th, 2008 at 11:49 in school, teaching, language, latinos, cultural sensitivity, ells

  This past Thursday, I met with an awesome group of proactive and professional people who work as advocates for English Language Learners. This group, the ELL Educator Cadre, is comprised of 16 educators from across the United States. We meet in Was...

• A funny topping to write about

  Posted on Monday October 20th, 2008 at 20:05 in kids, teaching, language, writing lessons, cultural sensitivity, ells

  My fourth graders, who are English Language Learners (ELLs), are accustomed to writing daily in every subject. On most mornings, I post a few journal prompts at the board, from which they may select one to get them started. Every now and then thoug...

• School shoes shined up and ready to go!

  Posted on Sunday September 7th, 2008 at 20:45 in teaching, language, cultural sensitivity, ells

  Tomorrow will be the start of a full week of school. It will be grueling and intense. The body and mind are still in summer mode; my feet fight the confines of real shoes, begging for flip-flops, and my mind just wants to sit back with an iced coff...

• Book Review: Digging to America

  Posted on Tuesday August 12th, 2008 at 20:55 in observaciones, cultural sensitivity

  Digging to America, by Anne Tyler, explores family, adoption, culture, and what it means to be “American”. Two very different families, one American and the other Iranian, gather at an airport to welcome their adopted babies from Korea. The arriv...

• Latina Book Review: Border-Line Personalities

  Posted on Friday August 1st, 2008 at 08:09 in women, latinos, cultural sensitivity

  Border-line Personalities proved to be a great read. Topics such as mother-daughter relationships, family secrets, being bilingual, ethnic pride and denial, raising kids, sexuality, love, and careers are all discussed by 20 different Latina writers. ...

• Servidores

  Posted on Sunday June 8th, 2008 at 21:11 in poems, language, cultural sensitivity, quejas complaints

  The servers whisper to each otheras they scurry to every tableand squint worried eyes whilescrutinizing each and every ice-tea glass,raising them to eye-level,or kneeling to better see,searching for something.“Has someone lost a tooth?”I joke, of...