Workshops available for on-site delivery at schools

To schedule one of these workshops at your school, please contact PPG at ppg@umn.edu or 612-625-5060.

• Differentiation through personality types: Using learning styles in urban schools
• FBA-on-the-fly: Using functional behavior assessment to guide culturally appropriate decision-making
• Reading, math, and science instructional strategies for diverse students
• Student-centered ethnography: Working with diverse students to improve reading and writing
• Reading cultural signals: How to effectively engage students of Asian descent

Book recommendations from June 2007 workshops on cultural competence in K-12 schools

From Vusumuzi Zulu, Board Member, Black Storytellers Alliance

• The World and Africa; W.E.B. Dubois
• Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America (New Millennium Edition); Lerone Bennett, Jr.
• Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream; Lerone Bennett, Jr.
• Africa in History; Basil Davidson
• African Civilizations Revisited; Basic Davidson
• Towards the African Revolution; Frantz Fanon
• Black Cowboy, Wild Horses; Julius Lester & Jerry Pinkney
• The Negro Cowboys; Philip Durham & Everett L. Jones

From Tim Lensmire, professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction

• The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children; Gloria Ladson-Billings
• The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935; James Anderson
• Their Highest Potential bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress; Vanessa Siddle Walker
• Reading, Writing, and Rising Up; Linda Christensen
• Black Teachers on Teaching; Michele Foster
• The art of teaching writing and Living between the lines; Lucy Calkins
• Writing: Teachers and children at work and A fresh look at writing; Donald Graves
• Rose where did you get that red? Kenneth Koch
• A Writer Teaches Writing; Donald Murray
• Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? Beverly Tatum
• Other People's Children; Lisa Delpit
• The Beginnings of Writing; Nathan Temple
• Shadow and Act; Ralph Ellison
• Learning to be White: Money, Race, and God in America; Thandeka
• White women, race matters; Ruth Frankenberg

From Bryan E. Cichy, Department of Educational Psychology-special education

Chamberlain, P., & Medinos-Landurand, P. (1991). Practical considerations for the assessment of LEP students with special needs. In Limiting bias in the assessment of bilingual students (pp. 11 1-156). Austin, TX: Pro-Ed.

Delpit, L. (1995). Other people's children: Cultural conflict in the classroom. New York, NY: New Press. Kunjufu, J. (2005). Keeping black boys out of special education. Chicago, IL: African American Images.

Ladson-Billings, G. (1994). The dreamkeepers: Successful teachers of African American children. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Majors, R., & Mancini Billson, J. (1992). Coolpose: The dilemmas of black manhood in America. New York, NY: Touchstone.

Payne, R. K. (2001). A framework for understanding poverty (new revised ed.). Highlands, TX: aha! Process, Inc.

Scholarly articles

Gay, G. (2002). Culturally responsive teaching in special education for ethnically diverse students: Setting the stage. Qualitative studies in education, 15(6), 613-629.

Neal, L. I., Davis McCray, A, Webb-Johnson, G., & Bridgest, S. T. (2003). The effects of African American movement styles on teacher's perceptions and reactions. Journal of Special Education, 37(1), 49-57.

Salend, S. J., & Taylor, L. S. (2002). Cultural perspectives: Missing pieces in the functional assessment process. Intervention in school and clinic, 38(2), 104-1 12.

SenGupta, S., Hopson, R., & Thompson-Robinson, M. (2004). Cultural competence in evaluation: An overview. In M. Thompson-Robinson, R. Hopson & S. SenGupta (Eds.), In search of cultural competence in evaluation. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Skiba, R. J., Poloni-Staudinger, L., Simmons, A. B., Feggins-Azziz, L. R., & Chung, C. (2005). Unproven links: Can poverty explain ethnic disproportionality in special education? Journal of Special Education, 39(3), 130-1 14.

Webb-Johnson, G. (2002). Are schools ready for Joshua? Dimensions of African-American culture among students identified as having behavioral/emotional disorders. Qualitative studies in education, 15(6), 653-671.