The #cyberPD book this year is Being the Change: Lessons and Strategies to Teach Social Comprehension.
In Week 2, we read chapters 3 and 4, which brought us from a more individual exploration of identity and the listening skills we will need to instill as our norms, to the strategies for identifying and teaching about bias and microaggressions in ourselves and the news.
I found two books that I will add to my classroom library and use with my students to explore identity and bias. (Truth in advertising/#teamworkrocks -- Franki alerted me to both of these titles!)
The Cardboard Kingdom
by Chad Sell
Knopf Books for Young Readers, June 2018
This graphic novel is a collection of short stories about the imaginative summer play of a diverse group of neighborhood kids. I'm thinking it will be my first read aloud (Kindle version), in order to set the tone for what a graphic novel demands of a reader, along with conversations about identity, bias, bullying, what makes a family...and more.
How to Be a Lion
by Ed Vere
Doubleday Books for Young Readers, June 26, 2018
The world expects a lion to be fierce and violent, but that's not the only way to be a lion. While this book might be too straightforward/didactic for some, I love the friendship between Leonard the lion and Maryanne, the poetic duck. Lots of bias to unpack, and Leonard and Maryanne find a unique way to stand up to the bullies at the end. They may not change the way others think, but they have solidified their own beliefs.
How to be a Lion is just what I need in K-2. I think they need straight forward to focus on the concept and make hard thinking easier. Ordering it right now.
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