We need diverse libraries (RRLC workshop)

We need diverse libraries
RRLC workshop, 9/24/2019

From RRLC website:

We Need Diverse Books Overview and Picture Book & Chapter Book Recommendations

Middle Grade & Young Adult Recommendations 

My notes: 

www.diversebooks.org

WNDB in the classroom

Ourstory app — online tool, over 4000 titles

It is difficult to find early chapter books.

 

www.diversebookfinder.org

Use this website to find diverse picture books.

 

Hard work to create diverse world

Ability will not be invisible

Increase in books for people of color and Native Americans

Cooperative Childrens book center. https://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/

Lee and Low Books. https://www.leeandlow.com/

Action step:

Try reading books by black and brown women (for a year, period, etc.)

1619 project ...pdf online

     An indigenous peoples history of the united states

     500 different tribes

Listening skills, wait before speaking

Represent ideas more than just during that month.

Do the work with intention.

Love like sky

Author PanelLinda Sue Park, Leslie Youngblood, Andrea Page, and Kaelyn Rich.

Books that they "found themselves in"

Go tell it on the mountain...Baldwin

The jingle dance ....Smith

The giver..lowry. Slaughterhouse

Prairie Lotus... Linda Sue Park wrote it, coming out soon.  (She loved the Little House on the Prairie series)

 

 

Strategies for Work

Don't talk about work at home.
Peoples' personalities will stay the same.
Do my job: focus on instruction and prepping for the semester. 
Stay away from the crosshairs.
Do job and go home.
It's ok for a job to be a job.  I don't have to be the director and I don't have to be in charge.
I have a life outside of work: my hobbies, exercise, friends, family, church.
I can give 100% and be happy about that.  
Don't need to worry about about anyone else and how they do or don't do their job.  Focus on my job.