Ramadan Mubarak
Culturally Responsive Teaching

A Teacher’s Guide to Ramadan + Eid

In this teacher’s guide, I share helpful tips + guidelines to keep in mind during the holy month of Ramadan + the Festival of Eid al-Fitr.

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Growing Up Bicultural in America: From Blending In to Standing Out and Everything in Between

In the summer of 1984, I was born to my Indian immigrant parents and given the name, Rose Rohini Chemmanoor. Later in life, I learned the meaning of my name and since then have β€˜worn it’ like a badge of honor. However, it wasn’t always that way.

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Culturally Responsive Teaching
Culturally Responsive Teaching

When Counterstories + Allied Counterstories Attack

Whose stories are being told in our classrooms? Which ones are shared? Which ones are celebrated? Those are questions I never thought about as a classroom teacher. Of course, I valued diversity and worked hard to incorporate multicultural texts as part of culturally responsive teaching so that my students would be able to learn about places and people other than their own. However, when I look back on the early years of my teaching career, I realize that I didn’t do enough.

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