1.0Classroom For Changehttps://classroomforchange.comrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="tMPJYSnY98"><a href="https://classroomforchange.com/culturally-responsive-teaching-when-counterstories-and-allied-counterstories-attack/">When Counterstories + Allied Counterstories Attack</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://classroomforchange.com/culturally-responsive-teaching-when-counterstories-and-allied-counterstories-attack/embed/#?secret=tMPJYSnY98" width="600" height="338" title="“When Counterstories + Allied Counterstories Attack” — Classroom For Change" data-secret="tMPJYSnY98" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); /* ]]> */ </script> https://classroomforchange.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Messy-Books-scaled.jpg25601707Whose 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 my decade of teaching, I realize that I didn’t do enough.