Tuesday

Robert E. Lee Ethnography

Community Ethnography of

Robert E. Lee High School

1400 Jackson Keller Rd

San Antonio TX, 78213

Part A

Nov, 7, 2007

Lauren Beckworth

Nicole Brooks

Jessica Dixon

Desirae Hendricks

Kristen Kirchgessner

Multicultural Resources

Websites:

  1. Teaching Diverse Learners
    http://www.alliance.brown.edu/tdl/tl-strategies/index.shtml
    • A website designed to help teach English language learners

  1. Black Books Direct-Online
    http://www.blackbooksdirect.com/


• The website offers book of African-American literature.

  1. Diversity Books
    http://www.blackbooksdirect.com/

  1. www.diversityweb.org

•Diversity Digest and lesson plans

  1. www.logos.it

• A translation dictionary for a variety of languages included Spanish

  1. www.diversitystore.com

• Posters featuring different ethnic groups and holidays)

  1. Multicultural Book Review Homepage
    www.isomedia.com/homes/jmele/homepage.html

• Suggests multicultural books and has reviews for them)

Literature:

8. My name is Bilal By: Asma Mobin-uddin

9. Legend of the Indian Paintbrush By: Tomie de Paola

10. The Tree is Older than You Are: A bilingual Gathering of Poems and Stories from Mexico with Paintings by Mexican Artists By: Naomi Shihab Nye

11. All the Colors of the Earth By: Sheila Hamanaka

12. Whoever You Are By: Mem Fox

13. We’re Different, We’re the Same By: Bobbi Kates

14. Monster By: Walter Dean Myers
• A lot of black kids believe that they are on trial for a crime they didn’t commit.

15. No More Strangers By: Tim McKee
• A Book of Diversity

16. Young, Black and Determined By: Patricia C. McKissak
• This book is a biography of a black playwright who received recognition of her work at an early age.

17. International Journal on Multicultural Studies
• Published by UNESCO. • Focuses on migration, multiculturalism and minority rights.

Community Resources

Allied Women’s Center of San Antonio
102 Marshall Street

San Antonio, TX

Distance: 4.6 Miles

They have provided service to hundreds of women in the San Antonio area free of charge. In 2006, they gave over 240 free pregnancy tests, insure a years worth of free diapers if you keep the baby, provides healthy alternatives to abortion, and promises to assist a woman even after the child is born. Whether the mother is a teenager or an adult, Allied Women’s Center is a non for profit organization that is here to help the people in this city.

Boy Scouts of America

10810 Wedgewood Dr

San Anotnio, TX
Distance: 2.3 Miles


The Boy Scouts of America provide numerous youth programs, including Cub Scouting, Boy Scouting, and Venturing. The Boy Scouts pride themselves by offering the community educational program for boys and young adults to build character, to train in the responsibilities of participating citizenship, and to develop personal fitness. This organization provides a positive role model and environment for students of all ages.

Holy Spirit Sports Complex
6315 West Ave

San Antonio, TX

Distance: 1.3 Miles

San Antonio Pop Warner Little Scholars is the only city organization that offers three different programs; football, dance, and cheer. The organization is the only in San Antonio that required the kids to maintain academic excellence and hold teamwork and sportsmanship to a very high standard. The standards they set will help teach kids about respect, self worth, and motivation in every aspect of their life. HSSC will help the community by bettering the children that will one day run our city.

McNay Art Museum

6000 North New Braunfels
San Antonio, TX

Distance: 7.1 Miles
Website: www.mcnayart.org
Phone number: 210-824-5368

"Step Into A Masterpiece"

The McNay Art Museum house art exhibits, talks, gallery talks and performances. All these components are conducive to the lives of students. Some people once they are older will never visit a museum but the memory of going as a child may spark a desire to go again and maybe even take their children.

Mommy's Freedom by the Hour
11825 West Ave Ste 106

San Antonio, TX

Distance: 3.0 Miles

Mommy’s freedom by the hour is an hourly charging daycare center that stays open late hours during the week as well as the weekend. With low hourly prices such as 5.75$ an hour, this daycare is designed to give families a brake. This daycare makes it possible to forget having to go through the pain to find a babysitter so that you have the opportunity to study or do whatever your day might require.

Morningside Ministries
700 Babcock Road

San Antonio, TX

Distance: 3.0 Miles

They are a non for profit organization providing assisted living and care to older adults in the San Antonio area. Morningside Ministries provide affordable living space and a comfortable new home for families and friends to visit. They help the San Antonio people stay close to their loved ones in an affordable way.

National Alliance on Mental Illness; San Antonio Affiliate

510 Belknap Place, Room 242

San Antonio, TX

Distance: 4.3 Miles

Website: http://www.nami-sat.org/

NAMI was created by a group of families who each have a family member who suffered from a mental illness of some kind, and over the years this has become one of the nations’ largest grassroots organization. According to their website, “NAMI San Antonio believes education is an essential part of understanding and coping with mental illness.” In addition to the free education programs, NAMI also sponsors support groups for people living with mental illness, and their family, and even peer to peer substance abuse counseling. These services are not limited to English speakers—Spanish language support groups and classes are also available.

Planned Parenthood
120 W Ashby Pl
San Antonio, TX

Distance: 4.6 Miles

Website: www.ppsctx.org

The Planned Parenthood Trust of San Antonio and South Central Texas is the oldest and largest family planning and sexual health care organization in South Central Texas. Offering reproductive health care and family planning services, including birth control, STD testing and treatment, pregnancy testing and abortion care.

SAM Ministries
5922 Blanco Road

San Antonio, TX

Distance: 0.6 Miles

SAM Ministries: giving hope to the hopeless, and a place like home to the homeless. Founded in 1983 SAMM provides shelter and care to the homeless of San Antonio and is the largest of care and shelter facility in San Antonio and surrounding areas. SAM Ministries only provide a safe environment for the homeless, they also get the homeless off the streets which gives the community and their businesses a sense of comfort.

San Antonio College Dual Credit Courses
Lee High School Campus
Distance: 0.0 Miles

Website: http://www.neisd.net/curriculum/CurComp/dual_credit_program.html

Lee campus offers Anatomy/Physiology/Biology, General Biology II, English IV-AP, and Calculus I-AP as dual credit courses. Dual Credit is a program that allows eligible high school students to earn college credit for certain courses such as English, math, science, and foreign languages (The offerings vary from campus to campus.) The dual credit program offers a curriculum that adheres to college level standards and is free to North East eligible students on their home campus while they are taking high school courses for high school graduation credit.

San Antonio Public Library
600 Soledad

San Antonio, TX

Distance: 5.3 Miles

The public library and its branches offers free books to check out as well as free computers with internet access. Because a library card is offered to any adult of child over thirteen who can show proof of address, the library is a valuable resource to those who can not otherwise obtain books. The San Antonio library also has a program where books can be requested from branches all of the city so that the person themselves does not have to travel very far to get the book they want. In addition the library supplies meeting rooms (for a price), and a range of other activities including yoga, dance classes, and classes for windows office programs, and book reading. Most of these programs are free or have a small charge.

San Antonio Youth Center
1215 W Poplar St.

San Antonio, TX

Distance: 3.8 Miles

The San Antonio youth center gives all the children in the neighborhood the opportunity to develop strength talent and skills while learning who they are. They offer activities such as a sunset hike up a mountain or swim in the river. Get away adventures are available to anyone. This group also offers a safe retreat in a church basement to keep children off of the street and give them something positive to do. This gives the students something positive to look forward to and keeps them off of the street and out of trouble.

Unlimited Thought Bookstore

5525 Blanco # 107

San Antonio, TX

Distance: .58 Miles


Unlimited thought is a specialty bookstore that and learning center. It offers a large selection of spiritual and physiological books and CDs. This selection includes metaphysics, self-help, alternative health and healing. Aside from selling books, the store also offers candles, crystals, posters, wind chimes, oils, and divination tools. This is a very important resource for those who have religions off the main-stream.

The Wittie Museum

3801 Broadway St

San Antonio, TX 78209

Distance: 5.8 Miles

Website: http://www.wittemuseum.org/

With rotating, visiting exhibits—in addition to long term exhibits, like the HEB Science Tree House—the Wittie Museum gives students the opportunity to learn in a new environment. The Wittie even offers educational programs specifically for secondary public schools; currently a program entitled “Fantastic Forces” allows students to observe and physical science concepts, such as gravity, force, and even Newton’s Laws of Motion. Fantastic Forces is offered Monday though Friday and even lists the corresponding TEKS on The Wittie website for teachers and parents. With exhibits on everything from Dinosaurs to South Texas photography the Wittie is an excellent place for students to enrich their minds outside their every day learning environment of the classroom.

Women’s Neighborhood Prayer Inc.
104 Ivywood Circle

San Antonio, TX

Distance: 1.1 Miles

They are tied with Women’s Prayer International. WNP is a nonprofit prayer ministry supporting and preparing women in the community to unite across all colors, races, and denominations to transform their neighborhoods around them, their work, and the nation through and for Christ.

YMCA
2900 Ruiz St,

San Antonio

Distance: 5.16 Miles


The YMCA features a variety of activities to keep the community fit and healthy. Inside, they feature a weight and nautilus room, a gymnasium, a pool, racquetball and handball courts. Outside they have tennis courts, lighted soccer fields, and a running track. They also offer programs to high schoolers including swimming and karate lessons and basket ball and soccer leagues.

Wednesday

Community/ Multicultural Resources: Robert G. Cole Jr./Sr. High School

Group Members:

Yvonne Avila
Angelica Perez
Donna Tucker
Chen-Hui Wang

Community Resources

Parent Resources

1.Community Morale & Welfare

Army Community Service Center located in 2010 Stanley Road, Building 2797, Fort Sam Houston, TX 78234 provides integrated access to all sorts of information to meet the needs of a military person as well as his/her family. It includes MWR (Morale, Welfare and Recreation), which offers programs and activities. It is inclusive of army community service, child & youth services, special events, and community recreation designed to be of beneficial value today's military. Also available are Military OneSource with both a website and a free toll number whose professionals can immediately answer any problem from minor to severe. It also has translation services in more than 150 languages, and the multicultural staff is available to satisfy the needs of military personnel of color. Also available is the Fort Sam Houston News Leader, a newspaper, which is regularly issued by FSH. It provides information concerning military life. Military Sealife Command is available and supplies job opportunities and training for military. Finally, Army Emergency Relief is available, which is a private non-profit organization with a mission to provide emergency financial assistance to soldiers. The soldiers will be either on continuous active duty or retired from active duty for a long period of time, or for physical disabilities. It also includes their dependents.

2.Family Building Resources

Army Community Service and Army Family Team Building are organizations which supply programs and classes to educate and train all of American's Army in a wide variety of knowledge, skills, and behaviors. It is designed to prepare Army families to adjust themselves to their constantly changing lives, owing to deployment. It helps families with activities such as analyzing the pros and cons between buying or renting a house for military families. In addition, there are many useful parents' handbooks for resolving family conflicts, how to strengthen long distance relationships between children and military parents staying far away. These pamphlets suggest 250 activities and advertise the regularly held classes which help military families learn about the impact of the mission on family life. There are also pamphlets on army community resources, benefits, entitlements and compensation, the army language and so on. If a soldier still has any issue needing resolution, community forms provided by Fort Sam Houston Army Family Action Plan can be utilized to submit the issue he or she is concerned with.

3.Financial Resources

These resources deal specifically with the income of military families. They offer financial benefits for childcare. They also offer financial classes which deal with issues such as personal financial management, identity theft, and checkbook maintenance. There is also a magazine entitled Military Money, which informs the readers about financial and life tips. There are articles that deal with buying new cars, buying a new home, and even "half-price living."

4.Military Directory

This resource is a DVD-ROM that provides a telephone directory and yellow pages for San Antonio area military. This disc includes Brooke Army Medical Center, Brooks City Base, Fort Sam Houston, Camp Bullis, Camp Stanley, Lackland Air Force Base, Randolph Air Force Base, Wilford Hall Medical Center, and Laughlin Air Force Base.

5.Commissary/Pxtra Resources

These resources include a guide to the benefit for Military Single Service Members. It provides an internet link to the commissary at www.commissaries.com. In addition, there is a link to the Army and Air Force Exchange Service at wvvw.aafes.com.

6.Educational Resources

Also available through the community center are many educational pamphlets. These resources include a flyer for English as a Second Language, facts about technical and career education, P ALSI Advocacy (parent Alliance for Learning & Support; specifically helps parents and teachers of children with disabilities), and a question and answer document for Least Restrictive Environment, which pertains to children with disabilities as well. There is also a pamphlet for Army Childcare and Texas Financial Aid via Texas Grant.

7.Pet/Veterinary Resources

This resource is Fort Sam Houston's veterinary service for the animals of military personnel. There is a veterinary clinic available on base. This pamphlet resources soldiers off post to spay their pets at the Gladys Harborth Animal Resource Center.

8.WIC

This resource folder includes information about WIC in two pamphlets. One is available in English and the other in Spanish. There is also information about breast-feeding in Spanish, as well as information about interpretation services available for WIC beneficiaries. Languages spoken by WIC include Arabic, French, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Korean, and others.

9.Family Advocacy Resources

This is a folder especially full of resources for the military family or family individual. There are brochures on family violence, domestic abuse, and rape in marriage. It also provides brochures for advice and services for victims of violence and also, for the spouse of a rape victim. There is a flyer with numbers that a person can call to report Domestic abuse. Included is a flyer specifically for newly assigned commanders and NCO's to receive training in family advocacy issues.

10.Historical Resources

For the newly arrived military family, Fort Sam Houston offers opportunities for the family to learn about their new home. There are brochures for the Fort Sam Houston Museum. As well, there are pamphlets with Fort Sam Houston historical facts and pictures, a self-guided tour brochure of the base, and a tour visiting the historic sites on post.

11. San Antonio Parents

The community center at Fort Sam offers the magazine Our Kids, which is directed especially for parents in the San Antonio area. This magazine provides activities and ideas for children. This magazine would help parents find resources that may not be available on base.

12.Combat-Related Resources

There are multiple resources for this specific topic. Inside the folder are brochures for the support of the families of our fallen heroes and information on the challenges of deployment and reunion. There are flyers advertising classes for those returning from an over-seas assignment, and reunion and reintegration briefings. There are also handbooks for Combat-Related Stress Reactions (has information on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, depression, and reconnecting with others), Reintegration (a guide for service members and their families), and Mission Readiness (information on how to prepare your family and yourself for deployment).

13.Healthcare Resources

There are many healthcare resources available to the military family. This includes brochures for Home Healthcare, a Disability Resource Library, Anger Management classes, and information on immunizations. There is also a newsletter called "Wellness in Action," and a newspaper available entitled the Medical Patriot. Both contain information in medical and healthcare issues. Also available are pamphlets for breastfeeding problems, prevention of the whooping cough, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, Smallpox vaccinations and advice for family members of those with Smallpox, treatment of Anthrax, and even information on how to talk to your child about smoking (even if you do).

14.Hotel Resources

This folder contains a list of hotels that military personnel can find on post. It includes the Guest House and Transient Lodging Facilities. It also lists links that you can click on to take you to local hotels or to military lodging all around the world. (See also List of Off-Post Community Resources)

15Church (Religious) Resources

This resource contains a list of religious services for military personnel. The 5 chapels on base offer Catholic, Jewish, Protestant, and Muslim (and more) services. (See also List of Off-Post Community Resources to find more churches in the surrounding area)

16.List of Off-Post Community Resources

This is a list of all resources and locations found in a ten mile radius of Fort Sam Houston. The areas surveyed include the following streets: Rittaman, Wurzbach away from 4-10, Wurzbach toward 4-10, Eisenhauer, and Austin Highway. All the resources on this list are on these roads.



Student Resources

1.School Resources

Information in this folder comes directly from the school itself. There are music brochures, information about drugs and drug abuse and health brochures. There is also a sheet with school policies and another sheet with the year schedule. There are also copies of "Paw Prints," the school newsletter.

2.Youth Services

This specific resource services the youth on base. Included is runaway information in a pamphlet, a Fort Sam Houston Brochure, and also information on learning needs. There is also a request for care record.


Multicultural Resources:

Books

1.Neito, S. (2004). Affirming Diversity: The sociopolitical context of multicultural education. New York: Peearson Education.

The book written by Sonia Nieto is a great book for people in the field of education. The reason is that it has captured the essence of multicultural education because she focuses on real students in real classrooms. She also enhances educators’ understanding of different cultural groups by presenting case studies in the book with the share of ethnic minorities’ struggle, pain, and frustration in dominated culture. In addition, she helps educators or future educators realize that their goals are the education of all the children in their classrooms. This book is beneficial to any teacher who works with children whose native language is not English.

2.Howard, G. (2006). We Can’t Teach What We Don’t Know: White Teachers, Multiracial Schools. New York: Teachers College Press.

This book written by Gary R. Howard is perfect for white educators, the teachers who intend to work in the field of education, the beginners who are exploring the issue of racism, and people who are confused and distressed about racism owing to past experiences. The book begins with a personal narrative, which explains how the author went from ignorance of racism to being an activist for anti-racism. It continues with a history of how Europeans and their descendants gained their dominant position; an exploration of how this history has enormous influences on white people and people of color today; suggestions for white awareness and action; and a final call to share in vision and action.

3.Rattigan, J. K. (1993) Dumpling soup. Illustrated by Lillian Hsu-Flanders. Boston: Little, Brown and Company.

Jama Kim Rattigan wrote the book, which is suitable for children in elementary schools. Her vivid, colorful picture book brings us to the Hawaiian Islands. Women in a Korean family gather together and celebrate New Year. As part of a family tradition, the cheerful clan makes dumplings for the feast. Seven-year-old Marisa is old enough to help out with the wrappings. Little Marisa, however, worries about the shape of her dumplings and feels insecure about how her concoction might not measure up with other dumplings. Marisa's Granny decides to cheer up and encourage her little princess. Granny features Marisa's dumplings as starters at the dinner table on New Year's Day. Dumpling Soup is more than a picture book-it is a celebration of cultures that have rooted in the Hawaiian Islands: Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Hawaiians.

4.Yip, M. (2004) Chinese Children’s Favorite Stories. Illustrated by Minggmei Yip. North American: Tuttle Publishing.

Mingmei Yip is an excellent writer--very engaging. She wrote the book for children who speak Chinese to have a better understanding of their own culture. Her illustrations are very colorful and eye-catching as well. The writer is an excellent selection of stories that are a good way to bridge the culture for children in this country. For example, the monkey story is worth reading because it is an important character in Chinese culture.

5.Kindersley, B. (1997) Children Just Like Me: Celebrations. New York: DK Punlishing.

It is a book great for ESL classroom and is also a good one for young and old. It also serves as a useful resource to teach children how people in different countries celebrate various holidays and festivals, carnivals and feast days. It has great photos, interesting texts, and endearing children as guides to introduce their own cultures, and each holiday is categorized in the order of four seasons.

6.Kates, B. J. (1992) We’re different, We’re the same. Illustrated by Joe Mathieu. New York: Random Hous.

The author uses a lot of the Sesame Street characters so that the children are immediately attracted to the book. Therefore, it is easy for teachers to guide their children of guessing each character by their distinguishing feature. The book is perfect for bridging the understanding multiculturalism for all ages. The book conveys the concept that “We're different, we're the same and we're All Wonderful show; despite all of our vast difference, we are so alike!” We all have beating hearts; have hopes and dreams for our future. We all laugh and smile the same even though we may speak different languages. Teachers can utilize the book to teacher our children that even though we look different, we are all very much the same. No one is superior to another only because of different races he or she belongs to.

7.Hopkinson, D. (1993) Sweet Clara and The Freedom Quilt. Pantings by James Ransome. New York: Scholastic Inc.

This is a great book written by Deborah Hopkinson to share with young students as an introduction to the history of the Underground Railroad and a delightful story to add to any classroom discussion on the topic of freedom and slaves. The author and illustrator accurately portray specific cultures and customs of the ethnic situation. The story tells of a twelve-year-old girl named Clara made a quilt, which was used to assist herself and her sweetheart, Jack, to reunite with her mother and slaves to freedom.

8.Marshall, D. (1996) Guide to Kenya. Columbus, Ohio: Highlights for Children, Inc.

The book, which is suitable for young children, introduces one of Africa’s most fascinating countries, Kenya. The contents include Kenya’s geography, history, language, wildlife, and surprising facts, which can bridge children’s understanding about the culture and custom of the people living in Kenya.

9.Lipsyte, R. (1967) The Contender. New York: Scholastic Inc.

The book written by Robert Lipsyte is suitable for all ages, especially good for 7-10 grade ages.
The Contender is about a boy named Alfred, living in Harlem in the 1960's. He fell into the stereotype for a kid from Harlem. He is a high school dropout and his best friend, James, is a drug addict. Trying to get away from the bad influences of his friends, he trained to be a contender in a boxing club in Harlem. Even though he had to overcome many hardships in the process, he never gave up. Although the book shows the serious side of the life, it inspires young children to make every effort to be the best they can be before it is too late.

10.Wilson, A. (1990) The Piano Lesson. New York: the Penguin Group.

August Wilson who depicts a play of African-American family copes with its past. The central character of the play--the piano--is a pictorial history of the family, carved by a woodcarving ancestor from the families’ slavery days. The confrontation between Berniece, who cherishes the piano, and Boy Willie, who wishes to sell the piano in order to use the profit to buy the land their family tilled as slaves, leads readers to the dilemma- Should one cling to the past or use it to make one's future? The author succeeds in creating characters with virtues, flaws and noble goals which readers can relate with.

11.Dixon, J. (1992). Land of Hope. New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell Books.

This small novel by Joan Lowery Dixon is a tale of immigration in the early twentieth century. The story tells of three girls from Russia, Sweden, and Ireland as they make the journey to New York. Upon arrival, they discover that America is not all that it seems. The heroine of the story, Rebekah, is a girl full of hope and dreams, determined to get an education and go to Columbia University.

12.Hughes, V. (2002). Aziz the Storyteller. New York: Crocodile Books.

This children’s hardcover book deals with storytelling and the importance of storytelling. The protagonist is a young Arabic boy named Aziz. The boy loves to listen and tell stories instead of doing work to provide for his family. Aziz must overcome the disagreement of his father and accept his storytelling as a means of supporting himself and his family. The magic of storytelling and its worldwide importance is impressed upon the reader.

13.Howard, E. F. (1995). Papa tells China a Story. New York: Simon & Schuster Books.

This is a children’s hardcover book about the Spanish-American war. The story tells of a little girl listening to her father tell the story of a mission that he embarked on when he was a soldier. The father exaggerates some of the tale and adds whimsical and adventurous elements to the story for her amusement. This story contains Spanish words and ideas—good for Latino students.

14.Miller, W. (2000). Tituba. San Diego: Gulliver Books Harcourt Inc.

The tale of Tituba is of the African slave who was accused of witchcraft in the Salem Witch Trials. This story goes over the history of the witch hunt and the life that Tituba had before the trials. It is also a story about hope and perseverance in a time of great distress. This book would be good supplemental reading for a history class, or for any young readers interested in historical stories.

15.Bulosan, C. (1943, 1973). America is in the Heart

This book by is a good resource for researching the history of Asians coming to America in search of the "American dream." It is the autobiography of Filipino poet Carlos Bulosan on his childhood in the Philippines and his voyage to America. It is a book recommended for a classroom library of young adults in grades 9th to 12th.

16.Davis, J. A. (1991). African American History for Young Readers

This book can be used as a supplement to classroom textbooks that do not cover African American History successfully. There are critical thinking discussion questions and activities at the end of each chapter. This book would be an excellent resource for cultural or ethnic research for young students in various Social Studies classes.

17.Gates, H. L. & West, C. (2000). The African-American Century; How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Country

This book covers the beginning of the 20th century to the end of it in 1999. It starts with W.E.B. Du Bois and ends with Tiger Woods. The focus is on Black Americans who impacted the USA from musicians like Scott Joplin the "king of Ragtime" to revolutionaries like Black Panther Angela Davis. Best usage would be as a supplement to research on an individual in this book or as part of a classroom library.

18.McKissack, F. a. (1996). Rebels Against Slavery; American Slave Revolts

This is an excellent supplement for classroom textbooks that do not cover the slaves' discourse on their struggle against slavery in the Americas. The McKissacks have written a book that grade school and high school students can learn from. This book also covers the day to day resistance to being slaves. This is also an excellent resource for a classroom library.

19.Myers, W. D. (1999). At Her Majesty's Request; An African Princess in Victorian England

This book covers the true story of an African Princess named Sarah Forbes Bonetta who was brought to England by a British naval officer and while there she became the protegee of Queen Victoria of England. It is a series of letters concerning Sarah that were written by several people including some written by Sarah and Queen Victoria. This book would be a good book for a classroom library.

20.Ostergren, R. C. & Rice, J. G. (2004). The Europeans; A Geography of People, Culture, and Environment

This book would be a good resource or supplement for a classroom textbook that doesn't completely address the culture of the European people. Part II of this book covers the culture and identity of the European people. Besides being a good book to have in a classroom library, those students who have ancestors that are traced back to Europe would appreciate and learn from this historical book.

21.Shirley, D. (1994). Alex Haley; Author

This book covers the life of Alex Haley on a small scale. It was written as a book for young and mature students and maybe some adults. Mostly the book is about his strides in producing Roots and The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Good book for a classroom library and helpful in a book report a student may have to do on Alex Haley .

22.... y no se 10 trago la tierra; ... And the Earth Did Not Devour Him

This book is on the life and times of a fictional boy who recalls the difficulty in the Mexican-American migrant workers life of the 40s and 50s in America. The book is rooted in reality because of the research of the author, Tomas Rivera. This book carries both the Spanish and English translations which make it a perfect book for a BBL or ESL classroom library.

Magazines

1.American Educator, “Get Real: Here's the Boost that Poor Children, Their Teachers, and Their Schools Really Need”

Antonia Cortese discusses some strategies to use to help children who are academically behind excel to the same achievement levels as their peers. She says educators need to focus on teaching quality. Educators also need to support a culture of respectful student behavior. Antonia believes that early diagnosis and immediate intervention of reading problems will help children achieve higher academic levels. She supports a knowledge-rich core curriculum as an essential part of academic achievement. Additional supports of staff, time, and resources benefit the “neediest” of students.


2.American Teacher, “Improving education means working outside the schools, too”

Edward McElroy compares student success in schools to the branches of a tree-all the branches need tending. He says we need to build strong coalitions of organizations to support the public education system. Educators also need to examine out of school factors that contribute to the educational issues of a school. McElroy believes changing schools and universities is the start to changing the society. He also says that better professional development and compensation are essential to effective teaching. We need to support good public policies inside and outside the school.

3.National Geographic: Magazine. Special issue: Africa; Whatever You Thought, Think Again

For the month of September 2005, the National Geographic Magazine issued this special issue on Africa. It is a sweeping report on Africa's cultural, economic and health issues. This magazine is a great resource for classrooms already, but this special issue on Africa would be an excellent supplement to World History classroom texts that briefly mention Africa. It would also be a good addition to classroom libraries.



Videos

1.A&E, “The Biography Project for Schools Project Overview”

The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) helps teachers and students explore the lives of extraordinary Americans. The biographies of these people, who have made a difference in America, are portrayed in a way that helps teachers link them to different subject areas of art, science, math, history, language arts, and media literacy. The NBPTS demonstrates for teachers how to incorporate the biographies into their lesson plans. It’s easy to use, informative, and entertaining for the whole class. Teachers can adapt the format given in the video to fit their unique teaching style.

2.Johnson Institute, “Growing Up Black and Proud: The Role of Racial Identity in Drug Abuse Prevention”

The Johnson Institute describes why racial identity is important among African-American teenagers. Peter Bell is the speaker in the video. He conducts training workshops on developing skills for multicultural competence. He presents cultural concepts of effective drug prevention efforts that target Black teenagers. He examines concepts of color consciousness, Black authenticity, cultural ignorance, and racism. This video is recommended for educators and professionals that implement drug abuse prevention programs targeting African-American teenagers.



Lesson Plans

1. English as a Second Language: Lesson plans and Teaching ideas
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/esl.html
-It includes Activities for ESL Students
The Adult Literacy Resource Institute Web Site
American Accent Training
Auto-English
Better English: English Exercises
Boggle’s World ESL
Breaking News English
The Canadian Association of Second Language Teachers
Center for Adult English Language Acquisition
Color Coded Parts of Speech
Easy English On Line
EFL Reading
English, Baby!
English Daily
English Exercises Online
English Firsthand Café
English Language Listening Lab Online
English Maze
English Online
English Teaching Program
English-Zone
EnglishPage.com

2. Women in Science
http://www.education-world.com/a_tsl/archives/99-1/lesson0011.shtml
Subject: Science, History of Science
Grade: 9-12
Description: This lesson features a study of various women (past and present) and the ways in which these women have overcome the obstacles presented to them because of their sex or ethnicity.

3. Let’s Get Along
http://www.education-world.com/a_tsl/archives/07-1/lesson014.shtml
Subject: Art and Humanities, Social Studies
Grade: 3-5/6-8
Description: A book by Eve Bunting teaches valuable lessons about getting along with people we don’t know.

4. Yours and My Trail of Tears
http://www.education-world.com/a_tsl/archives/06-1/lesson024.shtml
The trail of Tears
http://ngeorgia.com/history/nghisttt.html
The Neverending Trail
http://ngeorigia.com/poetry/theneverendingtrial.html

The Indian Removal Act of 1830
http://www.civics-online/library/formatted/texts/indian_act.html
Subject: History
Grade: 6-8/9-12
Description: This lesson brings to life the story of the Trail of Tears and the Cherokee Nation in the 1830s.

5. Edutainment-“How to teach English with fun and games”
http://www.eslgames.com/edutainment/
It includes 18 proven English teaching games and successful techniques and cariations for ALL levels, plus much more! (best for students 12-112 years)

6. ESL Lesson Plans and Resources
http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/eslplans.html


Multicultural Websites

1. Center for Multilingual Multicultural Research
http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~cmmr/BEResources.html
It includes rich bilingual/ESL/ Multicultural Education Resources.

2. Especially Espanol
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/espanol/
It includes a variety of good Spanish language resources.

3. Bilingual Family Web Page
http://www.nethelp.no/cindy/biling-fam.html
It includes Definition
Myths about Bilingualism
Politics of Bilingualism
Practical Help
Special Problems of Bilingual Families
Resources
Our Story: The Haug/Kandolf Family
Future Plans For This Web Page
Member’s Pages
Frequently Used Terms

References

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Cortese, A (2007, Spring). Get Real: Here's the Boost that Poor Children, Their Teachers, and Their Schools Really Need. American Educator, Spring 2007, 4-9.

Davis, J. A. (1991). African American History for Young Readers; A Chronological Account.
Yellow Springs: Epps-Alford .
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Gates, H. L., & West, C. (2000). The African-American Century; How Black Americans Have
Shaped Our Country. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Hopkinson, D. (1993) Sweet Clara and The Freedom Quilt. Pantings by James Ransome. New
York: Scholastic Inc.

Howard, E. F. (1995). Papa tells Chita a Story. New York: Simon & Schuster Books.
Hughes, V. (2002). Aziz the Storyteller. New York: Crocodile Books.
Kates, B. J. (1992) We’re different, We’re the same. Illustrated by Joe Mathieu. New York:
Random House.

Kindersley, B. (1997) Children Just Like Me: Celebrations. New York: DK Publishing.

Lipsyte, R. (1967) The Contender. New York: Scholastic Inc.

Marshall, D. (1996) Guide to Kenya. Columbus, Ohio: Highlights for Children, Inc.

McElroy, E.J. (2007, March/April). Improving education means working outside the schools,
too. American Teacher, [91(6)], 2.

McKissack, F. a. (1996). Rebels Against Slavery; American Slave Revolts. New York: Scholastic
Press.

Miller, W. (2000). Tituba. San Diego: Gulliver Books Harcourt Inc.

Myers, W. D. (1999). At Her Majesty's Request; An Anfrican Princess in Victorian England.
New York: Scholastic Inc.

National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. (1999). The Biography Project for Schools Project Overview [VHS]. (Available from A&E Television Networks).


Neito, S. (2004). Affirming Diversity: The sociopolitical context of multicultural education.
New York: Peearson Education.

Ostergren, R. C., & Rice, J. G. (2004). The Europeans; A Geography of People, Culture, and
Environment. New York: The Guilford Press.

QVS, Inc.. (1993). Growing Up Black and Proud: The Role of Racial Identity in Drug Abuse
Prevention [VHS]. (Available from Johnson Institute, 7205 Ohms Lane, Minneapolis,
MN 55439-2159).

Rattigan, J. K. (1993) Dumpling soup. Illustrated by Lillian Hsu-Flanders. Boston: Little, Brown
and Company.

Shirley, D. (1994). Alex Haley, Author. New York: Chelsea House Publishers.

The National Geopgraphic Society. (2005, September). Africa; Whatever You Thought, Think
Again. National Geographic Magazine . Washington, D.C., United States of America/North America: National Geopgraphic Society.

Wilson, A. (1990) The Piano Lesson. New York: the Penguin Group.

Yip, M. (2004) Chinese Children’s Favorite Stories. Illustrated by Minggmei Yip. North
American: Tuttle Publishing.

Friday

Multicultural resources

Here are some multicultural resources for our group.

Group Members: Christiana, Nikki, Tania, Zach and Eddie


FairTest
The National Center for Fair & Open Testing


The National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest) Works to end the misuses and flaws of standardized testing and to ensure that evaluation of students, teachers and schools is fair, open, valid and educationally beneficial.

http://fairtest.org/










A great place to find multiple resources for ESL and EFL students, with active forums that have over 60 ESL games and lesson plans available.

http://www.eslcafe.com/






The Tower of English is here to help ESL students and teachers quickly find the best places on the Internet to practice real English! You'll find about 300 fun and interesting websites in 34 different categories.

http://towerofenglish.com/


Some good examples from this site are:

http://towerofenglish.com/humor.html
http://towerofenglish.com/idioms.html











Adult Basic and Literacy Education (ABLE) includes Basic Skills Education, GED Preparation, English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), Family Literacy, and Workplace Education. Students come from all walks of life and represent a wide range of ages and cultural backgrounds. Classes are held at various times throughout the day in a variety of locations. People attend ABLE programs to get their GEDs, to improve their basic skills, to get a job or a better job, to go to college, and to help their children or grandchildren with school work.

http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/lessonplans/index.html

Also see: http://literacy.kent.edu/











Features more than 66 lesson plans, 45 teaching tips, 230 downloads, 830 discussion topics, and 90 classroom resource picks.

http://www.everythingesl.net/

Ethnography Part A

COMMUNITY RESOURCES

1) Angel Valley Christian Day Care
Mrs. Munoz, (210) 673-3019

This is a day care facility located near the now defunct Westlakes Mall. Mrs. Munoz has lived in the area for quite some time, and has worked at the day care for years. She should be able to offer an invaluable perspective on the challenges that both children and their parents face within this community.

2) Radiance Academy of Learning
Doug Perry, (210) 670-8800

Radiance is a charter school, offering an alternative to parents who wish to work outside of the traditional public school framework. The school offers seminars to parents who wish to secure higher education for their children, but will need advice and guidance in acquiring loans and grants to make this possible. Mr. Perry should be able to say something about the parental struggle to achieve an improved quality of life for their children.

3) Karate Plus
Dr. Lockhart, (210) 675-0838, Cell (210) 287-5423

This martial arts center offers youth a positive alternative to destructive pursuits. We believe that Dr. Lockhart can tell us what kind of impact the discipline has had on children over the years, in this way shedding light on his personal experience with the community’s youth.

4) Encore Dance Dimensions
Loral Brown, (210) 670-0003

As another business that primarily deals with youth, Mrs. Brown will be able to offer insight into whether, and to what extent, positive hobbies and leisure pursuits predict success. Mrs. Brown spoke candidly about various issues pertinent in the community as she addressed graffiti, ethnic tensions, and financial depravity.

5) St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Pastor Juan Alfaro, (210) 675-1920

Churches are excellent community resources as they interact with the community on many different levels, being involved in ameliorating social problems and in providing solace and comfort to those in need. As such, we believe that Pastor Alfaro will be able to provide a perspective with great breadth and depth.



6) Columbia Little League, Inc.
Ms. Evans, (210) 674-3746

The baseball fields located at the intersection of Ellison and Adams Hill reflect this community acquiescence to the national youth sports trajectory. Seeing as how many children pass through the ranks of the various sports teams rooted here, Ms. Evans should be able to provide important commentary based on her observations and experiences with the youth, as well as with their parents.

7) Adams Hill Neighborhood Association
Gregory Evans, (210) 675-0964

Mr. Evans should be able to convey community concerns adroitly, especially within the realm of residential values. Although his insight clearly will not be limited strictly to this aspect, his experiences should serve to be especially helpful in understanding how neighborhoods work to maintain maximum fiscal viability.

8) Lil’ Dragon Den Childcare Center
Victoria Hastey, (210) 645-4130

As another day care facility, the staff at this center should be familiar with the challenges facing working parents in the process of raising young children. Mrs. Hastey’s observations should provide our group with specific examples, through anecdotes and recollections, of how individuals cope with difficulties uniquely framed through community realities.

9) Resurrection of the Lord Catholic Church
Pastor Adolfo Valdivia, (210) 675-1470

The church is involved in community service and outreach programs that aim to identify and address prevailing problems. As the leader of a devoted congregation, Pastor Valdivia’s commitment to helping others will undoubtably strengthen this ethnography’s veracity.

10) San Antonio Public Library, Guerra Branch
Branch Manager, Joyce Anne Stevens, (210) 673-1492, jstevens@sanantonio.gov

Mrs. Stevens was very eager in participating in our research. She was more than willing to participate, and she conversed candidly with the group members for quite some time, revealing her personal commitment to the community and to the library within it. This branch was constructed only a few years ago and its modern design and pleasant furnishing reflects this. However, Mrs. Stevens general sentiments reveal a host of underlying concerns.



11) Performance Automotive and Trans
(210) 675-7500

This gentleman didn’t want to give his name. He’s been working at this shop for about 14 years. There is a variety of ethnicity that comes to this shop. There is an equal diversity working there as well. When asked what’s the majority and minority that come to this shop he said that it is equal. When I went there I walked around and there was an equal amount of ethnicity as customers and as workers as well.

12) Ellison Drive Animal Hospital
(210) 670-8400

This was one of the very few animal hospitals within 10 mile range of Adams Hill Elementary school. Most people who come to this hospital are military people. The majority of there customers are the one who live in the Lackland area. The majority ethnicity was ranged as 1st White 2nd Hispanic and 3rd Black. The reason she liked this community was that it is a safe area and that some people make it seem that it’s not safe at all. She said there are always police men going up and down the neighborhoods and all over the community. There are rarely any car accidents. And that the community is a clean area. They like to keep everything clean around them. Even though the majority is white then Hispanic and lastly African Americans she did emphasize that the big majority are military men and women.

13) Goodwill Industries
(210) 924-8581

This the only goodwill located around the marbach area at a huge distance from where all the other ones are located. She’s been working here for two years going on to her third year within the next two months. She enjoys working here because the customers are very nice and she likes communicating with others. She sees the same customers every week the majority here are Hispanics. The minority are Whites. When asked what she thought about the community she said it was decent. She lives about 10 minutes away from her job.

14) Peter Piper Pizza
(210) 674-7008

This person has been working here for seventeen years and is a manager here. He likes helping people and greeting them. He enjoys making them happy. There are some days when customers could be really ruse but what makes his day is that there are those few customers who actually are polite when greeted and ask for things in a nice manner. The majority of people who come eat here are Mexicans/ Hispanics and the minority would be African Americans. The community is very peaceful. You don’t see big commotions when there is an accident. There are a few accidents but that happens every where, he said. The only difference is that an accident happens they solve it quick and move on.
15) New Life Christian Center
(210) 679-6050

This was a person who had attended this center for six months. He gave credit to the ministry of the city and that there were many friendly people that his wife and he had met. They are very multi cultural. They preach on prosperity and instilling within the membership the attitude that God wants you to be a millionaire. He then realized several little things that made him decide to leave this center. The pastor and his wife were heavily into the prosperity. The pastor wife would always get up and ask how many millionaires were in the house and would emphasize giving in order to be blessed financially. The pastor’s were wealthy people. the church did emphasize very much there Jewish roots

MULTICULTURAL TOOLS

“The highest result of education is tolerance.”--- Helen Keller


Children’s Ethnic Literature Resources:

Http://www.multiculturalchildrenslit.com

Provides literature for most cultures related to the ethnic makeup seen within the Adams Hill community. The web site also provides many genres for children and classroom teachers. The website lists literature for the Hispanic, Black American, Middle Eastern cultures, and many more.


Category: Latino/Hispanic Americans

Ada, A.F. (2002). I Love Saturdays y Domingos. Illustrated by E. Savadier. New York: Atheneum. (k-3)

Saturdays and Sundays are very special days for the child in this story. In Saturdays, she visits Grandma and Grandpa, who come from a European-American background, and on Sundays--los domingos--She visits Abuelito y Abuelits, who are Mexican American. While the two sets of grandparents are different in many ways, they also a great deal in common--in particular, their love for their granddaughter.

Anaya, R. (1995). Farolitos for Abuelo. Illustrated by E. Gonzales, Hyperion. (1-4)

When Luz’s beloved grandfather dies, she places luminaria around his grave on Christmas Eve as a way of remembering him.

Christopher, M. (1994). Centerfield ballhawk. Illustrated by E. Beier. New York: Little Brown and Company. (3-5)

While grounded from team play for two weeks after breaking a neighbor’s window, Jose Mendez bemoans his inability to be a .375 hitter like his father was in the minor leagues. Even his sister is a good hitter. Jose comes to recognize his value as a fielder in the satisfying, if predictable, resolution.


Category: Middle Eastern

Matze, C.S. (200). The stars in my Geddoh’s sky. Illustrated by B. Farnsworth. Albert Whitman. (k-3)

Alex’s Arabic-speaking grandfather comes to visit the United States, and Alex learns about his grandfather’s Middle Eastern homeland.

Douglass, S.L. (2003) Ramadan (On my own holidays). Illustrated by J.Reeves. Carolrhoda. (1-4)

An introduction to Islamic observation during the month of Ramadan and the subsequent festival of Eid-al Fitr.

Fitterer, C.A. (2002) Arab Americans (Spirit of America: Our cultural heritage)> Child’s World. (3-5)

Introduces readers to the Arab American culture, immigration aspects, customs, religion, foods, and holidays. Famous Arab Americans, as well as noted contributions and inventions by Arab Americans, are also presented.

Category: African Americans

Adoff, A. (1996). Black is Brown is Tan. Illustrated by E.A. MCCully. New York: Harpercollins Juvenile Books. (K-3)

Mom is black and Daddy is white but the family is many colors. The members of their loving circle make the world sweet for the young children growing up tall and strong.

Bunting, E. (1999). Smokey Night. Illustrated by D. Diaz. New York: Harcourt Brace.(1-4)
When the smell of smoke wakens Daniel and his mother during the night, the flee from the rioting outside their apartment to a shelter. Inspired by an innocent comment from Daniel, his mother introduces herself to a neighbor; the African-American woman’s attempt to reach out to the Korean-American woman is a clear result of surviving the riots together.

Collier, B. (2000). Uptown. New York: Henry Holt & Company. (K-3)

Discover the vibrant world of Harlem, New York, as seen through the eyes of one little boy who lives there.

Greenfield, E. (1992). African Dream. Illustrated by C. Byard. New York: Harper Collins Juvenile Books. (k-3)

An African-American child dreams of Africa, where she sees animals, shops in a market place, reads from a strange old book, and returns to the village where her granddaddy welcomed her so long ago.

Community and Multicultural Resources - Pat Neff MS

Group members: Blas Treviño, Stephanie López, and Alejandra Osejo

Located at 5227 Evers Rd, and named after named after former Governor Pat Morris Neff Pat Neff MS is one block inside the I-410 Loop. Neff MS is one of the 15 Northside Independent School District's middle schools.

According to data provided by The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) for the school year 2004-2005, Snoopschool.com reported Pat Neff's enrollment by ethnicity for those years. The results showed that, from the total of 997 students, 2 students were American Indian, 18 were Asian, 72 were Black, 693 Hispanic, and 212 where White.

Resources around Pat Neff MS resemble the ethic population of the school. A wide variety of multicultural resources are available to the community, especially for the Hispanic population.

We include in this report just some of the many resources available for the community around Pat Neff. We include as well some multicultural resources that will be of much help to either parents and educators to address the challenging cultural diversity in our schools and society.


COMMUNITY RESOURCES

Adult & Community Education
Northside Learning Center-Portable 8B
6632 Bandera, San Antonio, TX 78238
NISD extends its services to adults, through programs that help for non-English speakers become sufficient in speaking, writing, and reading English. ACE offers classes per semester that cost 70.00 to 90.00 dollars.


Business and Industry Customized Training
6632 Bandera Road
San Antonio, TX 78238
Phone: (210) 397-8100 ask for Anna Lisa Garcia
These training classes fulfill the specific training and educational needs of employers with individually-designed training programs taught at the employer’s place of business or in the Northside classrooms. ACE coordinates with more than 20 employers a year to set up literacy, vocational, and related training programs for their workers.


ESL Education at NISD
5651 Grissom Road, San Antonio, TX 78238
Phone: (210) 397-3500
http://www.nisd.net/bilingualesl/
Northside's Bilingual/ESL Department proudly serves a diverse part of the student population. The ESL department conducts testing to identify these students so that they may receive the most appropriate services to meet their educational needs. Each year, hundreds of students from different parts of the world come through the doors and go through the testing process for proper educational placement. The ESL department provides enriched programs in Bilingual Education, Dual Language, English as a Second Language (ESL) at the elementary level, and English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) at the Middle and High School level.


Forest Hills Public Library
5245 Ingram Road, San Antonio, TX 78228
Phone: (210) 431-2544
http://www.ci.sat.tx.us/library/branch/foresthills.asp
A branch of the San Antonio Public Library, Forest Hill is open the seven days of the week. It has a wide variety of resources including books, audio books, videos, DVDs, magazines, and music CDs. It also holds several cultural events and events for children.
The catalogue can be accessed through the Library's web site and if a certain article is not in stock, it will be send to the library from other branches where the article is available.


Gregorio Exparza Accelerated Elementary School
5700 Hemphill
San Antonio, TX 78228
Phone: (210) 397-1850
Teachers in this school possess high levels of proficiency and literacy skills in the target language. bilingual instructional assistants and support staff serve as language role models.
dual language instruction differs from traditional bilingual education in its philosophy. Most bilingual programs aim for students to be exited from mainly Spanish instruction as soon as they become proficient in English. The objective of dual language instruction is for the student to become proficient in both Spanish and English. "I think it's an excellent program," states teacher Carla Rocha. "The students who speak Spanish benefit from receiving instruction in their native language, while the English speakers are quickly learning Spanish and still maintaining their English."


Islamic Center of San Antonio
8638 Fairhaven San Antonio, TX 78229
Phone: (210) 614-0989
Fax: (210) 614-2281
http://www.icsaonline.org/
The mosque is open for prayers daily. It offers other services such as classes on both English and Arabic languages on Islamic law to its 700 regular members as well as to the non-Muslim community. The expansion project will soon add to the facilities a Multipurpose Hall for different events and activities. It will be used as a community and youth center; it will have school classrooms, a gymnasium, and extra space for prayers.


Little India Grocery
5727 Evers Road, San Antonio, TX 78238
Phone: (210) 521-4778
Little India Grocery is a supermarket whose atmosphere resembles that of India. A great variety of Indian food and spices is for sale along with Indian movies, music, and fine Indian-fashion dresses, jewelry, and other garments.


Northside Education Foundation
6632 Bandera Road, Building A, San Antonio, TX 78238
Phone: (210) 397-8599, Fax: (210) 706-8846
http://www.nisd.net/foundation/homepage.htm
An independent non-profit corporation promoting quality education in the Northside Independent School District located in San Antonio, Texas. The Foundation's mission is to foster community involvement in innovative educational programs by generating and disbursing funds and other resources to provide enrichment for Northside students. Schools and their communities can apply for grants to be disbursed to their campus in order to excel in education.


Parent Teacher Association (PTA)
Pat Neff Middle School
5227 Evers Road, San Antonio, TX 78238
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Phone: (210)397-4100, Fax: (210) 706-7235
http://www.nisd.net/neff/pta.htm
PTA parents are a special group of parents that advocate for our children. The parents promote wellness and education in their community. All PTA Meetings are held in Neff Cafeteria from 6:00 to 6:30 p.m. The next PTA meeting will be on December 11, 2007 at 6:00 p.m.


Pat Neff Middle School Library
5227 Evers Road , San Antonio, TX 78238
Phone: (210) 397-4100
https://nisd.schoolnet.com/outreach/pnms/library/
The library offers over 14,000 books, a wide selection of audiovisual materials and print periodicals. The students have access to 23 networked computers, 2 scanners, and several online databases. Students can check out books and have various resources available to them to expand their knowledge in their school subjects as well as their own interests.


Regional Day School Program for the Deaf (RDSPD)
5900 Evers Road, San Antonio, TX 78238
Phone: (210) 706-8500
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/deaf/
NISD Regional Day School Program for the Deaf coordinates the services that the Texas Education Agency's Division of Services for the Deaf offers to students who are deaf or hard of hearing. The services of this program may extend to families, service providers, and educational systems and institutions. The program also provides a certificate that verifies hearing loss for applicants for tuition waiver at state supported post-secondary schools in Texas.


School Age Parenting
6632 Bandera Road, San Antonio, TX 78238
Phone: (210) 397-8111, 522-811
http://www.nisd.net/compensatory/SAP/index.htm
The Northside ISD School Age Parenting Program is a drop out recovery and prevention program that provides support services to teen parents to enable them to stay in school and obtain their high school diploma successfully. Other services that the center provides are parenting enriching classes, assistance in obtaining scholarships, and academic instruction to teen moms during their post partum period, in which students attend to classes with their babies twice a week from 9 AM to 12 PM.


Spanish, English and Foreign Languages for America Inc.
5805 Callaghan Road, Suite 304
San Antonio, TX 78228
Phone: (210) 520-5518
http://www.spanishenglishedu.com
Spanish, English and Foreign Languages (SEFLA) is a language school responding to the U.S. population increase toward the need for multilingualism. SEFLA opens its doors to serve the community in San Antonio, collaborating with the U.S. Government in its efforts to reinforce education and excellence for all citizens. Open from Monday through Saturday, it offers training in different languages such as English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Arabic, and many more.


Summer Youth Programs: NISD Sponsored
6632 Bandera Road
San Antonio, TX 78238
Phone: (210) 397-8011
This program combines academics and recreation for elementary and middle school youth and is operational on four to six Northside campuses during the month of June. The "day camp" setting gives students a chance to build on and go beyond learning from the regular school year in their specific area of interest. Classes include science, music, writing, computers, language, math, drama, and sports.


VITA Goodwill Store
3401 Fredericksburg r Road, San Antonio, TX 78201
Phone: (210) 924-8581
http://www.irs.gov/individuals/article/0,,id=107626,00.html
The VITA Program offers free tax help to low- to moderate-income (generally, $39,000 and below) people who cannot prepare their own tax returns. Certified volunteers sponsored by various organizations receive training to help prepare basic tax returns in communities across the country. VITA sites are generally located at community and neighborhood centers, libraries, schools, shopping malls, and other convenient locations. Most locations also offer free electronic filing. To locate the nearest VITA site, call 1-800-829-1040.




MULTICULTURAL RESOURCES

Achievement Trap
Wyner, J. S. (2006). “Achievement trap: How America is failing millions of high achieving
students from lower-income families.” Retrieved November 5, 2007, from http://www.civicenterprises.net/pdfs/jkc.pdf

The study analyzes national data to track the school performance of about 3.4 million K-12 children who come from households with incomes below the national median but score in the top quartile on nationally normed tests. It finds that they start school with weaker academic skills and are less likely to flourish over the years in school than their peers from better-off families. The report says that such children enter school with a disadvantage that shows up in their national test scores. More than 70 percent of 1st graders who score in the top quartile are from higher-income families, and fewer than three in 10 are from lower-income families.


Alameda National Center for Latino Arts and Culture
101 South Santa Rosa, San Antonio, TX 78207
Phone: (210)299-4300, Fax: (210) 299-4340
http://www.thealameda.org/

The mission of The Alameda is to create a cultural zone for the arts, economic development, education and entertainment in downtown San Antonio that reflects San Antonio's diverse heritage, with an emphasis on Latino arts and culture. For instance, on November 2, the center organized a public altar (after the Hispanic tradition for honoring the death) for all of our heroes: family, friends, and veterans. Some of the future events include the film screening and discussion on Celia Cruz on November 17, and a Salsa concert on December 15.


Con Respeto
Valdes, G. (1996). Con Respeto: Bridging the Distance between Culturally Diverse Families and
Schools: An Ethnographic Portrait. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
In Con Respeto, ethnographer Guadalupe Valdes gives a clear understanding of the Mexican culture. This book provides insight from eight immigrant families about their values and morals and how deep they really run. There is an explanation to why some Mexican families seem as if they do not value education. It also provides clear views of what these families consider failure and success and why they do it.

Creatively Teaching Multicultural Art
Bartel, M. (n.d.). “Creatively teaching multicultural art.” The International Education Daily.
Retrieved November 2007 from, http://www.goshen.edu/art/ed/multiculturalart.html
In his essay, Marvin Bartel questions himself how to I teach art in a way that makes the students take pride in their own culture while gaining respect and appreciation for the art and customs of other cultures. This site contains a story of how he learned to bring out the pride in his own culture using art expressions of different cultures. Art of different cultures is included so as to not leave out any one. The purpose is to develop critical thinking and creativity while making cultural and historical connections.


Online Journals and Magazines
Gorski, P.C. (2006). Online Journals and Magazines. EdChange Multicultural Pavilion
Retrieved November 2007 from, http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/sites/journals.html

Founded and still maintained by Paul C. Gorski, PhD, EdChange.org offers many links to online journals and magazines intended to develop multicultural awareness. Teachers, children, and
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teens may found it easier to read a fun online magazine with lots of illustrations and interesting and up to date facts than just letters in a piece of paper. Teachers may use these resources to illustrate themselves with multicultural issues and to help their students gain multicultural insights.


Exploring Culture: Exercises, Stories, and Synthetic Cultures
Hofstede, G. J. (2002). Exploring Culture: Exercises, Stories, and Synthetic Cultures. Maine:
Intercultural Press.

This book for educators contains exercises, dialogues, stories, and simulations that put Geert Hofstede's five dimensions of culture into action.
The activities follow the classic culture learning sequence of awareness, knowledge, and skills. The book also contains ample background information on society and culture.


From My People: 400 Years of African American Folklore
Cumber Dance, D. ed. (2002). From My People: 400 Years of African American Folklore. New
York: W. W. Norton & Company.

This anthology book promotes a better understanding of African American culture. It contains a variety of rumors, riddles, proverbs, recipes, song lyrics, sermons, photos, art objects, stories, and folk songs of African-American folklore and culture.


Increasing the School Involvement of Hispanic Parents
Inger, M. (1992). Apples for the Teacher.com. “Increasing the school involvement of Hispanic
parents.” Retrieved November 4, 2007 from: http://www.apples4theteacher.com. Path: Articles; Bilingual Education.

This article gives information about getting Hispanic parents more involved in their children's education. Some parents may be afraid to get involved because they might have had a negative
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experience in school themselves. The article gives examples of how to pull parents into the education process of their children. Morton Inger explains how schools and Hispanics are separated by social barriers and recommends strategies to improve Hispanic parent involvement in their children's education.


Introducing Mexico
(1991). Introducing Mexico. [Motion Picture]. Educational Video Network, Inc.

This video program is part of the immense catalogue of the Educational Video Network from Texas. The video focuses on both the geography of Mexico and the people who live there. The program comes with study guide questions and answers.


Multicultural Art Activities Kit: Ready-to-Use Lessons and Projects with 194 Drawings, Photos, and Color Prints
Bloom, D. (1994). Multicultural art activities kit: ready-to-use lessons and projects with 194
drawings, photos, and color prints. West Nyack, N.Y.: Center for Applied Research in Education.

This multicultural art book contains lots of art expressions from all over the world in the form of ready-to-use lessons and projects with 194 drawings, photos, and color prints. It includes the history of the particular art work, step-by-step instructions, and follow-up review questions for the students.


Multicultural Book Review
Mele, J. (1996). Multicultural Book Review. Retrieved November 2007 from,
http://www.isomedia.com/homes/jmele/homepage.html

This web site is intended for K-12 educators to place their reviews of books on multicultural topics. The books are individually graded by educators and then the site manager gives the book one average score. This site is not related to the print magazine Multicultural Book Review.


Multicultural Children’s Literature in the Elementary Classroom
Kidsource OnLine, Inc. (2007). Multicultural Children’s Literature in the Elementary
Classroom. Retrieved November 2007, from http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content5/multi.cult.lit.class.html

Children of diverse cultures can use this web site to find literature that relates to their lives. Here is a site that can help the teachers of these classrooms bring out the children’s individual culture. There are selections for infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and K-12; topics such as recreation, health, and parenting are included.


Multicultural, Cross-cultural and Intercultural Games and Activities
The Wilderdom Store: Gear for Adventurous Learning. (2006). Multicultural, Cross-cultural &
Intercultural Games & Activities. Retrieved November 2007, from http://wilderdom.com/games/MulticulturalExperientialActivities.html

On this web site many games and brain teasers are available for educators to use in their classrooms. These games are fun yet relevant to multiculturalism. The site also has links to other sites’ multicultural activities.


Multicultural Heroes
Walbridge, M. (n.d.) Multicultural Heroes. Retrieved November 2007 from, http://multiculturalheroes.com/

This web site gives teachers multiples resources that can be used as role models in their classroom curriculum. Biographies of important Hispanic-American, African-American, Asian-American, and Native-American heroes in the fields of history, literature, math, and sciences can be obtained and then implemented in to the class room. The web sites listed can be used independently or in conjuncture with the biographical research activities described in the teacher’s guide of both the Latino and the African American 'Heroes of the Civil War Set' by Mike Walbridge.


Multicultural lesson plans
Sass, E. J. (2007). Multicultural Lesson Plans. Retrieved November 2007 from,
http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/edmulticult.htm
Hundreds of lesson plans and resources can be obtained by going to this web site. For teachers who want to bring out the importance of ones identity this could be a perfect place to begin. Just scroll down the page and select the topic of your choice from the alphabetic list. Topics include but are not limited to world religions, culture languages, and important issues such as tolerance, and traditional roles. Among hundreds of resources, here is a lesson plan for Sandra Cisneros’ The House of Mango Street book.


Multicultural Literature Resources
Hiden Ramsey Library. (2004) Multicultural Literature Resources. Retrieved November 2007
from, http://bullpup.lib.unca.edu/library/rr/multcultlit.html

This web site contains multicultural literature for students and young adults. Also, there are links for other web sites with more multicultural literature.


Multicultural Resources
TeachersFirst.com. (2006). Multicultural Resources. Network for Instructional TV, Inc.
Retrieved November 2007 from, http://www.teachersfirst.com/multicult.htm

This web page lists resources from a variety of disciplines that are suitable for using in multicultural settings. While some of these resources are listed under Teachers First’s academic headings, the web site has grouped them here for added convenience in finding multicultural information and lessons. This page also contains a number of sites specifically dedicated to multicultural resources and teaching strategies.


Multicultural Teaching: A Handbook of Activities, Information, and Resources
Tiedt, P. L. Tiedt, Tiedt, I. M. (2005). Multicultural teaching: a handbook of activities,
information, and resources. Boston: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon.
This book explains how to bring multicultural education to the classroom. It explains different social activities in which culture is embedded, as well as many other subjects related to multicultural education. It suggests several activities to individualize multicultural instruction as much as possible.


National Education Association (NEA)
National Education Association. (2006). NEA State Affiliates Online. Retrieved November 4,
2007 from http://www.nea.org/aboutnea/affiliates.html

NEA is a volunteer-based organization supported by a network of staff at the local, state, and national levels. At the local level, more than 14,000 NEA local affiliate organizations are active in a variety of activities as determined by the local members. These may range from raising funds for scholarship programs to conducting professional workshops on issues that affect faculty and school support staff to bargaining contracts for school district employees. NEA also provides the Minority Community Outreach program which regardless of race or ethnicity every child receives the education he or she deserves.


National Latino Children's Institute (NLCI)
1115 South St. Mary's St. San Antonio, TX 78210
Phone: (210) 228-9997
http://www.nlci.org
All across the nation, young Latinos are finding their voices and speaking out what is important to them and their community. Cultural events led by youth, families, and community organizations open the doors to a new understanding and inclusion of everyone. The NLCI focuses on policies, programs, and community initiatives that lead to the full and healthy development of Latino children.


Raising Nuestros Niños
Rodriguez, G. G. (1999). Raising Nuestros Niños: Bringing Up Latino Children in a Bicultural
World. New York, NY: Fireside.
This book provides Latino parents as well as educators with ways to preserve their culture as they grow up in a homogeneous world. It provides insight on various activities that children from infancy to age 12 can do to help them understand, love, and preserve their familial and cultural heritage. The activities include Spanish songs, rhymes, recipes, and celebrations.

Religious Diversity in America
(2002). Religious diversity in America. [Motion Picture]. Educational Video Network, Inc.
This video program is part of the immense catalogue of the Educational Video Network from Texas. The video focuses in America's variety of cultures that are defined by many different
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religions such as Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism. The program comes with study guide questions and answers.


School Snoop
SchoolSnoop. (2005). School details by state / county. Retrieved November 2007, from
http://www.schoolsnoop.com/
This web site presents school details by state and county such as enrollment by ethnicity and gender. The information provided by the web site represents the results of school surveys for the 2004-2005 school year made by the National Center for Education Statistics.


Turning Winds/Troubled Teens
Turning Winds. (2007). Division of Family Solutions Network, Inc. Retrieved November 2007,
from http://www.turningwinds.com/index.htm
Turning Winds Academic Institute is an industry leading therapeutic private boarding school for troubled teens in Montana. It provides a teen help program for parents of troubled teens. The web site provides useful information, resources, and links to many other resources for troubled teens and their families.


United Nations Kids Bookshop
United Nations Bookshop. (2006). Kids. Retrieved November 2007, from
https://unp.un.org/bookshop/browse.aspx?sid=2&oid=0
The Kids section of the United Nations online bookshop offers a variety of multicultural resources (videos, books, flash cards, games, and more) focused on understanding diversity, fighting hate among youngsters, promoting values and good manners, environmental sustainability, and many more.