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Trending News: It’s Your Turn! Make a Voice Recording Here!Freedom Quilt Coloring ActivityHistory’s Calling: INSTANT Classroom Guide PART IHistory Calling: Instant Guide PART II Honoring Community MembersHistory’s Calling!Instant Guide: Valentine’s Pattern RecognitionA Guide to Teaching about Alice Augusta BallAn Educator’s Guide to Bus Boycotts: Lesser Known HeroesBlack History Month: An Educator’s Guide to Origins, Purpose, and PracticeEducator’s Guide to The Great Migration: Journey, Enterprise, and DreamsValentine’s Pattern Cards – Printable SetValentine’s Day Pattern Recognition GamesStay Active, Fly South, or Hibernate? Animals Surviving the Winter Months!Returned Gifts Shape SorterSnowflake Bentley: Our January Read-Aloud GuideJanuary Games Review: Best Educational Games of 2025INSTANT Guide to the Artic vs AntarcticOUR BEST of 2025 MAKER DAY CHALLENGESMeet the Polar Animals, then Place Them in Their Artic or Antarctic Habitats!Take the MLK Day Civic’s QuizHow to Read January Temperature Charts: A Measurement ActivityIntroducing Dr. Martin Luther King as a Lifelong Learner: A Teacher’s GuideWhat is “Building the Beloved Community” An Educator’s Guide to MLK DayRock Detective: Categorizing & Coloring ActivityAudio e-Reader Returns with Winnie-the-PoohThe Science and Art of Winter Light & Shadows: Lesson PlanPhysics Friday Lesson Plan: States of MatterPhysics Friday: Is it a solid, liquid or vapor?Shopping Cart Math! Half Off ChallengeTravel in Our Time Machine to Master Telling TimeExploring the Korean Cultural Wave (Hallyu)Learning about Russian Orthodox ChristmasColoring Pack for Kwanza 2025Coloring Pack Hanukkah 2025Lesson Plan for Shopping Cart Math GAME!!!Test Your Christmas Movie Knowledge!Interactive Lesson Plan Exploring ‘Twas the Night Before ChristmasExcellent Timing for Winter Rhyming! ELA practiceRead or Listen to ‘Twas the Night Before ChristmasNew Year’s Eve: A Cultural Guide to ŌmisokaHoliday Gift List Memory MatchBudgeting with Shopping Cart Math!Memory Match Hanukkah Symbols and Foods!Virtual Dreidel Game with Mental Math Moments!Hanukkah Word Search GameA Cultural Guide to HanukkahPortuguese Christmas Vocab Matching GameSpanish Christmas Vocab Matching GameCultural Guide to Christmas in Latin America & the CaribbeanDiscover Yalda: A Festival of the SolsticeTeaching about Three Kings Day? Here’s a GuideTeaching about Kwanzaa? Here’s a GuideChristmas Through the Hollywood LensCalculate the Hours and Minutes of Daylight Across America!Teaching about Winter Solstice? Instant GuideWormly Spells T’was the Night Before ChristmasFind Your Perfect Christmas Movie!Make a Salsa for the Winter Solstice! K-5th MathSpot the Difference FALL Coloring Pack!Supporting Your Child’s Mental HealthThis World Children’s DAY Better Family ConversationsBlack Hole Friday Vocab QUIZ!Don’t Miss BLACK HOLE FRIDAY!!!Native American Heritage Month: The Cahokia Mounds and Solstice Traditions Practiced TodayPhysics Friday: GRAVITY & The Leonid MeteorCentering Native Voices: “Powwow Day” Book ReviewTEACHER’S GUIDE: Wormly in Classroom or Home“Who Am I” Book Review Honoring Native American Heritage MonthPie Making Party Math K-5th! Thanksgiving Fun!A Science-Backed Guide to a Meaningful Thanksgiving HolidayMeet Wormly! Collect Letters, and Spell Words!World Origami Day Meets Kindness Week!Which animals hibernate? DIGITAL GAME & COLORING PRINTABLE!!!Read-Aloud Story About a Creative and Kind RobotMilitary Mascot Memory Matching GameSPIN the Wheel for Skip Counting Fun!Instant Guide to Tsunami Science and SafetyInteract with our Tsunami Wave SimulatorInstant Guide to Supermoons & Moon PhasesQuick Quiz: Lunar Vocab!!!Moon Phase Matching GamePLAY: Interactive Moon Phase Explorer!PHYSICS Friday: Circular Motion with Fall Harvest GameMOTION Monday: Fall Harvest Challenge!Election Day Word SearchExplore the Taurid Meteor ShowerDigital Halloween Memory Match!Halloween Word SearchDía de los Muertos: Spanish Vocabulary MatchingA Sculptural Art Project with La CatrinaExploring La Calavera Catrina: Día de los MuertosA Teacher’s Guide to Día de los MuertosDiwali Coloring ActivityLesson Plan for Diwali Tabola GamesDiwali Tabola GameCount the Diyas! Diwali Activity!Teacher’s Guide to Diwali The Festival of LightsLesson Plan for Halloween Pattern Card ActivityHalloween Pattern Cards Printable SheetHonoring Hispanic Heritage with Good Books
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Invisibility: Who’s missing from the classroom library?

    Early Learners , Culturally Responsive Classroom , School Belonging
  • March 18, 2024

Recognizing invisibility is just as important as spotting stereotypes in children’s books. Here’s how to take a lens to what, or who is not represented in you classroom library.

#OwnVoicesAnti-Bias Educationbook diversity auditchildren’s literature diversityclassroom libraryclassroom library tipsculturally responsive teachingdiverse authorsdiverse booksequity in educationInclusive Educationmulticultural booksrepresentation in literaturestudent voice

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Why not ask a child? The power of child-led curation.
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